Faculty Participants

Co-Directors
Lee Fitzgerald photo
Lee Fitzgerald
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Evolutionary ecology and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles
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Amanda Stronza photo
Amanda Stronza
Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences; Adjunct in Anthropology
Research Focus: Community-based conservation, ecotourism, sustainable development
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Participating Faculty
Christian Brannstrom photo
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
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Donald Brightsmith photo
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
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Elisabeth Ellis photo
Elisabeth Ellis
Dept. of Political Science
Research Focus: Environmental political theory, habitat conservation plans, species conservation policy
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Fran Gelwick photo
Frances Gelwick
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Community, Aquatic, and Fish Ecology; Fisheries Management; Aquatic Bioassessment
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Will Heyman photo
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
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Luis Hurtado photo
Luis Hurtado
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Phylogeography, molecular phylogenetics, & conservation genetics
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Wendy Jepson photo
Wendy Jepson
Dept. of Geography
Research Focus: Human impacts on the environment; the political economy of agricultural development; environmental justice issues
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Urs Kreuter photo
Urs P. Kreuter
Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management
Research Focus: Human dimensions of rangeland ecosystem management
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Gerard Kyle photo
Gerard Kyle
Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences
Research Focus: Understanding the human dimensions of natural resource management
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Thomas E. Lacher, Jr. photo
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
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David Matarrita photo
David Matarrita
Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences
Research Focus: Natural resource sociology, community-based development, and rapidly growing communities.
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Mariana Mateos photo
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
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Jane Packard photo
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
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Tarla Peterson photo
Tarla Peterson
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Intersections between communication, environmental policy, and democracy
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Bill Rogers photo
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
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Gil Rosenthal photo
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
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Robert Washington-Allen photo
Robert Washington-Allen
Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management
Research Focus: Environmental modeling & assessment
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Kirk Winemiller photo
Kirk Winemiller
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Community ecology, fish ecology, fish evolution, and ecosystem ecology in freshwater and estuarine habitats
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Richard Woodward photo
Richard Woodward
Dept. of Agricultural Economics
Research Focus: Environmental and resource economics
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James Woolley photo
James Woolley
Dept. of Entomology
Research Focus: Systematics of parasitic Hymenoptera, particularly Encyrtidae, Aphelinidae, and Signiphoridae; biological control of Homoptera using parasitoids
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