Curriculum Vitae

• 1966: Licentiaat Zoology, Ghent State University, Belgium
• 1968: Aggregaat Hoger Secundair Onderwijs, Ghent State University, Belgium
• 1970: Doctorate in Sciences, Ghent State University, Belgium.

• Cornell University, Ithaca USA (1994-)
• May 94 - present: Edwin H. Morgens Professor of Ornithology, Cornell University
• University of Antwerp (U.I.A.), Belgium (1974-1994)
• full professor (gewoon hoogleraar) - Jan 94-May 94
• professor (hoogleraar) Jan 82-Dec 93
• associate professor (geassocieerd hoogleraar) Jul 80-Dec 81
• associate professor (geassocieerd docent) Oct 74-Jun 80
• Vice Chairman Department of Biology October 1989-93
• Dean Science Faculty October 1989-91
• Vice Chairman Science Faculty October 1987-89
• Secretary Department of Biology October 1985-89
       Courses taught: Animal Ecology, Population Ecology, Behavioral Ecology,
        Zoogeography, Biometry, and Ornithology.

• Associate expert (national parks), Madagascar Oct 71-Dec 72
• Associate entomologist (rhinoceros beetle control), Western Samoa Jan 73-Sep 73

(Chair of Animal Ecology, Zoogeography and Conservation).

• Ecole Normale Supérieure and Université Paris VI, Paris, France 1994 (Chaire Internationale d'Ecologie, 3 months).
• University of Algiers (Algeria): graduate course on population biology, 1990
• University of Zaire at Kisangani: graduate course on population dynamics 1984.

• Councilor of the International Society of Behavioral Ecology (1998-2002).
• 1998 – present: Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Graduate School ‘Functional Ecology’, The Netherlands.
• Member of the International Committee for Peer Review of the Netherlands Institute for Ecological Research of the Dutch Academy of Sciences. 3-9 October 1998.
• Member of Advisory Board for the Student and Scientist Partnerships Conference, an invitational conference funded by NSF (1995-1996)
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Laboratory of Ecology, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Université Paris VI, Paris, France, 1988-1994.
• American Ornithologists' Union: Corresponding Fellow 1991-2000; Fellow since 2000
• Member of the International Ornithological Committee (1990-1994)
• Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Dierkunde since 1978; member of the Editorial Board of the Belgian Journal of Zoology since 2000.
• British Ecological Society since 1979
• British Ornithologists' Union since 1979
• Member of the Society for Behavioural Ecology since 1993.
• Member of the Editorial Board of 'Bird Study', the journal of the British Trust for Ornithology 1986-present
• Member of the Editorial Board of Ardea, the journal of the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union (1989-1996)
• Member of the Editorial Board of 'Acta Oecologica' (France) (1988-1996)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Gerfaut/Giervalk, the Belgian Journal of Ornithology (1989-1996).
• Central European University, Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board 1991.
• Member of the Executive Committee of European Science Foundation Programme in Population Biology (until 1996)
• 1966: First laureate of the 'Universitaire Wedstrijd' with 90/100 points.
• 1966: UNESCO Youth Leaders Travel Grant, Turkey, 2 months.
• 1970: Laureate of the Flemish Academy for Sciences.
• 1971: UN-consultant Niger (to assist the Government to prepare its national report for the UN-Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm 1972).

MAJOR GRANTS

• 1978: NATO Fellowship: 10 months at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• 1980-1985: Director of a cooperative research project on "Competition in Vertebrates" funded by the Belgian Fund for Collective Scientific Research, in collaboration with the universities of Ghent and Brussels. (270,000 US $)
• 1987 -1992: Director of a cooperative research project on "Strategies of survival and reproduction" funded by the Belgian Fund for Collective Scientific Research. (250,000 US $).
• 1991- 1996: Spokesperson and Coordinator of a 'Concerted Action on Evolutionary Biology' at the University of Antwerp (total budget ,400,000 US $)
• 1991-1994: Coordinator of an European Community contract in the 'STEP' programme (Science and Technology for Environmental Protection): "The effect of habitat fragmentation on the loss of genetic diversity", together with Dr. D. Parkin, Univ. Nottingham. (125,000 US $ each)
• 1993 -1996: Director of a cooperative research project on "The adaptive value of partner choice" funded by the Belgian Fund for Collective Scientific Research. (250,000 US $).
• 1993-1995: associated contractor of the EC- Human Capital and Mobility Network "Dispersal and local adaptation of bird populations in man transformed habitats" (85,000 US $).
• 1994-1996: Contractor of a grant of the EC- Human Capital and Mobility Programme for the study of Phenotypic Plasticity in a butterfly species.

• 1994-1996 - National Fish and Wildlife Foundation "Project Tanager" - $ 185,000

study of effects of landscape fragmentation on Tanager species across N.America using volunteers

• 10/01/96 to 9/30/99 - National Fish and Wildlife Foundation "Birds in Forested Landscapes" $285,300

study of effects of landscape fragmentation on various bird species across N.America using volunteers

• 1995-1999 - NY State Hatch Fund. "Study of the spread of a disease in a wild bird population". $5,000 per year

study of mycoplasmal conjunctivitis epidemic in N. America using volunteers

• 07/15/96-07/15/00 - NSF Informal Science Education: "Cornell Nest Box Network" ca. $1,305,765 - PI (with Rick Bonney, David Winkler and John Fitzpatrick)

study of dispersal and geographic variation in reproduction of cavity nesting bird species across N. America using volunteers.

