PROFESSOR SHAWN SIGSTEDT'S CURRICULUM VITAE UNDER CONSTRUCTION ALL THIS DOCUMENT STILL IS UNDERGOING EDITING! EDUCATION Ph.D. ABD, Harvard University, Ethnobotany, Conservation Biology
1988 MA, Harvard University, Master’s Degree in Physiological Plant Ecology 1983 BA, Botany, Conservation Biology, Colorado College, with honors HONORS Harvard University. Distinction in Teaching Award. 1990 (Harvard’s highest teaching award) The Colorado College. Graduation with Distinction. 1983. Excellence. Colorado Mountain College. 2018 PROJECTS WORLD PARK PROJECT - SUMMARY The best future for our planet is to restore our entire planet into a healthy global ecosystem that I like to call a World Park. future of our planet really depends on our ability to re-connect with nature and the universe both outwardly and inwardly. The main first step of World Park is to experience a reconnection with nature and then take the protected parks and natural areas around the world and transform them by treating them as “centers of a world park,” and then “daisy chain” them all together and expand them outwardly in every direction possible towards each other, with great discernment, until gradually we restore our entire planet into a healthy global ecosystem. A great benefit of this plan is that it honors the excellent work of conservation biologists and educators around the world, and as well honors the innovative technologies of our indigenous people who have lived sustainably surrounded with biodiversity in nature for thousands of years with a high quality of life. World Park is founded in good science and is complementary with the robust scientific theory of island biogeography and combines with new and ancient technologies of many cultures… primarily it acknowledges that the larger the nature reserve, the healthier the ecosystem… when we ask what is the right size of the park… the best answer is best size for the park is the entire planet. BIOMIMICRY PROJECTS SUMMARY My research contributed to the founding of two new fields of science including biomimicry and zoopharmacognosy and how we can learn scientifically from animals and nature. Many of our indigenous cultures have been living in nature sustainably for thousands of years surrounded with biodiversity and nearly every one of them has oral traditions that bears are the creatures that are keeping our planet healthy, and are the protectors of the planet’s medicinal plants. My research has included a goal of visiting all the continents on earth where the world’s species of bears live to study the indigenous and scientific perspectives that bears are “Ecosystem Engineers and are helping keep our whole planet healthy. So far, I have visited and done research on bears in the following areas People’s Republic of China, Borneo, Canada, Alaska, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Mexico and many other countries. CAREER SUMMARY Professorship. Though I have been teaching all my life, recently I taught around 15 years as a full time Professor of Biology at the Colorado Mountain College and have been extremely honored to be working with a wonderful faculty and staff and many great students. Conservation Biology and Climate Improvement. Through the years, I have traveled extensively around the world researching and presenting about the need for making our entire planet healthy again and global nature conservation emphasizing the importance of protecting our biodiversity as the best way to improve our climate. My research. Medicinal plants are a major contributor to global heath in that they are helping to keep animals healthy as they have done for millions of years… so that animals like bears can help us restore our entire planet into a healthy global ecosystem. Travel for conservation conventions and for independent research include to nature reserve research in Polynesia, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and the People’s Republic of China. Recently I traveled in Northern Europe including England, Whales, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, and Iceland where I was invited to give presentations about my World Park strategic plan for global nature conservation including sharing new education systems and World Park Studies at Plymouth University and presenting to intentional communities such as Findhorn Foundation in Scotland and Solimar Institute in Iceland. I have been working in communication with professors at Helsinki University in Finland on my new interactive innovative progressive teaching approach. I presented a map-making conservation approach to members of the Lapland Sami Parliament and to my colleagues in Norway and Sweden. This summer I traveled to Malaysia and Borneo continuing my research on global nature conservation, biomimicry, and zoopharmacognosy with the Sun Bears. Indigenous training and collaborations. Although raised by a family of natural healers, my biomimicry and ethnobiology research first arose the most when I was living with the Hopi and Navajo Indians when elders shared with. me an ancient story about how bears gave a great gift to all mankind…a treasured medicinal herb and then later at Harvard University I confirmed that their legend had a biological basis. Since that discovery, I have given many presentations nationally and worldwide to scientific organizations including AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Sciences), the Smithsonian, Harvard University, MIT, Denver Botanical Gardens, Plymouth University, Beijing University, Society for Conservation Biology, Society of Economic Botany, Society for Ethnobiology, American Herbalist Guild and many others. Education Background. Designing and teaching the first class in Conservation Biology at Harvard University was a wonderful experience for me and I was