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Sonia Altizer

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Sonia Altizer
Education
Scientific career
FieldsEcology, Environment
InstitutionsUniversity of Georgia, Odum School of Ecology

Sonia M. Altizer (born 1970)[citation needed] is an American ecologist and professor at the University of Georgia Department of Entomology.[1]

Her research includes work on animal migration, infectious disease dynamics, parasite transmission, urbanization, climate change, and butterflies.[1] Altizer is a fellow of the Ecological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1] At the University of Georgia, she is a Distinguished Research Professor and Department Head of Entomology.[1]

Early life and education

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Altizer was born as the daughter of Jim and Chris Altizer of Watkinsville, Georgia.[2] She grew up in York, Pennsylvania. Her passion for biology and the natural world began when she received a gift of a microscope and a grow-your-own-butterflies kit on her twelfth birthday.[3]

Altizer received a B.S. from Duke University in 1992 and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1998. She also did a postdoctoral work at Princeton University and Cornell University.[4]

Career and research

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A monarch butterfly, the subject of some of Altizer's research

For 20 years since a graduate student of the University of Minnesota, Altizer traveled the world to study monarch butterfly migration, ecology, and interactions with a protozoan parasite. She has researched how seasonal migration of these butterflies affects parasite transmission, and also developed collaborative databases of mammalian infectious diseases, on host behavior, ecology, and life history interact with global-scale patterns of parasitism. She also focused her research on songbird-pathogen dynamics, including studies of house finch conjunctivitis, West Nile virus, and salmonellosis. Altizer has published several publications and she recently co-edited a book that would be published in 2015, titled Monarchs in a Changing World: Biology and Conservation of an Iconic Insect. She also and participated in high-level task forces dedicated to monarch butterfly conservation. A citizen science project called Monarch Health is run by her students at University of Georgia, which is now the eighth year. There are hundreds of volunteers across North America in sampling wild monarchs for a debilitating disease.[3]

Altizer held a number of administrative positions in the Odum School of Ecology, including Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2012-2017), Academic Coordinator (2017-2019), Promotion and Tenure Chair (2020), and Associate Dean for Research and Operations (2020-2021). Most recently, she served as Interim Dean for the Odum School (2021-2023).[citation needed]

Research areas

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Altizer's research interests are ecology of infectious diseases in natural populations, evolution of host resistance and parasite virulence, insect ecology and evolution, animal migrations, and anthropogenic change and infectious disease dynamics.[5]

Honors and awards

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Personal life

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Altizer rides horses and has two children.[3]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Sonia Altizer". University of Georgia. March 2018. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Sonia Altizer named UGA Athletic Association Professor in Ecology". The Ocone Enterprise. The Ocone Enterprise. October 8, 2014. Archived from the original on October 2, 2023. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Ted x UGA". Archived from the original on February 28, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Odum School of Ecology". Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ "UC Davis Sonia Altizer". Retrieved March 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers: Recipient Details: Sonia Altizer". NSF. Archived from the original on October 4, 2024. Retrieved May 25, 2026.
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