James R. Carey

James R. Carey is an entomologist, biodemographer, author and academic. He is Distinguished Professor of Entomology at the University of California, Davis and Senior Scholar in the Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) at UC Berkeley.

Carey is most known for his research on biodemography and fruit fly invasion biology. The Stanford University and Elsevier Press ranking system for scientists that lists most-cited authors in 2021-22 listed him in the top 2% of most cited entomologists worldwide. He has demographer-named mathematical discovery, known as the Carey Equality, which equates years lived and years left in replacement populations. He is a co-author of the book ''Biodemography: An Introduction to Concepts and Methods'' with Deborah A. Roach, and ''Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians and Reptiles'' with Debra S. Judge as well as the author of other books, including ''Applied Demography for Biologists'', and ''Longevity: The Biology and Demography of Life Span'', along with over 200 journal articles and book chapters. He is the recipient of C. W. Woodworth Award, Distinguished Service Award, and Distinguished Teaching Award from the UC Davis Academic Senate, and Two Distinguished Teaching Awards from the Entomological Society of America.

Carey is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Gerontological Society of America (GSA), California Academy of Science (CAS), and the Entomological Society of America (ESA). He serves as a Co-designer and Adviser for the Cameroon-based NGO Agriculture for Africa. Provided by Wikipedia