Faculty & Research

EBIO Faculty
The Faculty are listed below, alphabetized by last name. More information about each Faculty member, including research interests, publications, and curriculum vitae can be found by clicking on the respective faculty member's name, which links to their personal page and more in-depth information about their research.
William Adams Professor	Plant ecophysiology; photosynthesis; environmental stress; phloem structure & function william.adams@colorado.edu	Adams Lab
Dave Armstrong Professor	Evolutionary zoogeography, ecology, and systematics of mammals; biogeography of peninsulas; evolution, description, analysis, and conservation of patterns in the ecosphere david.armstrong@colorado.edu
Nichole Barger Assistant Professor	Impacts of changing climate and land use on plant communities and soil resources in arid land ecosystems; biogeochemistry, dendrochronology, forest ecology, management and restoration of grazing land ecosystems. nichole.barger@colorado.edu
John Basey Senior Instructor	Research emphasis is in behavioral ecology and science laboratory education john.basey@colorado.edu
Deane Bowers Professor	Insect ecology and evolution, plant-animal interactions, chemical ecology deane.bowers@colorado.edu
William Bowman Professor	Plant ecology; alpine ecosystem science; plant-soil and plant-plant interactions william.bowman@colorado.edu	Dr. Bowman's home page
Michael Breed Professor Associate Chair, Undergraduate Program	Social behavior of insects, kin recognition system of honey bees, nest defense in honey bees, and social biology of the giant tropical ant michael.breed@colorado.edu	Dr. Breed's home page
Harrison Carpenter Instructor	harrison.carpenter@colorado.edu Ketchum 309	Dr. Carpenter's home page
Sharon Collinge Associate Professor	Habitat loss & fragmentation; patterns of landscape change; restoration ecology sharon.collinge@colorado.edu	Collinge Lab
Alexander Cruz Professor	Behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary studies of birds and fishes alexander.cruz@colorado.edu
Mel Cundiff Associate Professor	Introductory Biology for Non-Science Majors; Coral Reef Ecology -- A field course during Christmas break; Tropical Marine Ecology (Teaching only -- No Research Program) cundiff@colorado.edu	Dr. Cundiff's home page
Kendi Davies Assistant Professor	Spatial dynamics of communities and populations; invasion; extinction; grasslands; microcosms; habitat fragmentation. kendi.davies@colorado.edu	Davies lab
Barbara Demmig-Adams Professor	Plant ecophysiology; photosynthesis; mechanisms of plant stress adaptation barbara.demmig-adams@colorado.edu	Demmig-Adams Lab
Pamela Diggle Professor	Development, evolution, and ecology of plant reproductive systems pamela.diggle@colorado.edu Ramaley C287
Noah Fierer Assistant Professor	Soil ecology, microbial ecology, role of microorganisms in terrestrial ecosystems noah.fierer@colorado.edu CIRES 1B56	Fierer Lab
William (Ned) Friedman Professor	Evolution of plants; plant reproductive biology; history of evolutionism before Darwin william.friedman@colorado.edu	Friedman Lab MORPH website
Michael Grant Professor Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education	Plant population biology, population genetics and ecology, computer simulations michael.grant@colorado.edu
Robert Guralnick Assistant Professor	Evolution of invertebrates; morphology, genes, and biodiversity informatics robert.guralnick@colorado.edu	Dr. Guralnick's home page
Pieter Johnson Assistant Professor	Disease emergence and biological invasions; freshwater ecology; host-parasite dynamics; conservation biology. pieter.johnson@colorado.edu	Johnson Lab
Carol Kearns Senior Instructor	carol.a.kearns@colorado.edu
Margie Krest Senior Instructor	margie.krest@colorado.edu	Margie Krest's home page
William Lewis Professor Director, Center for Limnology	william.lewis@colorado.edu	CIRES home page
Yan Linhart Professor; Associate Chair, Graduate Program	Evolutionary ecology; plant-animal interactions; chemical variation in plants yan.linhart@colorado.edu
Carol Lynch Professor; Dean, Graduate School; Associate Vice Chancellor, Research	Quantitative and behavioral genetics, genetic basis of evolutionary adaptation, neural mechanisms underlying behavioral adaptation in mice, especially nest-building carol.lynch@colorado.edu
Andrew Martin Associate Professor	Evolutionary & conservation biology; microbial diversity; biogeography andrew.martin-1@colorado.edu	Martin Lab
Stephanie Mayer Senior Instructor	stephanie.mayer@colorado.edu
Christy McCain Assistant Professor	Community ecology; Montane ecology; Patterns and mechanisms of diversity, distribution, and abundance; Ecological theory; Climate change; Vertebrate population & conservation biology; Biogeography. christy.mccain@colorado.edu	Dr. McCain�s homepage
Jeffry Mitton Professor; Chair EBIO	Population genetics, genetic structure of plant and animal populations, adaptive significance of heterozygosity, evolutionary conservation genetics of plants and animals mitton@colorado.edu	Dr. Mitton's home page
Russell Monson Professor	Plant physiological ecology; forest-atmosphere carbon, water and energy fluxes; regional carbon cycling; influence of ecosystem processes on atmospheric chemistry russell.monson@colorado.edu	Dr. Monson's home page
Diana Nemergut Assistant Professor	Microbial evolution and ecology, horizontal gene transfer diana.nemergut@colorado.edu	Nemergut Lab
Harvey Nichols Professor	Paleo-ecology, palynology, response of arctic and alpine tree-line regions to past and present climatic changes harvey.nichols@colorado.edu
Thomas Ranker Professor	Plant systematics, systematics of tropical and neotropical flora, conservation biology thomas.ranker@colorado.edu	Ranker Lab
Rebecca Safran Assistant Professor	Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology, Vertebrate Social Behavior, the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation, Relationships between Individual Behavior and Population-level Patterns. rebecca.safran@colorado.edu	Dr. Safran's home page
Steve Schmidt Professor	Microbial ecology, plant/microbe interactions, biogeochemistry, mycorrhizae steve.schmidt@colorado.edu	Schmidt Lab
Timothy Seastedt Professor	Terrestrial ecosystems; soil biology; ecology of invasive plant species timothy.seastedt@colorado.edu	Dr. Seastedt's home page
David Stock Associate Professor	Developmental genetic mechanisms of the evolution of teeth in fishes david.stock@colorado.edu	Dr. Stock's home page
Alan Townsend Associate Professor	Terrestrial ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry; global environmental change alan.townsend@colorado.edu	INSTAAR Lab
Carol Wessman Associate Professor	Landscape & regional ecology; disturbance; land-use/land-cover change; remote sensing/GIS carol.wessman@colorado.edu