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Sonia Altizer
Associate Professor. Ph.D. - University of Minnesota. Population ecology, ecology of infectious diseases in natural population, evolution of host resistance and parasite virulence, insect ecology and evolution, role of infectious diseases in wildlife conservation.
Graduate Faculty
saltizer@uga.edu, (706) 542-9251, Lab (706) 542-3485, Fax (706) 542-4819
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Gary W. Barrett
Odum Professor. Ph.D. - University of Georgia. Stress effects (e.g., pesticides, fertilizer, sludge, or fire) on ecosystem dynamics, mammalian population dynamics, applied ecology, agroecosystem ecology, ecological toxicology, restoration ecology, landscape ecology.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member -
Conservation Ecology Program
gbarrett@uga.edu, (706) 542-6065, Fax (706) 542-4819
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Mark Bradford
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. - University of Exeter (UK) and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Merlewood, UK). Biogeochemical processes, global change, ecology of soil biota.
Graduate Faculty
markb@uga.edu, (706) 542-7829, Fax (706) 542-3344
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Miguel L. Cabrera
Professor, Ecology and Crop and Soil Sciences. Ph.D. - Kansas State University. Aspects of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling in agroecosystems.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
mcabrera@uga.edu, (706) 542-1242, Fax (706) 542-0914
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C. Ronald Carroll
Professor, Odum School of Ecology, Co-Director [Science], River Basin Science and Policy Center. Ph.D. - University of Chicago. Conservation biology with particular emphasis on relationships between managed and natural ecosystems, plant-animal interactions as they influence forest regeneration, and invasive species.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
rcarroll@uga.edu, (706) 542-6018, Fax (706) 542-4819
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John Drake
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. - University of Notre Dame. Basic and applied ecology and ecological epidemiology with mathematical models, experimental laboratory systems and a wide range of computational and statistical methods.
jdrake@uga.edu, (706) 583-5539, Fax (706) 542-4819
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William K. Fitt
Professor. Ph.D. - University of California, Santa Barbara. Ecological physiology of marine invertebrates, with emphasis on symbioses and larval development. Specialized topics include: physiology and mariculture of giant clams, chemical induction of settlement and metamorphosis of larvae of oysters and cnidarians, establishment and maintenance of algal-invertebrate symbiosis, bleaching of reel corals.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member -
Conservation Ecology Program
fitt@uga.edu, (706) 542-3328, Fax (706) 542-3344
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Laurie Fowler
Public Service Associate, Odum School of Ecology, Co-Director [Policy] UGA River Basin Center. L.L.M. - University of Washington, School of Law, J.D. - University of Georgia. Federal, state, and local environmental protection laws and policies; watershed protection strategies; conservation easements; environmental justice; solid waste reduction; land preservation including the use of conservation easements; citizen participation; service learning.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
lfowler@uga.edu, (706) 583-0463, Fax (706) 542-4819
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Bud Freeman
Senior Public Service Associate, Odum School of Ecology, Director and Curator of Zoology Collections - Georgia Museum of Natural History. Ph.D. - The University of Georgia. The distribution and abundance of fishes endemic to southeastern systems, in the context of preserving species diversity, and function in streams and rivers increasingly affected by human population development, quantifying basin characteristics in southeastern watersheds harboring remnant endemic communities, systematics and taxonomy of southeastern freshwater fishes.
Non-Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
bud@ttrout.ecology.uga.edu, (706) 542-6032, Fax (706) 542-4819
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J. Whitfield Gibbons
Professor, Odum School of Ecology, Senior Research Scientist, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. Ph.D. - Michigan State University. Herpetology, life history and ecology of vertebrates, influence of land management activities on populations and communities.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
wgibbons@uga.edu, (803) 725-2472, Fax (803) 725-3309
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John L. Gittleman
Dean, Odum School of Ecology. Ph.D. - University of Sussex. Evolutionary biology, biodiversity and conservation, phylogenetics.
