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Campus at New Brunswick

Kenneth Able , Ph.D., William and Mary. Ecology and behavior of fishes; marine and estuarine ecology. 

Tamar Barkay , Ph.D. University of Maryland. Microbial transformation of metals.

Joan Bennett, Ph.D., University of Chicago. Fungal genetics and secondary metabolism.

Kay Bidle, Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. microbial ecology, phytoplankton physiology and mortality, virology, molecular evolution and ecology,                                      biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes, the structure and function of microbial food webs.

Heike Bucking, Ph.D. University of Bremen, Germany. Mycorrhirzae; nitrogen, crbon and phosphate uptake in soil/plant systems.

Joanna Burger , Ph.D., Minnesota. Avian behavior and ecology; salt marsh ecology; reptile behavior;
                           behavioral effects of heavy metals 

David Bushek , Ph.D., Rutgers University. Shellfish ecology, parasitology, genetics, and aquaculture.

Timothy M. Casey , Ph.D., UCLA. Physiological ecology; energetics; thermoregulation, biodiversity 

Chi-hua Chiu , Ph.D., Wayne State University. Evolutionary and developmental genetics.

Keith Cooper, Ph.D. University of Rhode Island. Comparative toxicology.

John Dighton , Ph.D., London. Role of fungi in nutrient dynamics in forest soils and impact of pollutants.

Ravit Golan Duncan, Ph.D. Northwestern University. Science learning; teacher education; design of inquiry-based learning environments.

David Ehrenfeld , Ph.D., Florida; M.D., Harvard. Conservation; biology of marine and freshwater turtles. 

Joan G. Ehrenfeld , Ph.D., CUNY, City College. Plant community ecology, watershed management, 
                            global change. 

Douglas Eveleigh, Ph.D., Exeter (England). Microbial ecology; cellulose recycling; endomycorrhizae.

Paul Falkowski , Ph.D., University of British Columbia. Biogeochemical cycles, photosynthesis, biological oceanography, molecular biology, biochemistry and biophysics, physiological adaptation, plant physiology, evolution, mathematical modeling, symbiosis.

Dunne Fong , Ph.D., Princeton. Biodiversity in free-living and parasitic protozoa. 

Randy Gaugler , Ph.D., Wisconsin. Invertebrate pathology; insect mating systems; vector biology.

Robert Goodman, Ph.D., Cornell University. Diversity and function of microorganisms in natural environments.

Jason Grabosky , Ph.D., Cornell. Urban forestry. 

Frederick Grassle , Ph.D., Duke. Marine ecology; oceanography. 

Judith Grassle , Ph.D., Duke. Marine invertebrate ecology; population genetics. 

Edwin J. Green , Ph.D., Virginia Tech. Forest ecology; quantitative methods.

Ximing Guo , Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle. Molluscan biology, genetics, evolution, and aquaculture. 

Max Haggblom , Ph.D., Helsinki. Microbial Ecology.

Steven N. Handel , Ph.D., Cornell. Plant population ecology; pollination biology; restoration ecology. 

JeanMarie Hartman , Ph.D., Connecticut. Plant community ecology; natural disturbance processes; wetlands. 

Jody Hey , Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook. Population genetics; molecular evolution. 

Bradley Hillman, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Molecular, population and evolutionary biology of viruses and funghi.

Henry John-Alder , Ph.D., California, Irvine. Ecological physiology and endocrinology; herpetology. 

Rebecca Jordan, PhD. University of Massachussets, Amherst. Ecology and evolution of behavior and environmental education and citizen science.

Karl Kjer , Ph.D., Minnesota, Phylogeny of the trichoptera; molecular phylogenetics 

Richard G. Lathrop , Ph.D., Wisconsin. Landscape ecology; remote sensing. 

Julie Lockwood , Ph.D.,  Conservation biology, wildlife management, biological invasions.

Richard Lutz , Ph.D., Maine. Marine ecology and paleoecology; shellfish ecology; deep-sea ecology. 

