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

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