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Jeremy W. Fox – Curriculum vitae
Dept. of Biological Sciences phone: +1 (403) 220-5275 University of Calgary fax: +1 (403) 289-9311 2500 University Dr. NW e-mail: [email protected] Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
PERSONAL Born Oct. 3, 1972, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA Dual citizen of USA and Canada
EMPLOYMENT 2015- Professor 2016 Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary, Canada (ongoing)
2008- Associate Professor 2015 Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary
2004- Assistant Professor 2008 Dept. of Biological Sciences University of Calgary
2000- Postdoctoral Research Associate 2004 NERC Centre for Population Biology (CPB) Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, UK
EDUCATION 2000 Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ, USA Advisor: Peter J. Morin
1995 B.A. with Honors in Biology, magna cum laude Williams College Williamstown, MA, USA
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 43. Rankin, B., J. W. Fox et al. 2015. The extended Price equation quantifies species selection on mammalian body size across the Palaeocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 282:20151097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1097
42. Winfree, R., J. W. Fox et al. 2015. Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service. Ecology Letters 18:626-635. Featured in Nature’s “Research Highlights” section
41. Fox, J. W., and L. Harder. 2015. Using a 'time machine' to test for local adaptation of aquatic microbes to temporal as well as spatial environmental variation. Evolution 69:136- 145.
40. Olito, C. and J. W. Fox. 2015. Species traits and relative abundances predict metrics of plant-pollinator network structure, but not pairwise interactions. Oikos 124:428- 2
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39. Vasseur, D. A., J. W. Fox et al. 2014. Synchronous dynamics of zooplankton competitors prevail in temperate lake ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 281, 20140633. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (http://f1000.com/prime/718469909#eval793501905)
38. Petchey, O. L., J. W. Fox, and L. Haddon. 2014. Imbalance in individual researcher's peer review activities quantified for four British Ecological Society Journals, 2003- 2010. PLoS ONE 9:e92896. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092896
37. Gross, K., B. J. Cardinale, J. W. Fox, et al. 2014. Species richness and the temporal stability of biomass production: a new analysis of recent biodiversity experiments. American Naturalist 183:1-12. (Authorship alphabetical after first author)
36. Livingston, G., Y. Jiang, J. W. Fox, and M. A. Leibold. 2013. The dynamics of community assembly under sudden mixing in experimental microcosms. Ecology 94:2898- 2906.
35. Fox, J. W., G. Legault, D. A. Vasseur, and J. A. Einarson. 2013. Nonlinear effects of dispersal rate on spatial synchrony of predator-prey cycles. PLoS ONE 8:e79527. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079527
34. Cardinale, B. J., K. Gross, K. Fritschie, P. Flombaum, J. W. Fox, et al. 2013. Biodiversity simultaneously enhances the production and stability of community biomass in experimental systems of primary producers, but the effects are independent. Ecology 94:1697-1707. (Authorship alphabetical after first author)
33. Fox, J. W. 2013. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis should be abandoned. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:86-92. Most downloaded paper published by Trends in Ecology and Evolution in 2013
32. Fox, J. W. 2012. Can blogging change how ecologists share ideas? In economics, it already has. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 5:74-77. (invited contribution to special issue)
31. Fox, J. W. 2012. When should we expect microbial phenotypic traits to predict microbial abundances? Frontiers in Microbiology. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00268 (invited contribution)
30. Fox, J. W., and B. Kerr. 2012. Analyzing the effects of species gain and loss on ecosystem function: an extended Price Equation partition. Oikos 121:290-298.
29. Vasseur, D. A., and J. W. Fox. 2011. Adaptive dynamics of competition for nutritionally complementary resources: character displacement, convergence, and parallelism. American Naturalist 178:501-514.
28. Fox, J. W., D. A. Vasseur, S. Hausch, and J. Roberts. 2011. Phase locking, the Moran effect, and distance decay of synchrony: experimental tests in a model system. Ecology Letters 14:163-168.
