Faculty
Listing of all faculty members.
 | Michael Jones Professor; Acting Chair; Director Quantitative Fisheries Center Office Location: 334F Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-0465 E-mail: jonesm30@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Fish population dynamics and modeling; adaptive management; sea lamprey management |
 | Mark Axelrod Visiting Assistant Professor Office Location: 1A Natural Resources Building - FW / 362 North Case Hall - JMC Phone: 517-353-8607 / 517-432-5237 E-mail: axelrod3@msu.edu Area of Expertise: International environmental law and politics; democratic institutions and the environment |
 | Robert Batie Professor Office Location: 40A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-355-4479 E-mail: rbatie@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Invertebrate ecology and management |
 | Ted Batterson Professor Office Location: Upper River Lab Phone: 517-353-1962 E-mail: batters2@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Limnology with emphasis on the ecology and management of aquatic macrophytes; general aquaculture |
 | James Bence Professor; Director; Quantitative Fisheries Center Office Location: 11C Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-3812 E-mail: bence@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Quantitative fish population dynamics; stock assessment and ecology |
 | Mary Bremigan Associate Professor Office Location: 13A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-3831 E-mail: bremigan@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Fisheries management; aquatic communities and food web dynamics; fish recruitment |
 | Travis Brenden Assistant Professor; Associate Director Quantitatve Fisheries Center Office Location: 180 Giltner Hall Phone: 517-355-0003 E-mail: brenden@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Ecology and population dynamics of managed fish populations; biometry |
 | Jordan Burroughs Specialist; Wildlife Outreach Office Location: 13C Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-4872 E-mail: pusater3@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Community-based wildlife management; integration of human dimensions in wildlife management; program evaluation; fish and wildlife health implications and policy |
 | Thomas Burton Professor Office Location: 363 Giltner Hall Phone: 517-353-4475 E-mail: burtont@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Aquatic ecology; stream and marsh ecology; pollution effects |
 | Henry Campa Professor; Assistant Dean; Graduate School Office Location: 2A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-2042 E-mail: campa@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Wildlife habitat analysis and management; wildlife nutrition; habitat disturbance impacts; ecosystem management |
 | Kendra Cheruvelil Assistant Professor Office Location: 1A Natural Resources Building - FW / 139 East Holmes Hall - LBS Phone: 517-353-9528 / 517-432-5237 E-mail: ksc@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Inland lake ecology and management; landscape limnology |
 | Thomas Coon Professor; Director; Michigan State University Extension Office Location: 108 Agriculture Hall Phone: 517-355-2308 E-mail: coontg@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Fish ecology; stream ecology; fishery habitat management |
 | Tracy Dobson Professor Office Location: 10C Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-1711 E-mail: dobson@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Community-based natural resources management in Malawi; gender and environment; tribal fishing rights; Laurentian Great Lakes fisheries management policy; international environmental law and policy |
 | Erin Dreelin Assistant Professor; Associate Director; Center for Water Sciences Office Location: 301 Manly Miles Building Phone: 517-353-7746 E-mail: dreelin@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Stormwater management; urbanization; stream ecology |
 | Mohamed Faisal Professor Office Location: S110 Plant Biology Phone: 517-432-8259 E-mail: faisal@cvm.msu.edu Area of Expertise: Aquatic animal medicine |
 | Ken Frank Professor Office Location: 462 Erickson Hall Phone: 517-355-9567 E-mail: kenfrank@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Social structures of organizations and systems |
 | Donald Garling Professor Office Location: 220A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-1989 E-mail: garlingd@msu.edu Area of Expertise: General aquaculture; larval fish culture; fish nutrition; outreach |
 | Carole Gibbs Assistant Professor Office Location: 508 Baker Hall Phone: 517-355-2199 E-mail: gibbsca1@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Etiology and control of corporate environmental crime |
 | Meredith Gore Assistant Professor Office Location: 10A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-8203 E-mail: gorem@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Environmental risk and understanding what normative significance decision-makers give to such perceptions when crafting policy |
 | Geoffrey Habron Associate Professor Office Location: 9C Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-8086 E-mail: habrong@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Integrating adaptive management with community-based conservation at the watershed scale |
 | James Harding Instructor; Outreach Specialist Office Location: MSU Musuem Phone: 517-353-7978 E-mail: hardingj@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Conservation biology of turtles; herpetological conservation issues |
 | April Harlin-Cognato Assistant Professor Office Location: 203 Natural Science Building Phone: 517-432-5157 E-mail: cognatoa@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Molecular evolution; evolution of developmental processes; molecular ecology; phylogeography; quantitative phylogenetics; bioinformatics; behavioral ecology |
 | Daniel Hayes Professor Office Location: 334C Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-3781 E-mail: hayesdan@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Fish population dynamics; fish habitat; statistics and mathematical modeling |
 | Dana Infante Assistant Professor Office Location: 334E Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-7232 E-mail: infanted@msu.edu Area of Expertise: River ecology and management; landscape ecology; environmental assessment |
