Other News

• 2009: Applied Biomathematics received two Phase II SBIR awards, one to Scott Ferson from the NIH for detection of small epidemiological clusters and the other to Nicholas Friedenberg from USDA-CSREES for forest pest risk analysis .
  
• 2009: Jack Siegrist joined Applied Biomathematics.
  
• 2008: Lev Ginzburg delivered the keynote address at the International Zoological Conference, Paris, France.
  
• 2007: Nicholas Friedenberg joined Applied Biomathematics.
  
• 2007: Resit Akcakaya was appointed Full Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University. He remains a key consultant for AB and continues to develop RAMAS GIS and Metapop.
  
• 2004: Lev Ginzburg and Chris Jensen publish "Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 121-126.
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• December 2004: Applied Biomathematics scientist H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to be a member of the editorial board of the journal Conservation Biology.
  
• October 2004: A new book by H. Resit Akçakaya and his colleagues was published by Oxford University Press. See Species Conservation and Management
  
• September 2004: H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to join the Advisory Panel for the Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Act Collaborative Program.
  
• August 2004: Lev Ginzburg chaired a session on population cycles at the ESA annual meeting in Portland, Oregon
  
• April 2004: H. Resit Akçakaya was appointed as Adjunct Full Professor in the Marine Sciences Research Center of Stony Brook University.
  
• February 2004: H. Resit Akçakaya was a Guest Lecturer at the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV ("Scientific Principles and Techniques for Endangered Species Conservation" course)
  
• December 2002: Japanese translation of Applied Population Ecology was published.
  
• June 2002: H. Resit Akçakaya was awarded the Istanbul University Science Award.
  
• January 2001: H. Resit Akçakaya was appointed chair of the IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee. This subcommittee develops guidelines for applying IUCN Red List criteria and evaluates petitions against the listing of threatened species.
  
• September 2000: AB received SBIR Phase II funding from the Department of Agriculture on developing a software tool for evaluating the impact of forest management practices on the viability of endangered and threatened species. http://www.ramas.com/landscape.htm.
  
• September 1999: AB received SBIR Phase I funding from the Department of Education to develop a short course on Conservation Biology for high school students, that utilizes the Internet and custom software.
  
• May 1999: H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to be a member of the IUCN Criteria Review Working Group. He attended workshops in Tokyo, Japan (January 1999), Sydney, Australia (May 1999), Cambridge, UK (July 1999), and Colombo, Sri Lanka (September 1999).
  
• April 1999. AB received SBIR Phase II funding from the National Science Foundation to develop new methods and software for multispecies conservation incorporating risk of extinction and the habitat needs for suites of species. http://www.ramas.com/multispp.htm.
  
• October 1998: H. Resit Akçakaya was invited to be a member of the editorial board of the journal Population Ecology (Springer-Verlag).