Biography:Robert M. Pringle

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Short description: American biologist and conservationist
Robert M. Pringle
Rob Pringle & Corina Tarnita at a HHMI event.jpg
Pringle (left) and Corina Tarnita in 2015 at the National Science Teaching Association convention in Nashville, Tennessee
Born1979 (1979) (age 45)
Ann Arbor, Michigan
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsEcology
InstitutionsPrinceton University

Robert Mitchell Pringle (born February 9, 1979) is an American biologist and conservationist.

He is professor and director of undergraduate studies in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University.[1][2][3]

Pringle's research combines field and laboratory methods to understand biological interactions and biodiversity loss in terrestrial ecosystems, chiefly African savannas.[4]

One major focus of Pringle's work has been understanding the ecological impacts of armed conflict and the dynamics of postwar ecosystem restoration in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Early life and education

Pringle was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[12]

His father, cell biologist John Pringle, and mother, cancer biologist Beverly Mitchell, encouraged his love of nature.[12]

Pringle’s sister, Elizabeth, is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Nevada, Reno.[13]

Pringle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, completed an M.Sc. degree at the University of Oxford in 2004, and received a Ph.D. in biology from Stanford University in 2009.[14] He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining the Princeton faculty in 2012.[15][16]

Career

Pringle's early research experimentally documented the keystone roles played by large herbivores, carnivores, and subterranean termites in regulating biodiversity and ecosystem function in savannas.[17][18]

In 2013, Pringle's lab was among the first to use DNA metabarcoding to understand dietary niche differentiation and its role in sustaining the coexistence of animal species.[19][20][21][22]

Pringle also worked with Princeton colleagues Corina Tarnita and Juan Bonachela to develop new theories about the formation of large, regular vegetation patterns, such as the Namib Desert fairy circles.[23][24]

Pringle's work in Gorongosa has focused on measuring the ecological and evolutionary impacts of losing large herbivores and carnivores, as well as the dynamics of community reassembly as these species have been restored.[25] [26][27][11]

This research was featured in the Emmy Award nominated nature documentary, Nature’s Fear Factor.[28]

Pringle serves on the board of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund, a nonprofit organization supporting conservation and biodiversity research in Costa Rica’s Area de Conservación Guanacaste.[29] With Simon Levin and Corina Tarnita, he is the editor of the Monographs in Population Biology published by Princeton University Press, a series of influential books in ecology and evolutionary biology.[30]

Recognition

Pringle received the Early Career Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists in 2011 and was named an Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America in 2015.[31][32] [33]

Students at Princeton have described Pringle as a passionate and creative teacher. [34]

The parasitoid wasp Lytopylus robpringlei was named after Pringle in 2011, in honor of his conservation work.[35] This species was later transferred into the genus Aerophilus.[36]

Personal life

Pringle is married to Corina Tarnita, a mathematician and biologist who is also a professor at Princeton. Pringle and Tarnita have collaborated on multiple research projects, and they have one daughter.[37][38]

