David Duffy Explained

David Cameron Duffy
Birth Date:1 September 1953
Nationality:American
Fields:Botany, zoology
Workplaces:University of Hawaiʻi
Alma Mater:Princeton University
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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. and currently holds the Gerritt Parmele Wilder Chair in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi Manoa.

Biography

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.

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]

Research and publications

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 1997-2000. His research has involved how species, ecosystems, and landscapes recover from perturbations, both man-made and natural.[25]

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".[26]

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" [27] and was elected a fellow of the American Ornithological Society.[28] In 2022 he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [29]

In 2020 he became editor of Pacific Science a 75-year old publication [30]

External links

Notes and References

  1. U.S. Public Records Index Volume 1 (Provo, Utah: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. http://archives.starbulletin.com/2000/10/12/news/story10.html 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 . en . 26 . 3 . 227–238 . 10.1016/0006-3207(83)90075-7 . 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 . en . 26 . 1 . 37–51 . 10.2989/18142320409504048 . 83495229 . 1814-232X.
  5. Web site: Untitled . 2022-12-26 . scholar.google.com.
  6. Duffy . David Cameron . Wissel . Christian . 1988-03-01 . Models of fish school size in relation to environmental productivity . Ecological Modelling . en . 40 . 3 . 201–211 . 10.1016/0304-3800(88)90018-X . 0304-3800.
  7. 1992 . 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 . en . 6 . 16 . 37 . 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 . en . 6 . 2 . 196–201 . 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1992.620196.x . 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 . 10.1093/jmedent/31.1.152 . 8158618 . 1938-2928.
  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 . 10.1093/jmedent/31.6.875 . 7815400 . 1938-2928.
  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 . en . 13 . 6 . 1332–1343 . 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98063.x . 85748064 . 0888-8892.
  13. Web site: APEX: Alaska Predator Ecosystem Experiment in PWS and the GOA 01163-CLO . 2022-12-26 . Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council.
  14. Web site: David C. Duffy – Pacific Seabird Group . 2022-12-26 . en-US.
  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 . en . 14 . 2 . 80 . 10.1071/PC080080 . 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 . en . 20 . 4 . 392 . 10.1071/PC140392 . 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 . en . 18 . 2 . 135–141 . 10.1016/j.jnc.2009.07.001.
  18. Duffy . David . Capece . Paula . 2014 . Depredation of endangered burrowing seabirds in Hawai'i: management priorities. . 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 . en . 69 . 4 . 559–565 . 10.2984/69.4.9 . 86412338 . 0030-8870.
  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 . en . 173 . 29–39 . 10.1016/j.applanim.2015.07.002 . 0168-1591.
  21. Book: Ecology and Management of Terrestrial Vertebrate Invasive Species in t . 2023-01-02 . Taylor & Francis . 2017 . en . 10.1201/9781315157078. Beasley . James C. . Witmer . Gary W. . 9781315157078 . 90524178 . William C . Pitt.
  22. Duffy . David Cameron . Capece . Paula . 2012 . Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 7. The Domestic Cat (Felis catus) . Pacific Science . en . 66 . 2 . 173–212 . 10.2984/66.2.7 . 86105456 . 0030-8870.
  23. Duffy . David Cameron . June 2010 . Changing Seabird Management in Hawai'i: from Exploitation through Management to Restoration . Waterbirds . en . 33 . 2 . 193–207 . 10.1675/063.033.0208 . 84193235 . 1524-4695. free .
  24. Web site: Duffy . D. C. . McKnight . A . Irons . D. . 2013 . Trans-Andean passage of migrating Arctic Terns over Patagonia . May 1, 2023 . Marine Ornithology.
  25. Web site: Environment Hawaiʻi 16:11 (May 2006). . 2009-04-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716055314/http://www.environment-hawaii.org/public/archives_summary.php?id=624_0_18_0_M . 2011-07-16 . dead.
  26. Web site: National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth. Invaders. David Duffy, PhD PBS . 2022-12-26 . www.pbs.org.
  27. Web site: David C. Duffy – Pacific Seabird Group . 2022-12-26 . en-US.
  28. Web site: Fellows of the American Ornithological Society . 2022-12-25.
  29. Web site: More Than 500 Scientists and Engineers Bestowed Lifetime AAAS Fellows Honor American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) . 2023-02-09 . www.aaas.org . en.
  30. Web site: 2017-03-30 . Pacific Science: A Quarterly Devoted to the Biological and Physical Sciences of the Pacific Region . 2022-12-26 . UH Press . en-US.

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