Biography:Dolph Schluter

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Dolph Schluter
Born (1955-05-22) May 22, 1955 (age 71)
Dorval, Quebec
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma mater
AwardsDarwin–Wallace Medal (2014)
Darwin Medal (2021)
Crafoord Prize (2023)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of British Columbia
ThesisDiets, distributions and morphology of galapagos ground finches: the importance of food supply and interspecific competition. (1983)
Doctoral advisorPeter Grant

Dolph Schluter FRS FRSC OBC (born May 22, 1955) is a Canadian professor of Evolutionary Biology and a University Killam Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia[1]. Schluter is a major researcher in adaptive radiation and currently studies speciation in the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.[2][3][4]

Schluter received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Guelph in 1977, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology from the University of Michigan in 1983, in Ecology and Evolution.[2]

Research

Schluter's early research was done on the evolutionary ecology and morphology of Darwin's finches[2], and was featured in the popular science book the The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner. Schluter is the author of The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation, 2000, Oxford University Press[5], and The Analysis of Biological Data, 2009[6] (and 2015[7], 2020[8]), with Michael Whitlock, and an editor with Robert E. Ricklefs of Species Diversity in Ecological Communities: Historical and Geographical Perspectives, 1993, University of Chicago Press.[9]

His 2023 Crafoord Prize citation stated "This year’s Crafoord Laureate in biosciences has demonstrated that Darwin’s theories about natural selection are true in practice. Using revolutionary studies of finches and sticklebacks, Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia, Canada, has provided us with knowledge of how species arise.[10]

Awards and honours

In 1999, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of London.[3] In 2001, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[11] The American Society of Naturalists awarded him the Sewall Wright Award in 2007.[12] In 2012, he was made International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] He received the Darwin-Wallace Medal from The Linnean Society of London in 2014,[13] and in 2017, he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the US National Academy of Sciences.[14] Schluter was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia in 2021.[15] In 2024 he was elected Member of the American Philosophical Society[16]. In 2023, Schluter was awarded the Crafoord Prize[17][10][18] for "revolutionary studies of finches and sticklebacks [which have] provided us with knowledge of how species arise".[19] Schluter donated funds from the award, with funds from other sources including Sarah Otto, to endow a postdoctoral fellowship in biodiversity studies at UBC.

References

  1. ↑ "Dolph Schluter lab". https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~schluter/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Profile of Dolph Schluter" (in en-US). https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/dolph-schluter-zq4jwp/. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Professor Dolph Schluter" (in en). https://royalsociety.org/people/dolph-schluter-12235/. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Dolph Schluter" (in en). 2026-04-22. https://www.amacad.org/person/dolph-schluter. 
  5. ↑ Schluter, Dolph (2003). The ecology of adaptive radiation. Oxford series in ecology and evolution. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-850523-5. 
  6. ↑ Whitlock, Michael; Schuter, Dolph (2009). The Analysis of Biological Data. Greenwood Village, Colo: Roberts and Co.. ISBN 9780981519401. 
  7. ↑ Whitlock, Michael; Schluter, Dolph (2015). The Analysis of Biological Data (2nd ed.). Publishers, Greenwood Village, Colo: Roberts and Company. ISBN 9781936221486. 
  8. ↑ Whitlock, Michael; Schluter, Dolph (2020). The Analysis of Biological Data (3rd ed.). Austin: Macmillan Learning. ISBN 9781319226237. 
  9. ↑ Ricklefs, Robert E., ed (in en). Species Diversity in Ecological Communities. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3626513.html. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Studies of how new species arise are rewarded with the Crafoord Prize" (in en). https://www.crafoordprize.se/news/studies-of-how-new-species-arise-are-rewarded-with-the-crafoord-prize/. 
  11. ↑ "Adolphe Schluter". https://rsc-src.ca/en/users/prof-adolphe-schluter. 
  12. ↑ Price, Trevor (January 2008). "2007 American Society of Naturalists Awards; Sewall Wright Award: Dolph Schluter". The American Naturalist 171 (1): iii–iv. doi:10.1086/524694. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/524694. 
  13. ↑ "2014 Linnean Society Medal Winners Announced" (in en). 2014-05-30. https://www.linnean.org/news/2014/05/30/30th-may-2014-medal-winners. 
  14. ↑ "Dolph Schluter". https://www.nasonline.org/directory-entry/dolph-schluter-zq4jwp/. 
  15. ↑ "B.C.'s highest honour recognizes 16 British Columbians" (Press release). Government of British Columbia. August 2, 2021.
  16. ↑ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2024". https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2024. 
  17. ↑ "Meet the man who has transformed our understanding of evolution". 2023-01-30. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/dolph-schluter-profile-crafoord-prize-scn/index.html. 
  18. ↑ "Canadian who studies finches and fish wins one of science's top prizes". 2023-01-30. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/dolph-schluter-crafoord-prize-1.6730853. 
  19. ↑ "Studies of how new species arise are rewarded with the Crafoord Prize". 2023-01-30. https://www.kva.se/en/news/studies-of-how-new-species-arise-are-rewarded-with-the-crafoord-prize/. 

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