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ANDREW L. MACK
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Powdermill Nature Reserve
1847 Rte. 381, Rector, PA 15677
email: macka@carnegiemnh.org
phone (office) 724-593-2223

EDUCATION
Ph.D. May 1995. University of Miami, Department of Biology.
Dissertation: "Seed dispersal by the Dwarf Cassowary, Casuarius bennetti, in Papua New Guinea. Advisor: T. H. Fleming
B.A. (Biology major) 1985. University of Delaware.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and POSITIONS HELD
William and Ingrid Rea Conservation Biologist, Carnegie Museum of Natural History & Senior Scientist Powdermill Nature Reserve. June 2007 to present.

Conservation Zoologist* and Co-Director, PNG Country Program, Wildlife Conservation Society. 1999-2007.

With Co-Director D. Wright, I began the formal WCS program in 1999 and built it into a $600,000/year program training PNG conservationists and conducting field research in PNG. We taught at the undergraduate level and supervised postgraduate training including non-PNG students. I oversaw a large portfolio of research programs and worked with many international collaborators at the two field research stations we managed. In Goroka we maintained a training center for postgraduate students with usually 6-12 students in residence at any one time. All are given personalized guidance on their individual research projects. Internships lasted for up to three years. We have conducted biological inventories at many sites and built extensive collections and databases. I also raised the funds and administered the program and managed seven national and two expatriate staff.
* Comparable to Associate Professor in the WCS hierarchy.

Senior Ecologist, Conservation International, Washington, D.C. 1995-1999.

In this position I provided scientific leadership to programs in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. I organized and led three major biological research surveys (Wapoga, Lakekamu, and Wide Bay). I taught courses in both countries for students and conservation professionals. I helped execute a major priority-setting workshop and edited its proceedings and other publications.

Research Assistant, Ornithological collection curation, University of Miami. 1995.

I curated, packed and transported the university's extensive mammal and bird collections (c. 15,000 specimens) to recipient museums when the university decided to divest itself of natural history collections.

Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Miami. 1993-1994.

I spent most of my time as a Ph.D. student in the field in Papua New Guinea conducting research. While writing my dissertation (three semesters) I taught several lab sections of the two semester Core Biology for majors.

Manager and Founder, Crater Mountain Biological Research Station, PNG. 1989-1993.

As a graduate student I raised funds to build a research station in PNG where I then conducted my dissertation research. I managed the local staff, oversaw research visitors to the station and supervised all aspects of the station. The station became part of the core around which a 2700 km2 protected area was designated by the PNG Parliament. Roughly 100 publications have been produced from the station since its founding.

Field Collector, Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, Sabah Bird Survey. 1982-1983.

I collected birds for a thorough survey of the north Borneo avifauna, much of it to salvage specimens before the lowland dipterocarp forests were clear-felled.

Collection Manager, Department of Ornithology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1979-1982.

I oversaw a full inventory of the bird collection (165,000 skins) and created one of the first computerized collection databases of any major collection. I oversaw the packing and movement of the entire collection to a new building and then to new cabinets. I oversaw all usual collection activities such as preparing loans, overseeing research visitors, and interfaced with the general public. I worked in the laboratory to refine mt-DNA preparation techniques, resulting in the first published paper identifying the power of mt-DNA as a systematic tool in passerine birds.

TEACHING

Lead Instructor 1996-2006 Undergraduate Field Biology, University of PNG.

Every year I led an intensive month-long field course for 24-28 undergraduates. This course varied by year to cover survey techniques, experimental design, sampling, report-writing, and data analysis. There was always a strong emphasis on quantitative analyses and statistics. The course has been taught in several locations, including some that were quite remote to give the experience of remote wilderness field work.

Mentor and postgraduate advisor, 1999-present.

The program we built sponsors and mentors honours students in the PNG educational system, a fifth year degree preparatory to the Master's Degree. I have mentored 27 such students. We use this as a preparatory phase for enrollment at overseas postgraduate programs. To date we have secured scholarships for 15 of these interns to enroll in Master's degree programs in top universities in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

