David Post

David Post is an aquatic ecologist. His research tests long-standing questions about food web structure and dynamics, the influence of environmental change on community structure and ecosystem function, spatial linkages among ecosystem, and the importance of interactions between ecology and evolution for community and ecosystem processes. He also develops and applies stable isotope techniques to address questions across ecology and evolutionary biology. Many of the questions addressed and methods developed by members of the Post Lab have a direct impact on the conservation and management of aquatic resources. Although members of the Post Lab primarily work in aquatic ecosystems, they also study interactions and processes that link aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

In addition, Post is an academic leader, who served as the final Dean of Faculty and Vice President (Academic Affairs) for Yale-NUS College in Singapore.