Graduate Faculty
ecohead@uga.edu, (706) 582-2968, Fax (706) 542-4819
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Paul F. Hendrix
Professor. Ph.D. - University of Georgia. Earthworm ecology, biology and biogeography, effects of soil fauna on soil structure and organic matter processes in soil.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
hendrixp@uga.edu, (706) 542-9250, Fax (706) 542-4819
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Pierre Howard
Senior Public Service Associate.
Non-Graduate Faculty
(706) 542-2968, Fax (706) 542-4819
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Liz Kramer
Public Service Assistant. Director of the Natural Resources Spatial Analysis Laboratory (NARSAL). PhD. The University of Georgia. Geospatial technologies, land conservation and environmental planning. Integrating ecological science into land use planning process and natural resource management.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
lkramer@uga.edu, (706) 542-3577, fax (706) 542-4819
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J Vaun McArthur
Senior Research Scientist
mca1@arches.uga.edu, (803) 725-5317, Fax (803) 725-3309
Bernard C. Patten
Regent's Professor. Ph.D. - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Systems ecology, comparative ecosystems.
Graduate Faculty
bmpatten@earthlink.net, (706) 542-6035, Fax (706) 542-3344
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John Pickering
Associate Professor. Ph.D. - Harvard University. Natural history, biodiversity, informatics, field studies, taxonomy, photography. My grail -- putting a million species on line by 2012 -- Discover Life.
Graduate Faculty
pick@discoverlife.org, (706) 542-1115, Fax (706) 542-3344
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James W. Porter
Associate Dean. Regents Professor of Odum School of Ecology and School of Marine Programs. Ph.D. - Yale University. Population and theoretical ecology, ecology of coral reefs, predator-prey dynamics, biological and historical origins of diversity, energy flow and food utilization in tropical marine ecosystems, biogeography of tropical marine organisms, paleontology and the use of the fossil records to interpret the ecology of ancient and recent environments, systematics of the scleractinian corals.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
jporter@uga.edu, (706) 542-3410, Fax (706) 542-6040
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Catherine M. Pringle
Distinguished Research Professor. Ph.D. - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Aquatic/stream ecology, conservation biology, integration of basic research with management and policy applications and/or environmental outreach, linkages between community- and ecosystem-level ecology in freshwater systems, trophic interactions, nutrient cycling, environmental problems in aquatic ecosystems, aquatic habitat restoration.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
cpringle@uga.edu, (706) 542-4289, Fax (706) 542-3344
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Jim Richardson
Adjunct Research Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator. Ph.D. - University of Georgia. Population ecology and biology of loggerhead and hawksbill sea turtles, ecology and population biology of long-lived organisms, barrier island ecosystems, restoration ecology of beach and dune systems, and sustainable utilization and ecology of tropical rainforests.
Non-Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
jamesir@uga.edu, (706) 542-6036, Fax (706) 542-4819
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Pejman Rohani
Associate Professor. Ph.D. - Imperial College, University of London. Population ecology.
Graduate Faculty
rohani@uga.edu, (706) 542-9249, Fax (706) 542-9249
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Amy Rosemond
Assistant Professor. Ph.D. - Vanderbilt University. Aquatic ecology.
Graduate Faculty
Faculty Member - Conservation Ecology Program
rosemond@uga.edu, (706) 542-3903, Fax (706) 542-3344
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Dorset W. Trapnell
Assistant Dean. Ph.D. - University of Georgia. Plant evolutionary biology and conservation genetics. Evolutionary impact of landscape level disturbance and fragmentation on herbaceous plant species, particularly neotropical orchids. Phylogeographic analyses for the purpose of identifying ancient refugia during the last glacial maxima and subsequent expansion zones of plant taxa due to global warming.
Graduate Faculty
dorset@uga.edu, (706) 542-6506, Fax (706) 542-4819
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