F. James Rohlf

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F. James Rohlf
Born1936 (age 87–88)
NationalityAmerican
Known for
  • Biometry, Numerical Taxonomy, Geometric Morphometrics
Scientific career
Fields
  • Robert Sokal
Websitewww.stonybrook.edu/commcms/anthropology/faculty-and-staff/fjrohlf.phplink fails

F. James Rohlf is an American

biostatistician, currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1][2]

Positions

  • The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Research Assistant: 1958–1959. Teaching Assistant: Fall 1959. Research Associate: Summer 1962. Visiting Assistant Professor of Entomology: Spring 1965. Research Associate: Spring 1966. Associate Professor of Statistical Biology: 1966–1969.
  • The University of California, Santa Barbara, California. Assistant Professor of Biology: 1962–1966.
  • IBM, Yorktown Heights, New York. W. J. Eckert Visiting Environmental Scientist: 1976–1977. Visiting Scientist: July 1978, June–July 1979, and 1980–1981.
  • The State University of New York at Stony Brook. Associate Professor of Biology: 1968–1972. Professor of Biology: 1972–2004. SUNY Distinguished Professor: 2004–2010; John S. Toll Professor, 2011–2013; Distinguished Professor, Emeritus: 2014–present. Research Professor 2014–present.
  • The City University of New York, Adjunct member of the doctoral faculty of The Graduate School and University Center's Ph.D. Program in Anthropology. Oct. 2002 to present.

Education

  • A.B. 1958. San Diego State College, San Diego, California. Major in Zoology with minors in both Mathematics and Chemistry.
  • Ph.D. 1962. The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Major in Entomology with courses in Mathematics (statistics).

Honors

University service

  • Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York. Director: 1974–1976, 2005–2006, member of Executive Committee.
  • Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York. Acting Chairman: 1974–1975. Chairman: 1975–1980 and 1990‑1991. Chair and member of various committees.
  • Division of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Acting Provost: Sept. to Oct. 1978. Director of Computing Services for Biological Sciences: 1984–1996.
  • University Committees: Computer Advisory Committee, Computer Policy Advisory Board, Academic Computer Policy Advisory Board, RFP technical writing committee for campus computing, Faculty Review of Computing committee, Subcommittee on Academic Computing, Provost's Advisory Committee on Computing and Communications, Biological Computing Oversight Committee, and Faculty Senate committee on Computing and Communications (served for many years). Member of President's task Force Committee on Academic Organization (Spring 2005). Search committee for the New York Consortium on Computer Science. Provost's committee for science communication. Search committee for Provost (2007). Research and Development Park Oversight Board (2007-2009).

Professional service (past and present)

  • Amer. Society of Naturalists. Editorial board: 1973‑1976.
  • Association for Computing Machinery.
  • Biometric Society: 1975-?.
  • Cell Biology Insights. Editorial board 2008-?.
  • Ciência e Têcnica Vitivinicola. Member of International Reading Committee 1994-?.
  • Classification Society. 1964–present. Program chairman: 1973; president of North American Branch: 1975–1978; president of council 1975–1976, board member: 1997–2003, 2006–2008; editorial board for the Journal of Classification: 1984–present; representative to IFCS Council: 2004–2007; manage the class-l listserver for the Classification Society.
  • Hystrix the Italian Journal of Mammalogy. Member of editorial board, 2014–present.
  • International Federation of Classification Societies. president: 1975‑1978, CSNA representative to Council 2004–2008; member of nominating committee Fall 2004; member of finance committee 2005–2006, chair of election committee 2006–2008.
  • Web-master for the Stony Brook morphometrics website at http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph.
  • Quarterly review of Biology. Software editor. 1988 ‑ 1994.
  • Society of Systematic Zoology. Editorial board: 1971‑1974; Counselor, 1975‑1977.
  • U. S. National Academy of Science. Member of study panel on discrimination and clustering: 1982‑1983.
  • New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP). Resource Faculty Member, 2002–present.
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology, editorial board member, 2005–2012.
  • Journal of Morphology, associate editor, 2005–present.
  • The Open Evolution Journal, editorial board member, 2007-?.
  • Editorial board of Anthropology and Archaeology – Open Journal. 2010-?.
  • Established the "Rohlf Medal" for Excellence in Morphometric Methods and Applications in 2006.[3]

Lectured at and/or organized workshops on geometric morphometrics

  • Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1988. Univ. of Michigan.
  • Stony Brook, New York, 1990. State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook.
  • Valsain, Spain, 1991. Organized by Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid.
  • Paris, France, 1992. Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle.
  • Il Ciocco, Italy, 1993. NATO Advanced Study Institute.
  • Taipei, Taiwan, 1997. Academia Sinica, ROC.
  • Rome, Italy, 1997, 1998. Univ. of Rome, "La sapienza".
  • Vienna, Austria, 1998, 2006, 2008. Institute of Human Biology, at the University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Durban, South Africa, 2000. Univ. of Natal.
  • Santiago, Chile, 2001. Univ. of Chile.
  • Rome, Italy. 2002. Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma.
  • Halifax, N.S., Canada. 2004. Dalhousie Univ.
  • Umeå, Sweden. 2004. Umeå University.
  • Lisbon, Portugal. 2004. University of Lisbon.
  • Ames, Iowa. 2006. Iowa State University.
  • Ankara, Turkey. 2006. Middle East Technical University.
  • Vienna, Austria. 2006. Institut für Anthropologie, University of Vienna.
  • New Delhi, India. 2012. Delhi University.

Publications (recent first)

References

  1. ^ "F. James Rohlf". sunysb.edu. Archived from the original on March 15, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Rohlf, F. James". aaas.org. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
  3. ^ http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/RohlfMedal/RohlfMedal.html

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