Curriculum Vitae
Clarence Lewis
Abercrombie, III
Wofford
College, Department of Biology
Spartanburg, South Carolina 29303 U.S.A.
Telephone (864) 597-4553
E-MAIL: abercrombiecl@wofford.edu
Web Page: http://webs.wofford.edu/abercrombiecl/
Date and Place
of Birth:
30
October 1944; Greenville County, South Carolina.
Education:
1974 Ph.D. (“with distinction”), Yale University.
1972 M.Phil., Yale University.
1967 B.A. (“with highest honors”), Emory
University.
Post-Doctoral
Education:
1980-1981, Texas A&M
University. Work was in Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries
Science,
focusing on population modeling, wildlife biology, and statistics.
1982-1983, University of
Florida. Work was in School of Forest Resources and
Conservation,
focusing on tropical ecology, population biology, mammalogy, management
Of
crocodilians, and statistics.
1994 University of Florida.
Work was in population modeling and analysis of field data.
Employment:
1973 – present, Professor at
Wofford College (often on leave; see below).
2001 Fulbright Fellow, Professor in mammalogy and wildlife management at Vietnam National University,
Ho Chi Minh City; also began herpetological survey at Cat Tien National Park, Dong Nai Province.
(Survey continued under WWF
sponsorship, 2002.)
2000 Africa University,
Mutare, Zimbabwe. Professor in wildlife
ecology and wildlife
management;
also began faunal survey of 600ha campus.
1995 Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe. Lecturer in computers, agricultural
statistics,
and wildlife ecology.
1994, 1995 University of
Florida. Postdoctoral Research Fellow and member of
Lake
Apopka
research team.
1993 Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe. Lecturer in agricultural statistics.
1992, 1993 Fulbright Fellow, researcher and teacher in Brazil.
(Chiefly at Centro de
Pesquisa Agropecuária do Pantanal, EMBRAPA, Corumbá, MS. Work was in
statistics,
sustained-yield wildlife exploitation, and aerial survey.)
1987 Instituto Naçional para Pesquisas Amazônas, Manaus, AM, Brazil. Researcher
and
consultant on statistics, radio telemetry, and
tropical ecology.
1982-1985, Florida Game and
Fresh Water Fish Commission,
Wildlife
Research Laboratory, Gainesville. Consultant on population modeling and
statistics;
field assistant in herpetological research (especially crocodilians).
1967-1969,
U.S. Army, Infantry
officer (Korea, Vietnam, and Fort
Benning, Georgia).
Special Skills:
Commercial Pilot license (with instrument
rating).
SCUBA certification.
SYSTAT and SAS programming experience.
Radio telemetry experience.
Languages:
Portuguese
(read fluently in academic field; speak, write, and understand with
difficulty).
Spanish
(read in field; speak, write, and understand very little).
Italian
(read only; with much difficulty).
Professional
Affiliations:
American
Zoo and Aquarium Association.
American
Society of Mammalogists.
Crocodile
Specialists Group, Species Survival Comm., IUCN.
Society
for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles.
Society
for Study of Mammalian Evolution.
Publications:[1]
Abercrombie,
C. L., K. G. Rice, and C. A. Hope.
2001. The great alligator-caiman
debate: mathematical reflections on crocodilian evolution. Pp. 409-418 in G. Grigg, F.
Seebacher, and C. Franklin, Crocodilian Biology and Evolution. Chipping Norton, NSW, Australia, Surrey Beatty
and Sons.
_______, and L. Verdade. 2002.
A análise do crescimento em crocodilianos. Pp. 1-20 in L. Verdade and A.
Larriera, Conservação e manejo de jacarés e crocodiles da America Latina: La
Conservacion y el manejo de caimanes y cocodrilos de America Latina. Piracicaba, SP, Brasil: C. N. Editoria. Volume II.
_______. 1989.
Population dynamics of the American alligator. pp. 1-16 in P.
Hall (ed.) Crocodiles: their ecology, management, and conservation. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for
the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. (Possibly unreviewed; I’m not sure. In any case, it is one of my favorites.)