27. Fox, J. W., W. A. Nelson, and E. McCauley. 2010. Coexistence mechanisms and the paradox of the plankton: quantifying selection from noisy data. Ecology 91:1774-1786. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/4267956)
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26. Fox, J. W. 2010. Partitioning the effects of species loss on community variability using multi-level selection theory. Oikos 119:1823-1833. 25. Vasseur, D. A., and J. W. Fox. 2009. Phase locking and environmental fluctuations generate synchrony in a predator-prey community. Nature 209:1007-1010. Selected as a “Must Read” paper by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1326014)
24. Fox, J. W., and G. Rauch. 2009. Partitioning the mechanisms by which genetic diversity of parasite infections affects total parasite load. Oikos 118:1507-1514.
23. Hector, A., T. Bell, J. Connolly, J. Finn, J. W. Fox, et al. 2009. The analysis of biodiversity experiments: from pattern to mechanism. In: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford University Press. (Authorship alphabetical after first author)
22. Fox, J. W., and D. Vasseur. 2008. Character convergence under competition for nutritionally- essential resources. American Naturalist 172:667-680.
21. Fox, J. W. 2008. Testing whether productivity mediates the occurrence of alternate stable states and assembly cycles in a model microcosm system. Oikos 117:1153-1164.
20. Fox, J. W., and W. S. Harpole. 2008. Revealing how species loss affects ecosystem function: the trait-based Price Equation partition. Ecology 89:269-279.
19. Vasseur, D., and J. W. Fox. 2007. Environmental fluctuations can stabilize food web dynamics by increasing synchrony. Ecology Letters 10:1066-1074. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1091139)
18. Fox, J. W. 2007a. Testing the mechanisms by which source-sink dynamics alter competitive outcomes in a model system. American Naturalist 170:396-408.
17. Fox, J. W. 2007b. Within-trophic level diversity, density compensation, and the dynamics of trophic cascades. Oikos 116:189-200.
16. Fox, J. W. 2006. Using the Price Equation to partition the effects of biodiversity loss on ecosystem function. Ecology 87:2687-2696 Lead article, highlighted on journal cover
15. Fox, J. W., and C. Barreto. 2007. Suprising competitive coexistence in a classic model system. Community Ecology 7:143-154. “Recommended” by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1071000)
14. Fox, J. W. 2006. Current food web models cannot explain the overall topological structure of observed food webs. Oikos 115:97-109.
13. Fox, J. W., and D. S. Srivastava. 2006. Predicting local-regional richness relationships using island biogeography models. Oikos 113:376-382.
12. Fox, J. W. 2005. Biodiversity, food web structure, and the partitioning of biomass within and among trophic levels. In: Dynamic Food Webs, Academic Press.
11. Fox, J. W. 2005. Interpreting the “selection effect” of biodiversity on ecosystem function. Ecology Letters 8:846-856. Selected as a “Must Read” paper by Faculty of 1000 (f1000.com/1027710)
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10. Fox, J. W. 2004. Effects of algal and herbivore diversity on the partitioning of biomass within and among trophic levels. Ecology 85:549-559. 9. Berlow, E., A.-M. Neutel, J. Cohen, P. de Ruiter, B. Ebenman, J. W. Fox, et al. 2004. Interaction strengths in food webs: issues and opportunities. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:585-598.
8. Fox, J. W. 2004. Modelling the joint effects of predator and prey diversity on total prey biomass. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:88-96.
7. Fox, J. W. 2003. The long-term relationship between plant diversity and total plant biomass depends on the mechanism maintaining diversity. Oikos 102:630-640.
6. Fox, J. W. 2002. Testing a simple rule for dominance in resource competition. American Naturalist 159:305-319.
5. Fox, J. W., and J. McGrady-Steed. 2002. Stability and complexity in microcosm communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 71:749-756.
4. Fox, J. W., and P. J. Morin. 2001. Effects of intra- and interspecific interactions on species responses to environmental change. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:80-90.
