Peter Vitousek

Dr. Peter Vitousek is an ecologist and professor at Stanford University, where he has been faculty since 1984. He has a PhD in biology and focuses primarily on nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment in soils and the impact of invasive species.  He is a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment. Dr. Vitousek began college as a Political Science Major but was inspired to change the focus of his studies after reading a Charles Elton book about ecology for an English class. Dr. Vitousek was born in Hawaii and continues to conduct field work there periodically. A summary of his talk on invasive species and global change is available on the AGCI website in the Elements of Change Series, Biological Invasion as an Element of Change, pages 65-67.