Faculty Profile
Donald Leopold
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Environmental Biology
333 Illick Hall
- Conservation Biology at ESF:
- CV
Current Graduate Advisees
Hannah Allen
hmallen@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Macy Carr
mcarr09@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Jessica Furlough
jlfurlou@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Elsa Klotz
ekklotz@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Schummer and Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Toby Liss
trliss@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: EFB Conservation Biology
Graduate Research Topic
Marginal plant species for use on green roofs and the effects of species composition on green roof functioning for stormwater reduction
Undergraduate Study
University of Pittsburgh (Ecology and Evolution, Linguistics)
Social Media
@mslissecologist on Instagram and Twitter
Jade Martin
bmarti42@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Alex Petzke
apetzke@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: EFB Conservation Biology
Graduate Research Topic
My dissertation research is focused on the inland salt marshes of the northeastern United States. I am performing the first thorough survey of the halophytic flora of Central New York's inland salt marshes in over 40 years and using my findings to assess how it has changed over time. It is unknown how halophytes native to these rare disjunct wetlands came to occupy them: by dispersal or vicariance events, and from eastern or western populations. I am addressing this question by investigating the phylogeography of the widespread halophyte Schoenoplectus americanus (Cyperaceae) as a case study.
Favorite Quote
"There is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition." -Jorge Luis Borges
Wesley Radford
wtradfor@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Lynch and Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Jessica Ray
jray09@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Abbey Welch
abwelch@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MPS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Leopold
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology