Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Sections

Personal tools

You are here: home → Graduate programs → Ecology → Ecology faculty and research → Climate change

Document Actions

Climate change

Faculty in the Ecology graduate program with research interests in this area.

Name	Email/phone	Interests include
Baums, Iliana Assistant Professor of Biology	ibb3@psu.edu 814-867-0491 (University Park)	Molecular ecology and evolution of reef invertebrates.
Carrick, Hunter Associate Professor of Aquatic Ecology	hjc11@psu.edu 814-865-9219 (University Park)	Ecosystem ecology; effects of eutrophication on the biogeochemistry of lakes, streams, and wetlands; effects of food web alterations on microbial biodiversity and productivity.
Decoteau, Dennis Professor of Horticulture and Plant Ecosystem Health	drd10@psu.edu 814-865-5587 (University Park)	Air pollution effects on plants and terrestrial ecosystems..
Drohan, Patrick Assistant Professor of Pedology	pjd7@psu.edu 814-863-4246 (University Park)	Soil formation and biogeochemistry due to land use and ecosystem change; soil and water degradation, and the remediation of soil physical and chemical properties in urban environments.
Eissenstat, David Professor of Woody Plant Physiology Chair, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology	dme9@psu.edu 814-863-3371 (University Park)	Plant physiological ecology, ecosystem ecology, climate change biology, root and soil ecology.
Kaye, Jason Assistant Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry	jpk12@psu.edu 814-863-1614 (University Park)	Ecosystem ecology; global change biology; biogeochemistry of nitrogen and carbon cycling in managed and unmanaged ecosystems.
Kaye, Margot Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology	mwk12@psu.edu 814-865-4841 (University Park)	Vegetation dynamics, dendrochronology, disturbance history, paleoclimatology, environmental change.
Mortensen, David Professor of Weed Ecology / Biology	dmortensen@psu.edu 814-865-1906 (University Park)	Assessing how climatic, physiographic and soil variation affects cropping systems performance.
Post, Eric Associate Professor of Biology	esp10@psu.edu 814-863-8162 (University Park)	Climate change and its effects on life history traits and population and community dynamics.
Smithwick, Erica Assistant Professor of Geography	smithwick@psu.edu 814-865-6693 (University Park)	Landscape and ecosystem ecology. Disturbance ecology & disturbance synergies. Ecosystem simulation models. Climate change and ecosystem carbon storage. Fire and soil nitrogen. Microbial community composition and function. Spatial statistics.
Taylor, Alan Professor of Geography	aht1@psu.edu 814-865-1509 (University Park)	Vegetation dynamics; fire and climate variation on community development; environmental conservation.
Wardrop, Denice Senior Research Associate Associate Professor of Geography and Ecology	dhw110@psu.edu 814-863-1005 (University Park)	Impacts of human disturbance on wetlands; plant community dynamics; theoretical applied ecology; landscape analysis.
Wilf, Peter Associate Professor of Geosciences	pwilf@psu.edu 814-865-6721 (University Park)	Paleobotany; paleoecology; extinction and recovery of past ecosystems; responses of organisms to climate change.