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Dan Blumstein, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, presents "Individuality and heritability of yellow-bellied marmot behavioral and life-history traits".
Daniel T. Blumstein is a Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, at UCLA, and UCLA’s Institute of the Environment & Sustainability. He received his Ph.D. in Animal Behavior at UC Davis, and was a DAAD post-doctoral fellow at the University of Marburg, an NIH-NRSA at the University of Kansas, and an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow at Macquarie University. He has studied animal behavior and conservation biology throughout the world. He was a Fulbright Fellow (to Pakistan) and is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the UCLA Faculty Gold Shield Award for extraordinary accomplishment in undergraduate teaching and research, and the Animal Behavior Society’s Quest Award for seminal contributions to the study of behavior. A major thrust of his research works to integrate different fields and apply ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral principles to applied questions.
Host: Dr. Lynette Hart (lahart@ucdavis.edu)