Professional Positions

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-present

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, Magna Cum Laude, 1973

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
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

USDA Competitive Grants (Biological Stress)
Panel Member, 1983, 1985, 1987

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

National Science Foundation
Panel on Frontiers of Biological Theory 2007; Panel on Undergraduate Research Mentoring 2007; Ecology Panel, 2000, 2001, 2002
Frontiers of Ecology Whitepaper (organizer), 1999-2000
Collaboratory on Invasive Species, 1999-2000
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Panel Population Biology, Ecology, and Systematics, 1997

National Science Foundation
UC Mexus

2007

University of California, Berkeley, Public lecture on coevolution as part of day-long public symposium on evolution, February 2007
The Annual Jane and Whitney Harris Lecture in Ecology, sponsored by University of Missouri at St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden, April 2007
Stanford University, Department of Biology, May 2007
Association of Tropical Biology and Conservation annual meeting, Symposium on the Evolutionary Ecology of Multispecific Interactions, invited organizer and speaker, July 2007
Institute of Ecology, Xalapa, Mexico, Symposium on Species Interactions, September 2007
University of Chile, Inaugural talk in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of the Bicentennial Project in Science and Technology, October 2007
University of Helsinki, Centre for Metapopulation Ecology, November  2007
Royal Swedish Academy, Invited lecture at sympsoium in honor of Linneaus’s 300th birthday, November 2007

2006

University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, January 2006
Co-Organizer and Speaker, Workshop on Spatial Heterogeneity in Biotic and Abiotic Environments: Effects on Species Ranges, Coevolution, and Speciation, NSF Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, February 2006
 Imperial College, Silwood Park, England, July 2006

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

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

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

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

2001
Symposium on Symbiosis, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, January 2001
Institute of Ecology, Xalapa, Mexico, February 2001
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Working group on evolutionary rates, December 2001

2000
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Working group on evolutionary rates, February 2000
University of Illinois, Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution, March 2000
Uppsala University, Invited speaker at Opening of the Centre for Evolutionary Biology, April 2000
California Population and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Plenary speaker, December 2000
Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, December 2000

1999
University of British Columbia, Department of Biology, February 1999
University of California, Santa Cruz, March 1999
Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto, Japan, July 1999
International Congress of Botany, Plenary Symposium on Plant Conservation Biology, August 1999
Central Washington University, Department of Biology, September 1999
University of South Carolina, Department of Biology, October 1999
University of Minnesota, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, November 1999
University of California, Irvine, Department of Ecology and Evolution, December 1999

1998
Joint NSF/CNRS workshop on Evolutionary Biology, Paris, January 1998
University of Oregon, Department of Biology, February 1998
Gordon Conference on Insect/Plant Interactions, February 1998
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, March 1998
Symposium on The Dynamics of Coevolution (Organizer and Chair), American Society of Naturalists (Invited Vice President's Symposium), Vancouver, British Columbia, June 1998
Symposium on The Coevolutionary Process, Neuchatel, Switzerland, Opening Speaker, September 1998
University of Stockholm, Six lecture series on coevolution, September 1998
Fourth Eugene Warming Lectures in Evolutionary Ecology, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, November 1998

1997
University of the Yucatan, Merida, Mexico, Department of Biology, January 1997
Cornell University, Ecology and Systematics, February 1997
University of Delaware, Department of Biology, March 1997
British Ecological Society and Dutch Ecological Society, Symposium on Plants, Herbivores, and Predators, Wageningen, The Netherlands, April 1997
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Organizer and Chair, Workshop on Rapid Evolution of Interspecific Interactions, October 1997
Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, November 1997

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