John Drake

    Associate Professor

John Drake
 CV

Biography

  • Associate Professor (2010-present), University of Georgia
  • Affiliations
    • Odum School of Ecology (2006-present)
    • Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute (2008-present)
    • Faculty of Infectious Disease (2008-present)
  • Assistant Professor (2006-2010), 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

Research Interests

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 and Evolutionary Ecology (Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)
ECOL 4000/6000 Population and Community Ecology (Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
ECOL 8911 Nonlinear Time Series Analysis (graduate seminar; Spring 2011)
ECOL 8910 Time Series Analysis (graduate seminar; Fall 2010)
ECOL 8910 Meta-analysis (graduate seminar; Spring 2010)
ECOL 8990 Data Visualization (graduate seminar; Fall 2008)
ECOL 8990 Introduction to Applied Statistics (graduate seminar; Fall 2007)
ECOL 4950 Senior Semiar (Fall 2006)