Dr. Douglas Causey, Vice Provost for Research 

Dr. Douglas Causey is the Vice Provost for Research and Dean of the Graduate School.  He joined the Office of of Research and Graduate Studies and the Biological Sciences Department in June 2005. He is considered a great asset for UAA’s research enterprise. 

Before coming to UAA, Dr. Causey was the Senior Biologist at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and Affiliate Fellow of the Kennedy School of Government. An ecologist and evolutionary biologist by training, he has authored over 120 publications on topics as diverse as the natural history of the arctic, human health and climate change, and Aleutian paleobiology.

Currently, he is researching the environmental correlates of infectious disease, specifically of zoonotic diseases -- those passed from animals to human beings -- such as influenza and West Nile Virus. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the human dimensions of environmental change, in particular on identifying the interrelations of environmental health, civil stability and national security. He has published in Science, numerous biology journals, and the Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations.

From 1996 to 2000, he worked at the National Science Foundation in the Office of Polar Programs and Division of Environmental Biology, and helped establish several national and international programs in environmental sciences and arctic biology. He is a research associate of the Smithsonian Institution’s Arctic Science Center and the Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica.

Dr. Causey received his BS and MS from the University of California and his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona.

Last update on Jun 15, 2007