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Peter Mcintyre serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences. He holds the Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellowship and is affiliated with the Institute for African Development as a Core Faculty member and the Southeast Asia Program as a Faculty Associate.
His educational background includes a B.A. in Biology from Harvard University (1998) and a Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University (2006).
Mcintyre is an aquatic conservation ecologist whose research focuses on developing management approaches that balance human interests with protecting biodiversity. His work spans multiple continents, with field studies conducted in New York, the Great Lakes, East Africa, Southeast Asia, and Hawaii. His academic interests encompass Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Science, Community Ecology and Population Biology, Evolutionary Patterns and Processes, Organismal Biology, and Sustainability, Environment and Conservation. Key research themes include fisheries, food webs, climate change, ecological stoichiometry, global biodiversity, conservation planning, river networks, and life history and migration.
His recent publications reveal a consistent focus on freshwater ecosystem conservation, with particular attention to global patterns of biodiversity, climate change impacts on aquatic systems, fisheries management, and conservation planning. His work increasingly integrates molecular techniques like eDNA with traditional ecological methods, while maintaining a strong emphasis on practical conservation applications across diverse global contexts from the Amazon to Hawaiian streams.
- Dwight Webster Sesquicentennial Faculty Fellow
Mcintyre leads the McIntyre Lab, which addresses ecology and conservation in rivers and lakes worldwide, with special focus on the organism-ecosystem interface. His lab studies how animals affect ecosystem productivity and nutrient dynamics, with particular emphasis on freshwater fisheries in the Adirondack Mountains and developing nations. His students and postdocs have received significant recognition including NSERC graduate research fellowships and Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants. The lab's work spans multiple major research projects including the Adirondack Fisheries Research Program, Lake Tanganyika Ecosystem Project, Great Lakes connectivity initiatives, and conservation of Native Stream Gobies in the Hawaiian Archipelago.
The McIntyre Lab maintains active research sites across the globe, from the Adirondacks to Lake Tanganyika in East Africa, with particular strength in studying the connections between organismal biology and ecosystem processes in freshwater environments. Their work consistently bridges fundamental ecological questions with practical conservation applications, making significant contributions to both scientific understanding and on-the-ground management of freshwater resources.
