Thomas Edward Lacher junior

Thomas Edward Lacher junior (born August 9, 1949 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ), often written Thomas E. Lacher or Thomas E. Lacher, Jr. , is an American ecologist and mammal logist . His research focus is the tropical ecology and nature conservation biology of small mammals .

Life

Thomas Edward Lacher junior is the son of Thomas E. Lacher senior and Mary Lacher, nee McMullen. In 1972 he obtained a Master of Science degree from the University of Pittsburgh . From 1972 to 1979 he was a teaching assistant in biology at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1980 he was at the same university with a thesis on The comparative social behavior of Kerodon rupestris and Galea spixii in the xeric caatinga of northeastern Brazil for Ph.D. PhD. From 1979 to 1981 he was an assistant professor at the Universidade de Brasilia . From 1981 to 1989 he was assistant professor and then associate professor of environmental sciences at Western Washington University . In 1986 he was visiting professor at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and advisor to the WWF .

From 1989 to 1996 he was the executive director of the Archbold Tropical Research Center's research consortium and professor in the Aquaculture , Fisheries and Wildlife and Environmental Toxicology departments at Clemson University in South Carolina . In 1989 he became a member of the IUCN / Species Survival Commission Research Group on Small Mammals, where he is currently Vice-Chairman. In 1988 he worked at the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária . From 1990 to 1992 he was a member of the research committee of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences . In 1991 he worked for the Kellogg Foundation.

From 1996 to 2004 Lacher was Professor and Head of the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Fisheries Science and until 2007 Professor in the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Texas A&M University . From 2002 to 2007 he worked at Conservation International , where he held the position of Senior Vice President and was a board member at the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS).

Lacher is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Society of Mammalogists , the Ecological Society of America , the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, and the Society for Conservation Biology . He has been married since 1978 and has two daughters.

In 1982 Lacher contributed to the first edition of Mammal Species of the World by James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman and James W. Koeppl and in 1984 the entry on guinea pigs in The Encyclopedia of Mammals by David Macdonald. In 1993 he published the study Wildlife Toxicology and Population Modeling: Integrated Studies of Agroecosystems . In 1998 he was co-editor of the work GIS Methodologies for Developing Conservation Strategies and in 2010 of the work Wildlife Toxicology: Emerging Contaminant and Biodiversity Issues . In 2016 and 2017, Lacher was co-editor of volumes 6 and 7 of the Handbook of the Mammals of the World . For the sixth volume he wrote the chapters on the guinea pigs and on the agoutis and acouchis .

literature

• Thomas Edward Lacher, Jr. American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences, Gale, 2008. Biography In Context, accessed May 4, 2018

Web links

• Short biography at Global Wildlife Conservation
• Short biography at Gulfbase
• Bibliography at Google Scholar
• Profile at the Earth Watch Institute