surprised by being awarded Harvard’s highest Teaching award, the Distinction in Teaching Award. I was working toward my Ph.D. with the late Dr. Richard Evans Schultes, pioneer and world leader in ethnobotany and conservation biology until he retired. While working as a teaching fellow at Harvard, I worked with E. O. Wilson and was honored to be a teaching assistant with Stephen J. Gould, et. al., where I co-taught ecology, biology, biodiversity and conservation, and I made great progress on my biomimicry research with bears and how to save the medicinal plant the bears love from extinction in my graduate program. Grants. As principle investigator of numerous grants, I have successfully been awarded well over a half million dollars for research and travel around the world studying nature reserve design and visiting and sometimes living with indigenous people as well as conducting research to help save native medicinal plants from extinction here in Steamboat Springs and also developing a natural products line of medicines containing natural occurring natural broad-spectrum antibiotics. Nature conservation. All my life I have been traveling around the world visiting parks, biosphere reserves, national parks, nature reserves, and natural areas and studying nature reserve design beginning with Harvard University. Scientific conventions and meetings, and presentations. In addition, I have been giving presentations all around the world in conservation biology and the two new fields of science, Biomimicry and Zoopharmacognosy. FAMILY Date of Birth: Marital Status: Children: January 22, 1950
Single
Leif, born 17th August 1991. Olin, born 5th July 1994 GRANTS AND AWARDS CMC Professional Development Grants from Colorado Mountain College, 2007 – 2013
1. To give a presentation in Plymouth University in England to the Society of Economic Botany annual convention, and where I then traveled throughout northern Europe giving presentations about my World Park strategic plan for global nature conservation including my new education system. To give a presentation at the Denver Botanical Gardens, Society of Ethnobiology annual 
convention To give a presentation in St. Louis, Missouri, Society of Economic Botany annual 
convention Other presentations at national and international conventions 
 USDA United States Department of Agriculture, SBIR CSREES. 2004 – 2019. I received $375,000 from USDA Grant Number Proposal # (2004-33610-14720). Phase I, Phase II. Starting in 2003 in order to help save Osha, Ligusticum porteri, a native species with broad- spectrum antibiotics from extinction in the Yampa Valley Feasibility grant of $75,000 was followed by $3000,000 for Demonstration, now being followed by Phase III, Implementation, to help save this species from extinction through community services. Harvard University 1. Manaus, Brazil World Wildlife Fund. Researcher. Conducted research in the Amazon rainforests at the Minimum Critical Size of Ecosystem Project, in the world’s largest ecological study. 1986.
2. Alaska wilderness. Researcher. Searching for lost behavior to help save rare medicinal plants from extinction. 3. Smithsonian Institute, National Park Zoo, Washington, DC. Guest lecturer on biomimicry and the Giant Pandas.
4. Atkins and Richardson Grants, Awarded three grants for restoration and ethnobotanical research on plants in the Rocky Mountains in the genus Ligusticum. 1985, 1986, and 1988. IBM Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship. For Giant Panda research, and international research in China for one year including conducting comparative ethnobotanical studies on uses of plants for medicine by indigenous cultures including Taoist Masters and by the Giant Pandas especially for species in the genus Ligusticum in two continents. Researcher funding for one year in People’s Republic of China. Ethno-Medical research. 1983-1984. The Nature Conservancy Science diplomat for TNC to China People’s Republic of China for Washington, DC office. I served as an emissary to introduce Nature Conservancy methodologies for nature conservation to the Ministry of the Forests in Beijing, the highest conservation biology governing body and advising board in the People’s Republic of China. The Colorado College Friends of Hopkins Marine Station Award and Robert Stabler Award. Two awards for travel to Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station for marine biological research and classes. 1981 United States Department of Agriculture, SBIR CSREES. 2004 – 2019. I received $375,000 from USDA Grant Number Proposal # (2004-33610-14720). Phase I, Phase II. Starting in 2003 in order to help save Osha, Ligusticum porteri, a native species with broad- spectrum antibiotics from extinction in the Yampa Valley Feasibility grant of $75,000 was followed by $3000,000 for Demonstration, now being followed by Phase III, Implementation, to help save this species from extinction through community services. Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship. Researcher in People’s Republic of China for one year. Zoopharmacognosy and ethnobotanical and ethno-medical research. Conducted comparative ethnobotanical research on uses of plants in the genus Ligusticum in two continents, by humans and bears in Asia and North America. 1983-1984. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES SCB - Society for Conservation Biology SEB - Society for Economic Botany SOE - Society of Ethnobiology EMPLOYMENT
2007-2020. Colorado Mountain College, Alpine Campus. Full Time Associate Professor of Biology.
2003. National Geographic. Steamboat Springs. Filmed my research on Our Origins of the Knowledge of Medicine: uses of Osha by bears, Navajo Indians, and the medical community. 2000-03. Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies. Boulder, CO.
