Biography:

Scott Edwards is Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He has conducted fieldwork throughout the U.S., Australia and the Pacific region and has interests in many aspects of avian biology, including avian evolutionary history and phylogeography, comparative genomics, disease ecology and population genetics. He has served on the National Geographics Committee for Research and Exploration, the Comparative Genomics Working Group of the National Human Genome Research Institute of the NIH, the Senior Advisory Board of the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and is on the Board of Directors of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He oversees a program funded by the National Science Foundation to increase the diversity of undergraduates in evolutionary and biodiversity science.

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