Faculty Participants
Co-Directors
 Lee Fitzgerald Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Evolutionary ecology and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles Website |
Amanda Stronza Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences; Adjunct in Anthropology Research Focus: Community-based conservation, ecotourism, sustainable development Website |
Participating Faculty
 Christian Brannstrom Dept. of Geography Research Focus: Nature-Society relations, in particular the historical geography of the environment and resource management in Brazil and Latin America Website |
 Donald Brightsmith Dept. of Veterinary Pathobiology Research Focus: Comparative avian and mammalian immunology and the evolution of the immune system; Avian diseases; Avian phylogeny; role of infectious diseases in wild and endangered bird populations Website |
 Elisabeth Ellis Dept. of Political Science Research Focus: Environmental political theory, habitat conservation plans, species conservation policy Website |
 Frances Gelwick Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Community, Aquatic, and Fish Ecology; Fisheries Management; Aquatic Bioassessment Website |
 Will Heyman Dept. of Geography; Dept. of Oceanography Research Focus: Conservation biology, and the relationship and interactions between humans and the environment, focusing on the Caribbean, especially Belize Website |
 Luis Hurtado Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Phylogeography, molecular phylogenetics, & conservation genetics Website |
 Wendy Jepson Dept. of Geography Research Focus: Human impacts on the environment; the political economy of agricultural development; environmental justice issues Website |
 Urs P. Kreuter Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management Research Focus: Human dimensions of rangeland ecosystem management Website |
 Gerard Kyle Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences Research Focus: Understanding the human dimensions of natural resource management Website |
 Thomas E. Lacher, Jr. Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Analysis and monitoring of large-scale patterns and trends in biodiversity, primarily in the tropics Website |
 David Matarrita Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences Research Focus: Natural resource sociology, community-based development, and rapidly growing communities. Website |
 Mariana Mateos Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Evolutionary biology with interests that span population genetics, phylogenetics, phylogeography, conservation biology, functional and comparative genomics Website |
 Jane M. Packard Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Biodiversity stewardship, protected areas and communities, network analysis, U.S. Mexico transboundary conservation, behavioral ecology Website |
 Tarla Peterson Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Intersections between communication, environmental policy, and democracy Website |
 Bill Rogers Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management Research Focus: Ecological restoration and biodiversity, plant population and community ecology, invasive and endangered species ecology, and fire and disturbance ecology Website |
 Gil Rosenthal Dept. of Biology Research Focus: Diversity of systems animals use to communicate with one another, both at the level of proximate mechanisms and in an evolutionary sense Website |
 Robert Washington-Allen Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management Research Focus: Environmental modeling & assessment Website |
 Kirk Winemiller Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Research Focus: Community ecology, fish ecology, fish evolution, and ecosystem ecology in freshwater and estuarine habitats Website |
 Richard Woodward Dept. of Agricultural Economics Research Focus: Environmental and resource economics Website |
 James Woolley Dept. of Entomology Research Focus: Systematics of parasitic Hymenoptera, particularly Encyrtidae, Aphelinidae, and Signiphoridae; biological control of Homoptera using parasitoids Website |