Richard Veit

Richard R. Veit
Born	Richard Reed Veit (1957-06-02) June 2, 1957 (age 68) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Scientific career
Fields	Ornithology
Institutions	The College of Staten Island, City University of New York
Notable students	José R. Ramírez-Garofalo
Website	https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/richard-veit

Richard R. Veit (born June 2, 1957) is an American ornithologist and ecologist known for his research on seabirds and their population dynamics. ^[1]

Career and research

His work has focused on how factors such as physical oceanography and climate change impact seabird distribution and behavior. Veit is a professor of biology at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY), where he has been a faculty member since 1996.^{[ citation needed ]}

Veit has been an editor of publications for the Nuttall Ornithological Club since 2002. ^[2]

Selected publications

Books

• Veit, R.R., & Petersen, W.R. (1993). Birds of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Audubon Society. ISBN 978–0932691118
• Nisbet, I.C.T., Veit, R.R., Auer, S.A., & White, T.P. 2013. Marine Birds of the Eastern United States and the Bay of Fundy. Nuttall Ornithological Club. ISBN 1-877973-48-3

Articles

• Ramírez-Garofalo, J., Curley, S.R., Ciancimino, A.V., Matarazzo, R.V. , Johnson, E.W., and R. R. Veit.  2020.  The Re-establishment of Pileated Woodpeckers in New York City Following Nearly Two Centuries of Extirpation.  Northeastern Naturalist 27: 803–816.
• Veit, R.R. and M.A. Lewis.  1996.   Dispersal, population growth, and the Allee Effect: Dynamics of the House Finch Invasion of eastern North America. The American Naturalist 148: 255–274.
• Veit, R.R., P. Pyle.and J.A. McGowan. 1996.  Ocean warming and long-term change in pelagic bird abundance within the California Current System. Marine Ecology Progress Series 139: 11–18.
• Veit, R.R., E.D. Silverman, and I. Everson. 1993.  Aggregation patterns of pelagic predators and their principal prey, Antarctic krill, near South Georgia. Journal of Animal Ecology 62: 551–564.

References

1. "Richard Veit | | College of Staten Island Website". www.csi.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
2. "Officers of the Nuttall Ornithological Club". Nuttall Ornithological Club. Retrieved 2024-09-17.