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Dr. Ginzburg founded Applied Biomathematics in 1982. Applied Biomathematics is a research and software firm focused on ecology, health, and engineering. The company is funded primarily by research grants and contracts from the U.S. government and private industry associations. Grants include awards from the [[National Institutes of Health]], [[United States Department of Agriculture]], [[NASA]], [[National Science Foundation]], and the [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]. Other project funding has come from the [[Electric Power Research Institute]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.epri.com/|title=EPRI Public Site|website=www.epri.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-13}}</ref> and individual utility companies, healthcare, pharmaceutical and seed companies such as [[Pfizer]], [[DuPont]] and [[Dow Chemical Company|Dow]], and the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]].<ref>[http://www.ramas.com/research-areas Research] by Applied Biomathematics</ref> Applied Biomathematics translates theoretical concepts from biology and the physical sciences into new mathematical and statistical methods to quantitatively solve practical problems in these areas using risk analysis and reliability assessments.<ref>[http://www.ramas.com/case-studies RAMAS: Technical software that anyone can use]</ref> The methods and RAMAS software products developed by Applied Biomathematics are used by hundreds of academic institutions around the world, government agencies, and industrial and private labs.<ref>[http://www.ramas.com/research-areas Applied Biomathematics' Research Strengths]</ref> Dr. Ginzburg's work in risk analysis and applied ecology has been conducted at Applied Biomathematics in collaboration with Dr. Scott Ferson and Dr. Resit Akcakaya, who are now professors, respectively, at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Stony Brook University, New York, USA.
Dr. Ginzburg founded Applied Biomathematics in 1982. Applied Biomathematics is a research and software firm focused on ecology, health, and engineering. The company is funded primarily by research grants and contracts from the U.S. government and private industry associations. Grants include awards from the [[National Institutes of Health]], [[United States Department of Agriculture]], [[NASA]], [[National Science Foundation]], and the [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]]. Other project funding has come from the [[Electric Power Research Institute]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.epri.com/|title=EPRI Public Site|website=www.epri.com|language=en|access-date=2017-06-13}}</ref> and individual utility companies, healthcare, pharmaceutical and seed companies such as [[Pfizer]], [[DuPont]] and [[Dow Chemical Company|Dow]], and the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]].<ref>[http://www.ramas.com/research-areas Research] by Applied Biomathematics</ref> Applied Biomathematics translates theoretical concepts from biology and the physical sciences into new mathematical and statistical methods to quantitatively solve practical problems in these areas using risk analysis and reliability assessments.<ref>[http://www.ramas.com/case-studies RAMAS: Technical software that anyone can use]</ref> The methods and RAMAS software products developed by Applied Biomathematics are used by hundreds of academic institutions around the world, government agencies, and industrial and private labs.<ref>[http://www.ramas.com/research-areas Applied Biomathematics' Research Strengths]</ref> Dr. Ginzburg's work in risk analysis and applied ecology has been conducted at Applied Biomathematics in collaboration with Dr. Scott Ferson and Dr. Resit Akcakaya, who are now professors, respectively, at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Stony Brook University, New York, USA.


