Warren Porter
Expert on climate change effects on animals, subtle biological effects of pesticides and early detection of infection
Professor, zoology College of Letters and Science Work: 608-262-0029 — Home and cell phones available upon request wpporter@wisc.edu Home page
Topics
- Landscape scale animal energetics, behavior and distribution limits affected by past, present and future climate change.
- Subtle biological effects of low level environmental contaminants
- Early detection of infection
Achievements
- Leadership Award from Beyond Pesticides national organization
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1979-80
- Developed state-of-the-art models to compute what it costs any animal in any environment to survive, grow and reproduce
- Developed technologies to noninvasively identify whether an animal or human is sick within two hours of the onset of infection
- Romnes Faculty Fellowship (for excellence in research and unusual research promise), 1977