Curriculum Vitae

William F Morris

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Education:

: 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 01, 2005 - present; Graduate Affairs Committee, September 1, 2004 - present; 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 01, 2005 - present; Panel Member, NSF Evolutionary and Population Ecology (EPE) Panel, September 1, 2005

Univ Services: Faculty Representative, Organization for Tropical Studies, 1 September 2000

Editorial Boards: Associate Editor, American Naturalist, December 15, 2004 - present

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: 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

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)

Publications (listed separately)

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