| Conservation Biology Faculty Members
James
Carrel
Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
Area of interest: Chemical ecology of insects;
Conservation biology of spiders
Lori S. Eggert
Assistant Professor
Division of Biological Sciences and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Areas of interest: Conservation genetics, genetic structure of species and definitions of conservation units (ESU, management units, etc)I
John
Faaborg
Professor
Division of Biological Sciences and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Avian ecology, Neotropical Migrant Birds
David L. Galat
Cooperative Associate Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: LArge river ecology, riverine fish ecology, restoration ecology
Susan
Flader
Professor
Department of History
Area of interest: Environmental history and natural
resource policy
Matthew
Gompper
Associate Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Ecology, evolution, and conservation
of vertebrates, especially of mammalian carnivores
Dylan Kessler
Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Avian conservation, behavioral ecology, dispersal and population biology
David Konisky
Assistant Professor
Truman School of Public Affairs
Area of interest: Environmental regulation, land use politics; wetlands protection
R.
Lee Lyman
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Area of Interest: The use of paleozoological data reflecting ecological benchmarks that resource managers, landscape ecologists, and conservation biologists might seek to recreate or maintain; mammals, both terrestrial and marine (Pacific); the articulation of scientific research and management policies pertaining to federal land.
Joshua
Millspaugh
Assistant Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: Analysis of radio tracking and
population demographic studies; Large mammal ecology and management; The
use of stress hormone measures in conservation biology research
Rose-Marie
Muzika
Associate Professor
Department of Forestry
Areas of interest: Disturbance ecology; Insect
ecology; Implications of forest management
Charles
Nilon
Professor
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
Area of interest: The impact of urbanization on
wildlife habitats, populations, and communities; The role of nature as
part of an individual's day-to-day environment
Craig
Palmer
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area of interest: Evolutionary theory and the ecology of fishing communities, with a focus on the overfishing of cod in Newfoundland.
Deborah Pearsall
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area of interest: Paleoethnobotany and South American
archaeology; Phytoliths (plant opaline silica bodies), starch granules,
and macroremains (charred botanical materials); The origins and evolution
of agriculture in the Neotropics
Tony Prato
H.A. Cowden Professor
Department of Agricultural Economics
Area of Interest: Integrated modeling and analysis of coupled human-natural systems, assessing ecological economic impacts of climate change and land use changes in mountain ecosystems, adaptive management, conservation and management of national parks and protected areas.
Sandy
Rikoon
Professor
Department of Rural Sociology; Food, Environment and Society Program
Area of Interest: The social and cultural dimensions
of environmental conflict and ecosystem protection and restoration in
the US Midwest and Central and Eastern Europe
Raymond
Semlitsch
Curators' Professor
Division of Biological Sciences
Areas of interest: Persistence of amphibian populations
in disturbed landscapes; Dispersal as a behavioral link in metapopulation
dynamics; Complex interactions of natural and chemical stressors in larval
amphibian ecology
Reed Wadley
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Area of Interest: Ecological and environmental
anthropology, with emphasis on local management of natural resources,
tropical forest-based agriculture, conservation co-management strategies,
and historical ecology, primarily in Southeast Asia
Jan Weaver
Director, MU Environmental Studies
Research Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
Assistant Director, Honors College
Area of Interest: Community ecology of insects
and other arthropods in Missouri Ozark Forests, especially under different
logging regimes; roles that science and values play in resource and environmental
management decisions and in science education
Additional Members
Robert J DiStefano
Director of Missouri's Statewide Crayfish Conservation and Management Program
Missouri Department of Conservation
Area of Interest: research and monitoring of crayfish that are "imperiled" or "critically imperiled" in Missouri or globally.
Charles Rabeni
Leader
Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Area of Interest: Stream ecology and management
Mark Wildhaber
Quantitative Ecologist
U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center
Area of Interest: Quantitative ecology,
behavioral ecology and reproductive biology of fishes; ecological modeling,
stream community ecology, biostatistics, fate and effect of contaminants
in aquatic ecosystems and risk assessment; threatened and endangered fish
species including reproductive ecology and the effects of natural and
anthropogenic factors on riverine fish communities
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