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Faculty > Area Of Specialization > Ecology

Lowell W. Adams
ladams4@.umd.edu
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Urban wildlife ecology & management; human-wildlife interactions in the metropolitan environment; biological and cultural carrying capacities of urban environments

Andrew Baldwin
baldwin@umd.edu
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Wetland ecology; plant community dynamics of coastal marshes, mangroves; disturbance and regeneration ecology of wetland vegetation; influence of sea level rise on coastal wetlands; community and ecosystem processes of created and restored wetlands; nutrient effects on wetland plant communities

Eugene Bass

elbass@umes.edu
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Ecotoxicology, comparative biology, environmental disruptors: sources, physiological effects, and implications for ecosystem health; Vitellogenin production in fish as an indicator of hormonally active agents in the environment; environmental endocrine disruptors in poultry litter

Donald F. Boesch
boesch@ca.umces.edu
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Use of science in environmental policy & management, particularly related to understanding the causes of and solutions to coastal eutrophication

Walter R. Boynton
boynton@cbl.umces.edu
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Coastal marine ecology, emphasizing nutrient processes at the sediment-water interface; ecosystem scale and modeling; eutrophication; food web dynamics

Allen C. Bush
bush@umbc.edu
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Environmental molecular biology; glycoprotein and polysaccharide structure determination using NMR and three dimensional molecular dynamics

Mark S. Castro
castro@al.umces.edu
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Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, greenhouse gas fluxes, global environmental changes, effects of atmospheric deposition and human activities on nutrient dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems, the composition of the atmosphere

Paulinus Chigbu
pchigbu@umes.edu
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Fisheries ecology; influence of variations in climatic factors on water quality and biota; culture of rotifers and copepods for use in rearing marine fish larvae; trophic dynamics in marine and freshwater environments; zooplankton ecology

Jeffrey C. Cornwell

cornwell@hpl.umces.edu
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Sediment biogeochemistry; burial of sediment and associated chemical constituents; nutrient exchange in sediment; influence of tidal marshes on ecosystem N and P balances

James Dietz
jimdietz@umd.edu
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Mammalian ecology and conservation; tropical ecology, primate biology; conservation biology theory and application; metapopulation dynamics and management; effects of habitat degradation on population viability

Erle C. Ellis
ece@umbc.edu
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Landscape ecology; biogeochemistry, sustainable resource management

Andrew Elmore
aelmore@al.umces.edu
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Land use and land cover change; ecohydrology; biogeochemistry; remote sensing and spatial analysis

Katharina Engelhardt
kengelhardt@al.umces.edu
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Effects of species richness on wetland ecosystem functioning and services; community ecology and ecosystem ecology

William Fagan

bfagan@glue.umd.edu
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Meshing field research with theoretical models to address critical questions in community ecology and conservation biology; ecological "edge effects" and spatial dynamics; ecoinformatics, biodiversity databases, and conservation planning

Irwin N. Forseth, Jr.
iforseth@umd.edu
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Plant physiological and population ecology; heliotropic leaf movement; biodiversity; photosynthesis responses to global climate change

Robert H. Gardner

gardner@al.umces.edu
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Landscape ecology; systems analysis; approaches for predicting ecological dynamics in spatially heterogeneous systems; analysis and prediction of changes in ecosystem dynamics with changes in scale

J. Edward Gates
gates@al.umces.edu
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Wildlife, habitatd and landscape ecology; habitat fragmentation and alteration, connectivity, edge effects and boundary dynamics; habitat suitability for vertebrate species

Jacqueline Grebmeier
jgrebmei@cbl.umces.edu
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Pelagic-benthic coupling on continental shelves, benthic ecology, inverebrate zoology, contaminant distributions, high latitude oceanography

Reginal M. Harrell
rh116@umail.umd.edu
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Aquaculture; ecology of aquatic ecosystems; hybridization of fishes; fisheries management; conservation biology

Lora A. Harris
harris@cbl.umces.edu
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Systems ecology; theoretical ecology; primary producers from phytoplankton to macrophytes; ecosystem modeling

Edward D. Houde
ehoude@cbl.umces.edu
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Fisheries science and management; recruitment mechanisms; effects of environment on reproductive success of fishes; ecology of marine and estuarine fishes, especially early-life stages

David W. Inouye
inouye@umd.edu
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Pollination biology; plant demography; climate change biology; flowering phenology; plant-animal interactions

Sujay Kaushal
kaushal@cbl.umces.edu
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Biogeochemistry, fate and transport of pollutants, limnology, microbial ecology, organic geochemistry and environmental history

W. Michael Kemp
kemp@hpl.umces.edu
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Coastal marine ecology; net community production; nutrient cycling; physical-biological coupling; benthic-pelagic interactions; ecosystem analysis; numerical models

Victor S. Kennedy
kennedy@hpl.umces.edu
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Reproduction and larval behavior and ecology of bivalves; crab and fish foraging behavior; ecology and dynamics of littoral and sublittoral benthic communities; global climate change

William O. Lamp
lamp@umd.edu
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Applied insect ecology; integrated pest management, with emphasis on forage crops; benthic macroinvertebrate ecology in streams impacted by humans

Stephanie Lansing
slansing@umd.edu
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Anaerobic digestion; ecological waste treatment systems; treatment wetlands; nutrient cycling; energy analysis; ecological modeling

Jeff Leips
leips@umbc.edu
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Evolution of life history traits, specifically focused on understanding how the genetic architecture underlying these traits guides and constrains their evolutionary responses to natural selection

Laura Lewis

ljlewis@umbc.edu
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Biogeography of crop species; domestication and radiation of agricultural species; agro-ecology, germplasm management, genetic resources conservation; applied urban ethnobotany/ethnobiology, specifically in the Washington DC/Baltimore area