_______,
D. Davidson, C. Hope, and D. Scott.
1980. Status of Morelet's
crocodile in Belize. Biol. Conservation
17(FEB)103-113.
_______. 1978.
Notes on West African crocodilians (Reptilia, Crocodilia). Journal of Herpetology 12(2):260-262.
_______. 1977.
The military chaplain. Beverly
Hills, Calif.: SAGE Publications.
189pp.
_______. 1973.
Barth and Bonhoeffer: resistance to the unjust state. Religion in Life 42(Autumn)344-360.
Campos,
Z., G. Mourão, M. Coutinho, and _____.
1994. Night-light counts, size
structures, and sex ratios in wild populations of Yacare caiman (Caiman crocodilus yacare) in the
Brazilian Pantanal. Vida Silvestre
Neotropical 3(2): 46-50.
Campos,
Z., M. Coutinho, and _____. 1995. Size structure and sex ratio of dwarf caiman
in the Serra Amolar, Pantanal, Brazil. Herpetological Journal 5: 321.
Delany,
M., and _______. 1986. American alligator food habits in
northcentral Florida. J. Wildl. Manage.
50(2):348-353.
Gibbons,
J. W., J. Harrison, D. Nelson, and _______.
1976. Status report: the
reptiles. pp. 78-81 in
Proceedings of the first South Carolina Endangered Species Symposium. South Carolina Wildlife and Marine
Resources: Columbia. (This was
extensively reviewed, but I’m not sure it could have been rejected.)
Hines.
T., and _______. 1987. The management of alligators in
Florida. pp. 43-47 in G. Webb,
S. Manolis, and P. Whitehead (eds.) Wildlife Management: Crocodiles and
Alligators. Chipping Norton, NSW
(Australia): Surrey Beatty and Sons.
Hines,
T., H. Percival, and _______.
1987. Florida alligators:
economics, harvest, and conservation.
pp. 382-384 in D. Decker and G. Goff (eds.) Valuing Wildlife:
Economic and Social Perspectives.
Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
Maskey,
T.M., H.F. Percival, and _____.
1995. Gharial habitat use in
Nepal. Journal of Herpetology 29(3)
463-464.
Mourão,
G. M., P. Bayliss, M. E. Coutinho, _____, and A. Arruda. 1994.
Test of an aerial survey for caiman and other wildlife in the Pantanal,
Brazil. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 22(1):50-56.
Mourão,
G. M., Z. Campos, M. Coutinho, and _____.
1996. Size structure of
illegally harvested and surviving caiman Caiman
crocodilus yacare in Pantanal, Brazil.
Biological Conservation 75(1996) 261-265.
Phillips,
Kimberly A., and _______. 2003. Distribution and conservation status of
primates in Trinidad. Primate
Conservation 2003(19):19-22.
Phillips,
Kimberly A., and _______. (Scheduled
for publication in December, 2003; authorship might be reversed if Kim has her
way.) Conservation of Mammals. In Grzimeks Animal Life Encyclopedia:
Mammals. To be published under the
editorship of the Gale Group.
Thul,
J., D. Forrester, and _______.
1985. Ecology of parasitic
helminths of wood ducks, Aix sponsa
(L.), in the Atlantic flyway. Proc.
Helminthol. Soc. Wash. 52(2)297-310.
Woodward,
A., T. Hines, _______, and C. Hope.
1984. Spacing patterns in
alligator nests. Journal of Herpetology
18(1)8-12.
Woodward,
A., T. Hines, _______, and J. Nichols.
1987. Survival of young American
alligators on a Florida lake. J. Wildl.
Manage. 51(4):931-937.
[1]With one possible
exception, this list includes only reviewed publications. The possible exception is clearly indicated
by bold type and is included because
I believe it is one of my most significant professional achievements. Most of my non-reviewed publications (not
listed here) came
from conferences and treat either sustained-yield harvest or mathematical
models for wildlife populations.
Publications for which I am sole or primary author are listed in reverse
chronological order; others are alphabetized by primary author. Other publications are in press or in
preparation.