PhD in Science 2000 - Research at University of California at Berkeley/ diploma from Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium MA in Philosophy of Science, UCL, Belgium, 1996 Master in Ethics, JSTB,Berkeley, USA 2004.
Research Interests: Agro-ecosystems analysis, IPM-biological control, population ecology, carnivore-plant-herbivore interactions, tritrophic
modeling, GIS, transgenic crops; Ethics and Culture, Social Ethics, Globalization, Environmental Ethics.
Languages: French, Dutch, English, and rudimentary Spanish and Italian.
Relevant Experience : Research Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, ESPM. Work on a general ecological model using the Gutierrez-Baumgartner model, in C++ and using MATHLAB.
- Social Ethics, Globalization, And Environmental Ethics.
- Resource person in Ethics for the Interdisciplinary Environmental Review Journal.
- Senior Researcher, Dynamic Population Models designs in Biology, University of Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
- Wrote GIS-based software in C++ for extensive water farming system (in North California) based on plant water demand and weather data. Software used by the National Fish and Wildlife Association.
- Research in Farm Fish Culture, Center of Fish Culture, Cotonou, Benin
- Lived in a Voodoo village. Research in Voodoo culture. Designed a class on Development in West Africa for the University of Namur, Belgi um
- Development Cooperation Mission (3 months) : Study of the ways Indians in rural areas (in South India) manage and develop their cultural, economic and natural resources. I reported and discussed the issues to the local government of Andra Pradesh (South India) and to the University of Namur.
Partial List of Honors & Awards: Ph. D. with Highest Honors; GIS prize University of California at Berkeley.
Refereed Publications:
d'Oultremont, T. and A.P. Gutierrez (2002). A multitrophic model of a rice-fish agroecosystem: II. Linking the flooded rice-fishpond systems, Ecological Modelling 155 (2-3):159 - 176.
Gutierrez, Andrew Paul, Luigi Ponti, C.K. Ellis and Thibaud d’Oultremont (2006). Analysis of climate effects on agricultural systems: A report to the Governor of California. Link.
Gutierrez, A.P., C.K. Ellis, T. d’Oultremont and Luigi Ponti. 2006. Climatic limits of pink bollworm in Arizona and California: effects of climate warming. Acta Oecologica 30: 353-364.
Gutierrez, Andrew Paul, Luigi Ponti, C. Ken Ellis and Thibaud d’Oultremont (2008) Climatic Change Effects on tritrophic systems. Climatic Change 87: 167-192