3. Fox, J. W., and E. Olsen. 2000. Food web structure and the strength of transient indirect effects. Oikos 90:219-226.
2. Fox, J. W., O. L. Petchey, and J. McGrady-Steed. 2000. Testing for local species saturation with nonindependent regional species pools. Ecology Letters 3:198-206.
1. Fox, J. W., and D. C. Smith. 1997. Variable outcomes of protist-rotifer competition in laboratory microcosms. Oikos 79:489-495.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2015 Fox, J. W., and R. E. Lenski. From here to eternity: the theory and practice of a really long experiment. PLoS Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002185 (invited interview with Richard Lenski).
2015 Narwani, A., B. Matthews, J. W. Fox, and P. Venail. 2015. Using phylogenetics in community assembly and ecosystem functioning research. Functional Ecology 29:589-591. (introduction to special feature I guest-edited)
2010 Fox, J. W., and O. L. Petchey. PubCreds: Fixing the peer review process by ‘privatising’ the reviewer commons. Ecological Society of America Bulletin 91:325-333.
2004 Morin, P. J., and J. W. Fox. Diversity in the deep blue sea. Nature 429:813-814 (News & Views article).
BOOK I am contracted with University of Chicago Press to write How Ecology Is Done (and How To Do It Better) (working title). Completion date is Dec. 1, 2017.
GRANTS 2015 “Ecological and evolutionary dynamics” NSERC Discovery Grant, $130,000 (5 year award)
2010 “Ecological and evolutionary dynamics” NSERC Discovery Grant, $145,000 (5 year award) 5
2007 “Evolution of competing species: divergence or convergence in resource use?” British Ecological Society Early Career Project Grant, £23,900 (1 year award, =$48,435)
2005 “Effects of dispersal and non-equilibrium population dynamics on community structure: mechanistic experiments in model systems” NSERC Discovery Grant, $132,500 (5 year award).
2005 “Stability and diversity in ecological systems: combining mathematical models and experiments” Alberta Ingenuity Fund New Faculty Award, $110,000 (2 year award)
2005 “Fluctuating selection and algal diversity” University of Calgary Research Starter Grant, $9665 (1 year award)
2005 University of Calgary Travel Grant, $1500 (1 year award)
TEACHING Undergraduate courses Ecology of Populations – University of Calgary Aquatic Ecology – University of Calgary Quantitative Biology I – University of Calgary Quantitative Biology II – University of Calgary Ecological and Evolutionary Applications – University of Calgary Population & Community Ecology – Imperial College London (guest lecturer)
Graduate courses Advanced Population Ecology – University of Calgary Darwin’s Origin of Species – University of Calgary Biodiversity I – Imperial College London (guest lecturer) Advances in Ecology – Imperial College London (guest lecturer)
MENTORING Current graduate students 2015: Rob Morgante, M.Sc. student Ongoing 2015: Jessica Hopson, M.Sc. student Ongoing
Previous graduate students 2009-15: Stephen Hausch, Ph.D. Now a quantitative business consultant 2011-13: Geoff Legault, Ph.D. Transferred to University of Colorado to complete Ph.D. 2009-13: Colin Olito, M.Sc. Now Ph.D. student at James Cook University 2007: Jose Larrosa, M.Sc. exchange student Returned to Spain to complete degree 2006-14: Brian Kopach, Ph.D. Now an environmental consultant 2006-7: Ananthi Anadanadesan, M.Sc. student Transferred to M.Res. at Univ. of York (UK)
Current or past committee member for 7 M.Sc. students 6
Current or past committee member for 4 Ph.D. students External committee member for 2 Ph.D. students External examiner for 2 Ph.D. students
Postdoc 2006-8: David Vasseur, postdoctoral researcher Now Associate Professor, Yale University
Technicians 2016: Morgan Cotroneo, technician 2008-9: Tara Janes, technician and lab manager Went on to Ph.D., University of Calgary Medical School 2007-8: Jessica Scharein, technician and lab manager Now an ultrasound technician 2006-7: Louise Hahn, lab manager and technician Now Ecology Technician, University of Calgary
Undergraduate students 2015-16: Morgan Cotroneo, honors student Now technician (see above) 2014-15: Michelle Ly, independent study student Now in private employment 2014-15: Ivan Lajciak, independent study student Now in private employment 2013-14: Geoff Osgood, honors student Now M.Sc. student, University of Victoria 2010-11: Julie Thomas, honors student Went on to environmental consulting 2010-11: Stephanie Thibodeau, independent study student Went on to environmental consulting 2009-10: Ania Karzyñska, independent study student Went on to technician position, University of Calgary 2008: Juliette Chamagne, independent study student Went on to Ph.D., University of Zürich
Current or past supervisor for 24 undergraduate summer research assistants
INVITED SEMINARS 2017 Williams College, USA (upcoming)
2015 Michigan State University, USA (2 seminars) Kellogg Biological Station, USA
2014 University of Chicago, USA Virginia Tech University, USA (2 seminars; student-elected speaker) Utah State University, USA (2 seminars; student-elected speaker)
