Professor of Biogeography
Jon is a biogeographer and ecologist whose research focuses on species population and assemblage dynamics in animals (sometimes plants but definitely including people). His work is highly interdisciplinary, bisecting biogeography, ecology, urban design, and habitat management. It uses approaches that combine detailed field studies, field and laboratory experimentation, with social science and citizen science to examine the links between environmental variability and species (including humans) responses. His research has significant blue skies and applied implications for understanding and responding to the impacts of climate and environmental change variability on ecosystems and people. He is a fan of numbers and coding (especially using open source software such as R).