Thomas Malone
malone@hpl.umces.edu
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Dynamics of marine ecosystems; phytoplankton ecology; coastal eutrophication

Eric B. May
ebmay@mail.umes.edu
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Effects of environmental contamination and habitat degradation on aquatic animal health; use of biochemical, metabolic indicators to determine the response of fish to injurious agents of conditions

Marla McIntosh
mmcintos@umd.edu
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Sustainable forestry; genetics of hyperaccumulation of Cd in Thlaspi caerulescens; pytomedicinals; genetic diversity

Thomas Miller
miller@cbl.umces.edu
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Recruitment and population dynamics of aquatic animals; fish early life history; feeding and bio-physical interactions; aquatic ecology; blue crabs

Madhumi Mitra
mmitra@mail.umes.edu
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Paleontology, paleocology and paleoenvironmental studies of cretaceous-quaternary sediments of atlantic coastal plain; factors impacting the decline of submerged aquatic vegetation; phytoplankton dynamics

Thoedore A. Mollett
tamollett@mail.umes.edu
Role of hormones in animal growth, reproduction and lactation

Bahram Momen
bmomen@umd.edu
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Forest ecosystems; air pollution effects on ecosystem processes through plants; tree and crop ecophysiology; applied statistical analysis and experimental design in natural resources

Laura Murray
murray@hpl.umces.edu
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Wetlands ecology, nutrient and pore water chemistry dynamics of submerged aquatic vegetation, nutrient retention by wetlands, wetland plant ecology

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri
anagchaudhuri@umes.edu
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Integration of advanced technologies of mechatronics in the fields of precision agriculture, environmental, marine and geosciences; remote sensing and image analysis

Maile Neel
mneel@umd.edu
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Understanding patterns of biological diversity as well as the relationships between these patterns and the ecological and evolutionary processes that have created them; applying this understanding to developing effective conservation approaches and to predict effects of changing patterns and processes

David M. Nelson
dmnelson@al.umces.edu
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Ecosystem responses to natural and human-induced variations in climatic and environmental conditions; study of plants and microbes in geologic and modern settings utilizing isotopic, paleoecological, genomic and biogeochemical tools

Roger I. E. Newell
rnewell@hpl.umces.edu
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Marine ecology and physiology; adaptive physiology of aquatic invertebrates

Mary A. Ottinger

maotting@umd.edu
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Neuroendocrine regulation of endocrine and behavioral aspects of avian reproduction; effects of environmental factors, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals

Margaret Palmer
palmer@cbl.umces.edu
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Stream community and ecosystems ecology; restoration ecology; stream ecosystem structure and function; influence of land use, hydrology and geomorphology on health of running-water ecosystems

Kennedy Paynter
paynter@umd.edu
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Comparative biochemistry and physiology of estuarine animals, especially bivalves; oyster disease biochemistry; biology and ecology of the eastern oyster

Joseph Pitula
jspitula@mail.umes.edu
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Transition metals and metabolism; molecular biology of Protozoan Parasites

Robert Provine

provine@umbc.edu
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Biological bases of behavior; development of the nervous system and behavior; prenatal behavior

Marjorie Reaka-Kudla

mkudla@umd.edu
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Marine ecology; coral reef ecology; bioerosion of coral reefs; ecology and behavior of mantis shrimp; evolutionary ecology of life history patterns in crustacea

Christopher Rowe

rowe@cbl.umces.edu
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Physiological ecology of aquatic vertebrates and invertebrates chronically exposed to sublethal concentrations of contaminants

Douglas E. Ruby

deruby@mail.umes.edu
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Population ecology and behavior of reptiles; sexual selection and mating systems of vertebrates; territoriality and agonistic behavior; biogeography; conservation biology of amphibians and reptilesecology

Lawrence P. Sanford

lsanford@hpl.umces.edu
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Coastal and esturaine physical oceanography; fine sediment transport mechanics, geophysical boundary layers, turbulence, surface and internal waves

David Secor
secor@cbl.umces.edu
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Fish ecology; fish life history and migration studies; fisheries stock enhancement; migration and habitat use as behaviors controlling and regulating population dynamics

Frank Siewerdt
siewerdt@umd.edu
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Quantitative and population genetics, conservation genetics, selection theory, genetic improvement of farm animals, applied statistical methods and experimental designs for the natural sciences

Jeurel Singleton
jsingleton@mail.umes.edu
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Identification and characterization of arthropod sensory structures; arthropod community population dynamics on host animals, aquatic and crop environments; arthropod disease vectors

Diane Stoecker
stoecker@hpl.umces.edu
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Ecology and physiology of marine ciliates an dinoflagellates; mixotrophy in the plankton; microbial food web interactions

Joseph Sullivan
jsull@umd.edu
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The responses of plants to various forms of environmental stress - both natural and anthropogenic; physiological mechanisms that enable plants to exist in a wide range of environmental conditions; how human activities impact plant, agricultural or ecosystem productivity

Marcelino Suzuki
suzuki@cbl.umces.edu
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Marine microbial ecology; application of molecular approaches to the study of aquatic microbes; quantification of gene abundance/expression; molecular phylogenetics; environmental genomics

Christopher Swan
cmswan@umbc.edu
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Steam community and ecosystem ecology; riparian biodiversity and stream processes; urban riparian-steam ecology

Mario Tamburri

tamburri@cbl.umces.edu
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Coastal sensor and sensor platform development; chemical ecology of marine organisms; ecosystem monitoring and marine convervation

David Rogers Tilley
dtilley@umd.edu
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Ecological engineering; wetland assessment with hyperspectral radiometry; ecosystem filtration of air pollutants; net energy analysis of bio-fuels; environmental accounting and emergy analysis