GEORGE JAMES KENAGY

TITLES:

    Professor, Department of Zoology, and Adjunct Curator of Mammals, Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195

EDUCATION:

    B.A., Zoology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1967

    Ph.D., Zoology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1972

    Postgraduate Research Biologist, University of California, Los Angeles, 1974

POSITIONS:

    Fellow of Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung, Max-Planck-Institut fur Verhaltensphysiologie, Andechs, 1972-1973

    Postgraduate Research Biologist, University of California, San Diego, 1974-1976

    Assistant Research Biologist, University of California, San Diego, 1976

    Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, 1976-1981

    Fellow of Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung, Max-Planck-Institut fur Verhaltensphysiologie, 1980.

    Associate Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, 1981-1987

    Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Washington, 1987

    Visiting Fellow, C.S.I.R.O., Division of Wildlife and Rangelands Research, Canberra, Australia, 1983-1984

    Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1989-1990.

    Adjunct Curator of Mammals, University of Washington, Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, 1993-present.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

    A.A.A.S., American Society of Zoologists, Ecological Society of America, American Institute of Biological Sciences, Animal Behavior Society, American Society of Mammalogists, Cooper Ornithological Society, American Ornithologists' Union, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, British Ecological Society, Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

    Editorial Board, Oecologia, 1986-present.

    National Science Foundation, Panel Member, Population Biology and Physiological Ecology, 1987-1991

    Editor, Zoology: Analysis of Complex Systems, 1993-present

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:

    National Science Foundation, Population Biology and Physiological Ecology, Comparative strategies of reproductive timing in rodents, 1977-1980 (DEB 77-06706)

    National Science Foundation, Regulatory Biology, Role of circadian rhythms and temperature cycles in regulation of reproduction in pocket mice (Perognathus), 1977-1980 (PCM 77-05397)

    National Science Foundation, Population Biology and Physiological Ecology, Comparative strategies of reproductive timing in rodents, 1980-1984 (DEB 80-05906)

    National Science Foundation, Population Biology and Physiological Ecology, Energetics of mammalian reproduction and life histories, 1984-1987 (BSR 84-01248)

    National Science Foundation, Biological Instrumentation, Purchase of controlled-environment facilities, 1986-1990 (DMB-8520686)

    National Science Foundation, Regulatory Biology, Energy balance and control of physiological dormancy, 1987-1991 (DCB-8701687)

    National Science Foundation, Population Biology and Physiological Ecology, Energetics of mammalian reproduction and life histories, 1987-1991 (BSR-8700609)

    National Science Foundation, Functional and Physiological Ecology, Energetics of mammalian reproduction and life history, 1993-1996 (IBN-9309994)

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

  • KENAGY, G. J., and B. M. Barnes. 1988. Seasonal reproductive patterns in four coexisting rodent species from the Cascade Mountains, Washington. Jour. Mamm., 69: 274-292.

  • KENAGY, G. J. 1989. Daily and seasonal uses of energy stores in torpor and hibernation. pp. 17-24, In: A. Malan and B. Canguilhem, eds., Living in the Cold II. John Libbey Eurotext, Ltd.

  • KENAGY, G. J., S. M. Sharbaugh, and K. A. Nagy. 1989. Annual cycle of energy and time expenditure in a golden-mantled ground squirrel population. Oecologia, 78: 269-282.

  • KENAGY, G. J., R. D. Stevenson, and D. Masman. 1989. Energy requirements for lactation and postnatal growth in captive golden-mantled ground squirrels. Physiol. Zool., 62:470-487.

  • KENAGY, G. J., D. Masman, S. M. Sharbaugh, and M. A. Nagy. 1990. Energy expenditure during lactation in relation to litter size in free-living golden-mantled ground squirrels. Jour. Anim. Ecol., 59: 73-88.

Five other relevant publications:

  • KENAGY, G. J. 1987. Energy allocation for reproduction in the golden-mantled ground squirrel. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 57: 259-273.

  • KENAGY, G. J., and D. F. Hoyt. 1989. Speed and time-energy budget for locomotion in golden-mantled ground squirrels. Ecology, 70: 1834-1839.

  • Daan, S., D. Masman, A. M. Strijkstra, and G. J. KENAGY. 1991. Daily energy turnover during reproduction in birds and mammals: its relationship to basal metabolic rate. Acta XX Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici, 1976-1987.

  • Wingfield, J. C., and G. J. KENAGY. 1991. Natural regulation of reproductive cycles. pp. 181-241, In: P. K. T. Pang and M. P. Schreibman. Vertebrate Endocrinology: Fundamentals and Biomedical Implications, Vol. 4, Part B. Academic Press, New York.


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