Richard Primack#
| Membership Number: | 7005 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.rprimacklab.com |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3748-9853 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1978 - 2024 Assistant (1978 - 1985), Associate (1985 - 1992), and Full Professor (1992 - present), Boston University
- 2006 Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo
- 2006 - 2207 Putnam Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum. Harvard University
- 1999 - 2000 Bullard Fellow, Harvard University
- 1980 - 1981 Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
- 1980 - 1981, 1984. Visiting Researcher. Sarawak Forest Department, Malaysia
- 1976 - 1978 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Fields of Scholarship
- Using community science in climate change research
- Conservation biology
- Using herbarium species in ecological research
- Plant population biology
- Writing conservation textbooks and producing translations
- Managing a conservation biology journal
- Ecological and conservation impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Climate change biology and phenology
- Tropical ecology and conservation
- Using networks of botanical gardens in climate change research
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Brandwein Lecture, Featured keynote lecture at National Science Teachers Association, USA
- 2022 George Mercer Award, Ecological Society of America for excellence in a recent research paper lead by a young scientist
- 2016 Boston University Lecturer, Selected out of 3900 faculty members to present a featured lecture to the university
- 2014 - 2016 Humboldt Research Award, University of Munich, Germany
- 2014 - 2017 Distinguished Overseas Professor of International Excellence, Northwest Forestry University, Harbin, China
- 2012 Honorary Fellow, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
- 2011 Distinguished Service Award, Society for Conservation Biology
- 2007 Visiting Professor, Charles University, Czech Republic
- 2006 - 2007 Guggenheim Fellow (Plant Sciences), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, New York
- 2003 - 2004 President, Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
- 1999 Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong
