
Dr. Smallwood is interested in science policy and science diplomacy. He was selected as a Jefferson Science Fellow by the National Academies of Sciences for the 2018-19 academic year He has worked as a science advisor to individual US Senators and the Senate Homeland Security/Government Affairs committee. He was the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s program in Afghanistan (2008—2009), and ran the US State Department’s program for Iraqi scientists (2004-05). He teaches conservation biology, science policy, and ecology.
Awarded Jefferson Science Fellowship by the National Academies of Sciences for the 2018-19 academic year.
USAID Higher Education for Development/Initiative for Conservation in the Amazon and Andes: Building Conservation Capacity for a Changing Amazonia. D. Salisbury, M. Finley-Brook, R. de Sá, P.D. Smallwood, & Peruvian Consortium. Submitted June 28, 2012. Final Agreement signed 12/20/2012. US $750,000 over 2.5 years, to June 30, 2015.
Craig Kinsley, Massimo Bardi, Cindy Bkack, John Warrick, Gary Radice, Peter Smallwood, Kelly Lambert, and Luciana Felicio. Title: "MRI: Acquisition of Apparatus to Support Multi-User Basic Research and Instruction in the Neurosciences."
Teagle Foundation Grants in Higher Education; Big Questions Working Groups.
Sydney Watts, Ori Belkind, Scott Davis, Douglas Hicks, Ray Hillard, David Leary, and Peter Smallwood.
Title: “The Problem of Belief and Doubt in Liberal Education.”
Title: A multi-disciplinary approach to the ecological and evolutionary interactions between food-hoarding animals and the oaks. PIs: M.A. Steele (Wilkes University), P.D. Smallwood (University of Richmond), J.E. Carlson (Pennsylvania State University), and W.B. Terzaghi (Wilkes University)
Smallwood, P.D. 2017. Battlefields and Borders; The Past and Future of Collateral Values. Contributed paper. International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB), 22-27 July 2017. Cartagena, Columbia
Smallwood, P.D., and S.P. Nash. 2015. Advocating policy as an educational tool for Environmental Studies students. Contributed paper. International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB), 2-6 August 2015. Montpellier, France.
Smallwood, P.D. 2015. BioSafety and BioEthics in Wildlife Research and Field Biology. Invitation only symposium in Beirut, Lebanon, 22-24 May 2015, part of inaugural for the Lebanese Association for BioSafety, BioSecurity, and BioEthics.
Smallwood, P.D., and S.P. Nash. 2015. Advocating policy as an educational tool for Environmental Studies students. Contributed paper. International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB), 2-6 Aug 2015. Montpellier, France
Smallwood, P.D. 2013. Environmental Voices: Conservation in Afghanistan. Invited lecture at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 9 July 2013.
“International Biosecurity: Engagement between American and MENA Scientists” Hosted by the American Association of the Advancement of Science and the Morrocan Biosafety Assocation. Casablanca, Morocco. 18-19 May, 2013.
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Lookingbill, TR, and PD Smallwood (editors). 2019. Collateral Values: The Natural Capital created by Landscapes of War. Springer Nature, publishers. Cham, Switzerland. 274 pp
Lookingbill, TL, PD Smallwood 2020. Landscapes of War: Permanently altered topography is one of the casualties of war, but battlefields can also be of "collateral value." Natural History 128:22-27
Bowne, DL, (and 23 authors, including P.D. Smallwood) 2018. Effects of urbanization on population structure of freshwater turtles across the United States. Conservation Biology 32:1150-1161.
Steele, M., T. Contreras, L. Hadj-Chikh, S. Agosta, P.D. Smallwood, and C. Tomlinson. 2014. Do scatter-hoarders trade off increased predation risks for lower rates of cache pilferage? Behavioral Ecology 25:206-215.
Mitchell, J.C., and P.D. Smallwood. 2013. Field Notes: Lampropeltis getula (Eastern Kingsnake) and Chelydra serpentina (Snapping Turtle). Catesbeiana. 33: 25
Johnson, M.F., Kandarian, N, Shank, C.C., Rahmani, H., Lawson, D., and Smallwood, P.D. 2012. Setting priorities for protected area planning in a conflict zone – Afghanistan’s National Protected Area System Plan. Biological Conservation 148:146-155.
Smallwood, P.D., Shank, C, Dehgan, A. and Zahler, P. 2011. Wildlife Conservation in Afghanistan. BioScience 61:506-511.
Smallwood, P.D. and Liimaitenen, W.T. 2011. Safeguarding WMD Expertise: Lessons Learned From Iraq. Arms Control Today 41: 8-14.
Ostrowski, S., Zahler, P., Dehgan, A., Stevens, K., Karlstetter, M., and Smallwood, P.D. 2009. Asiatic Black Bear still survives in Nuristan, Afghanistan. International Bear News, 18:14-15.
