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David Duffy

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David Cameron Duffy
Born (1953-09-01) September 1, 1953 (age 71)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University
Scientific career
FieldsBotany, zoology
InstitutionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi

David Cameron Duffy (born September 1, 1953)[1] is an American professor of botany and zoology at the University of Hawaiʻi, former Director of the Hawaiian Pacific Island Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit.[citation needed] He currently holds the Gerritt Parmele Wilder Chair in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi Manoa.

Biography

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Duffy received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1980 on the Peruvian upwelling and its seabirds.[2][3]

After graduating from Princeton, Duffy became a resident scientist in the Galápagos Islands, but was asked to take on the job of interim director of the Charles Darwin Research Station when it faced closing because of a budget deficit and conflict with Ecuadorian authorities. He found funding and restored relations with the Ecuadorians, while finding time to do some research.[citation needed]

Duffy next moved to the University of Cape Town, where he ran the seabird component of the Benguela Ecology Project, again producing research on seabirds and their interactions with fisheries.[4] Concurrently, he and his colleagues began research in the Chilean sector of the Humboldt Current.[5] Duffy began simple models of upwelling trophic relations that were to predate many non-linear models for marine ecosystems.[6]

In 1986, Duffy and his family moved to Costa Rica, where he created the Centro de Documentacion en Vida Silvestre (Biodoc) in Heredia, Costa Rica as part of a United States Fish and Wildlife Service sponsored wildlife management graduate program in which Duffy was one of the first professors.[7]

Two years later, he moved to the University of Georgia, where he became the executive officer of the International Congress of Ecology, under the direction of Frank Golley. At the same time, he began his "landmark" research on the biodiversity of eastern old growth forests and their recovery from clear cutting, which generated controversy among United States Forest Service scientists.[8][9]

Duffy then moved to Long Island, where he was briefly head of the Seatuck Foundation before becoming principal investigator on a cooperative project on Lyme disease with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Shelter Island. His work focused on the landscape ecology of Lyme disease and the role of deer and seabirds in the transmission of the disease.[10][11]

Afterward, Duffy moved to Alaska, where he led the Alaska Heritage Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His main research there focused on the biodiversity of the Alaskan landscape in relation to protected areas,[12] but he also led the five-year multimillion-dollar APEX (Alaska Predator Ecological Experiment) which monitored the recovery of seabirds following the Exxon Valdez oil spill.[13]

He then moved to directing the Pacific Cooperative Studies, where, as of 2019, he was responsible for supervising 300 employees in approximately 30 cooperative projects with state, federal, and private agencies averaging $14 million a year, focusing on natural and cultural management in Hawaiian and Pacific natural areas and their management.[14][15][16][17] His research ranged from the effects of feral cats and mongoose, especially on island fauna,[18][19][20][21][22] effects of avian malaria, and ecology and management of seabirds in Hawaii,[23] At the same time, he continued his work on migration of Arctic and Aleutian Terns, seabirds of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Galapagos, and on disease and hosts on islands.[24][25]

Research and publications

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Duffy is the author of over 100 scientific publications and the founding editor of the journal Waterbirds. Additionally, he was editor of Colonial Waterbirds from 1997 to 2000. His research has involved how species, ecosystems, and landscapes recover from perturbations, both man-made and natural.[26]

His initial research focused on the birds of the Humboldt upwelling off Peru but expanded to include their relations with their parasites ticks and their prey Anchoveta Engraulis ringens,

He was a featured scientist on National Geographic's "Strange Days on Planet Earth".[27]

In 2019, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the Pacific Seabird Group for "major contributions to seabird ecology and science-based efforts to conserve seabirds" [28] and was elected a fellow of the American Ornithological Society.[29] In 2022, he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [30]

In 2020, he became editor of Pacific Science, a 75-year-old publication [31]

