Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in...

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have...