Gary Grossman is an American ecologist, fisheries scientist and poet. He is a professor emeritus of Animal Ecology in the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. His work and research studies on stream fish assemblages, habitat selection, density dependence, and population regulation. He was also elected a Fellow of the American Fisheries Societyand a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London.
Education Grossman earned a Bachelor of Science in Conservation and Resource Studies from University of California, Berkeley in 1975. He later completed a PhD in Animal Ecology and Limnology at University of California, Davis in 1979.
Career Grossman joined the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia in 1981 as a faculty member. He later served as Professor of Animal Ecology, Distinguished Research Professor from 2004 to 2009, Professor (2009 onward), and subsequently Professor Emeritus beginning in 2022
He served on editorial boards for scientific journals including Freshwater biology, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Transactions of the American Fisheries Sociegy, Ichthyology and Herpetology, and Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, and chaired the Publications Oversight Committee of the American Fisheries Society. His poetry, short fiction, essays, and creative nonfiction have been published in Verse-Virtual, Sheila-Na-Gig, MacQueen's Quinterly, Salvation South, Delta Poetry Review, and Tamarind Literary Magazine. His work received nominations for the Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions anthology in 2023. Research and scholarly works Grossman's early research focuses on community ecology and population ecology by challenging the long-standing assumption that species interactions, particularly competition, were the dominant force structuring ecological communities.
He shifted his focus toward the regulation of fish populations, particularly trout and salmon populations. Awards and honors
In 2014, he received the Carl R. Sullivan Fishery Conservation Award ("Sully Award") from the American Fisheries Society.
In 2021, he received the Teaching Award in Ichthyology from the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. He was elected a Fellow of the American Fisheries Society in 2015 and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 2018. His poem Apostrophe was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, while his short story Mindfulness was nominated for The Best Small Fictions anthology by MacQueen's Quinterly in 2023.
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