Ph.D. 1976 (Modeling and Control of Birth and Death Processes) (above degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa.)
D.Sc. 1995 (Kin recognition and Chemosensory
Communication in the Honey Bee, Apis melliferaÑSenior Doctorate
from the University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Summary of Professional Experience and Awards
Research Scientist, 1974-1979: National Research
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa.
Postdoctoral Associate, July-Dec. 1976: College
of Forestry and Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
Colorado
Postdoctoral Associate, Jan.-July 1977: Department
of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California
University of California 1979-present:
79-83 Assistant Biomathematician
83-87 Associate Biomathematician
87-present Biomathematician and Professor
96-2001 Chair, Division of Insect Biology
2005-2006 Chair, Division of Organisms and Environment
Consultant 1981-1987: (Consultant to Northwest
and Alaska Fisheries Center, NMFS, Seattle and to the Canadian Department
of Fisheries and Oceans)
Congressional Review Committee 1997: (Member
of Congressionally Mandated NRC Committee to review NMFS Stock Assessments
of the US NE Groundfish Fisheries)
Resource Modelers' Association
Director Jan 1991 to Dec1994
President: Jan1995 to Dec 1996
Past President Jan 1997 to Dec 1997
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, 1993
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, 1997
UC Berkeley Chancellor's Professor 1998-2001
Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, 2000
Research Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001/2
Distinguished Scientist Lecture, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 2002
Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria and Fellow of the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria, 2002
Editorial Board 2006-present, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
Editorial Board 2006-present, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Editorial Board 2006-present, PLoS ONE
Editorial Board 2008-present, Epidemics: The Journal and Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics
Editorial Board 2008-present, Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Senior Advisory Council 2008-present, Natural Resource Modeling
Grants in the past 18 years:
2008-2012 NIH/NSF EEID Program: The ecology of environmentally maintained episodic anthrax in Etosha, Namibia.
2003-4 Ellison Medical Foundation: Partial support for Short Course in Epidemiological Modelling at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Workshop on HIV-AIDS
2003-2008 James S. McDonnell Foundation: Merging Dynamical Systems Modeling and Analysis at Different Levels of Biological Organization
2002-2006 NSF Grant DEB-0221768. Biocomplexity: Analysis of factors determining the ecological function and resilience of microbial communities. (Co-PI, with Jill Banfield as PI and Mary Power as a second Co-PI)
2000-2005 NIH (co-PI , PI Travis Porco) Evolutionary effects of public health control measures
2000-2005 NSF, Metapopulation models and control of TB in African buffalo
1998-2001 DARPA, Integrated micropipette electrode arrays for measuring olfactory response patterns in the insect brain
1998/9 NSF Grant INT-98-07938, A computational analysis of olfactory processing in the insect antennal lobes
1998-1999 NSF Grant INT-9731004, Workshop on the Scientific Underpinnings of Community Based Management of Wildlife in Southern Africa.
1995-1996: NSF Grant INT--941772, South African Resource Analysis Workshop
1992-1994: NSF Grant DEB--9220863, Sex-ratio variation of herbivores and parasites in a three-trophic level system
1992: Grant IBN--9246576, Research Experience for Undergraduate Supplement to IBN--9009197
1990-94: NSF Grant IBN--9009197, Worker policing behavior in social hymenoptera perception: empirical honey bee studies and neural network models
1989-91: California Sea Grant, 35-MA-N (associated with W.M. Hanemann and A.C. Fisher who are the PI's). The benefits and costs of managing environmental variability in the California Central Valley chinook salmon fishery
1988-89: NSF Grant BNS--8809728, Chemosensory information processing using the honey bee as a model system
1986-89: A. P. Sloan Foundation, Application of non-linear population models in biology and demography (Ken Wachter,co-PI)
1986-88: NSF Grant BNS--8510837, Kin recognition in the honey bee Apis mellifera: origin and perception of pheromones; acceptance of queens
1986-88: NSF Grant DMS 85--11717, Application of optimization theory to the management of nonlinear age structured biological resources