Michael May , Ph.D., Florida. Physiological and behavioral ecology; insect ecology. 

Bonnie McCay , Ph.D., Columbia. Human ecology; fisheries ecology. 

George McGhee, Ph.D., Rochester. Marine paleoecology; evolutionary theory, mass extinction. 

Terry McGuire , Ph.D., Illinois. Behavioral and neural genetics; behavioral ecology. 

Peter J. Morin , Ph.D., Duke. Community ecology. 

George Morren Jr. , Ph.D., Columbia. Human ecology; tropical ecosystems; agriculture; people-animal interactions; remote sensing .

Eric Powell , Ph.D., University of North Carolina. shellfish biology and modeling, carbonate preservation and fisheries management

Cesar Rodriguez-Saona, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside. Entomology; Behavioral and chemical ecology of insect-plant interactions;
induced plant volatiles; tritrophic interactions"

Oscar Schofield, Ph.D., University of Claifornia, Santa Barbara. Phytoplankton ecology and biological oceanography.

Kathleen Scott , Ph.D., Yale. Mammalogy; paleoecology; functional morphology; artiodactyl systematics. 

Peter Smouse , Ph.D., North Carolina. Mathematical ecology; ecological genetics. 

Michael Sukhdeo, Ph.D., McGill. Habitat selection behavior of parasitic helminths; parasite ecology. 

Lena Struwe , Ph.D., Stockholm. Plant systematics and evolution. 

Gary Taghon , Ph.D., Washington (Seattle). Marine benthic ecology; feeding energetics. 

Robert Trivers , Ph.D., Harvard. Natural selection and social theory; evolutionary genetics. 

Costantino Vetriani , Ph.D., University of Rome, Italy. Deep-sea microbiology; extermophiles; adaptations to extreme environments.

James White , Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin; fungal associates of plants.

Ming Xu , Ph.D., California (Berkeley); Ecosystem ecology, remote sensing, modeling.

Campus at Camden

Mark Morgan , Ph.D., California, Davis. Limnology; biogeochemistry; pine barrens ecosystems. 

Campus at Newark

Claus Holzapfel , Ph.D., University of Goettingen, Germany. Plant community ecology, species interactions and invasion biology.

Judith Weis , Ph.D., NYU. Estuarine ecology; effect of environmental factors on the development of aquatic animals. 
 
New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark

Gareth Russell, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Population and community dynamics and evolution; Conservation 

Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Jonathan Cole , Ph.D., Cornell. Aquatic ecology; microbiology; biogeochemistry. 

Stuart Findlay , Ph.D., Georgia. Marine invertebrate ecology. 

Peter Groffman , Ph.D., Georgia, Terrestrial microbial ecology. 

Gene Likens , Ph.D. Wisconsin. Limnology; biogeochemistry of streams and lakes; air pollution; analysis of ecosystems. 

Gary Lovett , Ph.D., Dartmouth. Terrestrial ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry; air pollution. 

Richard Ostfeld , Ph.D., Berkeley. Population and behavioral ecology; small mammals; herbivore-plant interactions. 

Michael Pace , Ph.D., Georgia. Aquatic ecosystems; plankton; microbial ecology. 

Steward T. A. Pickett , Ph.D., Illinois. Plant populations and community organization; vegetation dynamics. 

David Strayer , Ph.D., Cornell. Freshwater ecology; energy flow; ecology of freshwater invertebrates.

Kathleen Weathers, Ph.D., Rutgers University,  Ecosystem ecology, nutrient cycling and atmospheric inputs. 

 UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Michael Gochfeld, Ph.D., CUNY, Queens; M.D. Yeshiva (Einstein). Avian behavioral ecology; environmental toxicology. 

Daniel Wartenberg, Ph.D. SUNY at Stony Brook. Ordination; spatial pattern; epidemiology. 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Steven Clemants, Ph.D., Minnesota. Plant systematics and ecological restoration.

Gerry Moore, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University. Flora of the U.S.; taxonomy of sedges; philosophy of taxonomy/nomenclature.