• 09/15/95 – 08/31/99 - NSF Informal Science Education "Project Birdwatch" $896,561 –with $50,000 supplemental grant. co-PI with Rick Bonney (PI) and John Fitzpatrick

development of bird based middle school curriculum

• 04/01/98–04/01/03 - DOE "Biomass Power for Rural Development, Phase II- Bird studies", ca. $75,000 per year. PI

study of effect of short-rotation willow plantations on bird populations

• 09/01/98 – 09/01/99 Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation "The Impact of Wind Turbines on Birds in New York State": $39,012 (with Kurt Fristrup).
• 4/99 - 4/0 - NSF – INT Conference Award "Causes, Consequences and Mechanisms of Dispersal at the Individual, Population and Community Level" in Roscoff, France $ 20,000, PI, with Jim Nichols (USGS), Jean Clobert and Etienne Danchin (Paris).
• 09/15/00 – 08/31/04: NSF - DEB-0094456. "Dynamics of an Emerging Pathogen in an Introduced Host." ca. $ 2,400,000 – PI

development of spatio-temporal mathematical model to describe and predict variations in host abundance and disease prevalence in the House Finch-Mycoplasma gallisepticum system across N. America.

• 02/01/01 – 01/31/0: NSF- SGER ‘Evolution of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II genes in the American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) following an epidemic of West Nile Virus" $35,000 – co-PI.

 study of effect of a West Nile Virus epidemic on MHC genetic variation in a crow population.

• Cape May, New Jersey. The 1995 Partners in Flight International Workshop
• Cincinnati, Ohio. 113th Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
• Amsterdam, The Netherlands. "Natural Selection in Wild Populations: New viewpoints from applications of molecular genetics." Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. "

• Student and Scientist Partnerships Conference, an invitational conference in Washington DC, organized by TERC and the Concord Consortium, Boston Ma., and funded by NSF.
• Symposium on Economic aspects of Behaviour in Animals and Man, organized by the Jean-Marie Delwart Foundation, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

• Patuxtent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, Maryland. "Ecology and management of subdivided animal populations", an invitational workshop sponsored by the "Mission pour la Science et la Technology, Embassy of France, Washington D.C. and the Patuxtent Wildlife Research Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division
• AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, Seattle, Washington. Symposium "Doing Science K-12: models for authentic research through scientist/educator partnerships" organized by AAAS.
• National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Max Planck Institut fur Verhaltensphysiologie, Seewiesen, Germany.

• 22nd International Ornithological Congress, Durban, South Africa. Plenary Speaker
• Annual Paper Session of the Minnesota Ornithologist’s Union, Minneapolis. Keynote speaker.

• Seminar series "Chair -R. della Faille Royal Society for Zoology of Antwerp", Belgium..
• Co-convenor of the symposium "Behavioral Ecology: Foundations and Prospects" at the 117^th Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Ithaca NY
• Symposium "Citizen Science: two decades of progress and prospects for the volunteer in ornithology"
• Plenary speaker in "BIRD RINGING 100 YEARS 1899 –1999. International Conference on RESULTS AND PERSPECTIVES OF BIRD RINGING Helgoland / Germany
• Keynote speaker in "BeNeLux Conference of Zoology", Utrecht, Netherlands

• Dartmouth University
• EURING 2000 conference, Point Reyes, California.

DOCTORAL THESES SUPERVISED

• G. BILCKE (1983). (Ecological Study of the song birds of the nature reserve 'De Kalmthoutse Heide').
• C. THOEN (1984). (Study of intraspecific variation in anti-predator behaviour of the viviparous lizard)
• M. DE POORTER (1985). An experimental test of predictions from different hypotheses of self regulation in the Snowshoe Hare Lepus americanus Erxleben)
• M. LAMBRECHTS (1987). (Variation in singing ability of the Great Tit).
• L. BIJNENS (1987). (Contribution to the behavioural ecology of the Blue Tit: description and function of the vocabulary).
• E. MATTHYSEN (1988). (Population dynamics, social organisation and habitat quality in the Nuthatch).
• F. ADRIAENSEN (1988). (Social organisation and partial migration of the european robin in different habitats).
• N. MICHIELS (1989). (Population and behavioural ecology of the dragonfly Sympetrum danae.
• F. DE RIDDER (1990). (Demographic variation and adaptive value of the reproductive behaviour of the Sundew Drosera intermedia in different habitats.
• L. WAUTERS (1990). (Population and behavioural ecology of the Red Squirrel in different habitats).
• P. ULENAERS (1992): (Foraging success and reproduction of the Great Crested Grebe on fishponds).
• B. KEMPENAERS (1994): The social mating system and behavoural aspects of sperm competition in the Blue Tit Parus caeruleus.
• L. LENS (1994): Factors influencing crested tit Parus cristatus social organisation.
• G. VERHEYEN (1995). (Genetic variation in Blue Tits using Single-locus probes).
• N. NOUR (1997) Effects of habitat fragmentation on bird populations.
• C. DELECOURT (2001). Ecology and Life-history Strategies of the Eurasian Spoonbill breeding in a tidal environment in Southern Spain.

• BETH CHRISTMAN (2000). Influences on the social behavior of two southwestern titmice.
• STEFAN HAMES (2001). Habitat fragmentation and forest birds: effects at multiple scales.

• Daniel Ardia (E+EB – co-Chair)
• Dana Hawley (E+EB - Chair)
  
• John Bower (NBB: finished 2000)
• Barry Hartup (Veterinary Medicine finished 2000)
• Jay Mager (NBB)
• Tom Smulders (Psychology finished 1997)
• Matt Wasson (E+EB)