Timothy M. Waring

537 I Street, Davis, CA 95616

Phone: (530) 758-5834

twaring@alum.haverford.edu

Work Experience

Post Graduate Researcher at University of California, Davis

Nov 2003—present Davis, California

• Design, administer and analyze behavioral laboratory experiments to generate data to specifically test models of social learning in variable ecological circumstances.
• Designed and employed a flexible experimental system using Z-Tree (Zurich Toolbox for Readymade Economic Experiments).
• Aided in the methodological design and implementation of micro-society experiments to examine institutional evolution in a simple controlled environment.
• Organized participation of religious communities of Davis, CA in a research project on cooperation and institutional affiliation, funded by the Templeton Foundation.
• Coordinated with religious leaders and institutions of all types in order to conduct our research with a large diversity of participants.
• Administered experimental economic games such as the “Dictator Game,” “Punishment Game,” “Trust Game” by matching actual participants across different sessions to create true exchange.

Teacher at Kodaikanal International School

July 2001—May 2003 Tamil Nadu, India

• Taught ~160 students International Baccalaureate (I.B.)-level Environmental Science, I.B. Information Technology in a Global Society, and high school biology.
• Environmental Systems 2, I.B., achieved highest 2003 I.B. scores in all Kodaikanal International School sciences courses.
• Designed new Biology and Environmental Science curricula.
• Designed Introductory Biology curriculum to maximize the use of the evolutionary framework as a means of organizing and describing biological coursework.
• Created novel units in Environmental Science, such as Environmental Ethics, and Human Systems Efficiency Projects
• Managed department budgets, and supervised two lab assistants.
• Created a database of I.B. Environmental Science questions to be used as a teaching and examination resource for I.B. Environmental Science courses.

Recycling Project Head at Kodaikanal International School

July 2001—May 2003 Tamil Nadu, India

• Analyzed school waste-resource handling practices and traditions.
• Trained staff, student and faculty, and managed student volunteers and maintenance staff on recycling system efficiency, maintenance, and function.
• Developed profitable, successful and on-going recycling and composting infrastructure for school and residential community of 600.
• Utilized net profit from recycling activities to fund facilities and material transportation improvements.
• Encouraged local entrepreneurs with expertise in material handling and recycling.

Environmental Scientist at South Florida Water Management District

August 1999—May 2001 West Palm Beach, Florida

• Ecological Modeler: Worked on the internationally recognized Everglades Landscape Model (E.L.M.), a biogeochemical computational model designed to aid Everglades ecosystem restoration.
• Created a core-code translation scheme which enabled use of Berkeley Madonna differential equation solver to test initial conditions, and parameterize ecological variables.
• Developed automated post-processing routines for model output.
• Published research with ELM originator, H. Carl Fitz.
• Field Ecologist: Aided numerous ongoing ecological research projects, including avian ecology, algal ecology,
• Studied the interspecific competition between Sawgrass (Cladium spp.) and Cattail (Typha spp.) stands.
• Designed a surface water and groundwater depth-measuring system and well structure using ultrasonic water-level data loggers.
• Installed and activated the automatic data-logging system in 8 locations, and implemented a sampling and maintenance routine.
• Collected and analyzed the water level data, which accurately recorded rain events and daily evapotranspiration curves for each island.
• Contributed to avian mist-netting samples
• Aided the design and testing of an automated water column clarity and flocculent layer data-logging instrument. This instrument is planned as a means of testing various landscape-maintenance process hypotheses involving the net removal of organic matter from Everglades sloughs.

Academic Achievements

Haverford College

1995-1999 Haverford, PA

• B.S. in Biology, specializing in ecology and ecological modeling
• Major GPA: 3.45, Overall GPA: 3.3

Cornell Nepal Study Program

Spring Semester 1998 Kirtipur and Bardiya National Park, Nepal

• Studied Nepali language, culture and ecology
• Conducted independent ecological research on stream health in Bethani village, Royal Bardiya National Park.
• Interviewed villagers, farmers, and park officials on the human use of water bodies.
• Surveyed village use of managed streams as cooperative, semi-democratic irrigation system khula.
• Using two research assistants, sampled benthic macro invertebrate community along a stretch of stream flowing from with Royal Bardiya National Park, through Bethani village.
• Measured stream health using genus and species level water quality tolerance indices.

Invasive Biological Species Research at Cornell University

May 1998—July 1998 Ithaca, New York

• Awarded Bryn Mawr College Biology Dept. $3,000 undergraduate biological research grant.
• Studied wetland invasive species interactions on three trophic levels using laboratory experiments and field data.
• Designed and completed in situ survivorship studies on beetle species Galerucella calmariensis,G. pusilla, used as biological control agents on invasive wetland plant purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria.
• Designed and completed laboratory foraging behavior experiments, and feeding trials on native and invasive ladybird beetle species, Coleomegilla maculata,Harmonia spp, Coccinella septempunctata.

Other Skills/Interests

• Computer: OS: Unix/Linux, Mac, Windows. Programming: C, Pascal, AppleScript, Stella, NetLogo, Berkeley Madonna, HTML. Software: Word, Excel, FrontPage, Systat, SAS, GIS packages (GRAS).
• Volunteer work: K.I.S. Frisbee Club coordinator, K.I.S. hiking leader, Lake Worth Community Garden and Food Redistribution Project, Earth Keeper's Nature Club, Committee Member Lake Worth Friends Meeting, Arts for Everyone, Kids on the Go.
• Language: French competency, Nepali competency, Basic Spanish

Publications

• Fitz, H.C., F.H. Sklar, A.A. Voinov, T. Waring, R. Costanza, and T. Maxwell. in press. Development and application of the Everglades Landscape Model. In: R. Costanza and A.A. Voinov (Eds.), Landscape Simulation Modeling: A Spatially Explicit, Dynamic Approach. Springer Verlag, New York, NY. pp. 143-171.

Presentations

• Invited: Fitz, H.C., C. Cornwell, T. Waring, M. Darwish, and F.H. Sklar. April 2000. A landscape simulation tool for evaluating ecological responses to altered water and nutrient management in the Everglades region. The 15th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
• Contributed: Fitz, H. C., N. Wang, T. Waring and F.H. Sklar. May 2002. Everglades Landscape Model: Integrated assessment of hydrology, biogeochemistry, and biology. 2002 Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Washington, D.C.

Contributed: Fitz, H. C., T. Waring, Y. Wu , F.H. Sklar,. December 2000. Application of the Everglades Landscape Model in restoration initiatives. Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration Science Conference. Naples, FL.