Education:

• Harvard University, Biology, A.M. 1976; Ph.D. 1980
• University of Illinois, Honors Biology, B.S. 1973
     with high departmental & university honors

• University of Georgia, Athens -- Faculty member
  • Odum School/Institute of Ecology, 1994-present
  • Department of Entomology, 1984-95
• University of California, Berkeley
  • Postgraduate Research Entomologist, Div. of Biological Control, 1982-84
  • Research Associate, Div. of Entomology & Parasitology, 1981-82
  • Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Entomological Sciences, 1979-81

• Green Champion, Go Green Alliance, University of Georgia, 2010
     SMART initiative for outstanding efforts related to sustainability
• Mellon Senior Research Fellowship, 1996-98
     Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica
     Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
• Outstanding Upper Division Advisor Award, 1996
     University of Georgia
• Special Sandy Beaver Award for Teaching Excellence, 1994
     University of Georgia
• Outstanding Conference Paper Presentation, 1991
     GRASS Users Conference, Berkeley
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, 1979-81
• Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1976-77
• Richmond Fellow, Harvard University, 1974-79
• Bronze Tablet, University of Illinois, 1973

• Hargrove, W. W. and J. Pickering. 1992. Pseudoreplication: a sine qua non for regional ecology. Landscape Ecology 6: 251-258.
• Hochberg, M. E., J. Pickering and W. M. Getz. 1986. Evaluation of phenology models using field data: case study for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, and the blue alfalfa aphid, Acyrthosiphon kondoi (Homoptera: Aphididae). Environmental Entomology 15: 227-231.
• Ross, D. W., J. Pickering, J. D. Berg and W. C. Berisford. 1989. Mapping Nantucket pine tip moth (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) development in Georgia. J. Entomological Sci. 24: 405-412.
• Bartlett, R., J. Pickering, I. Gauld and D. Windsor. 1999. Estimating global biodiversity: tropical beetles and wasps send different signals. Ecological Entomology 24: 118-121.
• Pickering, J., K. Smith, G. Cotter, A. Simpson, R. Magill and E. McNierney. 2006. Global Mapper. International Biogeography Society, news report, March, 2006. [Interactive version: http://www.discoverlife.org/pa/or/polistes/fe/2006ibs.html
  http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20m?kind=Bombus maps 250,000 bumblebees]

• Ascher, J. S. and J. Pickering. 2010. Bee species guide (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila). http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Apoidea_species
• Skillen, E. L., J. Pickering and M. J. Sharkey. 2000. Species richness of the Campopleginae and Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) along a latitudinal gradient in eastern North American old-growth forests. Environmental Entomology 29: 460-466.
• Kaspari, M., J. Pickering, J. T. Longino and D. Windsor. 2001. The phenology of a Neotropical ant assemblage: evidence for continuous and overlapping reproduction. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 50: 382-390.
• Shapiro, B. A. and J. Pickering. 2000. Rainfall and parasitic wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) activity in successional forest stages at Barro Colorado Nature Monument, Panama and La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 2:39-47
• Pickering, J., W. W. Hargrove, J. D. Dutcher and H C Ellis. 1990. RAIN: A novel approach to computer-aided decision making in agriculture and forestry. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 4: 275-285.

Synergistic Activities:

• Discover Life (www.discoverlife.org)
  Founder and coordinator of this website, its International Center for Public Health and Environmental Research, and electronic publication, the Proceedings of Life. Discover Life enables web users to contribute and retrieve information about nature. It has assembled over 100 million database records, 1.2 million valid species names and 225,000 images. Since inception, it has had over 720 million hits and now serves users at over 250,000 unique IP addresses monthly.
• Polistes Foundation (www.discoverlife.org/polistes)
  Co-founder and president of the Polistes Foundation, the mission of which is to assemble and share knowledge about nature in order to improve education, health, agriculture, economic development, and conservation throughout the world. Polistes works with numerous museums, herbaria, and other organizations. Since 2002 it has been supported by the USGS's National Biological Information Infrastructure to integrate databases and help everyone participate in biodiversity research via the web. The foundation also has support from the National Science Foundation, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Servive, and private sources.

Collaborators and Research Associates: Through Discover Life I work with many partners and contributors: www.discoverlife.org/partners lists organizations;
www.discoverlife.org/research/personnel.html lists 75 researchers.

Graduate and Post Doctoral Advisors: My graduate advisors at Harvard University: Richard C. Lewontin and Robert L. Trivers. My postdoctoral advisors at Univ. of California, Berkeley: George F. Oster, Wayne M. Getz, and Andy P. Gutierrez.

Thesis Advisor and Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor: I have no current graduate or postdoctoral students.