David Duffy

David Cameron Duffy (born 1953) is Professor of Botany and Zoology at the University of Hawai'i and Director of the Hawaiian Pacific Island Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.

Duffy received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1980.^[1] Duffy is the author of over 100 scientific publications and the founding editor of the journal Waterbirds. In addition, he was editor of Colonial Waterbirds from 1997-2000. His research has involved how species, ecosystems and landscapes recover from perturbations, both man-made and natural.^[2]

After graduating from Princeton, he became a resident scientist in Galapagos, but was asked to take on the job of interim director of the Charles Darwin Station, when it faced closing because of a budget deficit and conflict with Ecuadorian authorities. He found funding and restored relations with the Ecuadorians, while finding time to do some research. He then moved to the University of Cape Town where he ran the seabird component of the Benguela Ecology Project, again producing research on seabirds and their interactions with fisheries (e.g. http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/UHBotany/pdf/20090824141131.pdf. ,http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/UHBotany/pdf/20090824141017.pdf. At the same time, he and his colleagues began research in the Chilean sector of the Humboldt upwelling (http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/papers/1989_Seabird_Foraging_Aggregations.pdf, http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/papers/1995_ASPECTS_OF_THE_ECOLOGY.pdf). In addition, he began simple models of upwelling trophic relations that were to predate many non-linear models for marine ecosystems (Duffy, D. C. and Wissel. 1988. Models of fish school size in relation to environmental productivity. Ecological Modeling. 40: 201-211).

Realizing that South Africans would have to create their own political future, Duffy and his family moved to Costa Rica in 1986 where he created the Centro de Documentacion en Vida Silvestre (Biodoc) in Heredia, Costa Rica as part of a US Fish and Wildlife Service sponsored wildlife management graduate program of which Duffy was one of the first professors (http://www.jstor.org/pss/20167063). After two years, he moved to the University of Georgia where he became the executive officer in charge of the International Congress of Ecology, under the direction of Frank Golley. At the same time he began his research on the biodiversity of eastern old growth forests and their recovery from clear cutting, which was to generate considerable controversy with US Forest Service scientists although being in line with research results elsewhere http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1992_Do_Appalachian_Herbaceous.pdf, http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1993_Seeing_the_Forest.pdf, http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1993_Herbs_and_Clearcutting.pdf, http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1995_POSSIBLE_ECOLOGICAL_MECHANISMS.pdf.

He then moved to Long Island where after he was briefly head of the Seatuck Foundation, before becoming principal investigator on a cooperative project with the Centers of Disease Control on Lyme Disease on Shelter Island. His work focused on the landscape ecology of Lyme Disease and the role of deer in the transmission of the disease (http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1994_Ambient_Air_Temperature.pdf,http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1994_Ixodes_scapularis.pdf,http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1994_Landscape_Patterns_of.pdf, as well as the role of seabirds in Lyme Disease http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1995_Transhemispheric_Exchange.pdf

Afterwards he moved to Alaska where he led the Alaska Heritage Program, rising from Associate to Full Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His main research focused on the biodiversity of the Alaska landscape in relation to protected areas (http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/duffy/Papers/1999_Landscape_Assessment_of.pdf, but he also led the five-year multi-million dollar APEX (Alaska Predator Ecological Experiment) which monitored the recovery of seabirds following the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

He then moved to his current position where he is responsible for supervising approximately 950 grants and cooperative projects with state, federal and private agencies (totaling $97 million as of April 2007) focusing on natural and cultural management in Hawaiian and Pacific natural areas.^{[citation needed]}.

He was a featured scientist on National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth television show, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/episodes/invaders/).

References

1. ^ http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/10/12/news/story10.html
2. ^ http://www.environment-hawaii.org/public/archives_summary.php?id=624_0_18_0_M

External links

• [manoa.hawaii.edu/hpicesu/default.htm Dr. David Cameron Duffy]

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Name	Duffy, David
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Short description	Professor of botany and zoology at the University of Hawai'i
Date of birth	1953
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