CANDIDATES FOR 2017 ELECTION OF OFFICERS
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Please take the time to vote in the upcoming election! You will receive an E-mail from the ABS Central Office containing a link to the online ballot. This email will be sent to the address in your ABS account as long as you are currently an active ABS member (as of November 1, 2016). A paper ballot is available in Microsoft Word format if you prefer to vote by regular mail. Please make sure that your name is clearly indicated on the envelope and is received by January 31, 2017.
CANDIDATES FOR THE 2017 ELECTION OF ABS OFFICERS
Second President-Elect:
Jennifer Fewell (Arizona State University)
Education:
B.A. Neurobiology and Behavior, 1979, Cornell University
M.S. Evolutionary, Ecology and Organismal Biology, 1985, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ph.D. Evolutionary, Ecology and Organismal Biology, 1988, University of Colorado, Boulder
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1989-1991, Simon Fraser University
Current Position: President’s Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
Research Interests: social organization and evolution; social insect biology; social transitions and the evolution of cooperative social groups; social scaling; foraging ecology and foraging energetics
ABS and Related Activities:
ABS Executive Committee 2004-2007; Junior and Senior Program Officer 2003-2007; Member, ABS Ethological Congress Committee, 1999-2000; Alternate delegate, International Ethological Congress council, 1999; Chair, membership committee, 1996-1999; Have also served as Allee Judge, Founders Award Competition Judge, and often as Session moderator. International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) President, North American Section (NAS, 1998-1999); NAS Executive Committee (1999 -2002); Organizer, NAS Section Meeting (2004); Delegate to International Congress (2002); Panel member: NSF IOS-Animal Behavior, DEB-Evolutionary Processes; USDA NIFA-Insects, CREES Honey bee CAP; Arizona State University: Faculty Leader, Organismal, Integrative and Systems Biology Faculty Group, School of Life Sciences (2015-current); (Founding Director, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity (2005-2009), and Executive committee member (2005-ongoing); Interim Associate Dean for Faculty, ASU Teacher’s College (2011); College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Advisory Committee (promotion and tenure committee, 2009-1011); Faculty Women’s Association Executive Board Member (2008-2016), FWA President (2010-2012); Women’s Leadership Committee (advisory to ASU President, 2014-current); Director, Minority Access to Research Careers Program at ASU (2003-2009)
Diana Hews (Indiana State University)
Education:
B.A. Zoology, 1979, Pomona College
M.S. Zoology, 1984, Oregon State University
Ph.D. Zoology, 1990, University of Texas at Austin
Postdoctoral research fellow, 1991-1995 Zoology, Arizona State University
Current Position:
Professor and Chair, Department of Biology, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN.
Research Interests:
Animal communication, sexual selection, territoriality, behavioral endocrinology, alternative reproductive tactics, stress physiology.
ABS and Related Activities:
ABS Junior Program Officer (2005-2007), ABS Senior Program Officer (2007-2009); Decision Editor, Animal Behaviour (2003-2005);Editorial board member for Integrative and Comparative Biology (2008-2013; 2016-2018), Physiological and Biochemical Zoology (2014-current), Journal of Herpetology (1993-present); Peer-reviewer for over 40 journals; NSF Grant review panel member for Behavior DDIG, Ecological & Evolutionary Physiology Cluster, Behavioral Systems, plus ad-hoc reviews; frequent best-student paper judge for ABS, JMIH, SSAR, SICB annual meetings.
Secretary:
Patricia Brennan (Mount Holyoke College)
Education:
B.A. Marine Biology, 1993, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano
Ph.D. Neurobiology and Behavior, 2005, Cornell University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2005-2010, Yale University
Research Associate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2010-2015
Current Position:
Visiting Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College.
Research Interests:
Sexual selection and sexual conflict in vertebrates; in particular genital evolution, post-copulatory selection, and costs of mating.
ABS and Related Activities:
Chair of the Public Affairs Committee (2014- present) We revived this committee to include broadening social media presence, and offering workshops on science outreach during the ABS meeting; Member of the Latin-American Affairs Committee (2009-2011); ABS Graduate Student Grants reviewer; ABS Allee Poster competition reviewer; Manuscript and grant reviews: NSF grant review panelist (pre-proposals and full proposals for behavioral systems and evolutionary processes), NSF grant review external reviewer (behavioral systems, developmental systems); Peer reviewed 3-12 papers per year in the last five years; developed an outreach program defending the importance of basic science funding, in particular animal behavior and organismal biology that incorporates a seminar, round table participation at AIBS and AAAS, peer-reviewed publications and development of 9-12 materials for teaching these concepts and ideas, as well as continued training and involvement of outreach efforts by graduate students.
