Updated: April 24, 2008

The EEC group is a collection of faculty within the Department of Biological Sciences specifically interested in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation. Many of these faculty have active research programs. If you are interested in joining one of these labs either as an undergraduate or as a graduate student, please contact the faculty member.

Faculty Member	Interests
Avery, Bill	Community Ecology, Marine Ecology, Invertebrates, and Paleontology
Baxter, Jim	Plant-Mycorrhizal Interactions, Community Ecology, Biodiversity
Coleman, Ron	Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior, Fishes, Frogs, Tropical Biology
Datwyler, Shannon	Reproductive Biology of Plants
Greenleaf, Sarah	Conservation, bees, agro-ecosystems, disease ecology, landscape ecology, biodiversity
Holland, Brett	Evolutionary genetics, Social evolution, Sexual selection
Kneitel, Jamie	Community Ecology, Food Webs, Species Diversity, Conservation Biology
Lancaster, Winston	Human Anatomy, Bats, Functional Morphology
*Langham, Jeri	Botany, Ecology
Sacks, Ben	Evolution, ecology and conservation of terrestrial vertebrates

* FERP = Faculty Early Retirement Program participant

EEC Journal Club (Monday 4-5pm, SQU 38)

Upper Division courses of particular interest to EEC Students

Bio 102: The Natural History of Plants.
Bio 103: Plants and Civilization.
BIO 111. Land Plants: Evolution, Life and Times.
BIO 112. Plant Taxonomy.
BIO 117. Field Botany and Vegetation Inventory.
BIO 118. Natural Resource Conservation.
Bio 126. Comparative Vertebrate Morphology
BIO 157. General Entomology.
BIO 160. General Ecology.
BIO 162. Ichthyology: The Study of Fishes.
BIO 164. Herpetology.
BIO 165. Vertebrate Natural History (being phased out)
BIO 166. Ornithology.
BIO 168. Mammalogy.
BIO 169. Animal Behavior.
BIO 173. Principles of Fishery Biology.
BIO 175. Aquatic Pollution Assessment.
BIO 179. Principles of Wildlife Management.
Bio 186B. Ecological and Environmental Issues Seminar (Wed 5-6pm, SQU 338, FALL ONLY)
BIO 198A. Honors Proseminar and Research.
BIO 198B. Honors Research and Seminar.
BIO 199A. Undergraduate Laboratory /Field Research.

Graduate Courses of particular interest to EEC Students

BIO 260. Population and Community Ecology.
BIO 269. Behavioral Ecology.
BIO 270. Conservation Policy and Administration.
BIO 273. Advanced Fishery Biology and Management.
BIO 279. Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management.
BIO 282. Evolution.
BIO 283. Biogeography
BIO 292. Bioconcepts
BIO 299. Problems in Biological Sciences.

 

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