OTHER ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
Member, Steering Committee, New Guinea Biological Society. 2006
Trustee, Gahavisuka Provincial Park. 2004-present
Associate Editor, Pacific Conservation Biology. 2004-present
Board of Trustees, Research and Conservation Foundation of PNG. 2002-present
Board of Governors, Society of Conservation Biology Ausrtalasian Section. 2002-present
Research Associate, University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, 2000-present.
Research Associate, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1996-present.
Research Associate 1987-present, University of Papua New Guinea, Department of Biology.
Steering Committee, UPNG Conservation Capacity-building Program.
Scientific Advisory Board, Research and Conservation Foundation of PNG.
Survey biologist, Iwokrama Rainforest Project, Guyana 1997.
Survey biologist, Rio Tuichi/Madidi National Park, Bolivia 1997.
Survey biologist, Crater Mountain, Papua New Guinea 1996-1999 (six camps).
Editor, Conservation Priority-Setting Conference for Irian Jaya 1997.
President, University of Miami, Biology Graduate Student's Association 1994-95.
Survey biologist, Hunstein Mountains Expedition, Papua New Guinea 1989.
Early survey and research (pre-1989) in Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, Sabah.

GRANTS
2006: Wildlife consumption by the Sokamin People, PNG. New England Biolabs Foundation ($10,000)
2006: Training Conservation Biologists in PNG. The Christensen Fund ($253,000)1
2005: Conservation Education and Curriculum Development, Phase 2. AusAID ($1,300,000)1,2
2005: Wildlife and Eco-forestry in Papua New Guinea. European Union ($240,000)1
2005: Training Conservation Biologists in PNG. Individual Donor ($90,000)
2005: Conservation in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area Inter-Church Cooperative Organization ($350,000)1,2
2005: Research and Training for the next generation of conservation biologists in PNG. Darwin Initiative($362,200)1, 3
2004: Mentoring PNG biologists and threatened species research. Conservation International ($195,000)1
2004: Manus Conservation Initiative. Conservation International. ($15,000)
2004: Capacity-building for RCF field staff and Crater community leaders. Wilson Foundation. ($13,090)1
2003: Biological surveys of a PNG montane forest. New England BioLabs Foundation. ($10,000)
2003: Training the next generation of conservation biologists in PNG. The MacArthur Foundation ($450,000)1
2003: Analysis of hunting offtake in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area. CERC (Columbia University) ($20,000)4
2002: Biologist training and science capacity building in PNG. The Christensen Fund. ($328,250)1
2002: Annual Cycle of a PNG montane forest. New England BioLabs Foundation. ($12,000)
2001: Conservatiuon Education and Curriculum Development PNG. AusAID. ($1,000,000)1
2001: Infrastructure Improvement for the Crater Mountain Biological Research Station. National Science Foundation. ($130,000)
2001: Phylogeography of PNG lowland birds. National Science Foundation. ($377,980)5
2001: Management of the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area. ICCO ($280,000)1,2
2000: The Mekil Conservation Initiative. New England BioLoabs Foundation. ($15,000)
2000: Population studies of the Dwarf Cassowary. Disney Corp. ($40,000)
2000: Development and field application of new techniques to assess populations of cassowaries. Eppley Foundation. ($20,000)
2000: Scientific Capacity Building in PNG. The MacArthur Foundation. ($306,380)1
1999: Collections study grant, American Museum of Natural History. ($1000)
1999: Biological Training in Papua New Guinea. The Christensen Fund. ($225,000)1
1998: USAID BiRD Co-operative Agreement, Conservation International. ($500,000)6
1998: Biological training and building conservation capacity in Irian Jaya. MacArthur Foundation. ($75,000)6
1996: Biodiversity surveys and field training in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, PNG. Wildlife Conservation Society. ($75,000)1
1995: Zoological surveys in the Iwokrama rainforest, Guyana. (UNDP). ($250,000)
1995: Integrated conservation and development program for the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, PNG. Biodiversity Conservation Network-USAID ($650,000)1,2
1992: Research of cassowary ecology and conservation part 2. Wildlife Conservation Society ($30,000)1
1990: Cassowary conservation. World Nature Association ($2000)
1989: Research of cassowary ecology and conservation. Wildlife Conservation Society. ($40,000)1
1989: Seed dispersal by Dwarf Cassowaries. Doctoral dissertation improvement grant, National Science Foundation. ($15,000).
1988: Seed dispersal by Dwarf Cassowaries. The Douroucouli Foundation. ($7000)
1988: Seed dispersal in New Guinea. Curtis Fund and Sigma Xi ($1000)
1987: Pilot study of cassowaries. Wildlife Conservation Society. ($6000)

1 Co-authored with Dr. D.D. Wright
2 In collaboration with the Research and Conservation Foundation of Papua New Guinea.
3 Co-authored with Dr. V. Novotny, Dr. A. Stewart, Dr. A. Vogler.
4 Co-authored with Dr. P. West
5 Co-authored with Dr. J. Dumbacher and Dr. R. Fleischman
6 Co-authored with various staff at Conservation International