Matthew Wund (College of New Jersey)
Education:
B.S. Biology, 1999, The College of New Jersey
M.S. Biology, 2001, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2005, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2005-2009, Behavioral Evolution, Clark University
Current Position:
Associate Professor of Biology, The College of New Jersey
Research Interests:
behavioral evolution, the evolution and development of antipredator behavior, the role of phenotypic plasticity (including learning) in shaping evolutionary outcomes
ABS and Related Activities:
ABS member (2002-present), ABS Education Committee (2014-present), ABS Genesis Poster Award judge (2013-present, co-organizer in 2014, 2015), ABS Outreach Fair participant (2013-present), ABS student research grant reviewer (2011, 2014), Co-organizer of the 8th International Conference on Stickleback Behavior and Evolution (2015), NSF panelist (2015) and ad hoc reviewer (2011, 2014, 2016)
Member-at-Large:
Ryan Taylor (Salisbury University)
Education:
B.S. Biology, 1995, University of Louisiana Lafayette
M.S. Biology, 1999, Florida International University
Ph.D. Biology, 2004, University of Louisiana Lafayette
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2004-2005, University of Texas at Austin
Current Position:
Associate Professor of Biology, Salisbury University, Maryland.
Research Interests:
Animal communication, multimodal signaling, auditory scene analysis, sensory ecology, auditory perception
ABS and Related Activities:
Associate Editor, Herpetologica (2011-present); ABS service: Genesis Poster Award judge (2016), ABS Graduate Student Grants review (2015, 2016); Ms reviewer for: Animal Behaviour, Behavioral Ecology, Ethology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Herpetologica, Southeastern Naturalist, Biology Letters.
Chris Templeton (Pacific University)
Education:
B.S. Biology, 1999, Denison University
M.S. Organismal Biology & Ecology, 2003, University of Montana
Ph.D. Zoology, 2009, University of Washington
NSF International Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2010-12, University of St Andrews
Natural Environment Research Council (UK) Independent Fellow, 2013-15, University of St Andrews
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Pacific University; Honorary Lecturer, University of St Andrews
Research Interests:
Animal communication, sexual selection, learning and cognition, predator-prey interactions, acoustic ecology and conservation.
ABS and Related Activities:
ABS Member for 15+ years; ABS Film Committee (2015); Reviewer for ABS Graduate Student Grants (2015); Judge for ABS Founder’s Memorial Poster Award (2014); ABS Allee Award honorable mention (2003); University of St Andrews Animal Ethics Committee (2011-15); Scottish Conference on Animal Behavior Student Presentation Judge (2014); NSF Animal Behavior Panel Grant reviewer; Manuscript Reviewer for Animal Behaviour and 17 other journals (5 manuscripts/year on average).
Program Officer:
Alison Bell (University of Illinois)
Education:
B.A. History, 1996, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Medicine, University of Chicago
Ph.D. Population Biology, 2003, University of California, Davis
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2003-2005, Physiology and Behavior, University of Glasgow, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2005-2006, Evolutionary Ecology, University of California, Davis
Current Position:
Associate Professor of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests:
Individual differences in behavior, parental effects, behavioral plasticity, behavioral genomics
ABS and Related Activities:
ABS Member; Society for the Study of Evolution Member; International Society for Behavioral Ecology Member; American Naturalist Society Member; Journal of Evolutionary Biology Editorial Board Member (2012-2015); Axios Review Editor (2015-present); ABS Member at Large (2013-2016); Co-Head, Behavioral Ecology section of the Faculty of 1000; ABS Young Investigator Award (2012); Member, NSF-funded Research Coordination Network (RCN) on Genetics and Genomics of Social Behavior. 2013-present; Panel and ad hoc reviewer for the National Science Foundation Divisions of Integrative Organismal Systems and Environmental Biology.
Mike Noonan (Canisius College)
Education:
B.S. Biology, 1974, University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. Behavioral Neuroscience, 1985, State University of New York at Buffalo
Current Position:
Professor, Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation, Canisius College.
Research Interests:
The cognitive and social nature of marine mammals held in seaquaria. (Recent studies have focused upon evidence of numerical competence in bottlenose dolphins, unusual male-male alliances in beluga whales, and culturally transmitted gull-baiting techniques in killer whales.)
ABS and Related Activities:
ABS Non-Commercial Film of the Year, 2005; ABS Distinguished Teacher, 2006; ABS Teaching Workshop 2009; ABS Film Committee Chair 2010-2014; ABS Film Makers Workshop 2014.
At Canisius College, founder/chair of undergraduate program in Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation; founder/director of graduate program in Anthrozoology.