2013 Beijing Normal University, China (2 seminars) Imperial College London, UK
2012 Case Western Reserve University, USA (2 seminars)
2011 University of Alberta, Canada
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2010 Yale University, USA University of Texas – Austin, USA University of Texas – San Antonio, USA McGill University, Canada University of Ottawa, Canada
2009 Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
2007 Complexity Science Group, University of Calgary
2006 Sigma Xi, University of Calgary Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Canada
2005 University of Alberta, Canada
2004 Syracuse University, USA University of Calgary Royal Holloway, UK
2003 Indiana University, USA McGill University, Canada University of York, UK Imperial College London, UK Sheffield University, UK
2002 University of Minnesota, USA Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
2001 Sheffield University, UK Yale University, USA
2000 Ecole Normale Supérieure, France Imperial College London, UK
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Talks 1997-8, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 2000-6, 2008-15
2012 Evolution 2012 Annual Meeting
2011, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting 2015
2000, British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2002-3
Co-author of 10 talks by students, postdocs, and collaborators
Posters 2007 Peter Yodzis Colloquium in Fundamental Ecology, University of Guelph, Canada
1996 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting 8
Co-author of 2 posters by students
SYMPOSIA AND WORKING GROUPS 2016 Invited keynote speaker, "Fisheries science in 140 characters: the role of social media in our science", a symposium at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting
2013 Invited speaker, "Current challenges for modelling cyclic populations", a workshop at Banff International Research Station
2011 Organizer, Plankton Dynamics Working Group, Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution
2011 Invited speaker, Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Conference, Washington, DC, USA 2009 Organizer, “The interplay of ecology and evolution at micro and macro scales,” a symposium at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
2009 Invited speaker, “Interrelationships between phenotypic diversity of communities and ecosystem function,” an international symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Morioka, Japan
2009 Co-author of invited seminar by Brian Kopach (Ph.D. student) at the British Ecological Society Annual Symposium, Aberdeen, UK
2008 Invited speaker, Second Graduate Research Summit of the International Graduate Training Centre in Mathematical Biology, Banff International Research Station, Canada
2007 Invited speaker, Modeling in Biology Day, University of Calgary
2006 Invited speaker, opening ceremony of the Centre for Mathematics in the Life Sciences, University of Calgary
2005 Invited speaker, “The consequences of biodiversity in aquatic habitats,” a special session at the ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2003 Invited speaker, “Food Webs 2003,” a decadal international symposium funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF), Giessen, Germany
2002 Invited participant, “Trophic Interactions in a Changing World,” an ESF-funded conference, Texel, Netherlands
2001-4 Invited member of InterACT, an ESF-funded international working group on theoretical community ecology
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2015-16 Member, American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Prize Committee (ongoing)
2013-16 Editorial board member, Axios Review, an independent editorial board in ecology and evolution (axiosreview.org; ongoing)
2007-12 Editorial board member, Oikos
2000-6, Volunteer judge, Ecological Society of America (ESA) student awards (various) 2008-15
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Referee for Nature, Science, Ecology, Ecology Letters, American Naturalist, Evolution, Journal of Animal Ecology, Oikos, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Applications, Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Advances in Ecological Research, Functional Ecology, Theoretical Population Biology, Theoretical Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, Oecologia, Ecological Modelling, Biology Letters, Journal of Plant Ecology, Ecological Entomology, Proceedings of the Royal Society Interface, ISME Journal, Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, and PLoS ONE
Grant application referee for the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA; the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada; the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Canada; the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), UK; the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel, and the Alberta Conservation Association (ACA), Canada.
