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Dr.
John Terah 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 Corcovado National Park
in Costa Rica, the Brisbane rain forest in Australia, and the
Sierra Nevada in 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 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. When not installing solar electric
equipment or trying to figure out unusual propane installations
at Barcroft, he continues to study willow leaf beetles and their
predators. John and his wife Kim also own a 40 acre nature reserve
on Palomar Mountain in southern California.
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)...now I have a new grand-daughter!
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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Barcroft
2005
What
a difference 30 years makes!
Terry
and Alma