Dr. Ginzburg’s most known academic work is a theory of predation (the ratio-dependent or Arditi-Ginzburg model) that is an alternative to the classic prey-dependent Lotka-Volterra and MacArthur-Rosenzweig models.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Arditi|first=R.|last2=Ginzburg|first2=L.R.|date=|year=1989|title=Coupling in predator-prey dynamics: ratio dependence|url=|journal=Journal of Theoretical Biology|volume=139|pages=311–326|doi=10.1016/s0022-5193(89)80211-5|pmid=|access-date=}}</ref> His book, with Roger Arditi, How Species Interact summarizes their proposed alteration of the standard view.<ref>Arditi, R. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2012. How Species Interact: Altering the Standard View on Trophic Ecology. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.</ref> Next in recognition has been inertial growth or an explanation of population cycles, based upon maternal effect model, the main point of the book Ecological Orbits<ref>Ginzburg, L.R.' and Colyvan, M. 2004. ''Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow.'' Oxford University Press, New York, NY.</ref> and a more recent paper.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ginzburg | first1 = L | last2 = Krebs | first2 = C | year = 2015 | title = Mammalian cycles: internally defined periods and interaction driven amplitudes | journal = PeerJ | volume = 3 | issue = | page = e1180 | doi=10.7717/peerj.1180 | pmid=26339557 | pmc=4558083}}</ref> One of Dr. Ginzburg’s current interests is in the field of metabolic ecology. His work centers on the idea that generation time is an essential fourth dimension of an organism (in addition to the dimensions of space that it occupies).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ginzburg | first1 = L.R | last2 = Damuth | first2 = J. | year = 2008 | title = The space-lifetime hypothesis: viewing organisms in four dimension, literally | url = | journal = American Naturalist | volume = 171 | issue = | pages = 125–131 | doi=10.1086/523947 | pmid=18171157}}</ref> He also works on an evolutionary theory of non-adaptive selection (selective disappearance of unstable configurations).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ginzburg | first1 = L.R. | last2 = Burger | first2 = O. | last3 = Damuth | first3 = J. | year = 2010 | title = The May threshold and life history allometry | journal = Biology Letters | volume = 6 | issue = | pages = 850–853 | doi=10.1098/rsbl.2010.0452 | pmid=20591855 | pmc=3001382}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Borrelli | first1 = J. | last2 = Allesina | first2 = S. | last3 = Arditi | first3 = R. | last4 = Chase | first4 = I. | last5 = Damuth | first5 = J. | last6 = Holt | first6 = R. | last7 = Logofet | first7 = D. | last8 = Rohr | first8 = R. | last9 = Rossberg | first9 = A. | last10 = Spencer | first10 = M. | last11 = Tran | first11 = K. | last12 = Ginzburg | first12 = L.R. | year = 2015 | title = Selection on stability across ecological scales | url = | journal = Trends in Ecology and Evolution | volume = 30 | issue = 7| pages = 417–425 | doi=10.1016/j.tree.2015.05.001 | pmid=26067808}}</ref> A book in progress (Non-Adaptive Selection, joint with John Damuth) relates to this area of research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ramas.com/books-by-lev-ginzburg|title=RAMAS Software|last=|first=|date=|website=RAMAS Books by Lev Ginzbrg|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-06-13}}</ref>
