Present Positions

Chair, Department of Environmental Science, Policy &        

     Management and the Ecosystem Sciences Division,    

     University of California, Berkeley 

Professor of Conservation Biology, Division of Ecosystem

     Science, University of California, Berkeley 

Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, 1985-present.

Research Associate, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, U.C.

     Berkeley, 1998-present.

Affiliate, Energy and Resources Group, UC, Berkeley,

     1998-present

 

Education

 

B.A. Zoology. Miami University. June 1974.

M.S. Zoology. Miami University. May 1978.

Ph.D. Natural Resource Ecology. University of Michigan. August 1984.

 

Academic Fellowships, Honors and Awards

 

	Fellow, American Ornithologists' Union, 1995.
	National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Environmental Biology. 1986-1988.
	American Ornithologists' Union Travel Award to attend the International Ornithological Congress in Durban South Africa (1998) and Vienna, Austria (1993).
	First Tour du Valat Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecology (France). Declined - 1984.
	Marcia Brady Tucker Travel Award, American Ornithologists' Union. 1983 and 1984.
	Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan. 1983-1984.
	Howard M. Wight Prize, University of Michigan, outstanding graduate student in wildlife management. 1983.

Past Positions Held

Associate and Assistant Professor, Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Courses (all graduate level): Conservation Biology, Vertebrate Life History Strategies, Genetics and Demography of Small Populations, Wildlife Ecology, Ecology Seminar, Seminar in Sustainability, and Conservation and Trade. 1988-1996.

 

Associate Curator of Ornithology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 1994-1996.

 

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Biology, National Zoological Park, Department of Zoological Research. 1986-1988.

 

Recent Professional Activities

 

Editorial Board, Conservation Biology, 1997- ; Current Ornithology, 1994- .

 

Elective Counselor, American Ornithologists' Union, 1995-1998.

 

Member, U.S. National Committee for Diversitas, 2000 - present and U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Biological Sciences, National Research Council, 1995-2001.

 

Chair, Conservation Committee, American Ornithologists' Union, 1995-1999

 

Population Biologist, Marbled Murrelet Recovery Team, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon, 1993-present.

 

Professional Affiliations

 

AAAS, American Ornithologists' Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, Ecological Society of America, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, Society of American Naturalists, Society for Conservation Biology, and Wilson Ornithological Society.