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CURRICULUM VITAE Earl D. McCoy Department of Integrative Biology University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620, USA 813-974-5219 813-974-3263 (FAX) [email protected] DEGREES FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Science, 1970 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Master of Science, 1973 Thesis: Seasonal Cycles of Soil Arthropods in Miami Rock Ridge Pinelands. Major Professor: R.H. Hofstetter FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY Doctor of Philosophy, 1977 Dissertation: Diversity of Terrestrial Arthropods in Northwest Florida Salt Marshes. Major Professor: D.R. Strong PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Biological Intern, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1969 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY Teaching and Research Assistant, 1973-1977 ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES Instructor, Costa Rican Field Course, 1977 STATE OF FLORIDA Marsh Ecologist, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, 1977-1978 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, 1978-1983 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, 1983-1989 Professor, Departments of Biology and Integrative Biology, 1989- Undergraduate Director, Departments of Biology and Integrative Biology, 1992-2016 Associate Chairman, Departments of Biology and Integrative Biology, 1992-2016 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Visiting Assistant Professor, Mountain Lake Biological Station, 1981-1983 Visiting Associate Professor, Mountain Lake Biological Station, 1983-1987 1 HONORS AND AWARDS H.H. ARNOLD FUND, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Undergraduate Scholar, Florida State University MAYTAG FOUNDATION, EASTERN AIRLINES Graduate Fellow, University of Miami FLORIDA LEGISLATURE Professional Excellence Award Teaching Incentive Award UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award President’s Faculty Excellence Award (Twice) Provost’s Faculty Excellence Award Provost’s Outstanding Research Award UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE Meritorious Service Award INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION Citation Classic (Connor, E.F. & E.D. McCoy. Species-area relationships - ten years after. Current Contents, Agricultural, Biological & Environmental Sciences 21(1): 16) BIOGRAPHICAL INDICES AcademicKeys Who’s Who in Science Higher Education American Men and Women of Science Dictionary of International Biography Directory of American Scholars Leading Scientists of the World Lexington Who’s Who Men of Achievement Outstanding Scientists of the Twentieth Century Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering Marquis Who's Who in the World UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Elected Fellow 2 RESEARCH My research interests and activities incorporate a wide variety of disciplines, including biogeography, population and community ecology, statistical ecology, conservation and restoration ecology, fire ecology, and philosophy. I am particularly interested in trying to solve theoretical and practical problems related to the environment by using the range of ideas and tools from these disciplines, and thereby arrive at reasonable solutions to environmental problems. Much of the recent and current research in my laboratory emphasizes conservation and restoration of the fragmented and severely threatened upland habitats of Florida. Field projects have focused on, among other things, the demography of the threatened sand skink and of the rare Florida scrub lizard; the habitat preference of the oak toad and of the ground skink, common species that appear to avoid reclaimed lands; movement patterns and paternity of gopher tortoise juveniles; comparative biology of common and rare frogs on lands altered by development; control of disease susceptibility, transmission, and virulence in the gopher tortoise; and analysis of the rate of decline of biodiversity in central Florida. Philosophical projects have focused on, among other things, the scientific status of applied ecology; the ways in which science and policy are interconnected; the ways in which the largely theoretical principles of ecology can be used to under-gird environmental decision-making; the ethical basis of environmental decision- making; and risk analysis, mainly as it involves the importation of biological control agents. RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE. 1977. An inventory of the saltmarsh mosquito control impoundments in Florida (with W.F. Bidlingmayer). $10,000. US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS. 1979. Determination of possible effects of white amur on native herpetofauna residing in Lake Conway, Florida (with R.W. McDiarmid). $54,000. US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE. 1980. Potential onshore impacts of OCS development on endangered plant and animal species of the western Florida coast. $10,000. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. 1987. Normative concepts in ecology and their consequences for environmental policy (with K.S. Shrader Frechette). $72,000. