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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…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2010.Current: Research Associate, UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, othersPh.D. Dalhousie UniversityB.Sc. Honours University of British ColumbiaDr. Lam served as an ESA Council Member-at-Large from 2011 to 2013, and as Chair of the Traditional Ecological Knowledge section 2008-2011. Ecologist Profile Describe what you do and…
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004.Currently, Director for Conference and Presentation Programs in the Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Related Professions, Washington DC.Professor (retired), College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University and School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa….
From an “Ecologist Directory” maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2011. Profile circa 2004. I realized, this is what I should have been doing all my life! If I hadn’t gone to grad school, I might not have found a way to discover science writing. It would have been impossible for me to start a Ph.D. project if I…
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