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Dr. CHARLES GALD SIBLEY
A.B. 1940; Ph.D. 1948
in Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
Minor fields: Paleontology, Botany.
1940-1941: Graduate School, University
of California, Berkeley.
1941-1942: Field Biologist, Bubonic Plague
Suppressive Measures, U.S.
Public Health Service.
1942-1945: U.S. Navy, Ensign to Lieut.
Communications and Medical Service
Corps.
1946-1948. Graduate School, University
of California, Berkeley.
1948-1949: Instructor in Zoology and Curator
of Birds, University of Kansas.
1949-1953: Assistant Professor of Zoology,
San Jose State College, California.
1953-1965: Associate Professor and Professor
of Zoology; Curator of Birds;
Cornell University.
1965-1986: Professor of Biology and William
Robertson Coe Prof. of
Ornithology, Dept of Biology; and Curator of Birds, Peabody Museum
of Natural History, Yale University.
1970-1976: Director, Peabody Museum of
Natural History, Yale University.
1986: Professor of Biology, Emeritus, Yale
University.
1986-1992: Dean's Professor of Science
and Prof. of Biology, San Francisco
State University.
1993- Adjunct Prof. of Biology, Sonoma
State University (by invitation).
Field Experience:
United States: all regions and states. Mexico: six trips
(1939, 1941 (2), 1946, 1948, 1950. Honduras:
1973. Costa Rica: 1972. South
America: 1956, six countries. Europe: 1954,
1958, 1959-60 (sabbatic year),
1966, 1970, 1982, 1984, 1985 - mostly short
visits; Africa: 1964, 1974, six
countries, short visits. Australia: 1963,
1968, 1974, 1983, short visits.
New Guinea: 1945, 1968, 1969. New Zealand:
1964, 1983, 1990. New Hebrides,
Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago,
Philippines: 1944-1945, 19 months.
Japan: Dec. 1992.
Research Experience:
Fossil birds, 1939-1942. Geographic variation,
speciation, and interspecific hybridization
in wild bird populations,
1941-1957. Biochemical and molecular studies
of proteins and DNAs of birds
and mammals -- phylogeny reconstruction,
classification, rates of genomic
evolution, etc. 1957-1998.
Affiliations
and Other Activities:
Member of ca. 15 scientific societies,
U.S. and foreign;
Fellow, Honorary, or Corresponding Fellow
of seven; officer or council
member of five - 1946-present.
Guggenheim Fellow, 1959-1960. Oxford University.
Treasurer, American Ornithologists' Union,
1953-1962.
Secretary-General, 13th International Ornithological
Congress, 1958-1962.
Brewster Memorial Medal of the American
Ornithologists' Union, 1971.
Editorial Board, Evolution, (past).
Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Evolution,
1983-present.
Editorial Board, Molecular Biology and
Evolution, 1986-present.
Editorial Board, Molecular Phylogenetics
and Evolution, 1991 -present.
President, American Ornithologists' Union,
1986-1988.
President, 20th International Ornithological
Congress, 1986-1990. New Zealand.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.,
elected 1986.
Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, National Academy
of Sciences, U.S.A., 1988
Alessandro Ghighi Medal, National Institute
of Wildlife Biology, Italy. 1991.
Publications:
1939-present - 132 titles, of which 77 pertain to molecular
systematics and evolution.
Four books: "Phylogeny and Classification
of Birds" (with Jon Ahlquist).
Yale Univ. Press. 1990
"Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of
the World" (with Burt Monroe). Yale
Univ. Press. 1990
"A World Checklist of Birds" (with Burt
Monroe). Yale Univ. Press. 1993.
