From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004. Degree Ph.D. 1986 (Cornell University) Position Head of Education Organization Institute of Ecosystem Studies Eugene P. Odum Award for 2003 When did you become interested in ecology? As a child, I loved the outdoors, trees, rocks, rivers and mountains, and spent many hours in…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1980 (Cornell University)Position Head of the Department of EntomologyDepartment Department of EntomologyOrganization University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDr. Berenbaum is the winner of the Ecological Society of America’s 2004 Robert H. MacArthur Award, which is given biannually to an established ecologist in mid-career for meritorious…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1963 (University of Illinois)Position Mallinckrodt Professor of BiologyDepartment Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary BiologyOrganization Harvard University 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?I was…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1981 (West Virginia University)Position Executive DirectorDepartment Invasive Species InitiativeOrganization The Nature Conservancy 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?As an undergraduate student at Wilkes…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Degree Ph.D. 1991 (Colorado State University)Department Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory USGSOrganization Colorado State University Describe your route to a career in (or using)…
Contributed by William Dritschilo Frances Crews James, September 29, 1930- For her doctoral dissertation, “Fran” James questioned a hoary ecological shibboleth, correcting Ernst Mayr with a bit of German translation in the process. Although she was very much on the sidelines of the fracas that earned some of her more vocal colleagues at Florida State University the epithet, “Tallahassee mafia”—which…
Contributed by William Dritschilo Beverly Jean Rathcke, July 12, 1945- January 6, 2011 “Bev” Rathcke was a member of what Jean Langenheim described as the “First Modern Wave” of women ecologists in her review article on women in the science. Rathcke was noted for “challenging current dogma.” In particular, her early work on stem borers played an important part in…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Current: Professor of Fisheries and Wildlife at the University of Missouri–Columbia, MO Education B.S. Biology, Morehouse CollegeM.F.S. Master of Forest Science with an emphasis on wildlife, Yale UniversityPh.D. Ecology/Wildlife Ecology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and ForestryDr. Nilon was awarded ESA’s Commitment…