All OEB faculty are listed below. To help applicants to our graduate program locate a faculty sponsor, the faculty list can be filtered by four broad research areas.
Click any OEB faculty member's name to view their directory page.
Faculty
| Name | Research Interests |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Ecology and evolution of insect-plant interactions |
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Professor of Biology |
Plant Ecology and Conservation Science |
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Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Insect-plant interactions |
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Plant ecology, biogeography and evolution |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Climate Change, Biofuels, Clostridia, Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Genomics, Bioinformatics |
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Biogeography and global change ecology |
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Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Mount Holyoke College |
Carbon cycling in northern wetlands |
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology |
Biomechanics and Behavior of Migratory Fishes; Bioengineering of Fish Passage Structures |
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Professor, Stockbridge School of Agriculture |
Ecology of fungal-plant interactions in agricultural systems |
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Lecturer/Adjunct Research Associate Professor of Biology |
Ecology and evolutionary diversity of neotropical freshwater fishes, particularly within the Amazon River |
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology |
Community ecology and physiology of soil microbes, climate change, plant-soil interactions |
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Research Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation USGS Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Leader |
Urban and suburban wildlife, forest wildlife, and human-wildlife interactions |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Population dynamics and biological control of invasive forest insects |
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Senior Researcher, Harvard Forest, Harvard University Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Biology, UMass Amherst |
Community ecology |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Mathematical modeling of populations and ecosystems |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Mammalian population ecology and natural history |
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Professor and Department Head of Environmental Conservation |
Wildlife ecology and conservation |
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Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Mount Holyoke College |
Conservation biology, invasion dynamics, spatial modeling |
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Senior Lecturer in Biology |
Animal Behavior, Vertebrate Ecology, and Conservation Biology |
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Conservation |
Ecosystems, modeling, tagging, movement, trophic dynamics, diadromous, marine, |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
413-545-1799 |
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Adjunct Research Associate Professor, Environmental Conservation Research Wildlife Biologist USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Amherst |
Wildlife ecology and conservation |
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation Section Leader, Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center |
Population ecology of stream fishes |
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Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Amherst College |
Plant systematics, biogeography and ecology |
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Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Landscape ecology, ecosystem management, wildlife ecology |
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Associate Professor of Biology, Amherst College |
Ecology and evolution of plant sexual systems |
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation Research Fishery Biologist, USDA Forest Service |
Ecology and conservation biology of stream fishes and invertebrates |
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Associate Professsor of Microbiology |
Microbial ecology of terrestrial and aquatic environments |
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Associate Professor of Biology |
Conservation ecology of lepidoptera; evolution of development, biostatistics and bioinformatics |
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Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Hampshire College |
Ecological and evolutionary genetics of hybrid zones and speciation |
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Research Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Freshwater ecology, fish and macroinvertebrates, urban ecology, conservation |
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Associate Director of OEB and Chair of Admissions Research Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Conservation biology, physiological ecology and biostatistics |
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Smith College |
Ecology and evolution of marine predator-prey interactions |
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Professor of Biology, Amherst College |
Foraging behavior; Territoriality; Intra- and Interspecific competition; Resource partitioning; Mutualism; Coevolution; |
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Associate Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Animal communication, urban ecology, human-environment interactions |
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Conservation |
Conservation genetics and evolutionary ecology of fishes |