OTHER AWARDS
2005 Visiting Fellow, Australian National Univeristy, Resource Management in Asia Pacific. $7000
1995 "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges."
1995 Award for Academic Excellence, University of Miami, Graduate School.
1994 Marcia Brady Tucker Award (AOU); Outstanding Student Paper Award (joint AOU/COS/WOS meeting).
1990 Fulbright Scholarship $27,000
1989 Maytag Fellowship $13,000
1988 Maytag Fellowship $13,000
1987 Maytag Fellowship $13,000

SHORT PRESENTATIONS AND SYMPOSIA
Bay Area Conservation Biology Symposium (2/06)
Society for Study of Evolution (6/05)
Society for Conservation Biology (9/04)
American Ornithologists Union (8/03)
Society for Conservation Biology (6/03)
PNG Department of Environment and Conservation (12/02; 7/04, 2/05)
Ecological Society of Australia (12/02)
Association of Zoos and Aquaria (9/02)
Association for Tropical Biology (7/02)
American Ornithologists' Union (8/99)
Biological Society of New Guinea (9/96)
Ecological Society of America (8/94)
American Ornithologists' Union (8/94)
Association for Tropical Biology/Society for Conservation Biology (6/94)
South Florida Plant Biologists (5/94)
Florida Ecology and Evolution Society (4/93)
Papua New Guinea Botanical Society (11/92)

INVITED SEMINARS
St. Vincent College. February 2008
University of Pittsburgh. February 2008
Carnegie Museum of Natural History. January 2007
Pixar Studios, San Francisco. June 2006
Prince William Sound Science Center, Cordova. May 2006
Australian National University, Canberra. April 2004
Telluride MountainFilm Festival, Telluride. June 2004
New Guinea Biological Conference Keynote address, Goroka. August 2003
Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Fort Worth. September 2002
New York Zoological Society, Bronx. April 1999
Indonesian Department of Forestry, Jakarta. October 1997
U. S. Embassy, Port Moresby. September 1996
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. August 1996
University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby. March 1996
University of Cenderawasih, Jayapura. February 1996.
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. October 1995
University of Kansas Natural History Museum, Lawrence. May 1995
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. May 1995
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green. February 1995.
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. January 1995.

POST GRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORED AND SUPERVISED
University of Papua New Guinea Honours Degrees (completed)
Arison Arihafa, Thesis: Treefall gap dynamics in a PNG lower montane forest
Chris Dahl, Thesis: Changes in beta diversity of anurans across northern PNG
Eunice Dus, Thesis: Productivity of mangroves at two sites in southern PNG
Banak Gamui, Thesis: Litterfall and primary productivity in a PNG montane forest
Vidiro Gei, Thesis: An interactive key to the fruiting plants in a lower montane forest
Enock Kaledemimo, Thesis: Population demography of small mammals in a lower montane forest
Rachel Lahari, Thesis: The growth and survivorship of transplanted versus in situ Acropora intermedia: a study for the lime industry on Andra Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
Leo Legra, Thesis: Nest and roost site selection in the New Guinea Harpy Eagle
Muse Opiang, Thesis: Ecology and home range of the Long-beaked Echidna
Katayo Sagata, Thesis: Ecology of litter-dwelling ants in a lower montane forest
Miriam Supma, Thesis: Mortality and recruitment of trees in a lower montane forest
Susan Tomda, Thesis: Behavior and toxicity in the Hooded Pitohui

University of Papua New Guinea Honours Degrees (in progress)
Junior Novera, Thesis: Offtake and hunting pressure on vertebrates in southern Sandaun Province
Mellie Samson, Thesis: Impacts and mitigations on nesting megapodes at the Lihir gold mine
Kore Tau, Thesis: Site selection and seasonality in cave roosting bats of Crater Mountain
Diatpain Warakai, Thesis: Conservation of cavity-using vertebrates in PNG's logged forests
Kenneth Yhuanje, Thesis: Population biology and sustainable harvest of marsupials in Sandaun Province

Other universities
Paul Igag, Australian National University, M. Sc. 2003
Miriam Supuma, James Cook University, M. Sc. 2005
Robert Bino, Australian National University M. Sc. 2006
Banak Gamui, University of Missouri, St. Louis M.Sc. 2007
Muse Opiang, University of Missouri, St. Louis (M.Sc. in progress)
Michael Kigl, Australian National University M. Sc. 2007
Tanya Zeriga, Australian National University M. Sc. 2008
Vidiro Gei, James Cook University,M.Sc. 2007
Arison Arihafa, Canterbury University, (M. Sc. in progress)
Katayo Sagata, Wellington University, M. Sc. 2007
Elisabeth Jones, Yale University (Ph. D. 2008
Brett Benz, University of Kansas (Ph. D. in progress)
Edwin Scholes, University of Kansas Ph.D. 2006

FIELD EXPERIENCE
Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Fiji, Indonesia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sabah

SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Languages: Spanish, Tok Pisin. Vertebrate specimen collection, preparation, and curation. Licensed bird bander (Australia). Computers: ArcView (basic), SPSS, Microsoft Office.

