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CURRICULUM VITAE

JOHN EDWARD BANKS

Associate Professor of Biology
Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
University of Washington, Tacoma
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, WA 98402-3100
Phone: (253) 692-5838
Fax: (253) 692-4639
email: banksj@u.washington.edu

  

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.  Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle,WA, June 1997.

M.S. Applied Mathematics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, May 1990.

B.A. Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, May 1986.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:

Associate Professor of Biology, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences – University of Washington, Tacoma, Autumn 2005 – present.

Assistant Professor of Biology, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences – University of Washington, Tacoma,  1999 – 2005.

Adjunct Faculty – Washington State University, Department of Entomology, 1999- present.

Lecturer -- University of Washington, Tacoma, Liberal Studies (IAS) Program., Autumn 1997, Winter 1999.

Instructor -- Intel Science & Math Summer Institute, Summer 2001.

Instructor--University of Puget Sound, Spring 1998. 

Instructor--Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory: Applied Ecology and Conservation Biology, Summer 1997.

Instructor (GS-12) -- University of Maryland (European Division--Germany): Mathematics (Introductory Algebra, Trigonometry, Pre-Calculus, Statistics), 8/90-8/91.

RECENT GRANTS/AWARDS:

Chancellor's Fund for Research & Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2008-2009. "Effects of coffee farming practices on arthropod diversity in the Tarrazu coffee farms of Costa Rica".

Chancellor's Fund for Research & Scholarship Award, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2006-2007. "Arthropod diversity and distribution in the Yucatan: restoration ecology in a seasonal semi-evergreen tropical forest in a Mayan biocultural reserve".

Distinguished Research Award, 2005, University of Washington, Tacoma.

Founders' Endowment Grant, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2005-2006. "Tropical insect biodiversity in a rural agroecosystem".

Lindenberg Center International Mobility Grant, UW School of Public Affairs, 2003-2004. "Insect diversity in agroecosystems in rural Costa Rica".

Royalty Research Grant, UW Office of Research, 2003-2004. “Insect biodiversity and vegetation complexity in a tropical agroecosystem”.

IAS Research Grant, 2002-2003. “Diffusion modeling of insect dispersal”.

Founders' Endowment Grant, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2002-2003. “Fertilizer Amendments and Herbivore Movement” (Pilot study).

Founders' Endowment Grant, University of Washington, Tacoma, 2000-2001. “Herbivore Response to Cadmium Contamination in Vegetables” (Pilot research study w/ J.E. Gawel).

U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1997-2000.  “Selective Pesticides and Natural Enemies: Renewed Hope for IPM of Cole Crop Pests” (co-PI w /J.D. Stark, Washington State University).

PUBLICATIONS:

Peer-reviewed articles:

Banks, H.T, Banks, J.E., Joyner, S.L., and J.D. Stark. 2008. Dynamic models for insect mortality due to exposure to insecticides.  Mathematical and Computer Modelling 48: 316-332.

Banks, J.E., Dick, L.K., Banks, H.T., and J.D. Stark. 2008. Time-varying vital rates in ecotoxicology: selective pesticides and aphid population dynamics. Ecological Modelling 210: 155-160.

Banks, H.T., Banks, J.E., Dick, L.K., and J.D. Stark. 2007. Estimation of dynamic rate parameters in insect populations undergoing sublethal exposure to pesticides. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 69: 2139-2180.

Stark, J.D.,Vargas, R., and J.E. Banks. 2007.  Incorporating ecologically relevant measures of pesticide effect for estimating the compatibility of pesticides and biocontrol agents. Journal of Economic Entomology 100: 1027-1032.

Banks, J.E., Sandvik, P., and L. Keesecker. 2007.  Beetle (Coleoptera) and spider (Araneae) diversity in a mosaic of farmland, edge, and tropical forest habitats in western Costa Rica.  The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 82(3): 152-160.

Kramarz, P., Banks, J.E. and J.D. Stark. 2007. Density-dependent response of the pea aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae) to imidacloprid. Journal of Entomological Science 42: 200-206.

Gold, W., Ewing, K., Banks, J.E., Groom, M., Hinckley, T., Secord, D., and D. Shebitz.  2006. Community collaborations: collaborative ecological  restoration. Science 312 (5782): 1880-1881.

Adams B.M., Banks H.T., Banks, J.E. and J.D. Stark.  2005. Population dynamics models in plant-insect herbivore-pesticide interactions. Mathematical Biosciences 196: 39-64.

Banks, J.E. 2004. Divided culture: integrating agriculture and conservation biology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2(10): 537-545.

Banks, J.E. and J.D. Stark. 2004. Aphid response to vegetation diversity and insecticide application. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 103(3): 595-599.

Stark, J.D., Banks, J.E. and R. Vargas. 2004. How risky is risk assessment? The role that life history strategies play in susceptibility of species to pesticides and other toxicants.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101(3):732-736.

Stark, J.D., Banks, J.E. and S. Acheampong. 2004. Estimating susceptibility of biological control agents to pesticides: influence of life history strategies and population structure. Biological Control 29: 392-398.

