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'm a co-PI on an NSF grant (2004-2010) that aims to train undergraduates to do research at the interface of Biology and Mathematics (see Biomath Career Initiative).
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.
I am involved with a variety of activities here at Geneseo such as serve as chair the Roemer Arboretum Advisory Board, coordinate our Biophysics Program, manage our College's Research Reserve, co-coordinator of the Biomathematics Minor, the strategic planning advisory committee, serve as Senate treasurer, the CAS Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors of the Genesee Valley Conservancy.