From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 1983 (University of Minnesota) Position Director of the Harvard Forest Department Ecological Research Institute Organization Harvard University Cooper Award for 2003 When did you become interested in ecology? I grew up in the farming countryside of Connecticut with a summer place in the…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 2008 (Brown University)Position Graduate StudentDepartment BiologyOrganization Brown UniversityE. Lucy Braun Award 2004 When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology?As a kid, I always felt attracted to nature and I enjoyed spending time outdoors. At…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 1983 (University of Georgia) Position Associate Professor of Biology Department Department of Natural Sciences Organization Johnson C. Smith University When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? My interest in ecology was shaped as a…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. (Duke University) Position Director Department Science Programs Organization Ecological Society of America When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? I knew at a very early age, seven or so, that I wanted to be…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. (University of Wales)Position Tropical EcologistDepartment Instituto de EcologíaOrganization Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoRodolfo Dirzo has long been fascinated with patterns in nature. From his childhood bugwatching in Mexico to his graduate studies with slugs and snails in Wales to a career in tropical ecology,…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Position Graduate Research Assistant Organization University of Kansas When did you become interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? I became interested in ecology near the beginning of college. Professors Mike Swift and Charles Umbanhower from St. Olaf College influenced…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 1979 (University of California, Davis) Position Director & Associate Dean Department Environmental Science and Policy Organization Michigan State University Sustainability Science Award 2005 When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? My earliest interests in…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 2001 (University of Maryland)Position DirectorDepartment Estuarine Research CenterOrganization Morgan State University“There be Scientist”. When early European mariners constructed maps of the world, at the edges of their known world they wrote, “There be Dragons”. They were wrong. For it is at the edge of…