Background
Ellison was born in 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Aaron M. Ellison
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He attended Yale University where he studied East Asian Studies/Asian Philosophy and obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1982. He later went on to obtain his Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University in 1986.
Career
Ellison has both authoured and co-authoured numerous scientific papers, books, book reviews and software reviews. In 2012 he was elected fellow by the Ecological Society of America and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Monographs. Ellison has a strong research interest in community ecology.
He later went on to obtain his Doctor of Philosophy in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University in 1986.
Ellison"s post-doctoral positions were with the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica, Department of Biology, Tulane University, 1988-1989, and Cornell University, Section of Ecology and Systematics and Ecosystems Research Center, 1986-1988. He spent a year educating students at Swarthmore College and in 1990 he moved to a permanent position at Mount Holyoke College.
He also served as Sponsored Research Officer and Associate Dean for Science. After a year"s sabbatical at Harvard Forest as a Charles Bullard Fellow, he moved to Harvard Forest as a senior ecologist in 2002.
Honours and 1992 – Presidential Faculty Fellow, United States.
Awards
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1992 – Presidential Faculty Fellow, U.S. National Science Foundation 2004 – Eminent Ecologist, Kellogg Biological Station 2008 – Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Miami 2008 – Distinguished Ecologist, Michigan Technological University 2010 – Ledermann Lecturer in Natural History and Conservation Biology, University of Rhode Island 2012 – Elected Fellow, Ecological Society of America1992 – Presidential Faculty Fellow, U.S. National Science Foundation 2004 – Eminent Ecologist, Kellogg Biological Station 2008 – Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Miami 2008 – Distinguished Ecologist, Michigan Technological University 2010 – Ledermann Lecturer in Natural History and Conservation Biology, University of Rhode Island 2012 – Elected Fellow, Ecological Society of America