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Dr.
John Smiley
is currently the Associate Director of the White Mountain Research
Station (WMRS), a research unit of the University of California
located in Bishop California. He was born in Tucson, Arizona
and graduated from Catalina High School in 1968 and from Stanford
University in 1972. Dr. Smiley earned his Ph.D. degree under
the direction of Larry Gilbert at the University of Texas, investigating
the host plant relationships of passionflower butterflies in
Costa Rica . Then he began an assistant professorship with the
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University
of California, Irvine. During this time John conducted field
research in Costa Rica, Australia, and California, studying
insect/plant relationships and chemical ecology. After Irvine,
Dr. Smiley moved to Big Sur, California to become resident manager
of the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve. He remained in that position
for 17 years, building up the reserve's programs and infrastructure.
During that time he continued summer field research on willow
leaf beetles in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California, as well
as serving on the local school board for 8 years. In 2003 Dr.
Smiley and his family moved to Bishop to head up field operations
for the WMRS.
Scientific
interests: Willows,
Willow Leaf Beetles, Willow Leaf Beetle Predators; Passionflower
Vines, Passionflower Butterflies, and Passionflower Flea Beetles.
Every summer Dr. Smiley does field research in the Eastern Sierra
Nevada Mountains of California. For lots of boring details,
and no pictures, see my two
page resume (or see pdf
version) or my detailed Academic
Curriculum Vitae.
Other
interests: mountaineering/hiking, bug-ology, listening to
music, education, whatever my wife and children are into (currently
math teaching, Africa, medical engineering, food service, art
and horses)
Contact
Information: John Smiley, Associate Director, White Mountain
Research Station, 3000 E. Line St., Bishop, California 93514,
ph 760-873-4344, jsmiley at ucsd dot edu .
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Rosie
and Jenna
Barcroft
2005
