Education:
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Ph. D., Harvard University
Biology
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A. M., Harvard University
Biology
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B. S., University of Illinois
Honors Biology with high departmental & university honors
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Appointments and Professional Experience:
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Faculty Member
University of Georgia, Athens
Department of Entomology (1984-95)
Institute of Ecology (1994- )
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Postgraduate Research Entomologist
Division of Biological Control
University of California, Berkeley
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Research Associate
Division of Entomology & Parasitology
University of California, Berkeley
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Miller Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Entomological Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
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Awards:
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Mellon Senior Research Fellowship
Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica;
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
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Outstanding Upper Division Advisor Award
University of Georgia
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Special Sandy Beaver Award for Teaching Excellence
University of Georgia
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Outstanding Conference Paper Presentation
GRASS Users Conference, Berkeley
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
University of California, Berkeley
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Predoctoral Fellowship
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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Richmond Fellow
Harvard University
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Bronze Tablet
University of Illinois
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Five Publications Relevant to the Proposed Research:
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Pickering, J., Smith, K., Cotter, G., Simpson, A., Magill, B., McNierney, E. 2006.
Global Mapper.
News report for International Biogeography Society. View electronic copy at
http://www.discoverlife.org/pa/or/polistes/fe/2006ibs.html
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Bartlett, R., J. Pickering, I. Gauld and D. Windsor. 1999.
Estimating global biodiversity: tropical beetles and wasps send different signals.
Ecological Entomology 24: 118-121.
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Gaasch, C. M., J. Pickering and C. T. Moore. 1998.
Flight phenology of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in Georgia's piedmont.
Environmental Entomology 27:606-614.
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Hargrove, W. W. and J. Pickering. 1992. Pseudoreplication: a sine qua non for regional ecology.
Landscape Ecology 6: 251-258.
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Skillen, E. L., J. Pickering and M. J. Sharkey. 2000. Species richness of the Campopleginae and
Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) along a latitudinal gradient in eastern North American old-growth forests.
Environmental Entomology 29: 460-466.
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Five Other Significant Research Publications:
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Bremermann, H. J. and J. Pickering. 1983. A game-theoretical model of parasite virulence.
J. Theoretical Biology 100: 411-426.
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Getz, W. M., and J. Pickering. 1983. Epidemic models: thresholds and population regulation.
American Naturalist 121: 892-898.
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Holt, R. D., and J. Pickering. 1985. Infectious disease and species coexistence: a model of Lotka-Volterra form.
American Naturalist 126:196-211.
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Pickering, J. 1980. Larval competition and brood sex ratios in the gregarious parasitoid Pachysomoides stupidus.
Nature 283: 291-292.
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Wenzel, J. W., and J. Pickering. 1991. Cooperative foraging, productivity, and the central limit theorem.
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 88: 36-38.
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Synergistic Activities:
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Discover Life:
Founder and coordinator of http://www.discoverlife.org. This site includes IDnature Guides, a Global Mapper,
and reporting tools that allow web users to contribute and retrieve information about nature.
Since inception, Discover Life has served 5.9 million pages and images to 145,000 unique IP addresses.
Its identification guides will help students participating in the proposed NSF project
to identify species, map specimens, and share photographs and data.
See http://www.discoverlife.org/pa/or/polistes/pr/2005centers for technical details.
The Polistes Foundation:
Co-founder and president of The Polistes Foundation (http://www.discoverlife.org/pa/or/polistes),
the mission of which is to assemble and share knowledge about nature in order to improve education,
health, agriculture, economic development, and conservation throughout the world.
The Polistes Foundation is working with numerous museums, herbaria, and other organizations
to develop the Discover Life website. For example, in 2004 it started a Cooperataive Agreement
with USGS-NBII to build identification guides and reporting tools to help everyone participate in
the study and monitoring of invasive species.
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Collaborators and Research Associates:
Graduate and Post Doctoral Advisors:
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My graduate advisors were Richard C. Lewontin and Robert L. Trivers at Harvard University.
My post doctoral advisors were George F. Oster, Wayne M. Getz, and Andy P. Gutierrez
at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor:
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I have no current graduate or postdoctoral students.
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