B.A., 1957, Biology, Calvin College
M.A., 1958, Biology, University of Michigan
Ph.D., 1963, Zoology, University of Michigan
Integrative framing of science, ethics, and praxis in the development and application of solutions to environmental issues and problems; wetland ecosystem development and role in sequestering carbon and atmospheric solutes and particulates in maintaining a habitable earth; limnogeology; groundwater systems and stewardship in relation to wetlands, lakes, and municipal high-capacity wells policy; thermoregulatory systems and energy exchange across the span of individual organisms to biospheric processes; administration, land stewardship, and micro cogeneration of electric and thermal energy at local governmental levels; interfacing of ethical, religious, economic, and governmental systems toward long-term health and sustainability of the biosphere; ethical motivations for landscape preservation in the lives of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt; and interdisciplinary and its applications to ecological and societal sustainability.
Principles of environmental science, field investigations in wetland ecology, senior capstone environmental internships, and mentor to the Doris Duke Conservation Fellows.
Fellow, University of Wisconsin Teaching Academy; chair, UW-Madison Undergraduate Research and Awards Committee; member, UW-Madison Council on Outreach.
Founding Director, Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies, Mancelona, Michigan.
Co-founder, International Evangelical Environmental Network; founding member and chair, American Society of the Green Cross; chair, Advisory Council, Evangelical Campaign to Combat Global Warming and Climate Change; member, editorial board, Science and Christian Belief; advisor, National Religious Partnership for the Environment; president, Academy of Evangelical Scientists and Ethicists; member, advisory board, The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas; member, National Advisory Committee, Americans for a Maine Woods National Park.
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, American Scientific Affiliation (Fellow), Christians in Science (United Kingdom), Phi Sigma Biological Honorary Society, Society of Wetland Scientists, Ecological Society of America, North American Lake Management Society, Geological Society of America, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Society for Conservation Biology, and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
Has given major addresses at more than 70 North American colleges and universities and worldwide through travels to China, Korea, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the United Kingdom, and most recently at the Michael Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University.
DeWitt, C.B. 2006. The scientist and the shepherd: the emergence of evangelical environmentalism. In Robert Gottlieb, Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Oxford University Press, pp. 568-587.
DeWitt, C.B. 2006. Stewardship: Responding Dynamically to the Consequences of Human Action in the World. In R. J. Berry, Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives - Past and Present. London & New York: T&T Clark International, pp. 145-158.
DeWitt, C.B. 2002. Complementarities of scientific understanding of nature with religious perspectives of creation. In Stephen R. Kellert and Timothy Farnham, eds. Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science Religion and Spirituality with the Natural World. Island Press, pp. 19-48. (Based upon an invited paper for a symposium at Yale University.)
DeWitt, C.B. 2000. Behemoth and Batrachians in the Eye of God: Responsibility to Other Kinds in Biblical Perspective, pp. 291-316. In Hessel, Dieter T. & Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Christianity & Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth & Humans, Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 720 pp.
DeWitt, C.B. 1998. Science, ethics, and praxis: getting it all together. In John Carroll and Keith Warner, eds., Ecology and Religion: Scientists Speak. Quincy, Illinois: Franciscan Press, pp. 53-70.
DeWitt, C. B. 1997. Caring for Creation. Grand Rapids: Baker Books.
DeWitt, C.B. 1996. Biblical principles and environmental ethics. Environmental Review 3(10):10-16.
DeWitt, C.B. 1996. Community mobilization: a case study of the town of Dunn. Paper presented at Global Stewardship National Conference, October 16-20, 1996, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
DeWitt, C. B. 1995. Ecology and ethics: relation of religious belief to ecological practice in the Biblical tradition. Biodiversity and Conservation 4:838-848 (Given a John Marks Templeton Award, 1996).
DeWitt, C.B. 1994. Earth-Wise: A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues. Grand Rapids: CRC Publications.
DeWitt, C.B. 1989. Let it be: a wetland scientist and restorationist reflects on the value of waiting. Restoration and Management Notes 7(2):80-81.
Heliotis, Francis, and C.B. DeWitt. 1987. Rapid water table responses to rainfall in a northern peatland ecosystem. Water Resources Bulletin 23:1011-1016.
Kratz, Timothy K., and C.B. DeWitt. 1986. Internal factors controlling small peatland-lake ecosystem development. Ecology 67:100-107.
Winkler, Marjorie, and C.B. DeWitt. 1985. Environmental impact of peat mining: documentation for wetland conservation. Environmental Conservation 12(4):317-330.
DeWitt, C. B., and Robert M. Friedman. 1979. Significance of skewness in ectotherm thermoregulation. American Zoologist 19:195-209.
DeWitt, C. B. 1967. Precision of Thermoregulation and its relation to environmental factors in the desert iguana, Dipsosaurus dorsalis. Physiological Zoology 40:49-66. (Listed in Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: 1951 to 1975 -- "primary sources . . . that have most affected the evolution of our thoughts on the geographical and ecological distribution and diversity of life.")