Steven L. Peck
Steven L. Peck is an evolutionary biologist, blogger, poet, and novelist. His literary work is influential in Mormon literature circles. He is a professor of biology at Brigham Young University[1] He grew up in Moab, Utah.
Schooling
Peck received a bachelor's degree in 1986 from Brigham Young University in statistics and computer science with a minor in zoology. His master's is from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (environmental biostatistics), and his 1997 PhD from North Carolina State University (biomathematics and entomology). His dissertation was titled "Spatial Patterns and Processes in the Evolution of Insecticide Resistance."
Other work
In 2008, Peck worked with the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria making models of tsetse fly ecology and population genetics.
Bibliography
Scientific work
- 2000 "A tutorial for understanding ecological modeling papers for the nonmodeler" (American Entomologist)
- 2001 "Ecological Modeling: A guide for the nonmodeler" (Conservation Biology in Practice)
- 2001 "Antimicrobial and Insecticide Resistance Modeling: Is it time to start talking?" (Trends in Microbiology)
- 2003 "Randomness, contingency, and faith: Is there a science of subjectivity?" (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)
- 2004 "Simulation as experiment: a philosophical reassessment for biological modeling" (Trends in Ecology and Evolution)
- 2008 "The Hermeneutics of Ecological Simulation" (Biology and Philosophy)
- 2009 "Whose boundary? An individual species perspectival approach to borders" (Biological Theory)
- 2010 "Death and ecological crisis" (Agriculture and Human Values)
- 2012 "Agent-based models as fictive instantiations of ecological processes" (Philosophy & Theory in Biology)
- 2012 "Networks of habitat patches in tsetse fly control: implications of metapopulation structure on assessing local extinction probabilities" (Ecological Modelling)
- 2013 "Digital ecologies as Tractarian systems" (Philosophy Study)
- 2013 "Life as Emergent Agential Systems: Tendencies without Teleology in an Open Universe" (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)
- 2014 "Perspectives on why digital ecologies matter: Combining population genetics and ecologically informed agent-based models with GIS for managing dipteran livestock pests" (Acta Tropica)
- 2015 "Five Wagers on What Intelligent Life in the Universe Will Look Like (Should We Find It)" (Analog: Science Fiction and Fact)
Religious work
- 2015 Evolving Faith: Wanderings of a Mormon Biologist
Fiction
Novels
- 2011 The Scholar of Moab
- 2012 The Rifts of Rime
- 2012 A Short Stay in Hell
Short stories
- 2015 Wandering Realities: Mormonish Short Fiction (collection)
Poetry
- 2013 Incorrect Astronomy (collection)