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Current Position Professor of Biology Director of the Environmental Studies Program |
John McCarty Department of Biology Allwine Hall University of Nebraska at Omaha 6001 Dodge Street Omaha, NE 68182-0040 |
Office: 514E Allwine Hall Lab: 103 Allwine Hall Ph: (402) 554-2849 Fax: (402) 554-3532 jmccarty@mail.unomaha.edu |
Born Rice Lake Wisconsin, 3 March 1965
Married to L. LaReesa Wolfenbarger, 12 October 1991
One child, Zachary Quale McCarty, born 12 January 1999
Ph.D. Cornell University, Field of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1995
Dissertation Title: Effects of Short-term Changes in Environmental Conditions on the Foraging Ecology and Reproductive Success of Tree Swallows, Tachycineta bicolor. Major Professor: Dr. David W. Winkler.
B.Sc. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Zoology, 1987
Senior Thesis Title: Diel Periodicity of Movement and Feeding of Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens) in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. Advisor: Dr. John Magnuson.
2004 - Board of Trustees, The Nature Conservancy - Nebraska
2004 - Fellow, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program
2002 - Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies
2001 - Fellow, University of Nebraska Graduate Faculty
2000 - AAAS Roger Revelle Fellowship in Global Stewardship
1998 - AAAS Science Policy Fellowship
1995 - Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University
1988-93 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
1990-91 Cooper Ornithological Society Student Membership Award
1988 - A.D. White Fellowship, Cornell University
Sept. 2000 - Aug. 2001: AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow, USDA Forest Service, Research, Washington Office.
June 1998 - July 2001: Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park. 
Sept. 1998 - Aug. 2000: AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
June 1996-May 1998: Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Zoology, University of Florida. 
Aug. 1995- Aug. 1996: Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York, College at Brockport.
Summers 1994-1995: Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, New York Field Office, Cortland, NY.
Ecological Society of America
American Ornithologists' Union
Cooper Ornithological Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Institute for Biological Sciences (AIBS)
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society for Conservation Biology
Research and Publications
Please see my research pages to learn about my research interests
To learn about the work I have completed, see my page of publications
