I'm an ecologist with an Erdos Number = 3.
Of lesser interest, I'm a professor of quantitative ecology here at SUNY College at Geneseo. I also hold the Dr. Spencer J. Roemer Professorship (2008-2011). I joined the faculty in the fall of 1998.
I serve as chair the Roemer Arboretum Advisory Board, coordinate our Biophysics Program, manage our College's Research Reserve, co-coordinator of the Biomathematics Minor, serve on the strategic planning advisory committee, serve as University Faculty Senator representing Geneseo in Albany, the CAS Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors of the Genesee Valley Conservancy. I also advise the following student groups on campus: Juggling Club, Men's Tennis Club, Women's Hockey Club, the Outing Club, and the Guitar Club.
Prior to being here I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University with Simon Levin and worked primarily on developing a complex adaptive systems model of multitrophic-level interactions. In 1995 I received my Ph.D. from Syracuse University by working with Sam McNaughton on competition among plants of the Serengeti. You can read some more details in a short biography of me at W.H. Freeman's site.