David K. Skelly, Ph.D.

David K. Skelly, Ph.D.
Professor
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Yale University
370 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511 USA
Office: Greeley Lab, Room 119
Office phone: (203) 432-3603
Lab phone: (203) 432-5321
Fax: (203) 432-3929
Email: david.skelly@yale.edu

Lab Web-site

Education

1983 - 1987 A. B., Biology, Middlebury College, Vermont, cum laude
1987 - 1992 Ph.D., Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Advisor: Prof. Earl Werner

Professional Positions

1992 - 1993 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Flora and Fauna Research
Program, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia,
Sponsor: Prof. Robert Whelan
1993 - 1995 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Biology, Department of
Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Sponsor: Prof. Peter Kareiva
1996 - 2000 Assistant Professor of Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, Yale University
1996 Adjunct Appointment, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Yale University
2000 - 2003 Associate Professor of Ecology, School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies, Yale University
2000 Curator, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
2001 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University
2003 Professor of Ecology, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies,
Yale University

Fellowships and Honors

1987 Honors, Undergraduate Thesis, Middlebury College
1990 - 1991 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan
1992 Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan
1997, 2001 Award for Teaching Excellence, Yale University
2003 – 2004 Guggenheim Fellowship

Teaching Experience

1986 - 1987 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Middlebury College
General Ecology, Advanced Ecology
1987 - 1991 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Michigan
Introductory Biology, General Ecology, Herpetology
1995 Instructor, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Bureau of Land
Management Training Course on Threatened and Endangered Species, Roseburg, Oregon
1996 Assistant/Associate Professor, Yale University: Aquatic Ecology,
Conservation Biology, Landscape Ecology, Habitat Conservation
Planning, Hydro-ecology, Graduate Seminar in Ecology

Other Professional Experience

1994 Consultant, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Portland, Oregon.
1994 - 1995 Consultant, Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, Portland, Oregon.
1997 - 1998 Member, Working Group on Habitat Conservation Plans, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California.
1997 - 2000 Member, Biodiversity Forum, Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
1998 - 1999 Panelist, Advisory Panel on Habitat Conservation Plans, National Center for Environmental Decisionmaking Research, Knoxville, Tennessee.
1999 Consultant, National Park Service/Environmental Protection Agency, Mid Continent Ecology Lab, Duluth, Minnesota.
2002, 2003 Panelist, National Science Foundation, Division of Environmental Biology.
2002 Member, Endangered Species Advisory Committee, Department of Environmental Protection, State of Connecticut
2002 Member, Science Advisory Board, Bonefish & Tarpon Unlimited
2002 Director of Postdoctoral Affairs, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
2003 Editor, Ecology/Ecological Monographs, Ecological Society of America

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