Professional Positions

Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz, 2008-present

Director, The STEPS institute for Innovation in Environmental Research, UC Santa Cruz, 2002-2007

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000-2008

Center Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, 1997-1998

Meyer Distinguished Professor of the College of Sciences, Washington State University, 1994- 2000

Fulbright Senior Scholar, Division of Plant Industry, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, 1991-1992

Professor, Department of Botany (50%) and Department of Zoology (50%), Washington State University, 1987-2000

Visiting Faculty, Department of Pure and Applied Biology, Imperial College (Silwood Park), England, 1985-1986

Associate Professor, Department of Botany (50%) and Department of Zoology (50%), Washington State University, 1982-1987

Assistant Professor, Department of Botany (50%) and Department of Zoology (50%), Washington State University, 1978-1982

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1977-1978

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, School of Life Sciences Ecology Program, 1973-1977, Ph.D., 1977

Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA, 1969-1973, B.A., Biology, 1973

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elected Fellow, 2010

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Elected Fellow, 1988

American Institute of Biological Sciences
Council Member, 2008

American Society of Naturalists
President 2008; Executive Committee 2007-2012
Selection Committee for new editor of The American Naturalist, 1997; Nominating Committee 2010-2013
Vice President 1998; Executive Committee Member, 1997-1999
Selection Committee for Young Investigators' Award, 1988

Ecological Society of America
Ad-hoc associate editor 2008; Research Needs Committee, Member, 1997-1999
Chair of Publications Committee, 1988-1992
Editorial Board of Ecology and Ecological Monographs, 1986-1989

Royal Entomological Society of London
Elected Fellow, 1986

Society for the Study of Evolution
Special editor, book reviews, 2007-present; Elected Council Member 1988-1990

Monograph Series on Interspecific Interactions, University of Chicago Press
Editor, 1995- present

2011
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Symposium on Rethinking Adaptation to a Changing Global Environment, Invited Speaker, February
Washington University, Department of Biology, March
American Society of Microbiology Plenary Symposium on Coevolution, Invited Opening Speaker, May
Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, Invited Keynote Speaker, Oxford, England, June
Fifth International Symposium of the Biodiversity and Evolution Global COE Project, Invited Keynote Speaker, Kyoto, Japan, July

2010
Gordon Conference on Plant-Insect Interactions, Invited Speaker, February
Symposium on Ecological integration, Texas A&M, March
Sixth International Wolbachia Symposium, Plenary Evening Speaker, Asilomar Conference Center, California, June
Genetics Society of Australasia, Keynote Speaker, July

2009
Per Brinck Lecture, Uppsala, Sweden, February
University of Sevilla, Opening talk in symposium in honor of 150th anniversary of publication of the Origin, February
University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Biology, April
Harvard University, Opening talk in symposium on the ecology and evolution of mutualism, May
Centre for Advanced Studies, Norwegian Academy of Arts and Letters, August
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Plenary speaker, Turin, Italy, August
Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, November
Stockholm University, Zoology, November

2008
Florida State University, Department of Biological Sciences, January
Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, February
Spanish Research Council Symposium, Evolutionary Ecology Ecology of Plant-Animal Interactions, Opening talk, April
Smithsonian Institution, Closing talk at symposium celebrating the new hall of Partners in Evolution, April
Presidential address, American Society of Naturalists annual meeting, June
Norwegian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oslo, Symposium on the Red Queen in Evolution, August

2007
University of California, Berkeley, Public lecture on coevolution in public symposium on evolution, February
The Annual Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture in Ecology, Univ. of Missouri and Missouri Botanical Garden, April
Stanford University, Biological Sciences, May
Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Symposium on Evolutionary Ecology of Multispecific Interactions, July
Institute of Ecology, Xalapa, Mexico, Symposium on Species Interactions, September
University of Chile, Inaugural talk in Ecology and Evolution series, Bicentennial Project in Science and Technology, October
University of Helsinki, Centre for Metapopulation Ecology, November
Royal Swedish Academy, Symposium in honor of Linneaus's 300th birthday, November

2006
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, January
NSF Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Symposium on Species Ranges, Coevolution, and Speciation, February
Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, Silwood Park, July

2005
Institute of Ecology, Xalapa, Mexico, February
Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation, annual meeting, plenary speaker, Uberlandia, Brazil, July
Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Leiden University, The Netherlands, September
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Dept. Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences, October
University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, November
Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain, December

2004
Indiana University, Department of Biology, March 2004
University of Copenhagen and The Biological Society, Copenhagen, March
University of Aarhus, Denmark, Symposium on Species Networks, March
California Academy of Sciences, Annual Fellows' Address, October
University of California, Riverside, Department of Entomology, October
University of Helsinki, Symposium on Spatial Dynamics in Species Interactions, November

2003
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Ecology Seminar Series, January
Michigan State University, Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Plant Biology, and Entomology, February
Stanford University, Department of Biology, April
Linnean Society Symposium, Ecology and Evolution of Polyploidy, London, April
Royal Entomological Society Biennial Symposium, Evolutionary Ecology of Insects, July
Harvard University, Symposium on Coevolution and Genomics, October
Williams College, Massachusetts, Department of Biology, October

2002
University of California, Davis, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, January
University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, February
Fourth International Symposium on Butterfly Ecology, Plenary Speaker, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, March
University of Colorado, Department of Environmental, Populational, and Organismal Biology, September
European Science Foundation Symposium on the Evolutionary Biology of Invasive Species, Halle, Germany, October
Northern Arizona University, First Annual Peter W. Price Endowed Lecture, Dept. of Biological Sciences, November
University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, November

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