ABS - IGERT Faculty

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Faculty Participants

Co-Directors

Lee Fitzgerald ()
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Evolutionary ecology and conservation biology of amphibians and reptiles

Amanda Stronza ()

Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences; Adjunct in Anthropology

Research Focus: Community-based conservation, ecotourism, sustainable development

Participating Faculty

Michael S. Alvard ()
Dept. of Anthropology
Research Focus: The margins of cultural and biological anthropology, evolutionary ethnology, behavioral and evolutionary ecology, cooperation, hunting, hunters and gatherers, Amazonia, Southeast Asia

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

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

Thomas J. DeWitt ()
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Ecological quantitative genetics; functional ecology; phenotypic plasticity; natural selection; conservation biology; environmental stochasticity; biomathematical models; freshwater ecology

Elisabeth Ellis ()
Dept. of Political Science
Research Focus: Environmental political theory, habitat conservation plans, species conservation policy

Frances Gelwick ()
Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
Research Focus: Community, Aquatic, and Fish Ecology; Fisheries Management; Aquatic Bioassessment

James Gramann ()

Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences; US National Park Service

Research Focus: Recreation behavior; race and ethnicity; protected area policy and management

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

Luis Hurtado ()

Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Research Focus: Phylogeography, molecular phylogenetics, & conservation genetics

Wendy Jepson ()

Dept. of Geography

Research Focus: Human impacts on the environment; the political economy of agricultural development; environmental justice issues

Urs P. Kreuter ()

Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management

Research Focus: Human dimensions of rangeland ecosystem management

Gerard Kyle ()

Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences

Research Focus: Understanding the human dimensions of natural resource management

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

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

Andrew Millington ()

Dept. of Geography

Research Focus: Human-environment relationships; spatial analysis in land change science, biogeography, and land resources

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

Manuel Piña ()

Dept. of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications

Research Focus: Planning and needs assessment

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

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

Kirk Winemiller ()

Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences

Research Focus: Community ecology, fish ecology, fish evolution, and ecosystem ecology in freshwater and estuarine habitats

Richard Woodward ()

Dept. of Agricultural Economics

Research Focus: Environmental and resource economics

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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