So you can quote the authors and years of foundational papers on ecology's unerstanding of the maintenance, generation, and distribution of diversity in nature? Who cares? What have you done for the world, or what could you do?

Let no one forget, neither the ecologists nor the people who need their skills, that an industrial world, in both economic and social terms, is managed by metrics familiar to ecological theory. Many of the keywords are the same: productivity, diversity, competition, diversification, adaptation, extinction, mutualism, top-down, bottom-up, disturbance, stability, portfolio effects.

People out there need your skills. They need experimental design. They need basic statistics. People need writers accustomed to complex, technical issues. People need programmers. People need math. People need attention to detail. People need data. People need imagination. People need an education.

Beyond basic research but just shy of application, there is something of a void in what we do with our scientific careers. Funding agencies place increasing emphasis on "outreach," communication between scientists and their greater community. This site is my meagre attempt at bridging the outreach gap. As I build up its content, I hope it will become a useful and entertaining resource. Comments and criticisms are welcome.

Nicholas A. Friedenberg
archidictus.org
naf@archidictus.org
603.646.2380

Research Scientist: Stony Brook University, NY, 2007
Research Scientist: Applied Biomathematics, NY, 2007
Postdoc: Dartmouth College, NH, 2005
Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College, NH, 2004
Postdoc: Zoology, University of Florida, FL, 2003
Ph.D.: Dartmouth College, NH, 2002
B.A.: Biology, Carleton College, MN, 1996

Publications

Research Interests:
Ecology and evolution of disease
Generation and maintenance of diversity
Population dynamics and temperature
Evolution of dispersal
Multi-trait evolution
Niche evolution and species ranges
Mutualism and coevolution

Meetings:
2007 Godon Conference: Microbial population dynamics, NH
2006 ESF Experimental Metapopulation Workshop, Montpelier, France
2006 Evolution Joint Meeting, Stony Brook
2006 North American Forest Insects Work Conference, Asheville
2005 Gordon Conference: Microbial population dynamics, NH
2005 Ecological Society of America, Montreal
2005 Southern Forest Insect Works Conference, Austin
2003 Ecological Society of America, Savannah
2002 American Society of Naturalists, Banff
2000 Ecological Society of America, Snowbird
1998 Ecological Society of America, Baltimore