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. 1990. Recovery of mangrove and seagrass esosystems after Hurricane Andrew (with C.J. Dawes et al.). $20,000. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. 1992. Environmental ethics, uncertainty, and preservation (with K.S. Shrader-Frechette). $81,000. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. 1994. Conference support: North American Tortoise Conference (with G. Aquirre & H.R. Mushinsky). $15,000. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. 1996. Values and ecological risk assessment (with K.S. Shrader- Frechette). $60,000. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION. 2002. Upper respiratory tract disease and environmentally threatened gopher tortoises (with M.B. Brown et al.). $2,210,000. US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE / RINKER CORPORATION. 2008. Ecological and genetic studies of the sand skink (Plestiodon reynoldsi) in central and south Florida (with H.R. Mushinsky et al.). $858,000. US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE. 2010. Effective monitoring of Florida Sand Skink, Plestiodon (Neoseps) reynoldsi, population trends (with H.R. Mushinsky). $175,000. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 2013. Building capacity to train the next generation of under-represented and cross-disciplinary scholars of agricultural sustainability and global food security (with J. Rohr). $734,000 (ACTIVE) US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE / DISNEY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. 2016. Movements and home range of the Florida Sand Skink, Plestiodon reynoldsi (with H.R. Mushinsky). $608,000 (Active) FLORIDA GAME AND FRESH WATER FISH COMMISSION. 1986. The demography of Gopherus polyphemus (Daudin) in relation to size of available habitat (with H.R. Mushinsky). $67,000. FLORIDA SEA GRANT. 1987. Conference support: Habitat structure – The physical arrangement of objects in space (with S.S. Bell & H.R. Mushinsky). $5000. 3 FLORIDA GAME AND FRESH WATER FISH COMMISSION. 1987. Vertebrate species composition of selected scrub islands on The Lake Wales Ridge of central Florida (with H.R. Mushinsky). $129,000. FLORIDA PARK SERVICE. 1990. Distribution of gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) on selected state parks in Florida (with H.R. Mushinsky). $45,000. FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF PHOSPHATE RESEARCH. 1993. Studies of wildlife and restoration of phosphate-mined lands, Phase I (with H.R. Mushinsky). $237,000. FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF PHOSPHATE RESEARCH. 1995. Studies of wildlife and restoration of phosphate-mined lands, Phase II (with H.R. Mushinsky). $18,000. FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF PHOSPHATE RESEARCH. 1995. Wildlife usage of mesic flatlands and its bearing on restoration of phosphate-mined land in central Florida (with H.R. Mushinsky). $210,000. FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF PHOSPHATE RESEARCH. 1998. Habitat requirements of key vertebrate species that are under-represented on phosphate mined lands (with H.R. Mushinsky). $288,000. FLORIDA GAME AND FRESH WATER FISH COMMISSION. 1999. Population consequences of upper respiratory tract disease on gopher tortoises (with J.K. Lindzey & H.R. Mushinsky). $49,000. PINELLAS COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. 2001. Monitoring gopher tortoises after translocation to the Brooker Creek Preserve (with H.R. Mushinsky). $51,000. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. 2001. Using anurans to evaluate the relative health of wetlands (with H.R. Mushinsky). $50,000. FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF PHOSPHATE RESEARCH. 2003. Wildlife habitat and wildlife utilization of phosphate mined lands (with J.K. Godley et al.). $637,000. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT.2004. Anurans, cypress domes, and minimum flows and levels (with H.R. Mushinsky). $65,000. SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. 2006. Anuran usage of well fields in urbanized settings (with H.R. Mushinsky). $80,000. FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 2008. Experimental restoration of Florida scrub on the Lake Wales Ridge (with E. Menges et al.). $195,000. FLORIDA FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION. 2009. Compatibility of gopher tortoises with cows (with H.R. Mushinsky et al.). $105,000. IMC-AGRICO COMPANY. 1993. Graduate research support: Studies of the Florida mouse, Podomys floridanus (Graduate Research Support) (with H.R. Mushinsky). $23,000. DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND. 1994. Graduate research support: Studies of the sand skink, Neoseps reynoldsi (with H.R. Mushinsky). $84,000 DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND. 1994. Graduate research support: Studies of restoration of scrub habitat on abandoned orange groves and wildlife recolonization (with H.R. Mushinsky). $65,000. DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND. 1999. Graduate research support: Biology of the threatened sand skink, Neoseps reynoldsi, on restored scrub habitat (with H.R. Mushinsky).