Gareth Russell: Curriculum Vitae
CONTACT DETAILS
You can contact me at either of the places below.
| Address | Department of Biological Sciences New Jersey Institute of Technology 323 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd Newark, NJ 07102-1982 USA |
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| Phone | ++1 973 642 4299 |
| Fax | ++1 973 596 5591 |
| russell@njit.edu | |
| Internet | http://web.njit.edu/~russell |
| Address | Department of Biology Rutgers University 101 Warren St. Newark, NJ 07102 USA |
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| Phone | ++1 973 353 1429 |
| Fax | ++1 973 353 5518 |
| grussell@andromeda.rutgers.edu | |
| Internet | TBA |
PERSONAL DETAILS
| Date and place of birth | 31st. July, 1970, Redhill, Surrey, UK |
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| Citizenship | British |
| Current Residence | New Jersey, USA |
| Work Permission | Green Card |
| Marital Status | Married, to Kimberly |
ACADEMIC HISTORY
| 1992 | BA (Honours, upper second class) in Zoology, New College, University of Oxford |
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| 1996 | PhD in Zoology, University of Tennessee. Advisor Stuart L. Pimm |
| 1996–1998 | Postdoctoral Research Associate at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, USA (NCEAS) |
| 1996–1998 | Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Population Biology, Silwood Park, UK (CPB) |
| 1998–2002 | Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee. |
| 1998–2000 | Visiting Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation at Columbia University. |
| 2001–2002 | Research Associate in the Department of Biology at the College of Wooster. |
| 2002–2005 | Lecturer in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (E3B) at Columbia University. |
| 2003–2005 | Director of Undergraduate Studies and Post-Baccalaurate Programs for E3B, ColumbiaUniversity. |
| 2005 to 2007 | Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). |
| 2007 to present | Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). |
| 2005 to present | Member of the Federated Department of Biology of NJIT and Rutgers University. |
FUNDING AND AWARDS
- Oxford
- External examiners’ special prize for undergraduate project.
- Christopher Welch Scholarship for Graduate Studies in Zoology (declined in favour of a position at the University of Tennessee).
- Tennessee
- Charles Elton award from the Journal of Animal Ecology for best paper by a young author (1995).
- Contract from the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (UK) to the University of Tennessee (with Stuart L. Pimm as principal investigator), for research into the dynamics of small populations and communities with emphasis on prediction of times to extinction. £7000 ($10 500).
- Chancellor’s Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise (1996).
- Science Alliance awards for excellence in research ($1000 in 1994, $3000 in 1996).
- Science Alliance permanent stipend upgrade.
- Numerous graduate teaching assistantships.
- NCEAS/CPB
- Postdoctoral research position, from a proposal submitted initially to NCEAS, then to CPB. Research involves the synthesis of population-level and community-level models of species appearance and disappearance, and development of improved methods for estimating times to extinction. Two years of postdoctoral salary plus travel allowance.
- NCEAS Working Group Sampling Curves in Ecology: Theory and Application. With Michael McKinney of the University of Tennessee. $75,000.
- Recent
- Grant from the National Park Service to analyse the spatiotemporal dynamics of wading birds in Everglades National Park, using survey data from the last 10–15 years. With Stuart Pimm of the University of Tennessee. $50 000.
- Grant from the National Park Service to analyse current and historical breeding data on wading birds in South Florida. With Stuart Pimm of the University of Tennessee. $100,000.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Analytical
- Macintosh hardware and software configuration; various software packages. In-depth knowledge of MATLAB and Mathematica.
- Basic ArcGIS 8 skills (ESRI certified).
- Markov chain probabilistic models, fitting by likelihood and non-linear least-squares, bootstrap methods for likelihood-ratio tests (G-test, logistic regression), rarefaction, information-based statistics (AIC, ICOMP).
- Field
- Preliminary faunal survey of upland pools (‘lochans’) in the vicinity of Bienn Eighe, Western Highlands, Scotland.
- Pitfall trapping, sweep-netting and hand collecting as part of a survey of spider assemblages in Nantahala National Forest, North Carolina, USA.
- Mist-netting, banding and behavioural observations of endemic and introduced birds in upland cloud forest, Maui, Hawai'i, USA.
- Mist-netting, banding and behavioural observations of the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritima mirabilis) in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA. Use of Global Positional System.
