Dr. David Duffy, by Mark Rauzon and Daniel Roby

摘要

David Cameron Du?y is currently a Professor of Botany, and a Graduate Professor of Zoology, and of Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, as well as the Director of the Pacifc Cooperative Studies Unit at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Dave began his career at the tender age of nine helping at the Children’s Science Center of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. At age 13 he initiated a decade-long feld investigation into the population biology, foraging ecology, and conservation of Common and Roseate terns for the Museum’s Great Gull Island Project. Dave attended Harvard University, where feld trips to Yucatan and Colombia as an undergraduate ignited his interest in tropical biology. After earning a B.A. degree in Biology from Harvard in 1975, he moved to Princeton University to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Population Biology. His dissertation research at Princeton focused on the population dynamics, nesting ecology, and foraging ecology of Peruvian seabirds in the highly productive Humboldt Current, and combined his interests in the tropics and in seabirds. Two years of feld work led to a number of classic papers on Peruvian guano seabirds, El Ni?o e?ects on seabirds, nest site competition among seabirds, fsheries/seabird interactions, and impacts of tick parasitism on Peruvian seabirds. Six months on one Peruvian island taught him that environmental perturbations can a?ect isolated seabird colonies in complex ways, a theme that has continued in his research throughout his professional career.