Conservation/Management Faculty
Faculty | Research | Potential Primary Advisor* |
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Michael D. Arendt | Environmental influences on animal occurrence, population dynamics and demographic structure, collection of large data sets through remote and/or innovative technologies, time series analysis | NO |
Larry L. Bowman | Conservation and adaptive management of commercial and recreation fisheries; population genetics and genomics; species delimitation and phylogenetics; evolutionary ecology and life history evolution; applications of molecular ecology for conservation; theory and mathematical modeling; STEM education and outreach | YES |
Jeffrey F. Brunson | Crustacean fisheries management, applied fisheries research, conservation ecology, population dynamics | NO |
Walter J. Bubley | Fisheries science, fisheries ecology, fish life history (age/growth/reproduction) | YES |
Loren D. Coen | Restoration and management of marine and estuarine habitats, especially those dominated by plants and bivalves | NO |
Cynthia L. Cooksey | Estuarine and marine resource management, regulatory and policy; environmental monitoring and assessments | NO |
Russell D. Day | Biomonitoring of marine ecosystems and organismal health, environmental chemistry, coral stressors, health, and geochemistry, isotopes, heavy metals, trace elements in the marine environment, ocean acidification, sea turtle ecotoxicology | NO |
M. Richard DeVoe | Aquaculture policy; marine/coastal policy and management; science management | NO |
Peter J. Etnoyer | Deep-sea coral diversity and ecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for marine conservation and management | YES |
Leslie B. Hart | Environmental exposure to man-made chemicals and resultant health effects; determination of indicators and biomarkers of sublethal health effects resulting from chemical exposure; Development of reference intervals for clinical screening of health abnormalities; Development of mobile applications to detect and evaluate health outcomes | NO |
Jeffrey L. Hyland | Environmental monitoring and assessments, benthic ecology, ecotoxicology | NO |
Effects of environmental change on the ecology of marine and freshwater invertebrates, population, community and ecosystem ecology, using long-tern data to address ecological quesitons | YES | |
Elasmobranchs, fisheries research, population dynamics, spatial ecology, bycatch, predator-prey interactions, human-wildlife interactions, marine survey technologies and methodologies | YES | |
Norman S. Levine | Mapping and modeling of the natural environment; environmental, ecologic, and anthropogenic resilience to sea level rise; applications of remote sensing and GIS in coastal and estuarine environments | YES |
Susan Lovelace | Linkages between coastal environmental health and ecosystem services and human health and human wellbeing | NO |
Ruairi MacNamara | Fisheries management and ecology; population dynamics; culture-based stock enhancement | NO |
Wayne E. McFee | Marine mammal strandings, marine mammal life history, dolphin/human interactions | NO |
Daniel McGlinn | Assemblage of ecological communities in space and time; ecological theory applied to understand conservation of biodiversity; role of fire and other disturbances in shaping community structure | YES |
Paul M. Nolan | Behavioral ecology, disease ecology, ornithology, avian habitat selection | NO |
David Wm. Owens | Sea turtle behavior, physiology and ecology | NO |
Marcel J. M. Reichert | Fishery science and management, fish biology and ecology, ecology of marine life bottom habitats, estuarine ecology | YES |
Joshua Robinson | Fluvial geomorphology; environmental hydraulics; restoration and management of aquatic ecosystems; nature-based solutions to water management | NO |
Denise M. Sanger | Estuarine ecology and ecotoxicology, impacts of coastal development on estuarine environments, stormwater runoff | YES |
George R. Sedberry | Community population and trophic ecology of marine fishes, coral reef biology, fisheries biology | NO |
Andrew M. Shedlock | Genomics, evolution and conservation biology of marine vertebrates | YES |
Virginia R. Shervette | Coral reef fishes, conservation and fisheries management, fish community and population dynamics, tropical biology | YES |
Andrew W. Tweel | Wetland and coastal landscape ecology and sustainability | YES |
J. David Whitaker | Crustacean fisheries resource research | NO |
Pace Wilber | Geographical information systems | NO |
*NO=cannot serve as major advisor, but can serve on thesis committee