Andy P. Dobson

Professor
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Andy Dobson was born in London and grew up in Scotland where he developed an interest in Natural History, Wilderness and mathematics. He did his undergraduate degree in Zoology at Imperial College, London University and his D.Phil at Oxford on the “Mortality Rates of British Birds”. He returned to Imperial College to work as a post-Doc with Roy Anderson on population dynamics of host-parasite relationships and continued to develop this interest during a second post-Doc with Bob May at Princeton. He was on the faculty at University of Rochester for three years, before returning to Princeton as an Assistant Professor in January 1990. He has been at Princeton in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ever since undertaking research in Serengeti, Yellowstone, Coastal California and on the house finches that occupy most people’s backyards in the US. Since 2011 he has been external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and is currently an external A.D.White Professor at Cornell University and a visiting Chair in Sustainable Development at IMeRA at the University of Aix-Provence in Marseille. He is an elected fellow of AAAS and the Ecological Society of America. He has published over 200 papers and several books, the most recent is “Unsolved Problems in Ecology”, with David Tilman and Bob Holt, Princeton University Press.

Presentation(s):

• COS 10-5 - CANCELLED - Too few, too late: U.S. Endangered Species Act undermined by inaction and inadequate funding

  Monday, August 15, 2022
  2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

• SYMP 20-2 - Four quarters! Or no quarter for Biodiversity? Simple quantitative insights into balancing land for agriculture, biodiversity and water

  Thursday, August 18, 2022
  1:50 PM – 2:10 PM EDT