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Stuart Pimm
Stuart Leonard Pimm (born 27 February 1949) is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University. His early career was as a theoretical ecologist but he now specializes in scientific research of biodiversity and conservation biology.
Pimm was born in Derbyshire, United Kingdom. He was educated at the University of Oxford and was awarded a PhD in Ecology from New Mexico State University in 1974.
Pimm is currently Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Pimm has collaborated with a wide range of other scientists, including Robert May, Peter H. Raven, Joel E. Cohen, George Sugihara, Thomas Lovejoy, and Jared Diamond. His early work has examined the mathematical properties of food webs and indicated that complex food webs should be less stable than simple food webs. Since 1990s, he concentrated on the patterns of species extinctions, the rate of species extinction and practical methods to stop them. His research has included quantifying modern extinction rates and examining conservation approaches in tropical ecosystems.
Pimm has published more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific articles, including several in the scientific journals Nature and Science. He has published several books including, A Scientist Audits the Earth and he has published articles in popular science publications such as Scientific American. Up until mid-2019, he was a regular contributor to the National Geographic blog.
He is an acknowledged authority in the field of conservation biology, recognized with several awards:
New Mexico State University made him an alumnus of the year in 2005. A new wasp species from the cloud forests of Colombia's tropical Andes has been named Dolichomitus pimmi in honor of Pimm and his conservation efforts in that region.
In 2010, Pimm founded a non-profit organization called SavingSpecies to preserve and restore natural habitats. In 2019, the organization was dissolved and Saving Nature was created to reflect a broader mission from the work that Saving Species has started. Saving Nature partners with local nonprofit organizations to connect fragmented habitats into biocorridors for wildlife. It works in biodiversity hotspots, such as in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, India, Indonesia and Tanzania. In Colombia, Pimm has worked with local organizations,on projects linking fragmented forests, including expansion of the La Mesenia - Paramillo Nature Reserve.
In 2014, Pimm was involved in a controversy related to allegedly sexist remarks he made in a book review published by the Elsevier journal Biological Conservation. Pimm's article "sparked debate on Twitter almost immediately." Pimm defended his stance by stating that the line which had received criticism was dialogue from a movie.
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Stuart Pimm
Stuart Leonard Pimm (born 27 February 1949) is the Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology at Duke University. His early career was as a theoretical ecologist but he now specializes in scientific research of biodiversity and conservation biology.
Pimm was born in Derbyshire, United Kingdom. He was educated at the University of Oxford and was awarded a PhD in Ecology from New Mexico State University in 1974.
Pimm is currently Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Pimm has collaborated with a wide range of other scientists, including Robert May, Peter H. Raven, Joel E. Cohen, George Sugihara, Thomas Lovejoy, and Jared Diamond. His early work has examined the mathematical properties of food webs and indicated that complex food webs should be less stable than simple food webs. Since 1990s, he concentrated on the patterns of species extinctions, the rate of species extinction and practical methods to stop them. His research has included quantifying modern extinction rates and examining conservation approaches in tropical ecosystems.
Pimm has published more than 350 peer-reviewed scientific articles, including several in the scientific journals Nature and Science. He has published several books including, A Scientist Audits the Earth and he has published articles in popular science publications such as Scientific American. Up until mid-2019, he was a regular contributor to the National Geographic blog.
He is an acknowledged authority in the field of conservation biology, recognized with several awards:
New Mexico State University made him an alumnus of the year in 2005. A new wasp species from the cloud forests of Colombia's tropical Andes has been named Dolichomitus pimmi in honor of Pimm and his conservation efforts in that region.
In 2010, Pimm founded a non-profit organization called SavingSpecies to preserve and restore natural habitats. In 2019, the organization was dissolved and Saving Nature was created to reflect a broader mission from the work that Saving Species has started. Saving Nature partners with local nonprofit organizations to connect fragmented habitats into biocorridors for wildlife. It works in biodiversity hotspots, such as in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, India, Indonesia and Tanzania. In Colombia, Pimm has worked with local organizations,on projects linking fragmented forests, including expansion of the La Mesenia - Paramillo Nature Reserve.
In 2014, Pimm was involved in a controversy related to allegedly sexist remarks he made in a book review published by the Elsevier journal Biological Conservation. Pimm's article "sparked debate on Twitter almost immediately." Pimm defended his stance by stating that the line which had received criticism was dialogue from a movie.