Book chapter referee for Oxford University Press
Book series referee for The British Ecological Society
UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2015 Member, Dept. of Biological Sciences Scholarship Committee (ongoing)
2015 Member, Faculty of Science Academic Appeals Committee (ongoing)
2015 Member, Dept. of Biological Sciences Outreach Committee (ongoing)
2012 Member, University of Calgary "Eyes High" postdoctoral scholar competition committee
2011- Chair, Ecology Undergraduate Program Committee 2014, 2016
2010 Co-chair, Quantitative Biology & Ecology Instructor Search & Selection Committee
2010 Member, University PURE Award Evaluation Committee
2010 Member, Faculty of Science Research Ethics Committee
2010 Member, Dept. of Biological Sciences Infrastructure, Facilities, & Collections Committee
2008- Member, Dept. of Biological Sciences Undergraduate, Graduate & Postdoctoral Awards 2009 Committee
2008- Initiator and coordinator of “Darwin Lecture Series” and other events celebrating Charles 2009 Darwin’s 200th birthday, University of Calgary. See http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~jefox/Darwin.htm and http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/utoday/feb3-09/darwin
2006- Member, Ecology Undergraduate Program Committee (ongoing) 2015
2005- Coordinator, Dept. of Biological Sciences Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series 2009
2006-8, Coordinator, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Graduate Seminar Series 2009-10, 2012-13, 10
2015
2005, Organizer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Annual Retreat 2007-8
2006- Member, Environmental Microbiology Search & Selection Committee 2007
OUTREACH 2010 “Darwin’s Origin of Species: a guided tour,” invited lecture, McConnell Club, Geological Survey of Canada – Calgary 2010 “Darwin’s Origin of Species: a guided tour,” invited lecture, Alberta Paleontological Society
2009 “Darwin’s Origin of Species,” invited lecture, Medical Genetics residents, Foothills Hospital, Calgary.
2009 “The ups and downs of predators and prey,” a lab demonstration for 7th graders, Calgary Science School
2009 “Darwin’s Origin of Species: a guided tour,” invited lecture, Calgary Field Naturalists Society
2009 Organizer, “Introducing Charles Darwin,” a public lecture series at the Calgary World of Science. See http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~jefox/publiclectures.htm
2005-8, Volunteer judge, Calgary Youth Science Fair 2010
2000- Volunteer leader, CPB Science Week activities for sixth form (17 year old) students 2004
BLOG I am the founder and lead author of Dynamic Ecology (dynamicecology.wordpress.com), the leading blog for academic and professional ecologists and graduate students. Dynamic Ecology provides commentary, discussion, and advice on a wide range of issues in ecology. Since our founding in July 2012, we have written 1,158 posts (the majority by me), which have received over 1,287,000 pageviews from over 552,000 unique visitors.
In 2014, I received the Early Career Engagement Award from the University of Calgary Faculty of Science, in recognition of my blogging.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Ecological Society of America American Society of Naturalists Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution
REFERENCES Peter J. Morin Professor II, Rutgers University Department of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources 14 College Farm Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA phone: 848-932-3214 fax: 848-932-8746 e-mail: [email protected] 11
Robert D. Holt Eminent Scholar, University of Florida Department of Biology 111 Bartram P.O. Box 118525 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 USA phone: 352-392-6917 fax: 352-392-3704 email: [email protected]
Mathew Leibold Professor, University of Texas at Austin Section of Integrative Biology 1 University Station #C0930 Austin, TX 78712 USA phone: 512-475-8669 fax: 512-471-3878 email: [email protected]