Peterson, Merrill A., 1965-

LC control no.	no2003095511
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Peterson, Merrill A., 1965- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Peterson, Merrill Alan, 1965- Peterson, Merrill, 1965- Peterson, M. A. (Merrill Alan), 1965-
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Seattle (Wash.) Ithaca (N.Y.) College Park (Md.)
Located	Bellingham (Wash.)
Address	peterson@wwu.edu
Birth date	1965-07-22
Field of activity	Entomology Biology Ecology Zoology
Affiliation	Western Washington University Washington State University University of Maryland, College Park Cornell University University of Washington
Profession or occupation	Biologists Entomologists College teachers University and college faculty members Biologists Entomologists Ecologists Zoologists College teachers
Found in	Sehome Hill Arboretum, 2002: t.p. (Merrill Peterson, Chairman) College of Science & Engineering, Western Washington University website, viewed May 8, 2017: faculty (Dr. Merrill Peterson, Professor and Chair) Sarah E. Hardee. Movements and home range of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the inland waters of the Pacific Northwest, 2008: advisory committee (Dr. Merrill Peterson) Sound Politics Washington State voter database website, viewed May 8, 2017: search results (Peterson Merrill Alan (city) Bellingham (Birthdate) 1965-Jul-22) Western Washington University (website), viewed July 6, 2021: Merrill Peterson , PhD (peterson@wwu.edu. I identify as a husband, father, member of a multiracial family, naturalist, entomologist, and geeky nerd hellbent on spreading my love of insect diversity. Growing up in Seattle in the 1970s. By age 15, I had decided that I was going to earn a PhD in entomology and would become a university professor. I was an unremarkable student in high school and despite my interests struggled with my first high school biology class, but I did well enough to meet the UW's modest admission standards at the time. Later in my undergraduate years, I also worked in the labs of other insect ecologists and evolutionary biologists in the Zoology Department, and they encouraged me to apply to the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at Cornell University, which I attended for my PhD studies while working in the lab of Richard Root. After grad school, I became a postdoctoral research in the lab of Robert Denno at the Entomology Department at the University of Maryland. I was determined to get back to the Pacific Northwest enough so that the position I am in is actually the third faculty position at WWU to which I applied.) <https://biology.wwu.edu/people/peterson> Entomology, Washington State University (website), viewed July 6, 2021: Adjunct / Affiliate Faculty (Peterson, Merrill) <https://entomology.wsu.edu/directory/faculty/> Western Washington University (website), viewed July 27, 2021: Merrill Peterson , PhD (Education: 1994 Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University.. 1987 B.S. in Zoology, University of Washington. Professional Appointments: 2016-2020 Chair, Biology Dept, Western Washington University. 2015- Adjunct Professor, Entomology Dept, Washington State Univ. 2007- Professor, Biology Dept, Western Washington University. 2004-2015 Adjunct Associate Professor, Entomology Dept, Washington State Univ. 2001-2007 Associate Professor, Biology Dept, Western Washington University. 1997- Curator, WWU Insect Collection (WWUC). 1997-2001 Assistant Professor, Biology Dept, Western Washington University. 1994-1997 Postdoc. Res. Assoc., Dept of Entomology, Univ. of MD, College Park. 1990-1993 Graduate Teaching Asst., Ecology & Systematics, Cornell Univ. Publications included: Larson, E.L., Brassil, M.M., Maslan, J., Juarez, D., Lilagan, F., Tipton, H., Schweitzer, A., Skillman, J., Monsen-Collar, K.J., and M.A. Peterson. 2019. The effects of heterospecific mating frequency on the strength of cryptic reproductive barriers. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 32: 900-912) <https://biology.wwu.edu/people/peterson>
Associated language	eng