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…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1997Position Associate ProfessorDepartment Department of BiologyOrganization Bard CollegeI became interested in ecology by accident. For my first few years in graduate school, I was studying evolutionary biology. In my third year, while looking for a new dissertation project, I stumbled across an ecological question…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1977 (University of Sevilla)Position Professor of ResearchDepartment The Estacion Biologica de Doñana, SevillaOrganization Research Institute of the Spanish CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas) ESA Honorary Membership Award for 2002 When did you become interested in ecology?In retrospect, I think it was a consequence…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 2006Position Graduate Student at UCSCOrganization University of California, Santa CruzMurray F. Buell Award for 2004 When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology?I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in biology. I grew up…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1985 (Arizona State University)Position ProfessorDepartment School of Life SciencesOrganization Arizona State University When did you get interested in ecology?Although I have always enjoyed the outdoors, I was not a budding ecologist growing up. I went to college with no earthly idea of what I…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1985 (University of Washington)Position Executive Director & ProfessorDepartment Big Sky Institute for Science and Natural HistoryOrganization Montana State University When did you get interested in ecology? Who was most influential in guiding you into ecology? As an undergraduate, I had a terrible…
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. (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,…