2014 Meeting Information 
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Plenary Speaker 
Henry M. Wilbur 
BFD RUNK Professor of Biology 
University of Virginia, Charlottesville 
Switching Sex in an Uncertain Environment 
Biographical Notes 
1966, BS (Zoology), Duke University, Durham, NC 
1971, PhD (Zoology), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ml 
Competition, Predation and the Structure of the Ambystoma - Rana 
sylvatica Community, Charles F. Walker, advisor (Nelson G. Hairston, 
Donald W. Tinkle, Frank B. Livingstone members). 
Henry Wilbur spent his formative years in Waynesboro active in Boy Scouts and 
Nature Camp. He majored in zoology at Duke and then received his Ph.D. in 
Zoology at The University of Michigan. He returned to the Duke Zoology 
Department for 17 years before moving to UVA to be Director of Mountain Lake 
Biological Station. He has served as president of The American Society of 
Naturalists and has been an editor for The American Naturalist, Ecology, and 
Evolution. His research has included fieldwork on Leach’s Petrel, Painted Turtles, 
temporary pond communities, various amphibians, forest dynamics and life 
history evolution. 
Becky and Henry 
