Current Faculty

Emeriti

Professors Emeriti

Margaret Davis (Regents' Professor Emeritus)
Quaternary paleoecology; history of forest communities; past changes in geographical distributions of forest species; effects of soil development on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; earth system science and past and future global change.

Eville Gorham (Regents' Professor Emeritus)
Ecology and biogeochemistry of wetlands; chemistry of atmospheric precipitation,lake waters and sediments; history of ecology and biogeochemistry

Donald McNaught

Robert Megard
Limnology; photosynthetic activity of algae; abundance and spatial distribution of zooplankton.

David Merrell

Patrice Morrow
Community ecology; interactions of plants.

Richard Phillips
Animal behavior and communication; neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior; parental behavior in waterfowl.

Philip Regal
Evolutionary mechanisms and patterns; physiological ecology; tropical ecology; implications of genetic engineering; human ecology and evolution.

William Schmid
Natural history of vertebrates; ecological physiology.

Donald Siniff
Population dynamics; life history, with emphasis on large mammals, particularly Arctic and Antarctic marine mammals.

Anthony Starfield
Modeling of populations and ecosystems.

John Tester
Ecology and behavior of terrestrial vertebrates; succession and ecosystem dynamics.