ASM presidents

TY - JOUR

T1 - ASM presidents

AU - Merrick, Melissa J.

AU - Wilson, Don E.

N1 - Funding Information: The majority of publications by Guy, his students, and postdocs involved habitat selection, behavior, diet, community structure, and nutritional ecology of small mammals. They also published on terrestrial insects, invasive species (terrestrial isopods, Asiatic clams, fire ants, Chinese tallow, bush honeysuckle), aquatic organisms, bot flies, impacts of tornados on deciduous forests, landscape ecology, impacts of global warming, and urbanization gradients. He co-organized symposia for annual ASM meetings and for International Theriological Congresses. He co-authored a book on Life Underground: the Biology of Subterranean Rodents with Eileen Lacey and Jim Patton, and a book on Career Trends and Graduate Training in Mammalogy with Gary Barrett (published by Allen Press). Currently, he and colleagues are working on a book on the mammals of Ohio. Guy’s research was supported by NSF, NIH, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nature Conservancy, Welder Wildlife Foundation, and the National Institute for Global Climate Change. His research focused primarily on coastal prairie and deciduous forest habitats in the United States, but he also worked with collaborators at field sites in Mexico and northern Alaska. Funding Information: Tom’s research was largely funded by NSF, National Geographic Society, and Bat Conservational International. He has trained 31 Ph.D. students, 15 Master’s students, 17 postdoctoral scholars, and countless undergraduate students in ecology and physiological ecology. His most recent research focused on the behavioral ecology and physiological ecology of the Brazilian free-tailed bat, Tadarida brasiliensis in Texas, focusing on agroecology and aeroecology. He was also heavily involved in assessing the impacts of wind-energy development on bats and the effects of white-nose syndrome on hibernating bats—a disease that has led to the most precipitous decline of bat populations in recorded history. He developed numerous methods for the ecological and behavioral studies of bats and has recently pioneered applications of thermal infrared imaging in ecology and behavior. He was recently a member of a National Research Council committee investigating environmental impacts of wind energy, and led a National Wind Coordinating Committee charged with preparing a document entitled “Methods and Metrics for Studying the Impacts of Wind Power on Bats and Nocturnally-active birds.” He introduced the concept of aeroecology, an emerging discipline that embraces and integrates the domains of atmospheric science, animal behavior, ecology, evolution, earth science, geography, computer science, computational biology, and engineering. He is a founding co-director of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station in eastern Ecuador. Funding Information: oration with colleague Michael H. Kesner, explored the relationship between habitat quality, and population density and stability. A desire to experience a different ecosystem led her to develop a research program in southern Africa. With support from a Fulbright Fellowship through the Sub-Saharan Regional Research Program in 1992–1993, she conducted a year-long project that studied small mammal population and community ecology at Sengwa Wildlife Research Area in Zimbabwe. This research led to other studies in southern Africa that were supported by a research Fulbright to Dr. Kesner in 1999–2000. The latter work determined the distribution of morphologically indistinguishable sibling species of veld rats (Aethomys chrysophilus and A. ineptus).

PY - 2019/5/23

Y1 - 2019/5/23

KW - American Society of Mammalogists

KW - biographies

KW - history

KW - leadership

KW - presidents

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U2 - 10.1093/jmammal/gyy178

DO - 10.1093/jmammal/gyy178

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85072086528

VL - 100

SP - 627

EP - 645

JO - Journal of Mammalogy

JF - Journal of Mammalogy

SN - 0022-2372

IS - 3

ER -