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EDUCATION
Undergraduate: Stanford University, B.S. in Biology, June 1972
Graduate: University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. in Zoology, December 1978. Advisor: Frank. A. Pitelka. Thesis title: "Ecological and evolutionary aspects of cooperative breeding in Acorn Woodpeckers of central coastal California"
Post-doctoral: University of California, Berkeley, 1978-1981. Advisor: Frank A. Pitelka.
JOB EXPERIENCE
1982 - Assistant ( - 1988), Associate (1988 - 1995) and Research (1995 - ) Zoologist, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UCBerkeley, and Adjunct Professor , Department of Integrative Biology, UCBerkeley.
1981-82 Assistant Professor, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2002 Honorary
Member, Cooper Ornitholgical Society
1999 William
Brewster Memorial Award, American Ornithologist Union
1998 Visiting
researcher, spatial ecology program, University of Helsinki
1998 Fellow,
California Academy of Sciences
1988 Fulbright
Fellowship to work in Cambridge, UK
1988 Fellow,
American Ornithologists' Union
1982 Elective
Member, American Ornithologists' Union
SERVICE TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Board of Directors, Cooper Ornithological Society, 1992-1995
Council, American Ornithologist Union, 1999-2001
Secretary, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 1992-1994
Organized biennial meeting, International Society for Behavioral Ecology,
1998
Editor of The Condor, 1995-2000
Treasurer, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, 2000-
Associate
Editor, Ecography: Ecology and Ecological Monographs, 2006-
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
Behavioral ecology; ornithology; population ecology; vertebrate social behavior; dispersal, mating systems, and sexual selection; spatial synchrony; spatial patterns; reproductive strategies of forest trees