Guest faculty. Medical, ethnobotanical, and ecological conservation topics.
2000-03. Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, Bisbee, AZ. Guest Instructor. Medical, ethnobotanical, and ecological conservation topics.
1996-2003t. Lowell Whiteman School, Steamboat Springs, CO. Guest lecturer and tutor in biology, environmental science, history, English and geography.
1996. Regis University, Denver, CO. Course Consultant in medical botany.
1995. The Nature Conservancy, Steamboat Springs, CO. Scientist and Conservation Steward associated with areas near the Carpenter Ranch.
1995. Kaua'i Children's Discovery Museum. Kaua’i, Hawaii. Science advisor and board member. Demonstrations and supervision of science program.
1994. Yampa River Botanic Park. Steamboat Springs, CO. Park Designer, and board member. I received the contract to design our Steamboat Springs botanical garden based on native and medicinal plant themes and ecological zones.
1993. Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Acting Director of the Santa Fe Botanical Garden leading projects in education, public relations, and fundraising.
1992. School for Field Studies, Beverly, MA. Senior faculty. Participated in Ecuadorian rain- forest project, developing the curriculum and helping set up program in Ecuador.
1992. American Indian Scientists and Engineering Society, Boulder, CO. Guest lecturer at AISES, instruction in medical ethnobotany.
1984-1990. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. Teaching Fellow, premedical biology, botany, ecology, tropical ecology, ethnobotany, and the sciences. Additional teaching experience included organizing, leading and assisting with undergraduate field courses on ethnobotany, conservation biology and ecology in both temperate and tropical regions including Brazil, Venezuela and Costa Rica.
1989. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. Teaching Fellow. Designed, built, and taught and
was awarded for teaching the first course at Harvard University in Conservation Biology.
1982. The Nature Conservancy. Piceance Basin, CO. Field botanist. Participated in floristic survey. My research included the discovery and identification of a new species of plant on earth, Physaria heliophilus (Brassicaceae).
1982. Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Monterey Bay, California. I was employed at doing marine biology research of the pacific algae of Lawai Kai, Hawaii.
1981. The University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Botanist. Participated in research on rare, endemic, and medical potential plants in the Apiaceae growing on limestone outcroppings; traveled from the Rocky Mountains to the west coast.
1980. The Nature Conservancy. Mueller Ranch, CO. Field botanist. Participated in floristic survey on the north side of Pikes Peak.
1978-1979. Plants of the Southwest. Santa Fe, NM. Researcher and grower. Field and greenhouse activities with native plant seed company, including bioplasm collection and germination research on native plants for medicine, restoration, and conservation.
1971-1978. Hopi-Navajo land. Apprentice. As a young man, for seven years, I apprenticed with a Navajo and Hopi medicine man in an American Indian hospital, exploring, acquiring and sharing knowledge of native plants as used within their culture for medicine. This was foundational to my conservation biology career. FOUNDER OF THESE THREE ORGANIZATIONS Founder, President, World Park Educational Institute, Inc. Founder, President, Healing Planet Herbs, Inc.
Founder, President, Oshaworks, Inc. MEDIA Books 
**Osha, Ligusticum porteri, first monograph
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Benyus, Janine M. 2002. Publisher, William Morrow. Pgs. 167.
The Village Herbalist, Phillips, N and M. 2001. Chapter 2.
Medicine Quest, Plotkin, M. 2000. Chapter 9, pp. 170-171.
Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future, pp. 189-9. Rodriguez, E. Movies 1995. Zoopharmacognosy
National Geographic, Explorer Program: Animals healing themselves – about my bear research. National Geographic was here at my ranch in Steamboat Springs - St. Thomas Productions with National Geographic - filming my bears and Osha use for 10 days here and around our ranch. Journals Science News, 138(18), 280-282. Cowen, R. 1990. Medicine on the Wild Side.
Newsweek, pp. 53-54. Leonard, E. A., & S. Begley. 1992, February 3. Take two roots; call me: How wild animals use nature's medicine chest.
Newsweek. Ibid. (Japan and Korea at later dates.)
The Scientist, 6(6), 1-9. Andrews, R. 1992, March 16. American Indians in science: Western science learns from native culture.
National Wildlife, Dec/Jan 1994, pp. 46-49. National Wildlife Federation, Lipske, M. Animal Heal Thyself. Animals Magazine, pp. 26-30. Grisanzio, J. A. 1992, September. Fur Bearing Pharmacists. Self, p. 46. Korn, P. 1992, June. Nature's Wonder Drugs: Learning from Bear "Scouts."
