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Dr. Douglas E. Gill: I learned
natural history in Audubon chapters in New Jersey. I majored
in
Biology at Marietta College, and interned in ornithology at
the American Museum of Natural History. My graduate studies
at the University of Michigan were in evolutionary ecology,
and my dissertation was experimental competition in protozoa.
Since 1971 I've been a faculty member, then Full Professor
since 1983 in the Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland.
My research and teaching is in ecology from an evolutionary
biological perspective. I've been on scientific expeditions
to Costa Rica, Africa, Nepal, Mongolia, Alaska, and lead ecotours
to Galapagos Islands, Indian Ocean, Tierra del Fuego and Antarctica,
Costa Rica, and Ecuador. I have been active (course faculty,
researcher, Board of Directors, etc.) with The Organization
for Tropical Studies, Inc. (OTS) in Costa Rica since 1966.
I was on the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Science
Committee of the State Chapter of Audubon MD-DC for five yrs.
I was honored to be a Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Biology at Williams College during AY
2003-2004.
I have been singing bass (section leader,
President, etc) with the Choral Arts Society of Washington
for 33 yrs - we routinely sing with the National Symphony
Orchestra, have 20 recordings, won a Grammy in 1997, have
toured the world.
Research areas include:
- The ecology of grassland restoration on the Eastern Shore,
especially birds.
- Reproductive failure in Pink Lady's-Slipper orchids
- Patch dynamics of eastern mixed deciduous forests
- Apathogenicity of trypanosomes in red-spotted newts
- Genetic mosaicism in large arborescent plants
- Altitudinal gradients in the life history of frogs
- Metapopulation dynamics of amphibians
- Dynamics of gall-making aphids on witch-hazel
- Response to pollution by insects in montane Costa Rican
streams
- Competition among ants in ant-acacias in Costa Rica
- Interspecific competition and patch blooms of Paramecium
Degrees:
Ph.D. - 1971, University of Michigan
M.A. - 1967, University of Michigan
B.S. - 1965, Marietta College, Ohio
Honors:
Distinguished Professor of Biology, Williams
College, 2003-2004.
National Science Foundation, Advisory Panel, Program in Population
Biology and Physiology Ecology. April 1988.
John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1986
Plenary Address, Pop. Biol. of the North East, Princeton,
1985
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