Position Title
Distinguished Professor of Entomology
Complete CV (September 2022)
Short Biosketch (August 2022)
JAMES R. CAREY is Distinguished Professor of Entomology at the University of California, Davis and senior scholar in the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging at UC Berkeley with research interests in insect biodemography, mortality dynamics, and insect invasion biology. Professor Carey received his BS and MS degrees from Iowa State University (1973; 1975) and Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (1980). He is a fellow of four professional societies including the Entomological Society of America, the AAAS, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Gerontological Society of America. He is former director (2003-13) of a 11-university consortium funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIH/P01) on the evolutionary ecology of lifespan. He is a co-author of the book “Biodemography: An Introduction to Concepts and Methods” (Carey, J. R. and D. Roach. 2020; Princeton University Press) and author of three previous books including “Demography for Biologists (Oxford University Press 1993), Longevity (Princeton University Press, 2003), and Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians and Reptiles (Odense, 2000) and over 250 journal articles and book chapters. He teaches an upper division undergraduate course titled "Longevity" fall quarter and summer session that is based on biodemographic concepts in both non-human species and humans. He also offers seminars and workshops on best practices in visualization concepts and presentation strategies including a week course every year to PhD fellows in Kampala, Uganda enrolled in the 9-university Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA).
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Biodemography: A Complete Video Guidebook
Selected recent papers:
Carey, J. R., Eriksen, B. & Rao, A. S. R. S. 2023. Congressional symmetry: years remaining mirror years served in the U.S. House and Senate. (click here). Genus, 79, 5.
Carey, J. R., Eriksen, B. & Rao, A. S. R. S. 2024. Government as population: Demographic perspectives on the U.S. Judiciary, Legislature and Presidency. In: RAO, A. S. R. S. (ed.) Handbook of Statistics: Long term data modelling. -: Elsevier LTC. (click here).
Chen, H., Mueller, H.-G., Rodovitis, V. G., Papadopoulos, N. T. & Carey, J. R. 2024. Daily activity profiles over the lifespan of female medflies as biomarkers of aging and longevity. Aging Cell. (click here).
Zhao, Z., Carey, J. R. & Li, Z. 2024. The global epidemic of Bactrocera pests: Mixed-species invasions and risk assessment. Annual Review of Entomology, 69, 219-237. (click here)
Carey, James. R., Daniel Harder, Frank Zalom, and Nan Wishner. 2022. Failure by design: Lessons from the recently rescinded light brown apple moth (Epiphyas postvittana) eradication program in California. Pest Management Science (click here).
Zhao, Z.-H., C. Hui, R. E. Plant, M. Su, T. E. Carpenter, N. T. Papadopoulos, Z. Li, and J. R. Carey. 2019. 'Life table invasion models: Spatial progression and species-specific partitioning', Ecology, e02682 (click here).
Carey, J. R. 2019. 'Aging in the wild, residual demography and discovery of a stationary population identity.' in R. Sears, R. Lee and O. Burger (eds.), Human Evolutionary Demography (Open Book Publishers: Cambridge).
Carey, J. R., and J. W. Vaupel. 2019. 'Biodemography.' in D. Poston and M. Micklin (eds.), Handbook of Population (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York).
Rao, A. S. R. S, and J. R. Carey. 2019. 'Chapter 11: Behavior of stationary population identity in two-dimensions: Age and proportion of population truncated in follow-up.' in A. S. R. S Rao (ed.), Handbook of Statistics Vol. 40 (Elsevier LTC).
Gerofotis, C. D., N. A. Kouloussis, C. Koukougiannidou, N. T. Papadopoulos, P. Damos, D. S. Koveos, and J. R. Carey. 2019. 'Age, sex, adult and larval diet shape starvation resistance in the Mediterranean fruit fly: an ecological and gerontological perspective', Scientific Reports, 9: 10704. (click here)
Carey, J. R., S. Silverman, and A. S. R. S Rao. 2018. 'Chapter 5: The life table population identity: Discovery, formulations, proof, extensions and applications.' in A. S. R. S Rao (ed.), Handbook of Statistics: Integrated population biology and modeling Vol. 39 (Elsevier LTC) (click here).
Links to selected presentations:
Best practices: Visualization concepts and presentation strategies (San Antonio, 8/19/18)
Plenary talk (Entomology Congress): Insect biodemography: A 21st century guided tour (9/26/16)
One minute: Carey's Equality (12/20/17)