- Reviewing
- For Science, Ecology/Ecological Monographs, Journal of Animal Ecology, Conservation Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Animal Conservation, Chapman & Hall.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Lecturing
- General Ecology (undergraduate)
- Environmental Biology (undergraduate)
- Modeling Populations and Communities (graduate)
- Ecology (graduate)
- Conservation Biology (graduate)
- Small class/Seminar
- “Selectivity in Invasions and Extinctions” (graduate)
- Lab/Field
- General Biology (undergraduate)
- Comparative Vertebrate Biology (undergraduate)
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
- American Society of Naturalists
- Ecological Society of America
- Society for Conservation Biology
MEETINGS ORGANIZED
- NCEAS working group Sampling Curves in Ecology: Theory and Applications. With Michael McKinney of the University of Tennessee.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
- The influence of environmental variation on community composition. Presented at the Oikos symposium Population Fluctuations in Stochastic Environments, Røros, Norway, 4th.–7th. April 1997.
- The propagation of disturbances though ecological systems. Presented at the Network Contagion and Failure workshop, Columbia University, New York, USA, May 2002.
PUBLICATIONS
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- PIMM, S. L., J. M. DIAMOND, T. M. REED, G. J. RUSSELL & J. M. VERNER (1993) Times to extinction for small populations of large birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA90: 10871–10875.
- CURNUTT, J., J. LOCKWOOD, H.-K. LUH, P. NOTT & G. RUSSELL (1994) Hotspots and species diversity. Nature367: 326–327.
- SMITH, W. O. JR., & G. J. RUSSELL (1995) Phytoplankton biomass and nutrient distributions in the Amazon River plume: environmental correlates. Geo-Marine Letters15: 195–198.
- RUSSELL, G. J., J. M. DIAMOND, S. L. PIMM & T. M. REED (1995) Centuries of turnover: community dynamics at three timescales.Journal of Animal Ecology64: 628–641.
- PIMM, S. L., G. J. RUSSELL, J. L. GITTLEMAN & T. M. BROOKS (1995) The future of biodiversity.Science269: 347–350.
- PIMM, S. L., J. L. GITTLEMAN, G. J. RUSSELL & T. M. BROOKS (1996) Extinction rates — response.Science273: 297.
- RUSSELL, G. J. (1998) Turnover dynamics across ecological and geological scales. Pages 377–404 in Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa and Communities (M. L. McKinney and J. A. Drake, eds.). Columbia University Press, Columbia, NY.
- RUSSELL, G. J., T. M. BROOKS, M. L. MCKINNEY & C. G. ANDERSON (1998) Present and future taxonomic selectivity in bird and mammal extinctions.Conservation Biology12: 1365–1376.
- FUKAMI, T., C. R. ZIMMERMAN, G. J. RUSSELL & J. A. DRAKE (1999) Self-organized criticality in ecology and evolution.Trends in Ecology and Evolution14(8): 321.
- LOCKWOOD, J. L., G. J. RUSSELL, J. L. GITTLEMAN, C. C. DAEHLER, M. L. MCKINNEY and A. PURVIS (2002) A metric for analyzing taxonomic patterns of extinction risk.Conservation Biology16: 1137–1142.
- RUSSELL, G. J., O. L. BASS & S. L. PIMM (2002) The effects of hydrological patterns and untimely, breeding-season flooding on the numbers and distribution of wading birds in Everglades National Park.Animal Conservation5: 185–199.
- FERRAZ, G., G. J. RUSSELL, T. E. LOVEJOY, P. C. STOUFFER, R. O. BIERREGAARD & S. L. PIMM (2004) Rates of species loss from Amazonian forest fragments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA24: 14069–14073.
- RUSSELL, G. J., T. M. REED, J. M. DIAMOND & S. L. PIMM (2006) Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging?Journal of Animal Ecology75(2): 324–339.
- ADENEY, J. M., J. R. GINSBERG, G. J. RUSSELL & M. F. KINNAIRD (2006) Effects of an ENSO-related fire on a tropical forest bird community in Sumatra. Animal Conservation9(3): 292–301.
- HARRIS, G. M., G. J. RUSSELL, R. I. VAN AARDE & S. L. PIMM (2008) Rules of habitat use by elephants (Loxodonta africana) in southern Africa: insights for regional management. Oryx 42(1): 66–75.
PUBLICATIONS SUBMITTED OR IN PREPARATION (preprints available)
- RUSSELL, G. J. & H. BOZDOGAN. The usefulness of information-based statistics in ecology.
- RUSSELL, G. J. The use and abuse of Moran’s I in conservation.
ARTICLES IN POPULAR PRESS
- Pimm et al. 1993 was the subject of an article in the New York Times on December 14th., 1993.
- Pimm et al. 1995 was the subject of an article in the New York Times on July 25th., 1995.