Coffee with Claude

A memoir of four decades with my doctoral advisor—from beers at The Antlers bar to a joint paper that named my life's work, and the parallel paths we've traveled ever since.

When my dissertation committee summited Mount San Jacinto in 1981, Ted Hullar brought the same rigorous mind that discovered a foundational chemical reaction to understanding wilderness conservation. Four decades later, that July dinner in Portland became our final conversation about Cornell, conservation, and the arc of a remarkable life.