From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1984 (Oregon State University)Position DeanDepartment School of Earth SciencesOrganization Stanford UniversityDescribe your route to a career in (or using) ecology. What challenges did you need to overcome? What was your training, and what positions have you held?The route to my current position was…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 1964 (University of Notre Dame) Position Director & Trustee Professor Department Ecology Center & Ecology Organization Utah State University Distinguished Service Citation Award 2005 When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? I was lucky…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree MS (University of Wisconsin) Position Director Department Public Affairs Office Organization Ecological Society of America When did you become interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? I grew up in a suburban setting, Northern Virginia right outside Washington, DC….
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1982 (University of Sydney)Position Director & ProfessorDepartment Environmental Initiatives & Biology and Environmental StudiesOrganization New College of FloridaESA Eugene P. Odum Award for 2002When did you become interested in ecology? I became interested in ecology at about the age of 3, collecting wildflowers and…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 1962 (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Position President and Director Organization Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook NY When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? I grew up on a small farm in northern Indiana. While…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 2001 (University of California, Berkeley) ESA George Mercer Award for 2002 I was always interested in the outdoors, but was first exposed to ecology in an invertebrate zoology course my second year of college. I found myself interested in marine ecology, and worked…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 2004 (North Carolina State University)Position Research ScientistDepartment Research and Development DepartmentOrganization Weyerhaeuser CompanyI became interested in ecology as a child. My mother raised us to respect nature and its entirety and helped us gain an appreciation for the link between our livelihood and our…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D.Position ProfessorDepartment Department of BiologyOrganization University of Arkansas at Little RockI wish I had collected bugs when I was 12! Many ecologists who did know so much about the outdoors. Despite this “deficiency,” I have still learned a lot about the natural world and have…