Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
PhD Program at Miami University
Faculty Associates
Students interested in the Ph.D. program in Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology (EEEB) should review the research interests of the faculty associates below. Any faculty associate can serve as a dissertation advisor. To be admitted to EEEB, applicants must identify at least one faculty associate who is willing to serve as the dissertation advisor. Therefore, students interested in applying are strongly encouraged to contact at least one potential advisor.
- Bailer, A. John — Department of Statistics
- Interests: design and analysis of ecotoxicological experiments and quantitative risk estimation
- Berg, David J. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: biodiversity, molecular ecology, and conservation of freshwater invertebrates
- Boardman, Mark R. — Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science
- Interests: oceanography, marine ecology, climage change, coral reefs, environmental geochemistry
- Bollmann, Annette — Department of Microbiology
- Interests: microbial ecology, nitrogen cycle, bioremediation, ecophysiology
- Boone, Michelle D. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: amphibian conservation, experimental ecology, ecotoxicology, invasive species, pathogens, multiple stressors
- Cady, Alan B. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: terrestrial ecology, focusing on generalist predatory arthropods in agroecosystems
- Costanzo, Jon P. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: hibernation ecology and physiology, amphibians, reptiles, cold hardiness mechanisms, bioenergetics, environmental physiology
- Crist, Thomas — Department of Zoology
- Interests: landscape ecology, biodiversity, conservation biology, statistical ecology, insect ecology
- Cummins, Hays — Department of Geography
- Interests: global change, coral reef ecosystems, science education
- Currano, Ellen — Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science
- Interests: terrestrial paleoecology, paleobotany, plant-insect herbivore interactions
- Dong, Hailiang — Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science
- Interests: microbial ecology in lakes, oceans, groundwater; bioremediation, geomicrobiology, geochemistry
- Fisk, Melany C. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemistry, decomposition, soil ecology
- Friedberg, Iddo - Department of Microbiology
- Interests: metagenomics; gene and protein function prediction; molecular evolution such as: protein structure and function evolution and metabolic pathway evolution; bioinformatic database and software development
- Gladish, Daniel K. — Department of Botany
- Interests: effects of environmental factors on root development, prairie restoration, soil remediation
- González, María J. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: community ecology, aquatic food webs, zooplankton, fish
- Gorchov, David L. — Department of Botany
- Interests: ecology of invasive plants (especially invasion dynamics),population ecology, forest ecology
- Hagerman, Ann E. — Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
- Interests: plant polyphenolics (tannins), soil decomposition of polyphenolics, plant-animal interactions, analytical biochemistry
- Henry, Mary C. — Department of Geography
- Interests: landscape ecology, remote sensing, vegetation dynamics, fire ecology
- Hickey, R. James — Department of Botany
- Interests: systematics and evolution of vascular plants, especially pteridophytes; Bahamian flora
- Hoffman, Susan M.G. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: evolutionary, population and conservation genetics of mammals
- Huerta, Alfredo — Department of Botany
- Interests: plant physiology
- Keane, Brian — Department of Zoology
- Interests: mammalian social behavior, inbreeding, mate choice, dispersal, molecular genetic techniques
- Keiffer, Carolyn H. — Department of Botany
- Interests: ecological restoration, invasive plants, phytoremediation, bioremediation
- Klak, Thomas C. — Department of Geography
- Interests: sustainability, birds as ecological indicators, Caribbean ecosystems, biodiversity, native plant restoration
- Krekeler, Mark — Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science
- Interests: constructed wetlands, environmental mineralogy, mine waste, battery waste, heavy metal pollution
- Lee, Richard E. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: ecophysiology of winter survival
- Levy, Jonathan — Department of Geology & Environmental Earth Science
- Interests: groundwater/surface-water interaction, contaminant transport and water-resource issues in the developing world
- Maingi, John K. — Department of Geography
- Interests: GIS, remote sensing, forest ecology, environmental change
- Medley, Kimberly E. — Department of Geography
- Interests: biogeography, plant ecology, landscape ecology, conservation
- Moore, Richard C. — Department of Botany
- Interests: plant evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics and genomics, duplicate gene evolution, evolution of sexual reproduction systems
- Morgan-Kiss, Rachael M. — Department of Microbiology
- Interests: distribution and function of phototrophic microorganisms in extreme environments; production of biomass from cold-tolerant algal species
- Myers, Christopher A. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: conservation, with community engagement and education projects worldwide
- Oris, James T. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: ecological impacts of stressors and chemicals in the aquatic environment
- Renwick, William H. — Department of Geography
- Interests: land use, water quality, sedimentation, erosion
- Rypstra, Ann L. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: behavioral ecology, community ecology, predator-prey interactions, spiders
- Schaeffer, Paul — Department of Zoology
- Interests: energetics, physiological ecology, phenotypic plasticity of metabolism, field physiology, telemetry
- Shukla, Amit — Dept. of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
- Interests: nonlinear dynamics, bifurcation stability and control, hybrid systems
- Smith-Huerta, Nancy — Department of Botany
- Interests: pollination biology
- Solomon, Nancy — Department of Zoology
- Interests: sociality, group-living, dispersal, cooperative breeding, communal and parental care, mammals
- Steinly, Bruce A. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: restoration, wetlands, insect primary consumers, insect detritivores, shore flies, food webs, arthropod brain morphology
- Stevens, Martin Henry H. — Department of Botany
- Interests: ecology and evolution of community dynamics and diversity, statistical methods
- Tomoyasu, Yoshinori — Department of Zoology
- Interests: evolutionary developmental biology using insect wings as a model system
- Vanni, Michael J. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: ecosystem and community ecology, aquatic ecology, food webs, nutrient cycling, watersheds
- Vincent, Michael A. — Department of Botany
- Interests: plant/fungal taxonomy, floristics, endangered species conservation, herbarium curation
- Williamson, Craig E. — Department of Zoology
- Interests: global change limnology, ecology of UV radiation, zooplankton and larval fish ecology
- Zhang, Jing — Department of Statistics
- Interests: Bayesian statistics, spatial analysis, statistical modeling for environmental and biological sciences