PERSONAL

Name: Date of Birth: Place of Birth: Marital Status:

Peter Lawrence Marks 2 July 1944 Quantico, Virginia Married, two children

EDUCATION

A.B., Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 1966 (English Literature) M.F.S., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1968 (Forest Ecology) Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1971 (Forest Ecology)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1967-1968	Research Assistant, Yale University School of Forestry, New Haven, Connecticut
1970-1976	Assistant Professor of Biology, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1976-1988	Associate Professor of Biology, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University
1979-1989	Graduate Faculty Representative (Director of Graduate Program), Field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
1988-	Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (formerly Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences), Cornell University
1991-1996	Chairman, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University

CURRENT CORNELL COMMITTEES

Faculty Committee to Advise the Povost on Tenure Decisions Faculty Senate, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences University Committee on Natural Areas Committee on Nominations and Elections, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

GRADUATE FACULTY MEMBERSHIPS

Graduate Field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

HONORS AND AWARDS

1975, Recipient, Ecological Society of America's Mercer Award for the outstanding paper published by a young ecologist during 1974

1977-1978, Associate Editor, ECOLOGY and ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

1978, Invited Witness, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and Committee on Environment and Public Works (regarding the Natural Diversity Bill)

1978-1983, Editor, ECOLOGY and ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

1980, Instructor, Audubon Sanctuary Managers' Workshop, Ithaca, New York

1980-1983, Minor Committee Member (one graduate student), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

1982, External Examiner (one graduate student), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

1985, External Reviewer, Department of Biology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1985, Chair, Whittaker Travel Award Committee, Ecological Society of America

1986, External Reviewer, Department of Biology, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

1987, Selected as "the faculty member who had the most positive influence on his education at Cornell" by Bart Johnson, a Cornell Presidential Scholar

1988, Selected as "the faculty member who had the most positive influence on his education at Cornell" by James Volckhausen, a Cornell Presidential Scholar

1988-1989, Member, Cooper Award Committee, Ecological Society of America

1990, Organizer, Symposium on Historical Ecology: Changes in Land Use Since European Settlement, New York Natural History Conference

1993, Chair, Joint Committee of the Ecological Society of America and the American Institute of Biological Sciences to review the Forest Ecosystem Management and Assessment Team (FEMAT) Report

1993, Instructor, Cornell Adult University summer course on Field Ecology of the Finger Lakes area

1996, Instructor, Cornell Adult University summer course on Field Ecology of the Finger Lakes area

1997-2001, Editor, NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST

1998, External Examiner (one graduate student), University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

1998, Instructor, Cornell Adult University summer course on Field Ecology of the Finger Lakes area

2000-, Scientific Advisory Board, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, Florida

2003-, Trustee, Central and Western New York Chapter, The Nature Conservancy

2004-, Member, Management Committee, Finger Lakes Land Trust

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

British Ecological Society Ecological Society of America Sigma Xi Southern Appalachian Botanical Club Torrey Botanical Society

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