PUBLICATIONS
Jones, E. R., A. L. Mack, D. D. Wright and L. Curran. Differential effects of mammalian seed predation on recruitment in five Papua New Guinean tree species. In press, Journal of Tropical Ecology

Richards, S.J., A.L. Mack, and C. Austin. Two new species of Platymantis (Anura: Ranidae) from the Admiralty Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa.

Mack, A. L. and J. Dumbacher. The birds of Papua. Book chapter in The Ecology of Papua (ed. B. Beehler).

Symes, C.T., J. C. Hughes, A.L. Mack and S. Marsden. 2006. Avian geophagy in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, Papua New Guinea. Journal of Zoology 268:87-96.

Marsden, S.J., C.T. Symes and A. L. Mack. 2006. Response of a New Guinean avifauna to conversion of forest to small-scale agriculture. Ibis 148: 629-640.

Mack, A. L. and P. West. 2005. Ten thousand tonnes of small animals: wildlife use in Papua New Guinea, a vital resource in need of management. Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Working Paper No. 61.

Mack, A.L. and S. Oppel. 2005. Nidification of the Dwarf Whistler, Pachycare flavogriseum, a little-known New Guinea endemic. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 126: 61-65.

Mack, A. L. and L. E. Alonso. (eds). A biological assessment of the Wide Bay conservation area, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. in press. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment.

Mack, A. L. and D. Wright. 2005. The frugivore community and the fruiting plant flora in a New Guinea rainforest: identifying keystone frugivores. Pages 184-203 In: J. Lawrence Dew and Jean Philippe Boubli (eds.), Tropical Fruits and Frugivores: The Search for Strong Interactors. Springer. The Netherlands.

Legge, S., S. Murphy, P. Igag, and A. L. Mack. 2004. Territoriality and density of an Australian migrant, the Buff-Breasted Paradise Kingfisher, in the New Guinean non-breeding grounds. Emu 104: 15-20.

Mack, A. L. and J. Jones. 2003. Infrasound communication by cassowaries. Auk 120: 1062-1068.

Mack, A. L. and E. Scholes. 2003. Nesting activity of the Wallace's Fairy Wren Sipodotus wallacii. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists Club 123: 177-181.

Mack, A. L. and G. Druliner. 2003. A non-intrusive method for measuring movements and seed dispersal in cassowaries. Journal of Field Ornithology 74: 193-196.

Mack, A. L. and L. E. Alonso. (eds) 2000. A biological assessment of the Wapoga River area of northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 14.

Mack, A. L. and D. D. Wright. 2000. Notes on the Crested Cnemophilus macgregorii and Yellow-breasted Loboparadisaea sericea Birds of Paradise. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 120: 186-189.

Mack, A.L. 2000. Did fleshy fruit pulp evolve as a defence against seed loss rather than as a dispersal mechanism? Journal of Biosciences 25: 93-97.

Supriatna, J., A. L. Mack, C.Yeager, S. Olivieri, T. Tarar, and B. Burnett (eds.). 1999. The Irian Jaya conservation priority-setting workshop: final report. Conservation International, Washington, D.C.

Mack, A. L. 1999. The Vulturine Parrot (Psittrichas fulgidus) of New Guinea, a species in need of study. Psittascene.

B. M. Beehler and A. L. Mack. 1998. Constraints to characterising spatial heterogeneity in a lowland forest avifauna in New Guinea. Pps. 2569-2579 In: Adams, N. J. and R. H. Slotow (eds). Proceedings of the XXII International Ornithological Congress. (Durban, South Africa).

Mack, A. L., K. Ickes, J. H. Jessen, B. Kennedy, and J. R. Sinclair. 1999. Seedling ecology of Aglaia mackiana (Meliaceae), a cassowary-dispersed rainforest tree, in Papua New Guinea. Biotropica 31: 111-120.

Mack, A. L. 1998. An advantage of large seed size: tolerating rather than succumbing to seed predators. Biotropica 30: 604-608.