P.M. Magazine. March 1992, pp. 38. Helfen die Arzneimittel der tiere auch uns Menschen? Geoskop: Verhalten , pp. 142-143. Davey, P., & B. Coleman. 1992, January 27. Tiere kurieren sich selbst. Cutter Information Corporation: Global Environmental Change Report, III (9), 1-3. Hurley, B. J. 1991, May 3. Rare and endangered plants: First causalities of greenhouse warming?
Radio
National Public Radio: Living on Earth, Steve Kerwood, 31 January 1992. SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS and ABSTRACTS Sigstedt, S. 2013. A World Park Presentation – Biomimicry: How Bears and American Indians have Discovered Secrets for Helping Restore our Planet Back into a Healthy Global Ecosystem. Colorado Mountain College, Alpine Campus, Steamboat Springs, CO.
Sigstedt, S. 2013. World Park – How American Indians have Discovered Secrets involving Bears for Helping Restore our Planet Back into a Healthy Global Ecosystem. Solimar Ecovillage, Iceland. Sigstedt, S. 2013. World Park – How Bears and American Indians have Discovered Secrets for Helping Restore our Planet Back into a Healthy Global Ecosystem. Findhorn Foundation Educational Community, Scotland. Sigstedt, S. 2013. World Park – An Exciting New Perspective for Global Nature Conservation. Petchu Ketchi. Society for Economic Botany Annual Meeting, Plymouth University, England. Sigstedt, S. 2013. World Park: Helping Restore our Planet Back into a Healthy Global Ecosystem. Society for Economic Botany Annual Meeting, Plymouth University, England. Sigstedt, S. 2012. World Park - a unified nature conservation strategy and educational initiative with beneficial biological consequences. Society for Economic Botany Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.
Sigstedt, S. 2012. World Park: An Exciting New Perspective for Global Nature Conservation, Denver Botanical Gardens, Society for Ethnobiology Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. Sigstedt, S. 2009. Stalking the Wild Osha Presentation at the American Herbalist Memorial Conference for Michael Moore. April 17-19. Truth or Consequences, NM.
Sigstedt, S. 2009. Conservation Biology Workshop given at the American Herbalist Memorial Conference for Michael Moore. April 17-19. Truth or Consequences, NM. Sigstedt, S. 2002. Bear Medicine and Osha Restoration. Living on a Healing Planet. Talks presented at the Rocky Mountain Herbal Gathering, Estes Park, CO.
Sigstedt, S. 2000. Population extinction and cultivation of the medicinal plant Osha. Talks presented at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. Sigstedt, S. 1993. Protection of Indigenous Cultures by the Preservation of Ecosystems. Presentation to American Herbalists Guild, Glorietta, New Mexico.
Sigstedt, S. 1993. Bear Medicine: "Self-medication" by Animals. Presentation to the American Herbalists Guild, Glorietta, New Mexico.
Sigstedt, S. 1992. AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences. Presentation about biomimicry, and the new field of science I helped co-found zoopharmacognosy, and my pioneering research on the use of native plants for medicine by bears. Sigstedt, S. 1990, and 1991. Society for Economic Botany. Presentation on my research progress on the conservation and restoration of Ligusticum porteri under clonal Quercus gambelii canopies.
Sigstedt, S. 1990. Extinction and restoration of refugial populations of Ligusticum porteri (Osha de la Sierra) under canopies of Quercus gambelii (Gambel’s Oak) in the Rocky Mountain Region. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT. Sigstedt, S. 1990. Implications of "self-medication" by animals for conservation biology strategy. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, Snowbird, UT. Sigstedt, S. 1989. The preservation of an ancient medicinal plant in the genus Ligusticum in the Rocky Mountains and in the People's Republic of China. Presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Botany, Honolulu, HI.
Sigstedt, S. 1989. Self-medication by bears: Competition by animals and humans for the endangered medicinal plant, Ligusticum porteri (Osha de la Sierra). Presentation to the National Park Zoo of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. Sigstedt, S. 1988, 1989. Society for Conservation Biology. Presentation of my discovery in Alaska of the unique germination dynamics of Ligusticum porteri subsequently grown in growth chambers simulating ice age like conditions.
Sigstedt, S. 1987. Bear Medicine: Uses of Osha by bears, and progress on human cultivation of Osha. Talk presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Herbalist Guild, Glorietta, NM. Sigstedt, S. 1984. In search of ancient medicines in the genus Ligusticum by American Indians and Chinese: a biogeographical study. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Sigstedt, S. 1983. The germination and taxonomy of Ligusticum porteri. Presentation; senior thesis. The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.
Sigstedt, S. 1983. The growing conditions of Ligusticum porteri in the high-altitude springs of the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona. Presentation at the Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. Sigstedt, S. 1981. Germination and seedling morphology of Ligusticum porteri (Apiaceae). Presentation to the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Colorado-Wyoming Academy of Sciences (Volume III).