Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

37 A Marquis Who's Who Magazine E cologist and environmental scientist Bruce Lord Bandurski has over 30 years of experience in his field and a dedication that led him to have a successful career. He obtained a Bachelor of Science with honors from the Honors College of Michigan State University and completed graduate work at George Washington University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Graduate School (now Graduate School USA) in 1965 and 1966, respectively. While obtaining his undergraduate degree, he worked as a park ranger for Yellowstone National Park for one year. He then went on to obtain positions as a science reference analyst for the Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control (a predecessor of the Environmental Protection Agency) and intelligence operations specialist for the U.S. Army. He was also an analyst planner, coordinator, branch chief, and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) officer for the U.S. Department of the Interior, as well as an ecomanagement advisor, senior ecomanagement advisor and ecologist for the International Joint Commission. During the course of his career, Mr. Bandurski has made great strides, including being the originator of the no-action alternative in the federal government’s National Environmental Policy Act process. He also engineered the concept of tiered and scaled environmental impact statements, catalyzed the first strategic planning endeavor of the International Joint Commission in the U.S. and Canada, and developed the first college-level course on the NEPA process. Additionally, he developed standards for recruiting and hiring the first systems ecologist for the federal government and was its first ecomanagement advisor. Mr. Bandurski traces his ancestry to Saer de Quincy and John “Lackland,” king of England, whose resolute mother was Eleanor of Aquitaine (queen of England after she was queen of France). The 25 generations between Bruce Bandurski’s birth in 1940 and King John’s birth in 1166 included a dozen passengers arriving in North America on the ship known as the Mayflower in the year 1620. More than 100 years ago, his great-grandfather, Herbert Mayhew Lord, was listed in an early Marquis volume. Bruce Lord Bandurski Ecologist, Environmental Scientist (Retired) Tucson, AZ