A. Townsend Peterson
Andrew Townsend Peterson (born July 16, 1964 ), mostly A. Townsend Peterson in publications , is an American ornithologist , ecologist and evolutionary biologist .
Life
Peterson graduated from August 1982, a zoology -Studies at Miami University , he in May 1985 with the Bachelor graduated of Science. From August 1985 he studied evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago , where he graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1987 .
In 1985 he became a student assistant at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago , where he worked with John W. Fitzpatrick and Scott M. Lanyon and conducted studies of the genus of the bush jay ( Aphelocoma ) in the western United States and Mexico .
From May 1987 to September 1990 studied Peterson Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago, where the dissertation he Evolutionary relationships of the Aphelocoma jays for Ph.D. received his doctorate. Since October 1993 he has been a curator in the Bird Department at the Museum of Natural History and Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas .
Peterson's work focuses on the one hand on aspects of biogeography , with research projects on Mexican avifauna , tropical ornithology as well as systematics and distribution ecology, and on the other on disease transmission systems, including Chagas disease , malaria , dengue fever , leishmaniasis and Ebola / Marburg fever . Part of his research deals with the alpha taxonomy of birds and the phylogenesis of the modern expansion of bird groups . Other projects include conservation biology and planning as well as the biology of invasive species .
Peterson is the author of Mapping Disease Transmission Risk Enriching Models Using Biogeography & Ecology (2014) and co-author of Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (2011). He has also contributed to numerous journals, including Wilson Bulletin , The Condor , Annals of the Association of American Geographers , Ecography , BioScience and the Journal of Biogeography .
In 1992, Peterson was next to Adolfo G. Navarro-Sigüenza, Patricia Escalante Pliego and Hesiquio Benitez-Diaz in the first description of the White- fronted Swift ( Cypseloides storeri ) and in 2013 next to Peter A. Hosner , Mark B. Robbins and Thomas Valqui in the first description of the Junintapaculo ( Scytalopus gettyae ), a neotropical Tapaculo -Art from Peru , involved.
Awards
In 2019, Peterson received the Loye and Alden Miller Research Award from the American Ornithological Society .
literature
- William Edwin Davis, Jerome A. Jackson (Eds.): Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology , Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1995, ISBN 1-8779-7336-X ( brief biographical entry on page 156)
- American Ornithological Society: 2019 AOS Loye and Alden Miller Research Award to A. Townsend Peterson. The Condor, Volume 121 (2), May 1, 2019 (with a short biography)
Web links
- Profile at the University of Kansas
- Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography at Researchgate
- Bibliography at Google Scholar
- Literature by and about A. Townsend Peterson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Peterson, A. Townsend |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Peterson, Andrew Townsend (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ornithologist, ecologist, and evolutionary biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1964 |