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Steven Green
Professor
269 Cox Science Center, Dept. of Biology
1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33124
(305)284-4272
Fax (305)284-3039
email
Laboratory Website
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Education and Professional Experience
- Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, 1964-1971. Graduate Fellowship and U.S.P.H.S. Traineeship. Ph.D.,
1973, in general medical sciences from the animal behavior laboratory in the division of behavioral
sciences.
- B.S. with honors in science, California Institute of Technology, 1960-1964. National Merit Scholar and
California State Scholar; National Science Foundation summer fellowship.
- 1967 - 1971: Graduate Fellow in Animal Behavior, Rockefeller University
- 1971 - 1972: Research Zoologist at the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior, New York Zoological
Society
- 1972 - 1978: Assistant Professor, Rockefeller University (Socioecology, Animal Behavior Laboratory)
- 1978 - 1981: Associate Professor of Biology, University of Miami
- 1973 - 1978: Government of India Research Scholar (Wildlife Studies), Bombay Natural History Society
- 1978: Visiting Associate Professor, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- 1981 - date: Professor of Biology, University of Miami
- 1981 - 1982: Professor and Chairman, Department of Biology, Univ. Miami
- 1982 - 1992: Research Biologist, Dept. Biological Sciences, Njala University College, University of
Sierra Leone
- 1982: Visiting Professor, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- 1983: Visiting Professor, Graduate School (Landscape Architecture), University of Pennsylvania
- 1984-1985 Research Associate, Dept. Zoology, Univ. California, Berkeley
- 1988 to date: Senior Scientist, Research Bureau, University of Sierra Leone
- 1991 to date: Director, DuMond Conservancy for Primates and Tropical Forests, Inc. (Chairman of the Board
from November 1993 to date)
- 1998-2002: Chairman, Faculty Senate, University of Miami
Areas of Focus
Behavior and Behavioral Ecology
Conservation and Restoration Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Tropical Biology
Research Interests
My general research area is behavioral ecology and ethology. My work has emphasized the interactions between social
behavior (especially vocal communication of primates) and the abundance and distribution of resources, particularly in
tropical forest environments. Allied interests include fish behavior and quantitative methods for field work as well
as how the results of basic field research studies can be applied to conservation biology and management plans, both
of marine mammals and terrestrial organisms.
Teaching Interests
My instructional goals are primarily to assist the development of critical skills - the evaluation of evidence and the
logic of scientific investigations, and then to engage in exposition, both oral and written, of such investigations.
Refinements and different emphases will vary by course - in Biometry, it will be design of studies and the proper
methods of analysis as well as learning how to examine published studies for adequacy or inadequacy of statistical
procedures; in Animal Behavior, it will be to understand the evolutionary, functional, and mechanistic aspects of
animal behavior. In undergraduate Honors sections and graduate courses and seminars, in addition to examining basic
concepts illustrated by textbook and classical examples, students explore the nature of scientific inquiry by reading
and reporting on original research articles and/or by designing and executing their own studies. In all courses, I
emphasize improving writing clarity and learning to prepare research proposals as well as final papers, the latter in
standard biological journal style.
Selected Publications
- 1990. Oates, J.F., Whitesides, G.H., Davies, A.G., Waterman, P.G., Green, S.M., Dasilva, G.L. & Mole, S.
Determinants of variation in tropical forest primate biomass: new evidence from West Africa. Ecology
71:328-343.
- 1997. Bolen, R.H. & Green, S.M. Use of olfactory cues in foraging by owl monkeys (Aotus nancymai) and
capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). J. Comparative Psychology 111:152-158.
- 2001. Romero, A., Agudo, I., Green, S.M., & Notarbartolo di Sciara, G. Cetaceans of Venezuela: their
distribution and conservation status. NOAA Technical Report NMFS (Fishery Bulletin) 151:1-60
- 2005. Romero, A., & Green, S.M. The end of regressive evolution: examining and interpreting the evidence
from cave fishes. J. Fish Biol. 67:3-32.
- 2006. Wolovich, C. K., Feged, A., Evans, S., and Green, S. M. Social patterns of food sharing in
monogamous owl monkeys. Am. J. Primatol. 68:1-12
- 2010. Wolovich, C.K., Evans, S. and Green, S.M. Mated pairs of owl monkeys (Aotus nancymaae) exhibit sex differences in response to unfamiliar conspecifics Am. J. Primatol. 79:942-950
[in prep.] Romero, A. & Green, S.M. Environmental History of Marine Mammal Exploitation in the Caribbean. University of Florida Press (book).
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