Matthew P. Ayres
Department of Biological Sciences
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
Present Appointment
Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College
Visiting Professor and Research Collaborator, Universidade de Santiago de Compostele
Prior Appointments
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, 2000-2008
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, 1993 - 2000
USDA Forest Service, Research Entomologist, Southern Research Station 1992 - 1993
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1992
Alaska Biological Research, Fairbanks, Alaska, Biologist, 1986-1987, 1989-1990
Fulbright Predoctoral Fellow, University of Turku, Finland, 1985
Education
Ph.D. Entomology, Michigan State University, 1991
M.S. Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1985
B.S. Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1983
Awards
Graduate Faculty Mentoring Award, Graduate Student Council, Dartmouth College (2004)

Professional Service
Member, Board of Editors: Ecological Applications (2004-  )
Subject Editor: Oikos (2006-  )

Referee: American Naturalist, Annales Zoologici Fennici, Bioscience, Canadian Entomologist, Canadian Journal of Botany, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Climatic Change, Ecography, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ecological Entomology, Ecological Modeling, Ecoscience, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Environmental Entomology, European Journal of Entomology, Field Crops Research, Forest Science, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, Journal of Economic Entomology, Journal of Insect Behavior, Journal of Tropical Ecology, Integrated Pest Management Reviews, Landscape Ecology, Mycologia, New Phytologist, Oecologia, Oikos, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Science, Southern Journal of Applied Forestry, Southwestern Naturalist, Symbiosis, Tree Physiology

Panel member: National Science Foundation

Ad hoc reviewer: NSF, USDA NRICGP, NASA, Italian Science Foundation, Czech Science Foundation, U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), National Geographic Society, Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Norwegian Centres of Excellence, Earthwatch, Swiss National Science Foundation

External Reviewer, European Union Project: Biodiversity and Climate Change, A Risk Analysis (BACCARA)
Member, Expert Panel on Adaptation of Forests to Climate Change
, IUFRO / United Nations, 2008-2010
Contributor,
Workshop on Climate change and Agricultural Trade, sponsored by STDF and World Bank Research Group.  Resulting briefing note.
Invited contributor
to National Assessment of Climate Change

Research Group Member
Ecology and epidemiology of forest pests and pathogens, Southern Research Station, Pineville, Lousiana (Brian T. Sullivan et al.);

Forest pests and global change, Universidad de Santiago, Spain. Maria J. Lombardero et al.

European wood wasp (Sirex noctilio), USDA APHIS; Maria Lombardero, Universidad de Santiago, Spain; Dan Gruner and Brian Thompson, University of Maryland; Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa (Michael J. Wingfield, Jeffrey R. Garnas).

Plant-herbivore interactions and climate change, University of Joensuu, Finland (Pekka Niemelä and Heikki Roininen et al.)

Climate change ecology, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden (Christer Bjorkman et al.).

Beech-bark disease, Paul Smith College, New York (Celia Evans).  Northern Research Station, Burlington, VT (Mark Twery).  Dave Houston (USFS, retired)

Other Dartmouth Service
Co-chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program (2002- ). 
Member, Management Team for Second College Grant (2005- )