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Pringle - Faculty - Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology" (in en). https://eeb.princeton.edu/people/robert-pringle. 
  2. ↑ Funk, Mia. "Rob Pringle - Interviewed by Mia Funk". The Creative Process. https://www.creativeprocess.info/interviews-10/rob-pringle-alstead-mia-funk. 
  3. ↑ "Rob Pringle - Princeton University". https://jacksonholewildlifefilmfest2017.sched.com/speaker/rob_pringle.1x0ojsk1. 
  4. ↑ Robert Pringle. "Princeton Environmental Research". https://environmenthalfcentury.princeton.edu/experts/robert-pringle. 
  5. ↑ Blanding, Michael (13 April 2018). "Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Ecological Cost of War". Princeton Alumni Weekly. https://paw.princeton.edu/article/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology-ecological-cost-war. 
  6. ↑ "How war affects wildlife". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2018/01/11/how-war-affects-wildlife. 
  7. ↑ "When humans wage war, animals suffer too: study". Nation. 2 July 2020. https://nation.africa/lifestyle/travel/1950822-4259678-6w3pm3z/index.html. 
  8. ↑ "Think Like a Scientist: Gorongosa". PBS LearningMedia. https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/think-like-a-scientist/gorongosa-the-serengeti-rules/. 
  9. ↑ Angier, Natalie (23 July 2018). "In Mozambique, a Living Laboratory for Nature's Renewal". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/science/gorongosa-animals-environment.html/. 
  10. ↑ Cepelewicz, Jordana (20 December 2016). "Spark of Science: Rob Pringle". Nautilus. https://nautil.us/spark-of-science-rob-pringle-236311/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Weiss, Sabrina (3 May 2020). "The wild experiment to bring apex predators back from the brink". Wired UK.. ISSN 1357-0978. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apex-predators. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Labrecque, Jeff (13 December 2021). "With DNA toolkit, Rob Pringle is learning how to rebuild broken ecosystems". Princeton Alumni Weekly. https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/rob-pringle-venture-forward. 
  13. ↑ "Elizabeth Pringle - Faculty - Department of Biology". University of Nevada, Reno. https://www.unr.edu/biology/faculty/elizabeth-pringle. 
  14. ↑ "Robert M. Pringle". https://gorongosa.org/robert-m-pringle/. 
  15. ↑ "Current & Former Junior Fellows". Society of Fellows - Harvard University. https://socfell.fas.harvard.edu/listed-term-0. 
  16. ↑ "Robert M. Pringle". https://www.americanscientist.org/author/robert_m._pringle. 
  17. ↑ Fountain, Henry (9 January 2007). "The Ungulate Effect on a Ecosystem". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09observ.html. 
  18. ↑ "Ecology: Mighty termite mounds". Nature 465 (7298): 529. 2010. doi:10.1038/465529c. ISSN 1476-4687. Bibcode: 2010Natur.465S.529.. https://www.nature.com/articles/465529c. 
  19. ↑ Kelly, Morgan (26 October 2015). "Understanding animal coexistence with a little dung and a lot of DNA". https://www.princeton.edu/news/2015/10/26/understanding-animal-coexistence-little-dung-and-lot-dna. 
  20. ↑ "Niche Partitioning and Species Coexistence". November 11, 2015. https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/niche-partitioning-and-species-coexistence. 
  21. ↑ Pringle, Robert (6 June 2019). "Species coexistence in landscapes of fear". Nature Portfolio. https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/49672-species-coexistence-in-landscapes-of-fear. 
  22. ↑ Kartzinel, Tyler R.; Chen, Patricia A.; Coverdale, Tyler C.; Erickson, David L.; Kress, W. John; Kuzmina, Maria L.; Rubenstein, Daniel I.; Wang, Wei et al. (30 June 2015). "DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (26): 8019–8024. doi:10.1073/pnas.1503283112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 26034267. Bibcode: 2015PNAS..112.8019K. 
  23. ↑ Page, Thomas. "Namibia's fairy circles: Has one of nature's great mysteries been solved?". https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/namibia-fairy-circles-mystery-new-theory/index.html. 
  24. ↑ St. Fleur, Nicholas (19 January 2017). "Fishing for Clues to Solve Namibia's Fairy Circle Mystery". New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/science/fishing-for-clues-to-solve-namibias-fairy-circle-mystery.html?_r=0. 
  25. ↑ Avolinsky, Anna (15 May 2013). "Breaking Ground: Bringing back the lions and zebras". https://paw.princeton.edu/article/breaking-ground-bringing-back-lions-and-zebras. 
  26. ↑ Vinter, Robyn (21 October 2021). "Ivory poaching has led to evolution of tuskless elephants, study finds". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/21/ivory-poaching-evolution-tuskless-elephants-study. 
  27. ↑ Pringle, Robert (4 May 2020). "A rewilding success story in Gorongosa National Park". Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community. https://ecoevocommunity.nature.com/posts/a-rewilding-success-story-in-gorongosa-national-park. 
  28. ↑ NOVA. "Nature's Fear Factor - Season 47 - Episode 9". PBS. https://www.pbs.org/video/natures-fear-factor-tv8qul/. 
  29. ↑ "Rob Pringle - GDFCF". https://www.gdfcf.org/rob-pringle. 
  30. ↑ "Monographs in Population Biology". Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/series/monographs-in-population-biology. 
  31. ↑ "Awards". https://www.amnat.org/awards.html. 
  32. ↑ "ESA Fellows". https://www.esa.org/about/awards/fellows-program/esa-fellows/. 
  33. ↑ "Pringle named ESA Early Career Fellow for contributions to ecology". https://www.princeton.edu/news/2015/05/05/faculty-honor-pringle-named-esa-early-career-fellow-contributions-ecology. 
  34. ↑ Levey, Julie (22 November 2020). "Professor Pringle gets inventive with online teaching". The Daily Princetonian. https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/11/professor-pringle-teaching-eeb-outside. 
  35. ↑ Sharkey, Michael; Stoelb, Stephanie; Tucker, Erika; Janzen, Daniel; Hallwachs, Winnie; Dapkey, Tanya; Smith, M. Alex (24 September 2011). "Lytopylus Förster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) species from Costa Rica, with an emphasis on specimens reared from caterpillars in Area de Conservación Guanacaste". ZooKeys (130): 379–419. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1569. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 3252762. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2729. 
  36. ↑ Sharkey, Michael J.; Chapman, Eric G.; CamposFirst3= Giulia Yurie Iza de (9 December 2016). "Revision of Aerophilus Szépligeti (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Agathidinae) from eastern North America, with a key to Nearctic species north of Mexico". Contributions in Science 524: 51–109. doi:10.5962/p.308968. ISSN 0459-8113. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.308968. 
  37. ↑ Strogatz, Steven (18 February 2020). "Corina Tarnita and the Deep Mathematics of Social Insects". Quanta Magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/corina-tarnita-and-the-deep-mathematics-of-social-insects-20200218/. 
  38. ↑ "Ecosystems and Drought". High Meadows Environmental Institute. https://environment.princeton.edu/videos/ecosystems-and-drought/. 

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