• Assistant Professor of Ecology (2006-present), University of Georgia
• Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2006), National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
• Ph.D. Biological Sciences (2004), University of Notre Dame, David Lodge advisor
• M.A. Philosophy (2007), University of Notre Dame, Program in History and Philosophy of Science
• B.A. Biology (1999), Covenant College

I'm interested in basic and applied population ecology and ecological epidemiology. I like to work the interface of theory and data with models. In the lab I work with experimental populations of Daphnia, Tribolium, and Folsomia. Some perennial interests are extinction, population dynamics in variable environments, niche theory, Allee effects, invasive species, demographic stochasticity, and computational methodology. I have a hobbyist's interest in history and philosophy of modern (twentieth century) biology. 

Teaching

• ECOL 8310 Population Ecology (Fall 2007)
• ECOL 8990 Seminar in Computational Ecology (Fall 2007)
• ECOL 4950 Senior Seminar (Spring 2007)
  

• Costello, C., J.M. Drake, & D.M. Lodge. 2007. Evaluating an invasive species policy: ballast water exchange in the Great Lakes. Ecological Applications 17:655-662.
  
•  Drake, J.M., S.K. Chew, & S. Ma. 2006. Societal learning in epidemics: intervention effectiveness during the 2003 SARS outbreak in Singapore. PLoS ONE 1(1): e20. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000020 [pdf] [web version]
• Drake, J.M. 2006. Extinction times in experimental populations. Ecology 87:2215-2220. [pdf] [web version] [data & code]
• Drake, J.M., A. Guisan, & C. Randin. 2006. Modelling ecological niches with support vector machines. Journal of Applied Ecology 43:424-432. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2006.01141.x [web version]
• Drake, J.M. 2006. Heterosis, the catapult effect, and establishment success of a colonizing bird. Biology Letters 2:304-307. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0459 [pdf] [web version] [supplementary materials] [data]
• Drake, J.M. 2005. Density dependent demographic variation determines extinction rate of experimental populations. PLoS Biology 3:1300-1304. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0030222 [pdf] [web version]
  

• Profile
• research blog (technical)
• science and society blog (non-technical)
• breifly noted blog (book reviews)
• old website

• University of Georgia , Odum School of Ecology (current)
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (postdoc)
• University of Notre Dame (graduate school)
• Covenant College (undergrad)