Dr. Ginzburg’s most known academic work is a theory of predation (the ratio-dependent or Arditi-Ginzburg model) that is an alternative to the classic prey-dependent Lotka-Volterra and MacArthur-Rosenzweig models.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Arditi|first=R.|last2=Ginzburg|first2=L.R.|date=|year=1989|title=Coupling in predator-prey dynamics: ratio dependence|url=|journal=Journal of Theoretical Biology|volume=139|pages=311–326|doi=10.1016/s0022-5193(89)80211-5|pmid=|access-date=}}</ref> His book, with Roger Arditi, How Species Interact summarizes their proposed alteration of the standard view.<ref>Arditi, R. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2012. How Species Interact: Altering the Standard View on Trophic Ecology. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.</ref> Next in recognition has been inertial growth or an explanation of population cycles, based upon maternal effect model, the main point of the book Ecological Orbits<ref>Ginzburg, L.R.' and Colyvan, M. 2004. ''Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow.'' Oxford University Press, New York, NY.</ref> and a more recent paper.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ginzburg | first1 = L | last2 = Krebs | first2 = C | year = 2015 | title = Mammalian cycles: internally defined periods and interaction driven amplitudes | journal = PeerJ | volume = 3 | issue = | page = e1180 | doi=10.7717/peerj.1180 | pmid=26339557 | pmc=4558083}}</ref> One of Dr. Ginzburg’s current interests is in the field of metabolic ecology. His work centers on the idea that generation time is an essential fourth dimension of an organism (in addition to the dimensions of space that it occupies).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ginzburg | first1 = L.R | last2 = Damuth | first2 = J. | year = 2008 | title = The space-lifetime hypothesis: viewing organisms in four dimension, literally | url = | journal = American Naturalist | volume = 171 | issue = | pages = 125–131 | doi=10.1086/523947 | pmid=18171157}}</ref> He also works on an evolutionary theory of non-adaptive selection (selective disappearance of unstable configurations).<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Ginzburg | first1 = L.R. | last2 = Burger | first2 = O. | last3 = Damuth | first3 = J. | year = 2010 | title = The May threshold and life history allometry | journal = Biology Letters | volume = 6 | issue = | pages = 850–853 | doi=10.1098/rsbl.2010.0452 | pmid=20591855 | pmc=3001382}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Borrelli | first1 = J. | last2 = Allesina | first2 = S. | last3 = Arditi | first3 = R. | last4 = Chase | first4 = I. | last5 = Damuth | first5 = J. | last6 = Holt | first6 = R. | last7 = Logofet | first7 = D. | last8 = Rohr | first8 = R. | last9 = Rossberg | first9 = A. | last10 = Spencer | first10 = M. | last11 = Tran | first11 = K. | last12 = Ginzburg | first12 = L.R. | year = 2015 | title = Selection on stability across ecological scales | url = | journal = Trends in Ecology and Evolution | volume = 30 | issue = 7| pages = 417–425 | doi=10.1016/j.tree.2015.05.001 | pmid=26067808}}</ref> A book in progress (Non-Adaptive Selection, joint with John Damuth) relates to this area of research.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ramas.com/books-by-lev-ginzburg|title=RAMAS Software|last=|first=|date=|website=RAMAS Books by Lev Ginzbrg|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2017-06-13}}</ref> The 2017 study <ref>{{Cite journal|last=Courchamp|first=Franck|last2=Bradshaw|first2=Corey J. A.|date=2018/02|title=100 articles every ecologist should read|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0370-9|journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution|language=En|volume=2|issue=2|pages=395–401|doi=10.1038/s41559-017-0370-9|issn=2397-334X}}</ref> has listed the Ginzburg and Jensen 2004 paper <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b6d5d_871171b22c0841a1bae1717ea2eb54ee.pdf|title=Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref> as one of the 100 must read in Ecology, a selection put of half a million papers since Darwin.


