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Faculty

Department Faculty

  • David E. Andersen (Professor)
    Impacts of human activity on wildlife populations, ecology and management of raptorial birds and other nongame wildlife, and ecology and conservation of wild birds
  • Todd Arnold (Associate Professor)
    Ecology and management of wetland-dependent wildlife, with emphasis on waterfowl.
  • Robert Blair (Associate Professor)
    Effect of land use on birds and butterflies
  • Yosef Cohen (Professor)
    Populations, mathematical ecology, ecosystem conservation
  • Francesca J. Cuthbert (Professor and Department Head)
    Conservation and biology of small avian populations with particular interest in colonial waterbirds and shorebirds; recovery of endangered populations using an ecosystem perpective; forest bird conservation
  • David C. Fulton (Associate Professor)
    Human dimensions of fish and wildlife, natural resource policy, wildlife and fisheries planning, natural resource negotiation and decision processes, benefits-based management of fish and wildlife resources
  • R.J. Gutiérrez (Professor)
    game bird ecology and the evolution of galliforms; endangered species;and habitat relationships of wildlife
  • Kenneth H. Kozak (Assistant Professor)
    Phylogeography, molecular ecology, and historical biogeography of amphibians and reptiles; biodiversity informatics; applications of GIS to evolutionary biology, ecology, and conservation biology.
  • Kristen C. Nelson (Associate Professor, FW and Forest Resources)
    Interdisciplinary understanding of environmental change and its dynamic with human systems.
  • Raymond M. Newman (Professor)
    Aquatic ecology and fisheries management
  • Karen S. Oberhauser (Associate Professor)
    Invertebrate conservation and ecology, with particular interest in monarch butterflies; Citizen Science and ecological monitoring; Promoting a citizenry with a high degree of scientific and environmental literacy.
  • James A. Perry (Professor)
    Science-policy linkage in natural resource management and applied aquatic ecology
  • Andrew M. Simons (Associate Professor)
    North American freshwater fish systematics, theory and practice of phylogenetic systematics using morphological and molecular data, evolution of complex morphological character systems
  • James L. David Smith (Professor)
    Biology and conservation of Asian mammals, conservation data bases, ecosystem management, and population genetic structure
  • Peter W. Sorensen (Professor)
    Physiology and behavior of fish, chemoreception, fish reproductive biology, pheromone function, application of natural odorants to the management of wild and cultured fish, integrated pest management
  • Bruce Vondracek (Professor)
    Fish community ecology and stream ecology

Adjunct Faculty

  • James Almendinger (Assistant Professor)
    Water Resources
  • Charles Anderson (Assistant Professor)
    Conservation Biology - Fisheries
  • Gerald Ankley (Professor)
    Ecotoxicology, USEPA - Duluth, MN
  • Glenn D. DelGiudice (Associate Professor)
    Nutritional ecology and physiology of large mammals
  • David DeVault (Instructor)
  • John R. Fieberg
    Statistical ecology, population dynamics, wildlife survival analysis.
  • Alan Franklin (Assistant Professor)
    Ecology and dynamics of wildlife populations; population dynamics of northern spotted owls in northwest California
  • Julia Frost-Nerbonne (Assistant Professor)
    Environmental Ethics and Conservation Biology
  • David L. Garshelis (Associate Professor)
    Monitoring and managing/conserving large mammal populations
  • Marrett Grund (Assistant Professor)
  • Lorin Hatch (Assistant Profressor)
    Aquatic ecology in lakes and streams, as well as nutrient/sediment impacts on lakes and streams.
  • Douglas H. Johnson (Professor)
  • Anne R. Kapuscinski (Professor)
    Fish conservation focusing on genetic and ecological effects of hatchery fish and aquaculture escapees, sustainability science and policy, sustainable aquaculture, biotechnology environmental issues.
    Wildlife Conservation
  • Richard Kimmel (Assistant Professor)
    Wildlife
  • Terry Kreeger (Professor)
    Wildlife disease ecology, animal capture and anesthesia, physiology.
  • Thomas J. Landwehr (Instructor)
    Large landscape conservation, conservation finance, conservation innovation.
  • Michael Larson (Assistant Professor)
  • Jeff Lawrence (Assistant Professor)
    Waterfowl Conservation and Management.
  • John P. Loegering (Associate Professor, Natural Resources Department - Crookston and FWCB)
    Ecology, conservation, and management of wild birds and wildlife-related outreach.
  • Joe Magner (Assistant Professor)
  • L. David Mech (Professor)
    Wolf ecology, behavior, physiology, and relationships with prey; wolf prey escape and defense mechanisms and behavior; predator-prey relations
  • Donald L. Pereira (Assistant Professor)
    Population and community dynamics, ecosystem management
  • Brian Reilly (Associate Professor)
  • Edward B. Swain (Assistant Professor)
    Effects of air pollution on lakes, fish and wildlife
  • Ronald Tilson (Associate Professor)
  • Tom Will (Assistant Professor)

Emeritus Faculty

  • Ira R. Adelman (Professor)
    Environmental physiology of fishes, fisheries management, and aquaculture
  • James Cooper (Associate Professor)
    Waterfowl and wetland ecology
  • Daniel Frenzel (Associate Professor)
    Wildlife
  • Peter Jordan (Associate Professor)
    Ecology and management of mammalian herbivores; impacts of herbivores on natural plant communities
  • George R. Spangler (Professor)
    Population dynamics of fish in large lake systems, Native American fish and wildlife management, and biochronology of fishes
  • Thomas Waters (Professor)
    Fisheries