Ecology & Conservation Biology

Stephen Bunting
Professor
Specialty Areas of Interest: * Community and landscape ecology * Fire ecology and behavior
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Jo Ellen Force
Professor; Department Head
Specialty Areas of Interest: * Forest policy and the relationships between people and natural resources * Human Ecosystem Model and related studies
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Paul Gessler
Professor; Co-Director, Geospatial Laboratory for Environmental Dynamics
Specialty Areas of Interest: * Remote sensing & GIS for forest ecosystem analysis & monitoring * Wildland fire fuels and fire hazard mapping * Airborne sensor development * Environmental, Ecosystem and Soil-Landscape Modeling * Terrain and Watershed Analysis * Forest Soils * Spatial Statistics
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Troy Hall
Professor
Areas of interest: Recreation planning and management: Developing creative ways to bring stakeholders together to solve challenges created by increasing demand and sociocultural changes. In particular: (1) understanding the nature of wilderness experiences and helping managers devise acceptable management alternatives for high-use destinations; and (2) working with multiple stakeholders and land managers to understand trends and management alternatives for dispersed and developed recreation sites. Recent research includes
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Chuck Harris
Professor
Dr. Charles C. Harris (Chuck) has been at the University of Idaho for over 20 years, where he has taught and conducted research on a wide variety of topics, including: the human dimensions of ecosystem management and restoration ecology; the impacts of resource management activities and policies on rural communities; social impact assessment and deliberative public input processes; resource management, policy, and planning; the organizational psychology of resource management; and natural resource tourism, impacts, and market analysis.
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Philip Higuera
Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas of Interest: * Paleoecology * Fire history * Climate-vegetation-fire relationships * Environmental change
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Steven Hollenhorst
Professor, Department of Conservation Social Sciences; Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement, College of Natural Resources; Director, McCall Outdoor Science School
Research Areas: Protected area policy and management; Land trusts and conservation easements; Conservation planning; Environmental education; Environmental leadership
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Katy Kavanagh
Professor
Specialty Areas of Interest: * Silviculture * Forest ecosystem processes * Tree hydraulic architecture
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Brian Kennedy
Associate Professor
Fish Ecology, Bioenergetics and Community Ecology of Streams, Ecosystem Controls on Aquatic Processes, Bigeochemical Tracers in Aquatic Systems
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Edwin E. Krumpe
Professor; Department Head
Dr. Krumpe is a professor of resource recreation and tourism in the University of Idaho College of Conservation Social Sciences. In addition to his academic responsibilities, Professor Krumpe is the Principle Scientist of Wilderness Management of the University of Idaho Wilderness Research Center, for which he served as director for six years. He has over thirty one years experience in conducting research and teaching about recreation and tourism management, wilderness and wild and scenic river planning, natural resource communication, and public involvement and conflict resolution.
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Penelope Morgan
Professor
Specialty Areas of Interest: * Fire ecology and management * Landscape ecology * Natural resources ecology and conservation
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George Newcombe
Professor
Research Interests: Genetics of resistance of woody plants to disease; Fungal pathogens of Populus and Salix: their taxonomy, ecology, and distributions; Endophyte mutualists of forest tree; Hyperparasitism; Plant-soil feedback in plant invasions
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Janet Rachlow
Associate Professor
Research Areas: Wildlife Ecology and Management, Conservation of Fragmented Populations, Behavioral Ecology of Mammals, Ungulate Biology, Conservation Biology.
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Kerry Paul Reese
Professor; Department Head
Research Interests: Upland Game Bird Ecology & Management; Non-game Wildlife; Avian Habitat Relationships
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Alistair Smith
Assistant Professor
Research Specialty: Fire Science Ecohydrology Remote Sensing Smoke Management and Air Quality
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Kerri Vierling
University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Associate Professor
Research Focus: Avian Ecology, Fire Effects on Wildlife, Novel Applications of Remote Sensing Approaches in Wildlife Conservation, Cavity Nester Dynamics, K-12 Outreach Animal Ecology, Animal-Habitat Relationships.
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Lee Vierling
Associate Professor
Specialty area of Interest: Remote Sensing; Spatial Ecology; Biogeochemistry; Global Change; Interdisciplinary Science Education
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Lisette Waits
Professor; Affiliate faculty member CATIE Costa Rica
Research interests: Conservation Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Systematics
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Frank Wilhelm
Associate Professor
Limnology, Lake restoration and management, Ecology of aquatic macroinvertebrates, Influence of temperature on life history and reproductive strategies, Predator-prey relationships (invert.-invert., fish-invert.), Nutrient cycling through benthic-pelagic coupling
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Edward O. Garton
Emerius Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Statistics
Dynamics & Management of Bird & Mammal Populations, Modeling & Simulation of Population Processes, Population Estimation
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