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Anthropology
R. Lee Lyman
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology
Area of Interest:
Craig Palmer
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Areas of Interest: Evolutionary theory and the ecology of fishing communities
Deborah Pearsall
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Areas of Interest:
Biological Sciences
Rex Cocroft
Associate Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of Interest: Animal social behavior and communication; behavioral ecology; mechanisms of behavior
Lori Eggert
Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of Interest: Ecological and conservation genetics
John Faaborg
Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of Interest: Avian ecology and conservation
Candace Galen
Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of Interest: Ecology and evolution in natural plant populations
Ricardo Holdo
Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of Interest: Savanna vegetation dynamics, global change, fire ecology, ungulate population dynamics
Ray Semlitsch
Curators' Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of Interest: Persistence of amphibian popluations in disturbed landscapes; Dispersal as a behavioral link in metapopulation dynamics; conservation of declining species
Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
David Diamond
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences; Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MoRAP)
Areas of Interest: Conservation biology, landscape ecology, natural resource policy and management, rare species conservation
David Galat
Cooperative Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of Interest: Large river ecology, riverine fish ecology, restoration ecology
Matthew Gompper
Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of Interest: Ecology, evolution, and conservation of vertebrates, especially of mammalian carnivores; wildlife disease ecology
Dylan Kesler
Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of Interest: Movement ecology, assisted colonization and reintroduction, population connectivity, behavioral ecology, endangered species recovery, island species
Joshua Millspaugh
Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of Interest: Analysis of radio tracking and population demographic studies; Large mammal ecology and management; The use of stress hormone measures in conservation biology research
Charles Nilon
Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of Interest: Urban wildlife conservation and human dimensions of wildlife conservation
Douglas Noltie
Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of Interest: Reproductive ecology and behavior of fishes
Craig Paukert
Cooperative Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of Interest: Large river ecology, endangered species management, fisheries science
Mark L. Wildhaber
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Statistics, and Quantitative Ecologist at USGS
Areas of Interest: aquatic ecology, fish biology, behavioral ecology, conservation behavior, ecological modeling, and climate change.
Forestry
Francisco Aguilar
Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry
Areas of Interest: Human dimensions of natural resource management, environmental certification of forest management and wood products, renewable energy and public policies to encourage its generation, landowner motivation for sustainable land management.
Rose-Marie Muzika
Chair and Professor, Department of Forestry
Areas of Interest: disturbance ecology, forest entomology, restoration ecology
Geography
Mark Cowell
Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Areas of Interest: vegetation dynamics, presettlement vegetation patterns, disturbance regimes in eastern deciduous forests, human impacts on vegetation, application of GIS to analyzing landscape pattern and process, Nature/Society relationships, and environmental ethics
Grant Elliott
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry
Areas of Interest: upper treeline & vegetation-climate interactions, disturbance ecology, mountains
Michael Urban
Associate Professor, Department of Forestry
Areas of Interest: Fluvial geomorphology, anthropogenic landscape change, application of environmental ethics in environmental management, impacts of climate change
History
Jerritt (Jerry) Frank
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Areas of Interest: Environmental history (tourism, recreation, water, wildlife, West, Indians)
Rural Sociology
Mary Grigsby
Associate Professor, Department of Rural Sociology
Areas of Interest: Sociology of consumption; science, technology and society studies
Sandy Rikoon
Professor, Department of Rural Sociology; Food, Environment and Society Program
Areas of Interest: The social and cultural dimensions of environmental conflict and ecosystem protection and restoration in the US Midwest and Central and Eastern Europe
Missouri Department of Conservation
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
US Fish & Wildlife Service
USGS Columbia Environmental Research Center
Missouri Resource Assessment
