Faculty Projects and Publications

Ernst S. Reese

Distinguished Visiting Scholar 1982-83, Dept of Zoological Research, National Zoological Park,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
Visiting Investigator 1974-75, Inst. for Behavioral Genetics, Univ. Colorado
NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow 1967-68, Monash University, Australia
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow 1961-62, Univ. Groningen, Netherlands
Ph.D. 1960, University of California, Los Angeles
A.B. 1953, Princeton University, Magna Cum Laude

My teaching and research interests are in animal behavior. Currently I am working on the social behavior of reef fishes. I am particularly interested in the relationship of food and feeding behavior to sociobiology and life history characteristics, coevolution of corals and reef fishes, orientation behavior of butterflyfishes, and the use of butterflyfishes as indicators of conditions on coral reefs.

1975: President, Animal Behavior Society.
1972-78: Delegate, International Ethological Congress Committee.
1985-86: President, Hawaii Academy of Science.
1985-1987: Lecturer, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
1986: Fellow, Animal Behavior Society. 1988: Certificate of Appreciation, U.S. Department of Energy.
1991: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
1991: Elected Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea.
1995: Co-Host, 24th International Ethological Conference, Honolulu.
1995 to present: Member, Executive Committee of the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program.