References

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  1. ^ U.S. Public Records Index Volume 1 (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ^ Honolulu Star-Bulletin, October 12, 2000.
  3. ^ Duffy, David Cameron (1983-01-01). "Environmental uncertainty and commercial fishing: Effects on Peruvian guano birds". Biological Conservation. 26 (3): 227–238. doi:10.1016/0006-3207(83)90075-7. ISSN 0006-3207.
  4. ^ Moloney, C. L.; Van Der Lingen, C. D.; Hutchings, L.; Field, J. G. (2004). "Contributions of the Benguela ecology programme to pelagic fisheries management in South Africa". African Journal of Marine Science. 26 (1): 37–51. doi:10.2989/18142320409504048. ISSN 1814-232X. S2CID 83495229.
  5. ^ "Untitled". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  6. ^ Duffy, David Cameron; Wissel, Christian (1988-03-01). "Models of fish school size in relation to environmental productivity". Ecological Modelling. 40 (3): 201–211. doi:10.1016/0304-3800(88)90018-X. ISSN 0304-3800.
  7. ^ "Centro de documentacion biodoc , universidad nacional de heredia . Catalogo y resumenes de literatura no publicada sobre conservacion y manejo de vida silvestre en america latina , costa rica , 234 p". Flora, fauna y áreas silvestres. 6 (16): 37. 1992. ISSN 1014-2800.
  8. ^ page 204 in The herbaceous layer in forests of eastern North America, second edition. F. S. Gilliam (ed.) 2014, Oxford University Press
  9. ^ Duffy, David Cameron; Meier, Albert J. (June 1992). "Do Appalachian Herbaceous Understories Ever Recover from Clearcutting?". Conservation Biology. 6 (2): 196–201. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1992.620196.x. ISSN 0888-8892.
  10. ^ Duffy, David Cameron; Campbell, Scott R.; Clark, Dara; Dimotta, Chris; Gurney, Susan (1994-01-01). "Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Deer Tick Mesoscale Populations in Natural Areas: Effects of Deer, Area, and Location". Journal of Medical Entomology. 31 (1): 152–158. doi:10.1093/jmedent/31.1.152. ISSN 1938-2928. PMID 8158618.
  11. ^ Duffy, David Cameron; Clark, Dara Dobson; Campbell, Scott R.; Gurney, Susan; Perello, Richard; Simon, Nicole (1994-11-01). "Landscape Patterns of Abundance of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) on Shelter Island, New York". Journal of Medical Entomology. 31 (6): 875–879. doi:10.1093/jmedent/31.6.875. ISSN 1938-2928. PMID 7815400.
  12. ^ Duffy, David Cameron; Boggs, Keith; Hagenstein, Randall H.; Lipkin, Robert; Michaelson, Julie A. (December 1999). "Landscape Assessment of the Degree of Protection of Alaska's Terrestrial Biodiversity". Conservation Biology. 13 (6): 1332–1343. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98063.x. ISSN 0888-8892. S2CID 85748064.
  13. ^ "APEX: Alaska Predator Ecosystem Experiment in PWS and the GOA 01163-CLO". Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  14. ^ "David C. Duffy – Pacific Seabird Group". Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  15. ^ Cameron Duffy, David; Kraus, Fred (2008). "Taking Medawar?s medicine: science as the ?art of the soluble? for Hawaii?s terrestrial extinction crisis". Pacific Conservation Biology. 14 (2): 80. doi:10.1071/PC080080. ISSN 1038-2097.
  16. ^ Elliott, D. Dutra; Fortini, L.B.; Duffy, D.C. (2014). "Trends in conservation research and management in Hawaiʻi over the past 20 years". Pacific Conservation Biology. 20 (4): 392. doi:10.1071/PC140392. ISSN 1038-2097.
  17. ^ Kraus, Fred; Duffy, David C. (May 2010). "A successful model from Hawaii for rapid response to invasive species". Journal for Nature Conservation. 18 (2): 135–141. doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2009.07.001.
  18. ^ Duffy, David; Capece, Paula (2014). "Depredation of endangered burrowing seabirds in Hawai'i: management priorities" (PDF). Marine Ornithology. 42 (2): 149–152.
  19. ^ Duffy, David C.; Elliott, Daniela Dutra; Hart, Georgia M.; Gundersen, Keren; Aguon-Kona, Joseph; Bartlett, Randy; Fujikawa, Jean; Gmelin, Patrick; Javier, Cleve; Kaneholani, Larry; Keanini, Tiffani; Kona, Joseph; Parish, Julia; Penniman, Jay F.; Works, Aaron (October 2015). "Has the Small Indian Mongoose Become Established on Kaua'i Island, Hawai'i? 1". Pacific Science. 69 (4): 559–565. doi:10.2984/69.4.9. ISSN 0030-8870. S2CID 86412338.
  20. ^ Lepczyk, Christopher A.; Lohr, Cheryl A.; Duffy, David C. (2015-12-01). "A review of cat behavior in relation to disease risk and management options". Applied Animal Behaviour Science. SI: Cats have many lives. 173: 29–39. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2015.07.002. ISSN 0168-1591.
  21. ^ Beasley, James C.; Witmer, Gary W. (2017). Pitt, William C (ed.). Ecology and Management of Terrestrial Vertebrate Invasive Species in t. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1201/9781315157078. ISBN 9781315157078. S2CID 90524178. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
  22. ^ Duffy, David Cameron; Capece, Paula (2012). "Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 7. The Domestic Cat ( Felis catus )". Pacific Science. 66 (2): 173–212. doi:10.2984/66.2.7. ISSN 0030-8870. S2CID 86105456.
  23. ^ Duffy, David Cameron (June 2010). "Changing Seabird Management in Hawai'i: from Exploitation through Management to Restoration". Waterbirds. 33 (2): 193–207. doi:10.1675/063.033.0208. ISSN 1524-4695. S2CID 84193235.
  24. ^ Duffy, David Cameron; Vargas, F. Hernan (2018), Parker, Patricia G. (ed.), "From the Vagile to the Sedentary: Disease Implications and New Host Relationships on Islands", Disease Ecology, Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 113–135, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65909-1_5, ISBN 978-3-319-65908-4, retrieved 2023-01-02
  25. ^ Duffy, D. C.; McKnight, A; Irons, D. (2013). "Trans-Andean passage of migrating Arctic Terns over Patagonia" (PDF). Marine Ornithology. Retrieved May 1, 2023.
  26. ^ "Environment Hawaiʻi 16:11 (May 2006)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-04-28.
  27. ^ "National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth. Invaders. David Duffy, PhD | PBS". www.pbs.org. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  28. ^ "David C. Duffy – Pacific Seabird Group". Retrieved 2022-12-26.
  29. ^ "Fellows of the American Ornithological Society" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-12-25.
  30. ^ "More Than 500 Scientists and Engineers Bestowed Lifetime AAAS Fellows Honor | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  31. ^ "Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region". UH Press. 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2022-12-26.
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