EnvS Faculty - Biological Science

Jocelyn Aycrigg
Affiliate Faculty/Conservation Biologist

Jocelyn Aycrigg is a Conservation Biologist and Principal Investigator for the National Gap Analysis Program at the University of Idaho as well as Affiliate Faculty in Environmental Science.

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Nilsa Bosque-Pérez
Professor

(208) 885-7544 | nbosque@uidaho.edu

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Rocky Briones
Assistant Professor

(208) 885-0136 | abriones@uidaho.edu

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Stephen Bunting
Professor

Specialty Areas of Interest: Community and landscape ecology; Fire ecology and behavior

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Allan Caplan
Associate Professor

(208) 885-9441 | acaplan@uidaho.edu

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Mark Coleman
Associate Professor

Specialty Areas of Interest: Forest tree nutrition; Bioenergy feedstock production; Intensive silviculture; Below ground processes

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Steve Cook
Associate Professor

Specialty Areas of Interest: * Population and community dynamics of forest insects * Biological control of forest insects * Chemical/behavioral ecology of insect-tree interactions * Use of remotely sensed data for detection and assessment of insect infestations

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Anthony S. Davis
Assistant Professor of Native Plant Regeneration and Silviculture
Director, Center for Forest Nursery and Seedling Research

Specialty Areas of Interest: * Native plant regeneration * Silviculture

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Sanford Eigenbrode
Entomology Division Chair and Professor

(208) 885-2972 | sanforde@uidaho.edu

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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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Thomas Hess
Professor

(208) 885-7461 | tfhess@uidaho.edu

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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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James Johnson
Department Head and Professor

(208) 885-6277 | djohnson@uidaho.edu

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Jodi Johnson-Maynard
Associate Professor

(208) 885-9245 | jmaynard@uidaho.edu

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Alexander Karasev
Associate Professor

(208) 885-2350 | akarasev@uidaho.edu

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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, Biogeochemical Tracers in Aquatic Systems

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Guy R. Knudsen
Professor

(208) 885-7933 | gknudsen@uidaho.edu

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Robert Mahler
Soil and Land Resources Division Chair, Extension Water Quality Coordinator and Professor

(208) 885-7025 | bmahler@uidaho.edu

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John Marshall
Professor

Specialty Areas of Interest: Tree physiology; Ecosystem ecology; Stable isotope ratios

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Christine Moffitt
Professor; Assistant Unit Leader, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Host-Parasite Interactions; Physiological Responses of Fish Populations to Increasing Water Temperatures; Specialty areas of interest: Disease Interactions of Cultured and Wild Fish, Invasive Species Biology and Management, Biology, Health and Management of Anadromous Fish in Hatcheries and in the Wild, Aquaculture Chemical Efficacy & Approval, Fisheries History

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Matthew Morra
Professor

(208) 885-6315 | mmorra@uidaho.edu

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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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Beth Newingham
Assistant Professor

Specialty area of Interest: Processes that affect restoration of natural ecosystems

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Andrzej Paszczynski
Associate Professor

Research interests: the study of biodegradation (bioremediation) of organic compounds, including nitroaromatics (TNT, RDX, dinoseb), chlorinated aromatic (pentachlorophenol) and aliphatic (carbon tetrachloride) compounds, azo compounds (azo dyes), and petroleum hydrocarbons (diesel), by fungi and bacteria; the reaction mechanism of peroxidases and ligninase, the biomimetic application of non-biological catalysts in redox reactions, and the possibility of designing biodegradability into the structure of organic compounds, using azo dye isomers and plastic polymers as model compounds; studying the structures, and reaction mechanisms of the porphyrins and heme proteins and small oranometalic complexes (siderophores)

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Timothy Prather
Professor

(208) 885-9246 | tprather@uidaho.edu

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Kerry Reese
Professor; Department Head

Research Interests: Upland Game Bird Ecology & Management; Non-game Wildlife; Avian Habitat Relationships

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R Robberecht
Professor

Specialty area of Interest: Physiological plant ecology (Ecophysiology); guided independent learning (use of information technology in science education); scientific visualization and modeling (integration of ecological processes, molecule to globe)

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Dennis Scarnecchia
Professor

Paddlefish and Sturgeon Biology, Ecology, Stock Assessment and Management, Fish Population Dynamics and Stock Assessment, Salmon, Trout and Charr Ecology and Management, Large River Ecology & Fisheries, Fisheries Management

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Mark Schwarzländer
Associate Professor

(208) 885-9319 | markschw@uidaho.edu

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Robert Smith
Professor

(208) 282-7954 | smithbob@uidaho.edu

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Eva Strand
Assistant Professor

Research Specialty: Spatial ecology; Applied Landscape Ecology; GIS applications in natural resources

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David Tank
Assistant Professor & Director, Stillinger Herbarium

I am a plant systematist and am broadly interested in the investigation of the patterns and processes that shape plant biodiversity. In general, my research is focused on the use of molecular methods to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships in plants and the application of phylogenetic methods to understand plant evolution. The evolutionary causes and consequences of processes such as hybridization, polyploidy, pollination biology, biogeography, rapid diversification, and niche evolution can only be understood in light of a robust phylogenetic hypothesis, and these hypotheses are a necessary component of modern taxonomic treatments and classification systems. Research in my lab is directed at multiple levels of plant phylogeny and current projects range from comparative phylogeography of the Pacific Northwest inland rainforest communities, to the study of species boundaries and diversification among very closely related species, to patterns of diversification among some of the major lineages comprising the plant tree of life.

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Lee Vierling
Executive Director, UI McCall Field Campus and McCall Outdoor Science School (MOSS)
Associate Professor, Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences

Specialty area of Interest: Remote Sensing; Spatial Ecology; Biogeochemistry; Global Change; Interdisciplinary Science Education

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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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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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