==Selected publications==
==Selected publications==

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Lev R. Ginzburg
Born (1945-01-11) January 11, 1945 (age 79)
Moscow, Russia
NationalityUSA
Alma materLeningrad State University
Known for
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Lev R. Ginzburg (Russian: Лев Рувимович Гинзбург; born 1945) is the President of Applied Biomathematics and a mathematical ecologist.

Biography

Lev Ginzburg was born in 1945 in Moscow, Russia, but grew up in St. Petersburg, at the time Leningrad. He studied mathematics and theoretical mechanics at Leningrad State University (M.S. in 1967) and received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Agrophysical Research Institute in 1970. He worked at this Institute until his emigration to the United States in 1975. After a few months at the Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei (Rome, Italy), and one year at the Mathematics Department at Northeastern University (Boston, MA), he was a professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, New York 1977-2015).[1] Since 1982, Dr. Ginzburg has run Applied Biomathematics, a research and software firm focused on conservation biology, ecology, health, engineering and education. The company develops new methods for the assessment of risk and uncertainty in these areas.[2] RAMAS software is used by thousands of people in over 60 countries[3]

Work

Dr. Ginzburg founded Applied Biomathematics in 1982. Applied Biomathematics is a research and software firm focused on ecology, health, and engineering. The company is funded primarily by research grants and contracts from the U.S. government and private industry associations. Grants include awards from the National Institutes of Health, United States Department of Agriculture, NASA, National Science Foundation, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Other project funding has come from the Electric Power Research Institute[4] and individual utility companies, healthcare, pharmaceutical and seed companies such as Pfizer, DuPont and Dow, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.[5] Applied Biomathematics translates theoretical concepts from biology and the physical sciences into new mathematical and statistical methods to quantitatively solve practical problems in these areas using risk analysis and reliability assessments.[6] The methods and RAMAS software products developed by Applied Biomathematics are used by hundreds of academic institutions around the world, government agencies, and industrial and private labs.[7] Dr. Ginzburg's work in risk analysis and applied ecology has been conducted at Applied Biomathematics in collaboration with Dr. Scott Ferson and Dr. Resit Akcakaya, who are now professors, respectively, at the University of Liverpool, UK, and Stony Brook University, New York, USA.

Dr. Ginzburg’s most known academic work is a theory of predation (the ratio-dependent or Arditi-Ginzburg model) that is an alternative to the classic prey-dependent Lotka-Volterra and MacArthur-Rosenzweig models.[8] His book, with Roger Arditi, How Species Interact summarizes their proposed alteration of the standard view.[9] Next in recognition has been inertial growth or an explanation of population cycles, based upon maternal effect model, the main point of the book Ecological Orbits[10] and a more recent paper.[11] One of Dr. Ginzburg’s current interests is in the field of metabolic ecology. His work centers on the idea that generation time is an essential fourth dimension of an organism (in addition to the dimensions of space that it occupies).[12] He also works on an evolutionary theory of non-adaptive selection (selective disappearance of unstable configurations).[13][14] A book in progress (Non-Adaptive Selection, joint with John Damuth) relates to this area of research.[15] The 2017 study [16] has listed the Ginzburg and Jensen 2004 paper [17] as one of the 100 must read in Ecology, a selection put of half a million papers since Darwin.

Selected publications

Ginzburg has published over 150 scientific articles and nine books.

References

  1. ^ "About". ramas.com. Retrieved 13 Jun 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ "RAMAS Software by Applied Biomathematics". Ramas.com. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  3. ^ http://www.ramas.com/publications
  4. ^ "EPRI Public Site". www.epri.com. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  5. ^ Research by Applied Biomathematics
  6. ^ RAMAS: Technical software that anyone can use
  7. ^ Applied Biomathematics' Research Strengths
  8. ^ Arditi, R.; Ginzburg, L.R. (1989). "Coupling in predator-prey dynamics: ratio dependence". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 139: 311–326. doi:10.1016/s0022-5193(89)80211-5.
  9. ^ Arditi, R. and Ginzburg, L.R. 2012. How Species Interact: Altering the Standard View on Trophic Ecology. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
  10. ^ Ginzburg, L.R.' and Colyvan, M. 2004. Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
  11. ^ Ginzburg, L; Krebs, C (2015). "Mammalian cycles: internally defined periods and interaction driven amplitudes". PeerJ. 3: e1180. doi:10.7717/peerj.1180. PMC 4558083. PMID 26339557.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  12. ^ Ginzburg, L.R; Damuth, J. (2008). "The space-lifetime hypothesis: viewing organisms in four dimension, literally". American Naturalist. 171: 125–131. doi:10.1086/523947. PMID 18171157.
  13. ^ Ginzburg, L.R.; Burger, O.; Damuth, J. (2010). "The May threshold and life history allometry". Biology Letters. 6: 850–853. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2010.0452. PMC 3001382. PMID 20591855.
  14. ^ Borrelli, J.; Allesina, S.; Arditi, R.; Chase, I.; Damuth, J.; Holt, R.; Logofet, D.; Rohr, R.; Rossberg, A.; Spencer, M.; Tran, K.; Ginzburg, L.R. (2015). "Selection on stability across ecological scales". Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 30 (7): 417–425. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2015.05.001. PMID 26067808.
  15. ^ "RAMAS Software". RAMAS Books by Lev Ginzbrg. Retrieved 2017-06-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  16. ^ Courchamp, Franck; Bradshaw, Corey J. A. (2018/02). "100 articles every ecologist should read". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2 (2): 395–401. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0370-9. ISSN 2397-334X. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ "Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

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