Stephen Blair Hedges

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Blair Hedges

Stephen Blair Hedges (known as S. Blair Hedges) is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Science and director of the Center for Biodiversity at Temple University where he researches the tree of life and leads conservation efforts in Haiti and elsewhere. He co-founded Haiti National Trust.

Career

Hedges has a

peer-reviewed works including 10 books and monographs.[3] He was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009 for "revealing connections between biological evolution and Earth history in diverse groups of organisms",[4] and was awarded the 2011 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Life and Health Sciences.[5]
A Cuban butterfly (Leptodes hedgesi Schwartz & Johnson 1992), Cuban frog (Eleutherodactylus blairhedgesi Estrada, Diaz, & Rodriguez 1997), and Cuban millipede (Amphelictogon blairi Perez-Asso 1998) have been named in his honor.

Research

Hedges has studied the relationships and timing of major groups in the tree of life using genomic data.

insectivorous mammals.[10][11][12][13] He has coined the word timetree for a phylogenetic tree scaled to time, co-founded the TimeTree database for exploring the time-scale of the tree of life, and co-edited the book Timetree of Life.[14] Hedges and his team produced a spiral tree of life in 2015 to visualize the relationships over time of 50,000 species, and discovered that diversification and speciation are both relatively constant through time and among groups.[15]

Hedges also has a field program in the

New York Times have described his research.[17]

Conservation

Work by Hedges and his team in Haiti has defined

NGO
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Personal life

Hedges is interested in Renaissance art, which led him to conduct several scientific studies of early artwork, including the development of a method for dating old prints[19] and a study on the historical biogeography of beetles based on the holes they bored in old books.[20]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Hedges Lab - Evolutionary Biology". www.hedgeslab.org. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
  2. ^ "Meet CST'S New Faculty Members". College of Science and Technology, Temple University. 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  3. ^ "Blair Hedges awarded Faculty Scholar Medal". Department of Biology, Penn State. March 17, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  4. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". AAAS. December 18, 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  5. ^ "Blair Hedges awarded Faculty Scholar Medal — Penn State University Department of Biology". bio.psu.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-20.
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  14. OCLC 268792961.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  16. ^ Fountain, Henry (3 December 1996). "Under Cuban Ferns, A Very Small Frog". The New York Times.
  17. ^ "Hedges Lab - New York Times news articles".
  18. ^ Mihelich, Peggy (January 4, 2012). "Blair Hedges is saving Haiti's endangered frogs". AAAS MemberCentral. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
  19. ^ O'Connell, Frank (July 25, 2006). "SCIENCE ILLUSTRATED; Old, but Just How Old? Making Early Prints Give Up Their Secrets". New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  20. ^ Bhanoo, Sindya (November 26, 2012). "In Art Prints, Clues to Beetles in Europe". New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2016.

External links

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