Eric R. Pianka Mailing Address and Phone Numbers Integrative Biology C0930, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1064 Office Phone (512) 471-7472; FAX (512) 471-3878 World Wide Web Home Page: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~varanus Entry in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Pianka Google Profile: https://plus.google.com/109976390817187224813/about Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E5y_8wIAAAAJ&hl=en Birth Date and Place January 23, 1939; Hilt, Siskiyou County, California Academic Training B. A., (Biology), Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1960 Ph. D., (Zoology), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1965 D. Sc., (Ecology), University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W. A., 1990 Academic History National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University and the University of Western Australia, 1965-1968 Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Texas, 1968-1972 Associate Professor of Zoology, University of Texas, 1972-1977 Professor of Zoology, University of Texas, 1977-1986 Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology, 1986-present (for life) Honors and Awards Ctenotus piankai (Storr 1968) Guggenheim Fellow, 1978. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1981 Biographee in "American Men and Women of Science" Biographee in "Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology" Biographee in "Who's Who in America" Biographee in "Who's Who in the World" Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professorship in Zoology, 1986--(for life). Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, Australia, 1990. D. Sc., (Ecology), University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W. A., 1990 Oochoristica piankai (Bursey, Goldberg, and Woolery 1996) Dean's Fellow, Fall Semester 1998 Teaching Excellence Award, College of Natural Sciences 1999 Skrjabinodon piankai (Bursey and Goldberg 1999) Big XII Faculty Fellowship, 2000-2001 Dean's Fellow, Fall Semester 2003 Best non-fiction book, Oklahoma Center for the Book, 2004 Distinguished Herpetologist, Herpetologists' League, 2004 Herpetologists League session titled "Ecology and Evolution of Reptiles: A Tribute to Eric Pianka” Distinguished Lecturer, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Lecturer Award at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) Featured in a 2004 Russian book "Faces of Ecology" by G. C. Rosenberg along with many famous Russian ecologists as well as other luminaries including Lucretius, Leonardo da Vinci, Carl von Linne (Linnaeus), Lavoisier, Lamarck, Goethe, Malthus, Humbolt, von Bauer, Verhulst, Pearl, Liebig, Darwin, Haeckel, Warming, Birge, Lotka, Volterra, Raunkiaer, Thoreau, Tansley, Teilhard de Chardin, Clements, Shelford, H. A. Gleason, H. Walter, Thinemann, Braun-Blanquet, Jacques Cousteau, W. C. Allee, R. A. 2 Fisher, Charles Elton, Andrewartha and Birch, R. H. Whittaker, R. P. McIntosh, W. T. Edmondson, Howard and Eugene Odum, J. T. Curtis, Raymond Lindeman, John L. Harper, Philip Grime, Lester Brown, G. E. Hutchinson, R. H. MacArthur, Albert Schweitzer, Ilya Prigogine, Lynn Margulis, Ramon Margalef, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, R. E. Ricklefs, Paul Ehrlich, and Al Gore. Lawrence Slobodkin Lecture in Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Grand Prize, Ninth Annual UT Coop Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards, March 23, 2005. Engraved Stone in Oklahoma Heritage Walkway, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, Norman Inaugural Address for Ecology, Evolution and Behavior program, Texas A & M. University Distinguished Scientist, Texas Academy of Science, 2006 Distinguished Invited Speaker to the Lucian Symposium, St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas Honorary Member, French Varanid Association, 2008 Carleton College Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Achievement, 2010 Society Memberships Herpetologists' League, life member American Society of Naturalists (elected 1971) Ecological Society of America, life member Society for the Study of Evolution, life member Western Australian Naturalists' Club, life member Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, life member American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, life member Society Offices and Other Positions Held Managing Editor, The American Naturalist, 1971-1974 Editorial Board, The American Naturalist, 1975-1977 Editorial Board, BioScience, 1975-1980 Board of Governors, American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 1975-1979 (elected) Research Associate in Herpetology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Board of Editors, National Geographic Research, 1984-1990 Governing Board, Second World Congress of Herpetology, 1989-1993 Board of Editors, Research and Exploration, 1990-1994 Associate Editor, Desert Ecology Series, University of Arizona Press IUCN/Species Survival Commission, Australasian Reptile and Amphibian Specialist Group Advisory Board, Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology. Academic Press. Research Associate, Department of Terrestrial Vertebrates, Western Australian Museum Webmaster, Texas Bison Association (www.texasbison.org), 1998-2004 Editorial Board, Journal of Ecosystem & Ecography, 2011— Advisory Board, Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Committee Memberships Zoology Excellence Committee, Zoology Department, University of Texas at Austin, 1970 (elected). Faculty Recruitment Committees, Zoology Department, University of Texas at Austin, 1970-72, 1975-76, 1981-82, 1987-88. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Site Visit Committee to evaluate the Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology of the University of California at Los Angeles and at the Nevada Atomic Test Site. E. R. D. A. 1974. Advisory Committee for Systematics Resources in Herpetology, National Science Foundation, 1973-75. 3 Building and Space Committee, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1974- 1976. Graduate Advisor, Graduate Studies Committee of Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1974-76. Chairman, Graduate Admissions, Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1976-77. Dean's Committee to Evaluate the Zoology Department of Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1977. Chairman, Computer Committee, Zoology Department, University of Texas, 1979-1980. Long Range Planning Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1980- 1983. Faculty Research Grants Review Committee, University Research Institute, Graduate Studies, University of Texas at Austin 1986-1987. Budget Council Salary Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas, 1989-90. International Herpetological Committee, World Congress of Herpetology, 1989-93 (elected). Graduate Admissions, Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1991-92. Graduate Student Evaluation and Fellowships Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1992-94. Space Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1993-94. Junior Faculty Evaluation and Promotion Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1992-95. Operations Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1995-97. Courses and Curriculum Committee, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-98. Budget Council Faculty Salary Review Committee (Teaching), Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-98. Teaching Excellence Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas, 1997-99. Junior Faculty Evaluation Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1999 Post Tenure Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 1999- 2000. Graduate Student Evaluation Committee, Department of Zoology, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-2003. Chairman, Reeder Fellowships Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 1999-2001. Ecology Search Committees, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 2000-2002. Faculty Salary Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 2002- 2003. Faculty Merit Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 2004- 2005. Faculty Merit Review Committee, Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, 2007- 2008. 4 Graduate Students Raymond B. Huey (M. A., 1969) Ecological relations of sympatric Phyllodactylus in the Sechura desert of Peru. Ph.D., Harvard University (1975); Miller Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Univ. California at Berkeley; Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. [W. F. Blair was Huey’s official supervisor, but he and I both consider our mentor-pupil relationship as an unofficial sponsorship.] Richard D. Howard (M. A., 1972). Influence of sexual selection and interspecific competition on mockingbird song. Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan (1977); Professor, Purdue University. Jos. J. Schall (Ph. D., 1976). Comparative ecology of sympatric parthenogenetic and bisexual species of Cnemidophorus. Professor, University of Vermont, Burlington. Nancy T. Burley (Ph. D., 1977). Mate choice and sexual Selection in the pigeon, Columba livia. Assistant Professor, McGill University, 1977-1979; Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1979-1984; Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1984- 1989; Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1989-1991; Professor, Univ. California, Irvine. Anthony J. Joern (Ph. D., 1977). Co-sponsored with L. R. Lawlor, Guild and community structure in primary consumers: Resource utilization in arid grassland grasshopper