Heinrich accepted a position in 1980 as a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. (Zoology, 1970), which was awarded “with distinction.” In 1971, Heinrich joined the Department of Entomology at the University of California-Berkeley as an assistant professor and quickly reached the rank of professor in 1978. He then attended the University of California-Los Angeles and earned his Ph.D. He began his formal education at the University of Maine and received both B.A. Heinrich's family made it to western Germany, where they survived in a forest shack with no electricity or running water for six years before immigrating to the U.S. Later, it was learned, a Russian submarine torpedoed the ship and thousands drowned in the cold Baltic Sea. The family attempted to board a transport truck carrying refugees to an awaiting steamship on the Baltic coast, but when only Heinrich and his mother where able to squeeze onto the truck, his father, not wanting to separate the family, yanked them off. Along their escape route, they connected with Heinrich's father, who was an officer in the German Luftwaffe. They traveled by horse-drawn sleigh, German tank, cattle-car train, supply truck, Junker transport plane, and a stolen military car. In January 1945, Heinrich's mother, his two sisters, and he began a five-month long escape across Poland and Germany from the invading Russian Red Army. Heinrich was born 19 April 1940 near Danzig, Poland (now Gdansk, Germany). His Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival was a New York Times best seller. In addition to insects, he has published extensively on ornithology, including Ravens in Winter and Mind of the Raven, which won the John Burroughs Medal for Nature Writing. His book Bumblebee Economics was a National Book Award in Science finalist. Heinrich is a prodigious author of books about biology, ecology, behavior, and personal reflections on natural history. His groundbreaking discoveries on insect thermoregulation were published in Science a remarkable eight times. His work illuminated new physiological mechanisms of temperature regulation in sphinx moths, bumble bees, dragonflies, dung beetles, and other insects. Bernd Heinrich is professor emeritus in the Department of Biology, University of Vermont, and is distinguished by his research in insect comparative physiology and behavioral ecology.

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