Marc Mangel

was educated at the University of Illinois (BS in Physics 1971 with High Honors, MS in Biophysics 1972)(where he was an EJ James Scholar, NIH Trainee in biophysics, and elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa), and the University of British Columbia (PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, with a focus on Mathematical Biology, 1978). He worked for the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA, the research and development center for the US Navy) from Nov 1977-Aug 1980. Work done for CNA lead to the Koopman Paper Prize from the Operations Research Society of America (1982) and the JASA Applications Paper award from the American Statistical Association (1983).

In 1980, Mangel moved to the University of California Davis, where he served as Assistant, Associate and Full Professor for eight years in the Department of Mathematics and Full Professor for eight years in the Department of Zoology/Section of Evolution and Ecology. He chaired the Department of Mathematics (1984-1989) and was founding Director of the Center for Population Biology there.

In 1996, Mangel moved to the University of California Santa Cruz, where he is now Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Biology Emeritus. Mangel founded and directed the Center for Stock Assessment Research (CSTAR), which was a partnership between the UCSC and the Santa Cruz Laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) from 1999-2016. The objective of CSTAR was to train students and postdocs in population biology relevant to fisheries management and thus increase the pool of talent available for NMFS to hire. He also served as Associate Vice Chancellor, Planning and Programs (1997-1999) and chaired the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2007-09) and Program in Technology and Information Management (2010-12). .

Mangel is also Professor of Biology Emeritus at the University of Bergen, with which he has had an association since 1994.

Mangel held visiting positions as Scheinbrun Professor of Botany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Fall 1987; Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Hilary and Trinity terms, 1988 and Trinity term 2007; Rose and Max Varon Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1994; Mote Eminent Scholar, Florida State University, 2000 and 2020; and Dozor Professor, Ben Gurion University, 2000.

His awards include the Joseph Myerhoff Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, 1987; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1987; Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, Oxford University, 1988; George Gund Foundation Distinguished Environmental Scholar,1992; Distinguished Statistical Ecologist, International Association for Ecology, 1998; Mote Eminent Scholar, Florida State University, 2000; Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, 2000; Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003;UCSC Academic Senate Excellence in Teaching Award, 2003; Frohlich Fellow, CSIRO Hobart, 2006; Astor Lecturer, University of Oxford, 2007; JIMAR Fellow, University of Hawaii 2008; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,2009; the Kendall Prize for the best paper in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society (2009), 2010; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018. In 2011, he shared in the Queen's Anniversary Prize with colleagues at the Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews. In 2015, he shared with colleagues from the Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program the Group Gold Medal for Scientific and Engineering Achievement from the Secretary of Commerce.

In June 2014, Mangel received a DSc honoris causa from the University of Guelph. The citation reads: This degree is awarded in recognition of your significant academic contributions combining mathematics and statistics with theoretical ecology and evolutionary biology. You have profoundly influenced an entire generation of ecologists, environmental scientists and applied mathematicians onhow to solve important practical problems and make the world a better place.

Mangel was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. The citation reads: Marc Mangel has been at the forefront of developing rigorous mathematical approaches to solving major pure and applied problems in ecology, evolution and behavior. His influential books and reviews have trained several generations of biologists. His empirical work, which links models to experiments and field observations, has included novel ecological and evolutionary approaches to host-parasitoid interactions, quantitative methods for sustainable fishery management, the response of ectotherms to changing environments, the inference of species' conservation status, and the role of disturbance in conservation biology. In addition, his work on major national and international environmental policy panels have furthered the links between science and public policy.

Mangel received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Society of Fishery Research Biologists in 2019 for the scientific merit and broad-reaching impacts of his research in the use of mathematical methods to solve biological and ecological problems in ecosystem based fishery management. In 2020, he was elected fellow of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

His service to federal and international panels includes the Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the Bellman Prize Committee, Mathematical Biosciences; the SIAM-AMS Committee on Mathematics in the Life Sciences, the Pitelka Award Committee, International Society for Behavioral Ecology; the National Marine Fisheries Service Ecosystem Advisory Panel; the Council of the American Institute of Biological Sciences; International Academic Advisory Board, The Arava Institute of Environmental Studies; Board of Science, Resilience Alliance, the NMFS Salmon Recovery Science Review Panel, and the Science Advisory Board of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. In 2004, he was appointed to the Special Commitee on Seals (SCOS), which advises the British government on the status and conservation of seals in the UK. He chaired SCOS from 2008-2011. He is a founding member of the Scientific Review Board of the International Pacific Halibut Commission

Mangel served as the Principal Scientific Expert of Australia for its case in the International Court of Justice, Whaling in the Antarctic: Australia v. Japan. New Zealand Intervening, which was heard in the Hague in June and July 2013.

His editorial appointments included the editorial boards of Natural Resources Modelling, Operations Research,Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Ecological Applications, Theoretical Population Biology,SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics,Journal of Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Biosciences,Evolutionary Ecology/Evolutionary Ecology Research, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Oecologia, The American Naturalist . He was co-editor of Behavioral Ecology 1994-1999.

He served as external examiner or opponent of PhD students in North America, Great Britain, Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.

His research program in mathematical and theoretical biology, focuses on ecology, evolution and behavior has (he continues an active research program) the broad goal of combining first-rate basic science with important applied questions.

Mangel has numerous journal publications and books that include Decision and Control in Uncertain Resource Systems (1985, Academic), Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral Ecology (with Colin Clark, 1988, Princeton), The Ecological Detective. Confronting models with data (with Ray Hilborn, 1997, Princeton), Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology: Methods and Applications (with Colin Clark, 2000, Oxford), and The Theoretical Biologist's Toolbox. Quantitative methods for ecology and evolutionary biology (Cambridge, 2007). He has edited Classics of Theoretical Biology (A Special Issue of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Part I: Volume 52 Numbers 1,2. Part II: Volume 53, Numbers 1,2), Sex Allocation and Sex Change: Experiments and Models (Lectures on Mathematics in the Life Sciences, Volume 22) and Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Krill (Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57(Supplement 3).

Mangel supervised more than 50 undergraduate research projects or senior theses, 31 PhD students and 32 post-doctoral colleagues; he also served on more than 30 Ph.D. Committees. His students and post-docs work at a diversity of organizations, including universities (UC Berkeley, Penn State, Toronto, Ben-Gurion, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Washington University, Duke, Wesleyan, Massachusetts, Utah, UCLA, Eastern Illinois, Yale, University of San Diego), private concerns (Bank of America, Buffalo Zoo), governmental agencies (National Marine Fisheries Service, Portuguese Government, Livermore National Laboratory, CNRS Lyon)