Banks, J.E. and C.L. Yasenak. 2003 . Effects of plot vegetation diversity and spatial scale on Coccinella septempunctata movement in the absence of prey. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 108:197-204.

Bommarco, R. and J.E. Banks. 2003. Scale as modifier in vegetation diversity experiments: effects on herbivores and predators. Oikos 102:440-448.

Stark, J.D. and J.E. Banks. 2003. Population-level effects of pesticides and other toxicants on arthropods. Annual Review of Entomology 48: 505-519.

Stark, J.D., and J.E. Banks. 2002. Response from Stark & Banks. BioScience 52: 216.

Stark, J.D. and J.E. Banks. 2001. “Selective pesticides”: are they less hazardous to the environment? BioScience 51: 980-982.

Rämert, B., Hellqvist, S., Ekbom, B., and J. E. Banks.  2001.  Assessment of trap crops for Lygus spp. in lettuce.  International Journal of Pest Management 47: 273-276.

Banks, J.E. 2000.  Effects of weedy field margins on Myzus persicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in a broccoli agroecosystem.  The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 76(2): 95-101.

Banks, J.E. and J.D. Stark.  2000.  The interplay of agroecosystem diversity and pesticide use.  Pesticide Outlook 11(2): 48-50.

Banks, J.E.  1999.   Differential response of two agroecosystem predators, Pterostichus melanarius (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and Coccinella septempunctata (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), to habitat composition and fragmentation scale manipulations. The Canadian Entomologist 131: 645-658.

Banks, J.E. and B. Ekbom. 1999. Modeling herbivore movement and colonization: pest management potential of intercropping and trap cropping.  Agricultural and Forest Entomology 1:165-170.

Banks, J.E.  1998.   The scale of landscape fragmentation influences herbivore response to vegetation heterogeneity. Oecologia 117(1/2): 239-246.

Banks, J.E. and J.D. Stark.  1998.  What is ecotoxicology? An ad-hoc grab bag or an interdisciplinary science?  Integrative Biology 5: 1-9.

Banks, J.E. 1997.  Do imperfect tradeoffs affect the extinction-debt phenomenon? Ecology 78(5): 1597-1601.

Holmes, E.E., Lewis, M.A., Banks, J.E. and D. Veit. 1994.  Partial differential equations in ecology: spatial interactions and population dynamics. Ecology 75(1): 17-29.

Invited Book chapters, Book reviews, Reports,  etc:

Banks, H.T., Banks, J.E., Joyner, S.L., and J.D. Stark. 2007. Dynamics models for insect mortality due to exposure to pesticides. Center for Research in Scientific Computation Report, North Carolina State University.

Banks, J.E.  2006. Population Ecology: First Principles (Book Review). Environmental Entomology 35(3): 811.

Banks, H.T., Banks, J.E., Dick, L.K., and J.D. Stark. 2005. Estimation of dynamic rate parameters in insect parameters in insect populations undergoing sublethal exposure to pesticides.  Center for Research in Scientific Computation Report, North Carolina State University.

Banks, J.E. 2003. The War on Weeds: an environmental history (Book Review). Pacific Northwest Quarterly 94:214-215.

Banks, J.E. 2003. Influence of plant diversity on herbivores and their natural enemies, In Koul, O. & G.S. Dhaliwal (eds.) Predators and Parasitoids (Advances in Biopesticide Research Series), Taylor & Francis, London. pp. 111-120.

Adams B.M., Banks H.T., Banks, J.E. and J.D. Stark.   2003. Population dynamics models in plant-insect herbivore-pesticide interactions. Center for Research in Scientific Computation Report, North Carolina State University.

Banks, J.E. 2002. Agricultural Ecology, entry in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology, Mc-Graw Hill, New York, NY.

Banks, J.E. 2001. Population Stability and Regulation: Insights from the Interface of Laboratory Data and Models (Book Review).  Ecology 82(11): 3269-3270.

Stark, J.D. and J.E. Banks. 2001.  The toxicologists’s and ecologists’ point of view – unification through a demographic approach.  In Kammenga R. & R. Laskowski (eds.) Demography in ecotoxicology.  Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Chichester. pp. 9-23. 

Banks, J.E.  2000.  Natural vegetation in agroecosystems: pattern and scale of heterogeneity.  In Ekbom, B., M. Irwin & Y. Robert (eds.) Interchanges of insects between agricultural and surrounding landscapes.  Kluwer Press, Dordrecht. pp. 215-229.

Banks, J.E.  1999.  Collaborations in ecology: a solo science becomes less lonely.  Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 80(1): 85-86.

Winterer, J., Klepetka, B., Banks, J. and P. Kareiva. 1994.  Strategies for minimizing the vulnerability of rice to pest epidemics.  In Teng, P.S., Heong, K.L., Moody, K.,(eds.) Rice Pest Science and Management.  Selected papers from the International Rice Research Conference.  International Rice Research Institute, Manila, Philippines.  pp. 53-69.

 

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