Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and President of
the Center for Conservation Biology, Department of Biology,
Stanford University. Member of the Stanford University faculty
since 1959. He does research in population biology, which
includes ecology, evolutionary biology, behavior, and human
ecology and cultural evolution. Ehrlich has carried out field,
laboratory and theoretical research on a wide array of problems
ranging from the dynamics and genetics of insect populations,
studies of the ecological and evolutionary interactions of plants
and herbivores, and the behavioral ecology of birds and reef
fishes, to experimental investigations of the effects of crowding
on human beings and studies of rates of cultural evolution. He
collaborates with colleagues in biology and in the disciplines of
economics, psychology, political science, and the law, in policy
research on the human predicament.

Professor Ehrlich is author and coauthor of some 950 scientific
papers and articles in the popular press and over 40 books,
most recently One with Nineveh and The Dominant Animal, both
written with his wife Anne. He is a member of many scientific
societies and organizations and was President of the American
Institute of Biological Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the United
States National Academy of Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society. He is an Honorary Member of the British
Ecological Society. Among his many other honors: the First
AAAS/Scientific American Prize for Science in the Service of
Humanity; the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Crafoord
Prize in Population Biology and the Conservation of Biological
Diversity (an explicit replacement for the Nobel Prize for
disciplines where the Nobel is not given); a MacArthur Prize
Fellowship; the Volvo Environment Prize; and the International
Center for Tropical Ecology, World Ecology Medal; International
Ecology Institute Prize; UNEP Sasakawa Environment Prize; the
Heinz Award for the Environment; the Tyler Prize for
Environmental Achievement; the Heineken Prize for
Environmental Sciences; the Blue Planet Prize of the Asahi
Glass Foundation, Japan; the Margalef Prize in Ecology and
Environmental Sciences, and the Eminent Ecologist award of the
Ecological Society of America.

Dr. Ehrlich has appeared as a guest on many hundreds of TV
and radio programs including some 20 on Johnny Carson's
Tonight Show; he also was a correspondent for NBC News. In
addition, he has given thousands of public lectures in the past 50
years.