LAURELS: Carey, Wainwright become fellows of the California Academy of Sciences
Professors James Carey, entomology, and Peter Wainwright, evolution and ecology, are among 12 new fellows of the California Academy of Sciences, whose public face is the physical academy — an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and a four-story rainforest — in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Behind the scenes, the academy has a staff of more than 50 professional educators and Ph.D.-level scientists, supported by more than 100 research and field associates, and more than 300 fellows, who govern the academy.
Carey specializes in invasion biology and insect biodemography, addressing questions of life span, male-female mortality differentials and the gender gap, aging in the wild, behavioral gerontology, dynamics of morbidity and mortality, and the biology and demography of disability.