Curriculum Vitae
William F Morris
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Room 137 Biological Sciences Building
125 Science Drive
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708-0338(919) 684-5257 (office) 
(email)
- PhD University of Washington, 1990
- Areas of Research
Population ecology, mutualism, plant-insect interations, life-history adaptations to stochastic environments, theoretical ecology, conservation ecology
- Major Grant Support
Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program (SERDP - Department of Defense), 2006-2011,
Collaborative project with Aaron Moody (PI, UNC-Chapel Hill), Nick Haddad (NC
State University), Jeff Walters (Virginia Tech), Larry Crowder (Duke), and Jeffery
Priddy (Duke): “Mapping Habitat Connectivity For Multiple Rare, Threatened, And
Endangered Species On And Around Military Installations”; total budget:
$1,585,121; Duke budget: $135,683; Funded.
- Professional Service
- Major Advisor
- Committee Member, Reappointment Review Committee for Chantal Reid, Fall 2006
- Chair of Bio116 faculty interest group, January 01, 2006
- PreMajor Advisor
- Director, University Program in Ecology (Graduate Program), January 01, 2006 - present
- Dept Officer
- Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Program, Zoology and Biology Depts., Duke University, 2000-02
- Dept Committee
- Member, Biology Department Steering Committee, September 1, 2005 - December 1, 2007
- Graduate Affairs Committee, September 1, 2004 - December 1, 2007
- Committee Chair, Tenure Committee for Kathleen Donohue, April, 2007
- Committee Chair, Tenure Track Appointment Committee for Justin Wright, April, 2007
- Committee Chair, Ecology/Behavior Faculty Search Committee, September 01, 2005 - May 01, 2006
- Member, Biology Teaching Certificate Review Committee, April 1, 2004 - April 30, 2006
- Univ Committee
- Committee Member, Sarah P Duke Gardens Director Search Committee Member, March, 2007 - May, 2007
- Papers Refereed
- Member of the Editor Nomination Committee for The American Naturalist, September, 2007 - December, 2007
- Panel Member, NSF Ecology Panel, October, 2006 - October, 2007
- NSF Reviews And Panels
- Science Advisory Board Member, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), NSF-funded center in Santa Barbara, CA, September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2008
- Panel Member, NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology (EPE) Panel, September 1, 2005
- Univ Services
- Faculty Representative, Organization for Tropical Studies, September 01, 2000 - present
- Dept Services
- Biology Dept. Teaching and Service Award, May 11, 2008
- Editorial Boards
- Associate Editor, American Naturalist, December 15, 2004 - December 31, 2007
- Service to the Community
- Reviewer of Endangered Species Recovery Plans, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Branch, September 1, 2005 - present
- Selected Recent Invited Talks
- Curvas de Beneficios y Costos para Mutualismos de Polinización "Typicos", Argentine Ecological Society Biannual Meeting (invited symposium talk), San Luis, Argentina, 10 December 2008
- Historias de Vida de los Primates Salvajes en un Ambiente Imprevisible, Instituto de Ciéncias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, November 17, 2008
- Límites de los Rangos de Distribución de Especies en un Ambiente Variable y Cambiante, Centro Nacional Patagónico, Puerto Madryn, Argentina, November 3, 2008
- Benefit and Cost Curves for Typical Pollination Mutualisms, Argentine Entomological Society Biannual Meeting (invited keynote address), Huerta Grande, Argentina, October 24, 2008
- Species Range Limits in a Variable and Changing Environment, Universidad de la Punta, San Luis, Argentina, March 24, 2008
- Species Range Limits in a Variable and Changing Environment, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, March 10, 2008
- Species Range Limits in a Variable and Changing Environment, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina, February 08, 2008
- Population responses to increasing climatic variability, University of North Carolina, Dept. of Biology, March 30, 2006
- Life history adaptations of a long-lived alpine plant in a stochastic environment, Evolutionary Demography Conference, Charlottesville, VA, October 28, 2005
- Impact of increasing environmental variability on plant and animal populations, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, September 08, 2005
- Demography in an increasingly variable world, Biology Dept., Univ. of Montana, March 11, 2005
- Historias de Vida de los Primates Salvajes en un Ambiente Imprevisible, Instituto de Ciéncias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina, November 17, 2008
- Doctoral Theses Directed
- Tracy Feldman, “Can Pollination Facilitation Mitigate the Allee Effect?”, (2005)
- Brian Hudgens, When does migration matter to aphid metapopulations?, (2000)
- Christine Damiani, Direct and indirect effects in a hermit crab-hydroid symbiosis, (2000)
- Peter Murphy, Uncertain juvenile recruitment and reproductive strategies of the neotropical frog Edalorhina perezi, (1999)
- Peter J Murphy, “The Interplay between Uncertain Juvenile Recruitment and Reproductive Strategy in the Neotropical Frog, Edalorhina perezi”, (September 01, 1993 - May 01, 1999)
- Brian Hudgens, When does migration matter to aphid metapopulations?, (2000)
- Publications (listed separately)
Last modified: 2009/04/22
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