From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. ESA Distinguished Service Citation for 2002 When I was 14 years old I got a summer job as the Nature instructor at Camp Linwood Haynes, the local Boy Scout camp near Augusta Ga. I took the job seriously and learned everything I could…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. Position Marine Biologist Department Institute of Ecology Organization University of Georgia Eugene P. Odum Award 2005 Who wants to stay indoors all day? In my case, I can certainly trace my interest in science and ecology back to a hand-me-down butterfly net and…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 2002 W. S. Cooper Award I became interested in ecology after reading “The end of nature” by Bill McKibben as a freshman in college. I spent the next year on a leave of absence working in a forest reserve in Costa Rica, and…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D.Position Senior ScientistOrganization Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NYSteward Pickett grew up with a general fascination with the natural world, fueled by books his librarian mother would bring home for him to read. He remembers reading about astronomers, and thinking, “Oh, I want to be…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Professor Position Biology Department Department Department of Entomology Organization University of Maryland Describe 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? When I was an undergraduate…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. Position Program Director Department Division of Graduate Education Organization NSF I became interested in ecology while in college. I was majoring in Biology at the U. of Costa Rica and had the opportunity to do lots of field trips. I also took a…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. Position Assistant Postdoctoral position Department Dr. Brewer’s Lab Organization University of Montana When I was a child, my parents and my grandfather nurtured in me a deep love for nature. As a teenager, I had the fortune to live in a city…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D.Position Professor and ChairDepartment Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental BiologyOrganization Columbia University Somewhere in my senior year as an undergraduate at U. C. Berkeley I became interested in ecology. The undergraduate course in ecology I took was dull and really never gave the sense that ecology was…