Eric Berlow

Eric L. Below
Nationality American
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Institutions
Alma mater
Doctoral advisor Jane Lubchenco and Bruce Menge
Known for

Eric L. Berlow is an American ecologist and entrepreneur who co-founded Vibrant Data Inc.[1] which was acquired by Rakuten Inc.[2][3] His academic research is in the fields of ecology and complexity and food webs.

Education

Below completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University in 1984, earning an B.A degree in biology. He graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy from Oregon State University in 1995 with a thesis on ecological complexity, supervised by Jane Lubchenco and Bruce A. Menge. He was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow working with Carla D'Antonio.

Career

Berlow's research career has focused on ecology, food webs, and networks. He was the founding director of the University of California Sierra Nevada Research Station in Yosemite National Park.[4] Examples of his highly cited network ecology publications include a 2009 paper in PNAS for which he was the lead author focused on predicting interaction strengths in food webs,[5] a 1999 paper in Nature on "Strong effects of weak interactions in ecological communities",[6] and a 1994 paper in Ecological Monographs on the keystone species concept.[7] He co-authored a paper that was among the top twenty most cited papers [8] in Environment and Ecology from 1998-2008 entitled "Biodiversity - global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100".[9] Berlow has also contributed to conservation through his work on alpine meadows [10] and threatened amphibians.[11]

In 2013 Berlow co-founded Vibrant Data Inc.,[12] a cloud-based data analytics platform for analyzing complex relationships. As a speaker at the TED Conferences, Berlow has given three presentations on topics including Simplifying Complexity,[13] Mapping Ideas Worth Spreading,[14] and The Ecological Structure of Collaboration.[15]

References

  1. ↑ http://vibrantdata.io/
  2. ↑ http://finance.yahoo.com/news/slice-technologies-acquires-vibrant-data-171148141.html
  3. ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vibrant-data
  4. ↑ http://www.ucnrs.org/reserves/yosemite-field-station.html
  5. ↑ Berlow EL, Dunne JA, Martinez ND, Stark PB, Williams RJ, Brose U. Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs. PNAS 106(1):187-91
  6. ↑ Nature 398, 330-334 Strong effects of weak interactions in ecological communities
  7. ↑ The Keystone Species Concept: Variation in Interaction Strength in a Rocky Intertidal Habitat
  8. ↑ http://archive.sciencewatch.com/inter/aut/2008/08-oct/08oct20PaprsENV/
  9. ↑ Biodiversity - global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100
  10. ↑ http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1103:SEIMMT]2.0.CO;2/abstract
  11. ↑ http://www.nature.com/articles/srep10702
  12. ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vibrant-data
  13. ↑ http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berlow_how_complexity_leads_to_simplicity
  14. ↑ https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_berlow_and_sean_gourley_mapping_ideas_worth_spreading
  15. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EZpUB5v5tkn
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