Graduate Degree Programs
M.S., M.P.S. & Ph.D. in EB with Research Area in Ecology and Evolution

There are four major areas in ecology: organismal ecology, population-evolutionary ecology, community ecology and systems ecology. In consultation with the student's steering committee, courses are chosen from these areas, as well as other disciplines. Specific research may encompass any of the four major areas of ecology and entail the study of the distribution and abundance of organisms, community structure including trophic relationships, diversity, succession and ecosystem properties, such as patterns of energy transfer and biogeochemical cycling.

Participating Faculty

• Stewart Diemont; [email protected]
  systems ecology, ecological engineering, traditional ecological knowledge, Latin America, ecosystem restoration, sustainability analysis, natural wastewater treatment systems and re-use, less-developed countries, agroecology
• Martin Dovciak; [email protected]
  Plant Ecology, Forest Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Global Change, Ecosystem Management and Restoration
• Cynthia J. Downs; [email protected]
  Animal Physiology, ecoimmunology, physiological trade-offs, organismal ecology, scaling, allometry, Ecological and evolutionary consequences of variation in physiological phenotypes
• Joshua A. Drew; [email protected]
• John M. Farrell; [email protected]
  Fisheries Science and Management, Aquatic Ecology, Wetlands Restoration, Invasive Species.
• Danilo D. Fernando; [email protected]
  plant structure and development, reproductive biology of conifers, pollen transformation, genomics and proteomics of pine pollen tube development, willow flowering and tissue culture, genetic diversity of rare and endangered ferns, and plant evolution, diversity and conservation.
• Melissa K. Fierke; [email protected]
  forest entomology, forest ecology, invasive forest pests, insect-tree interactions, tree defenses
• Jacqueline Frair; [email protected]
  wildlife ecology and management, ecology of large herbivores and predators, animal movements, resource selection, population demography, quantitative methods in conservation, landscape ecology
• James Gibbs; [email protected]
  herpetology, vertebrate conservation biology, genetics and ecology in birds, reptiles and amphibians, songbirds, giant tortoise, statistics, wildlife population monitoring, galapagos islands, conservation biology, ecological monitoring, population genetics, applied demography, undergraduate conservation education
• Eliezer Gurarie; [email protected]
  Quantitative wildlife ecology, animal movements, spatial ecology, habitat use, behavior, cognition, population ecology, statistical methods, mathematical modeling, co-production of knowledge.
• Thomas R. Horton; [email protected]
  mycorrhizal plant ecology, molecular ecology, ecology, fungal communities, mycology, fire ecology
• Robin W. Kimmerer; [email protected]
  plant restoration ecology, bryology, bryoecology, restoration ecology, ethnobotany, conservation biology and bryophyte ecology, traditional ecological knowledge
• Donald J. Leopold; [email protected]
  forest and freshwater wetland ecology, conservation, and restoration, peatland ecology and conservation, local and regional controls of species richness and rarity, dynamics of plant communities as affected by man and environment, management for unique communities and rare species, dendrology, native plants, restoration ecology, rare species conservation
• Brian F. Leydet; [email protected]
  infectious and vector-borne diseases, arthropods of veterinary and medical importance, vector biology, vector-pathogen-host interactions, disease ecology, molecular biology, epidemiology of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases
• Karin E. Limburg; [email protected]
  riverine fish and estuarine ecology, fisheries ecology, watershed ecology, systems ecology, ecological economics, fisheries and ecosystem science, coupled human-natural systems, biogeochemistry, fisheries ecology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemical tracers, modeling
• Mark V. Lomolino; [email protected]
  conservation biology, wildlife, ecology, evolution and biogeography
• Gregory McGee; [email protected]
  ecology, management and restoration of forest ecosystems; STEM education
• Dylan Parry; [email protected]
  Biological invasion, climate change, and conservation, primarily in the context of insects in forested ecosystems.
• Rebecca Rundell; [email protected]
  evolutionary biology, conservation biology, speciation, adaptive and nonadaptive radiations, biogeography, phylogenetics, systematics, Pacific island radiations and biodiversity conservation, land snails, marine/aquatic microscopic invertebrates
• Kimberly L. Schulz; [email protected]
  nutrient and exotic species effects on aquatic ecosystems, ecological stoichiometry, aquatic community and ecosystem ecology, bioenergetics, nutrient cycling, lower food web studies, great lakes, finger lakes, plankton, limnology, aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, invasive species
• Michael L. Schummer; [email protected]
  Waterfowl Ecology, Waterfowl Management, Waterfowl Conservation, Wetlands Management, Wetlands Conservation, Ornithology, Plant-Animal Associations, Conservation Biology, Wildlife Ecology, Wetlands Ecology, Wildlife-habitat relationships, ecology, climate change, human dimensions of wildlife, avian toxicology
• Alexander Weir; [email protected]
  conservation mycology, fungal biodiversity and conservation, fungal-arthropod interactions, biology of parasites and symbionts, systematics and evolutionary biology of fungi, fungi and humans, biology of parasites and symbionts