Address:   Department of Biology
   Bowdoin College
   Brunswick, Maine 04011
  Telephone: (207) 725-3583
  email:   bss@bowdoin.edu

EDUCATION
  Ph.D.    University of Washington, Seattle, 1982 (Zoology)
  B.S.  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1975 (Biology)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 1997-present Full Professor, Department of Biology, Bowdoin College

 1991-97  Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Bowdoin College

 1986-91  Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Bowdoin College

 1988-present Director, Bowdoin Scientific Station, Kent Island, New Brunswick

 1990-present Faculty Associate, Department of Wildlife and Member, Graduate Faculty, University of Maine-Orono

 1984-86  Assistant Professor (Visiting), Section of Ecology and Systematics,  Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

 1982-84 Carr Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville

 1979-present Faculty, Organization  for Tropical  Studies (19 courses)

RECENT GRANTS AND AWARDS
 1994-95  Center for International Exchange of Scholars (Fulbright) Fellowship
 1994  National Science Foundation
 1993  Norcross Wildlife Foundation
 1992-94 New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education (NECUSE)  (5 student grants)

RECENT INVITED SEMINARS
 1992-97 Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica
 1995  Percy Fitzpatrick Institute for African Ornithology and Department of Botany, University of Cape Town
 1994 University of Botswana
 1993  Dartmouth College;  Ursinus College;  University of Southern Maine
 1992  Cornell University, University of Maine-Farmington, Colby College

RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
 1996-present Associate Editor, Biotropica, Ecological Applications
 1992-present Associate Editor, Northeastern Naturalist
 1992-present Member, Education Committee, Organization for Tropical Studies
 1993-1994 Chair, Ornithology and the Law Committee, American Ornithologists' Union

RELATED ACTIVITIES
 1995-present Board of Directors, Maine Audubon Society
 1992-94 Member, Nongame Advisory Council, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
 1992-94 Trustee, The Nature Conservancy (Maine Chapter)

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1999 Nadkarni, N., and N.T. Wheelwright (editors).  Monteverde:  Natural History and Conservation of a Central American Cloud Forest..  Oxford
   University Press.  In press.

Wheelwright, N.T. Savannah Sparrow banding returns. In A.W.

Diamond, A.D. Brewer, and E.J. Woodsworth (eds.). Atlas of Canadian Bird Banding Recoveries: 1921-95. In press.

1998 Wheelwright, N.T., and R.A. Mauck.  Philopatry, natal dispersal and inbreeding avoidance in Savannah Sparrows.  Ecology 79: 755-767.

1997 Orians, C.M., and N.T. Wheelwright.  Thinking globally, team-working globally.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: 1-3.

Zink, R.A., and N.T. Wheelwright.  Facultative self-pollination in island irises.  American Midland Naturalist 137: 72-78.

Wheelwright, N.T., J.J. Lawler, and J.H. Weinstein.  Nest-site selection in Savannah sparrows:  using gulls as scarecrows?  Animal Behaviour 53: 197-208.

1996 Gibson, J.P., and N.T. Wheelwright.  Mating system dynamics of Ocotea tenera (Lauraceae), a gynodioecious tropical tree.  American Journal of Botany
   83: 890-894.

Wheelwright, N.T., J.M. Dangerfield, M. Flyman, and M. Tjibae. Strengthening biological theory in wildlife research and management:  a case study for Botswana.
   South African Journal of Science 92: 1-5.

1995 Gibson, J.P., and N.T. Wheelwright.  Influence of avian seed dispersal on genetic structure in a population of a tropical tree, Ocotea tenera (Lauraceae).
   Oecologia 103: 49-54.

1994 Wheelwright, N.T, and C. Schultz.  Age and reproduction in Savannah sparrows and tree swallows.  Journal of Animal Ecology 63: 686-702.
 
Wheelwright, N.T., G.C. Trussell, J.P. Devine, and R. Anderson. Sexual dimorphism and sex ratio in juvenile Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis).
   Journal of Field Ornithology 65: 520-529.

Gervais, J., and N.T. Wheelwright.  Winter fruit removal in four plant species in Maine.  Maine Naturalist 2: 15-24.

1993 Wheelwright, N.T., and J.D. Rising.  Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis).  In The Birds of North America, No. 45 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.).
   Philadelphia:  The Academy of Natural Sciences;  Washington, D.C.:  The American Ornithologists' Union.  28 p.

Wheelwright, N.T.  Fruit size in a tropical tree species: variation, preference by birds, and heritability.  Vegetatio 107/108: 163-174, and in Fleming, T.H., and A.
   Estrada (eds.), Frugivory and Seed Dispersal:  Ecological and Evolutionary Aspects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.

Mazer, S.J., and N.T. Wheelwright.  Fruit size and shape: allometry at different taxonomic levels in bird-dispersed plants. Evolutionary Ecology 7:  556-575.

1992 Wheelwright, N.T., and A. Bruneau.  Population sex ratios and spatial distribution of Ocotea tenera (Lauraceae) trees in a tropical forest.  Journal of Ecology
  80: 425-432.

Wheelwright, N.T., C. Schultz, and P.J. Hodum.  Polygyny and male parental care in Savannah sparrows:  effects on female fitness.  Behavioral Ecology and
  Sociobiology 31:  279-289.