Mack, A. L. 1998. The potential impact of small-scale physical disturbance on seedlings in a Papuan rainforest. Biotropica 30: 547-552.

Mack, A. L., R. Yamuna, T. Domambe, and J. Pano. 1998. Effects of drought on birds at Maimafu, Eastern Highlands Province. Science in New Guinea 23: 125-131.

Mack, A. L. (editor and author) 1998. Rapid Assessment Survey of the Lakekamu Basin, Papua New Guinea. RAP Working Paper No. 9. Conservation International, Washington, D.C. 187 pp.

Mack, A. L. and D. D. Wright. 1998. Status and conservation of the threatened Vulturine Parrot, Psittrichas fulgidus. Bird Conservation International 8: 185-194.

Mack, A. L. 1997. Population control or biodiversity conservation: must we choose? (letter) Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 78: 594-595.

Mack, A. L. 1997. Spatial distribution, fruit production and seed removal of a rare, dioecious, rainforest tree in a Papuan rainforest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13: 305-316.

Mack, A. L. (editor) 1997. Coursebook for field training in experimental design, data analysis and grantsmanship. (in-house publication, Conservation International)

Mack, A. L. (editor) 1996. Training manual for field survey techniques in Papua New Guinea. (in-house publication, Conservation International).

Mack, A. L. and Wright, D. D. 1996. Notes on occurrence and feeding of birds at Crater Mountain Biological Research Station, Papua New Guinea. Emu 96: 89-101.

Mack, A. L. 1995. Feathered Foresters: Dwarf Cassowaries sow the seeds of rainforest giants. Living Bird 14 (4): 22-25.

Mack, A. L. 1995. Distance and non-randomness of seed dispersal by the Dwarf Cassowary, Casuarius bennetti, in Papua New Guinea. Ecography 18: 286-295.

Mack, A. L. 1995. Phenology of the dominant trees of a hardwood hammock in south Florida. Caribbean Journal of Science 31: 207-211.

Wright, D. D., A. L. Mack and E. H. Paxton. 1995. Recent Aproteles bulmerae (Megachiroptera: Pteropodidae) skulls found in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Mammalia 59: 163-164.

Mack, A. L. 1994. The nests and eggs of birds at the Crater Mountain Biological Research Station, Papua New Guinea. Bulletin of the British Ornithologist's Club 114: 176-181.

Mack, A. L. and D. D. Wright. 1993. Birds of Lake Tebera. Muruk 6: 25-26.

Mack, A. L. 1993. The sizes of vertebrate-dispersed fruits, a Neotropical-Paleotropical comparison. American Naturalist 142: 840-856.

Gill, F. B., A. M. Mostrom and A. L. Mack. 1993. Speciation in North American chickadees: I. Patterns of mtDNA genetic divergence. Evolution 47: 195-212.

Mack, A. L. 1992. The nest, egg, and incubation behaviour of the Blue Bird of Paradise, Paradisaea rudolphi. Emu 92: 244-246.

Mack, A. L. 1992, Vegetation analysis of a hardwood hammock in Dade County, Florida: changes since 1940. Florida Scientist 55: 258-263.

Mack, A. L. 1990. Notes on the Dwarf Cassowary Casuarius bennetti in Papua New Guinea. Muruk 4: 49-52.

Mack, A. L. 1990. Is frugivory limited by secondary compounds in fruits? Oikos 57: 135-138.

Mack, A. L. and C. D. Fisher. 1988. Notes on the birds from the llanos of Meta, Colombia. Le Gerfaut 78: 397-408.

Mack, A. L., F. B. Gill, R. Colburn, and C. Spolsky 1986. Mitochodrial DNA: a source of genetic markers for studies of similar passerine bird species. Auk 103: 676-681.

Gill, F. B., A. L. Mack and R. T. Ray. 1982. Competition between hermit hummingbirds Phaethorninae and insects for nectar in a Costa Rican rain forest. Ibis 124: 44-49.

Meyer de Schauensee, R. and A. L. Mack. 1982. Addenda to 2nd Edition, A Guide to the Birds of South America. Pgs. 429-463.

PUBLICATIONS CURRENTLY SUBMITTED AND UNDER REVIEW
Hodgson, A. and A. L. Mack. 2005. Foraging ecology and behaviour of a large bird of paradise, the Black Sicklebill (Epimachus fastuosus). under revision.

Legra, L. and A. L. Mack. Nest and roost site selection by the New Guinea harpy Eagle, Harpyopsis novaeguineae. Submitted, Journal of Raptor Research.