{"id":5053,"date":"2016-07-07T16:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2016-07-07T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T23:30:43","slug":"inouye-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2016\/07\/inouye-david\/","title":{"rendered":"David Inouye"},"content":{"rendered":"

From an \u201cEcologist Directory\u201d maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004.<\/em>
\nDegree<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ph.D. 1976 (University of North Carolina)
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\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Biology
\nOrganization<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University of Maryland
\n\"davidinouye\"When did you become interested in ecology?
\n<\/strong>An elementary school teacher, my parents, and my grandmother were all important in getting me interested in biology and ecology. A college faculty member stimulated my interest in plant ecology. Another important element of my training was participation in two tropical ecology courses through the Organization for Tropical Studies while I was a graduate student; that experience helped steer me away from behavior towards ecology. Exposure to field biology at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory was also an important element in the development of my career.
\nHow did you learn about ecological careers?
\n<\/strong>I didn\u2019t learn much about careers in ecology until I became a graduate student. I\u2019m now Professor in the Department of Biology, and Director of the graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology at the University of Maryland. I\u2019m also an affiliate faculty member in the School of Public Affairs, and Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Ecological Society.
\nDescribe 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?<\/strong>
\nI was an undergraduate zoology major at Swarthmore College, received a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of North Carolina, took a job in the zoology (now biology) department at the University of Maryland, and later did a NATO post-doc at the Botanical Institute at the University of Vienna. For two years I was Director of the University of Colorado\u2019s Mountain Research Station. My sabbaticals in the Snowy Mountains of Australia, the Smithsonian\u2019s Tropical Research Institute, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, and University of Natal were also important training experiences.
\nWhat advice do you have for communicating ecology to diverse audiences?<\/strong>
\nTake a course at a biological field station. The kinds of courses they offer are not available at many schools, and you\u2019ll learn about field biology first hand.\u00a0 Take advantage of the NSF program for Research Experience for Undergraduates, and get paid to learn about research by doing it.\u00a0 With these experiences you\u2019ll learn enough about natural history to be able to ask interesting research questions, and develop the skills needed to learn how to answer them.
\nWhat key advice would you offer a student today?<\/strong>
\nThe work you do is of interest to non-scientists, and you can learn how to communicate it to them. For example: write an article for the local newspapers, invite reporters to visit your research project, talk on a local radio program, write (and get paid for it!) articles in magazines like Natural History, give talks to garden clubs, school groups, or events like wildflower festivals.
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From an \u201cEcologist Directory\u201d maintained by the ESA Education Office about 2004-2005. Profile circa 2004. Degree\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ph.D. 1976 (University of North Carolina) Position\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Professor & Director Department\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Department of Biology & Sustainable\u00a0Development and Conservation \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Biology Organization\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 University of Maryland When did you become interested in ecology?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,155,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-ecologist-directory","category-personal-accounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}