Steele, M.A., Halkin, S.L., Smallwood, P.D., McKenna, T.J., Mitsopoulos, K, and Beam, M. (2007). Cache protection strategies of a scatter-hoarding rodent: do tree squirrels engage in behavioural deception? Animal Behaviour: 75:705-714.
Steele, M.A., Manierre, S., Genna, T., Contreras, T.A., Smallwood, P.D., & Pereira, M.E. (2006) The innate basis of food-hoarding decisions in grey squirrels: evidence for behavioural adaptations to the oaks. Animal Behaviour 71: 155-160.
Danielson-Francois, A., C. Fetterer, and P.D. Smallwood. (2001) Body condition and mate choice in Tetragnatha elongata. Journal of Arachnology 30:20-30.
Smallwood, P.D., Steele, M.A., and Faeth, S. H. (2001) The ultimate basis of the caching preferences of rodents, and the oak-dispersal syndrome: tannins, insects, and seed germination. American Zoologist 41: 840-851.
Steele, M.A., P.D. Smallwood, A. Spunar, and E. Nelsen. (2001) Proximate cues influencing caching decisions: Can grey squirrels detect seed dormancy? American Zoologist 41: 852-864.
Smallwood, P. D. (2001) An integrative approach to the study of plant-animal interactions.
American Zoologist 41:807-809. (Invited overview)
Steele, M. A., G. Turner, P.D. Smallwood, J.O. Wolff, and J. Radillo. 2001. Cache management by small mammals: Experimental evidence for the significance of acorn embryo excision. Journal of Mammalogy 82:35-42
Smallwood, P.D., and J.A. Smallwood. (1998) Seasonal shifts in the sex ratios of fledgling American kestrels: The early bird hypothesis. Evolutionary Ecology 12:839-853.
Hadj-Chikh, L.Z., M.A. Steele, and P.D. Smallwood (1996) Caching decisions by Grey Squirrels: A test of the handling time and perishability hypotheses. Animal Behavior 52:941-8.
Smallwood, P.D. (1996) An introduction to risk sensitivity: The use of Jensen's inequality to clarify evolutionary arguments of adaptation and constraint. American Zoologist 36:392-401.
Smallwood, P.D., and R.V. Cartar (1996) Risk sensitivity in behavior: Where are we now? American Zoologist 36:389-391 (Invited overview).
Steele, M.A., and P.D.Smallwood (1994) What are squirrels hiding? Natural History 10/94: 40-45.
Smallwood, P.D. (1993) Web-site tenure in the Long-Jawed Spider: Is it risk-sensitive foraging, or conspecific interactions? Ecology 74: 1826-1835.
Smallwood, P.D., and W.D. Peters (1986) Grey squirrel food preferences: The effects of tannin and fat concentration. Ecology 67:168 174.
Smallwood, PD, and CC Shank 2019. From buffer zone to national park: Afghanistan’s Wakhan National Park. Chapter 10 in (TL Lookingbill and PD Smallwood, editors) Collateral Values: The Natural Capital created by Landscapes of War. Springer Nature, publishers. Cham, Switzerland. 274pp
Smallwood, PD, and TL Lookingbill. 2019. Battlefields and border lands: past, present and future of collateral values. Chapter 12 in (TL Lookingbill and PD Smallwood, editors) Collateral Values: The Natural Capital created by Landscapes of War. Springer Nature, publishers. Cham, Switzerland. 274pp
Smallwood, P.D. 2014. The Risks of Greening in the Red Zone: Creating Afghanistan's First National Park in the Midst of Conflict. Chapter 21 in (Tidball and Krasny, Editors), Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening. Springer Press.
Michael A. Steele, John E. Carlson, Peter D. Smallwood, Amy B. McEuen, Thomas A. Contreras, and William B. Terzaghi (2007) Linking seed and seedling shadows: A case study in the oaks (Quercus) in: Seed dispersal: Theory and its application in a changing world. (Dennis, A. J., Schupp, E. W., Green, R. and Westcott, D. W., eds) CAB International, Wallinford, U.K.{invited chapter, peer reviewed}.
Steele, Micheal A., and Peter D. Smallwood. 2002. Acorn dispersal by birds and mammals. Chapt 12 in Ecology and Management of Oaks for Wildlife. (W. McShea and W. M. Healy, eds.) Johns Hopkins University Press. {invited chapter, peer reviewed}.
Smallwood, P.D., M.A. Steele, E. Ribbens, and William F. McShea (1998). The effects of seed hoarders on the distribution of tree species: Grey squirrels and oaks as a model system. pp. 211-222 in (M.A. Steele, D. Zegers, and J. Merritt, eds), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Tree Squirrels. Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication #6, 320pp. (invited chapter, peer reviewed).