David Skelly
Frank R. Oastler Professor of Ecology, Yale University; Director, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Elected to the Academy in 2026
Education
Middlebury College, A.B., Biology; University of Michigan, Ph.D., Biology
Professional Areas
Eco-evolutionary dynamics; Wildlife Ecology; Freshwater Ecosystems; Urbanization; Amphibian ecology; Conservation; Climate change; Landscape ecology; Ecotoxicology; Museums and education.
Citation
For outstanding research in ecology and evolutionary biology, including long-term studies that show rapid evolution and high vulnerability of amphibians to anthropogenic change, and for leadership advancing the Peabody Museum’s scientific collections as a resource for future discovery.