James P. Gibbs, Professor

Conservation Biology & Wildlife Management

Adjunct faculty member: Columbia University (EEB), Charles Darwin Foundation (Charles Darwin Research Station)

Contact: Department of Forest and Environmental Biology, SUNY-ESF, 404 Illick Hall, Syracuse, NY 13210 USA

phone: 315/470-6764, fax: 315/470-6934, skype: jamesgibbs1, e-mail:jpgibbs@esf.edu

Education

· B.S. University of Maine (1986): Wildlife Management

· M.A. University of Missouri (1988): Biological Sciences

· Ph.D. Yale University (1995): Forestry & Environmental Studies

 

Recent Teaching

· Conservation Biology, EFB 413, 3 cr.

· Problem-solving in Conservation Biology, EFB 419, 3 cr.

· Herpetology, EFB 485, 3 cr.

· Field Herpetology, EFB 496, 2.5 cr.

 

Graduate students

Current (Fall 2009):

1. Andrew Myers (MS) - Bog turtle biology and conservation

2. Sam Quinn (MS) - Distribution of the eastern hellbender

3. Mike Fishman (MS) - Indiana bat conservation

4. Helen Czech (MS) - Softshell turtle biology and conservation

5. Angela Sirois (MS) - Bog turtle biology and conservation

6. Kevin Shoemaker (PhD) - Landscape genetics of bog turtles

7. James Arrigoni (PhD) - Vernal pool ecology

8. David Taylor (PhD) - Amphibian population dynamics of constructed vernal pool networks

9. Fernando Rodrigues (PhD) - Visiting Scholar from the São Paulo State University

10. Meredith Atwood (MS) - Sensitivity of wood frogs to climate change 

11. Elizabeth Hunter (MS) - Vegetation management for rattlesnake conservation

12. Kristin Winchell (MS) - Aquatic turtle populations along urban-rural gradients (matriculating through Columbia University) 

 

Former graduate students

Prospective graduate students

 

Post-docs and affiliates in residence (2009)

Dr. Geri Tierney (NPS/NETN project)

 

Publications

 

Some recent books:

Fundamentals of conservation biology (with Hunter) 

Amphibians and reptiles of New York State (with Breisch, Ducey, Johnson, Behler and Bothner)

Problem-solving in conservation biology (with Hunter and Sterling) (book website)

 

Articles:

Selected published articles

 

Some thoughts...

“The world is big. Some people are unable to comprehend that simple fact. They want the world on their own terms, its peoples just like them and their friends, its places like the manicured little patch on which they live. But this is a foolish and blind wish. Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek out permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not. “ Chinua Achebe 

 

last updated: 11/09