 | David Johnson Professor Office Location: 10B Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-1997 E-mail: johnso76@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Recycling and solid waste management |
 | Daniel Kramer Assistant Professor Office Location: 1A Natural Resources Building - FW / 370 Case Hall - JMC Phone: 517-432-2199 / 517-432-5237 E-mail: dbk@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Integration of ecological; sociological; policy; and economic analyses to study the conservation of biodiversity |
 | Nancy Leonard Specialist; Teaching Office Location: 115 Manly Miles Building Phone: 517-432-5046 E-mail: leonar80@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Interjurisdictional Fisheries Policy; Governance; and Management |
 | Weiming Li Associate Professor Office Location: 100 Giltner Hall Phone: 517-432-6705 E-mail: liweim@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Fish physiology; fish behavior; chemoreception; and molecular biology |
 | Jianguo (Jack) Liu Professor; Director; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability; University Distinguished Professor; Rachel Carson Chair in Ecological Sustainability Office Location: 115 Manly Miles Building Phone: 517-432-5234 E-mail: jliu@panda.msu.edu Area of Expertise: Systems modeling and simulations; landscape ecology; wildlife ecology |
 | Frank Lupi Associate Professor Office Location: 416 Agriculture Hall Phone: 517-432-3883 E-mail: lupi@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Economics; non-market valuation; human dimensions |
 | Brian Maurer Associate Professor Office Location: 11B Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-9478 E-mail: maurerb@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Wildlife ecology; biogeography and macroecology; quantitative ecology |
 | Andrew McAdam Assistant Professor Office Location: 1A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-0396 E-mail: mcadama@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Contemporary natural selection and evolution in wild populations |
 | Bill McConnell Assistant Professor; Associate Director; Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Office Location: 115 Manly Miles Building Phone: 517-432-7108 E-mail: mcconn64@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Coupled human and natural systems; land change science |
 | Richard Merritt Professor Office Location: 38 Natural Sciences Building Phone: 517-355-8309 E-mail: merrittr@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Biology and ecology of aquatic insects with emphasis on filter-feeding behavior and trophic dynamics of aquatic insects; mainly Diptera. Biomonitoring of streams and rivers; effects of perturbations on aquatic insects |
 | Kelly Millenbah Associate Professor; Director of Academic Programs Office Location: 2C Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-4802 E-mail: millenba@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Endangered species recovery and management; ecological restoration |
 | Cheryl Murphy Assistant Professor Office Location: 11D Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-7771 E-mail: camurphy@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Aquatic Toxicology; effects of contaminants on fish populations |
 | Michael Nelson Associate Professor Office Location: 1A Natural Resources Building - FW / E189 East Holmes Hall - LBS Phone: 517-353-4879 / 517-432-5237 E-mail: mpnelson@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Environmental ethics and philosophy |
 | Jen Owen Assistant Professor Office Location: Phone: E-mail: Area of Expertise: Ecology of zoonotic diseases; behavioral ecology of migratory birds; avian ecoimmunology and virology |
 | Scott Peacor Associate Professor Office Location: 10D Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-1910 E-mail: peacor@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Population and community ecology; ecological and ecosystem modeling; aquatic ecology |
 | Amber Peters Assistant Professor Office Location: 340 Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-4819 E-mail: peter420@msu.edu Area of Expertise: History; nutrition and management of fishes |
 | Chuck Pistis Program Leader; Michigan Sea Grant Extension Office Location: 332 Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-5508 E-mail: pistis@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Oversees Michigan Sea Grant Extension Program which works with coastal constituencies in Michigan to apply science-based knowledge to address Great Lakes issues. |
 | Shawn Riley Associate Professor Office Location: 2D Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-9456 E-mail: rileysh2@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Wildlife ecology; decision research; integration of environmental and social dimensions of fish and wildlife management |
 | Gary Roloff Assistant Professor Office Location: 38 Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-5236 E-mail: roloff@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Effects of natural and human disturbances on wildlife and biodiversity |
 | Joan Rose Professor; Co-Director Center for Water Sciences and Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment; Homer Nolin Endowed Chair in Water Research Office Location: 15 Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-4412 E-mail: rosejo@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Water pollution microbiology and public health |
 | Brian Roth Assistant Professor Office Location: Phone: E-mail: Area of Expertise: Aquatic food web ecology; trophic interactions between native and invasive species |
 | Orlando Sarnelle Associate Professor Office Location: 163A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-4819 E-mail: sarnelle@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Biological limnology; trophic interactions; plankton ecology; water quality; nuisance algal blooms; exotic species; population and community ecology |
 | Jim Schneider Specialist; Academic Advisor Office Location: 40B Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-2979 E-mail: schne181@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Undergraduate advising/career assistance |
 | John Schwartz Associate Professor Office Location: 334B Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-355-9637 E-mail: schwartj@msu.edi Area of Expertise: Michigan Seagrant |
 | Kim Scribner Professor Office Location: 2E Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-3288 E-mail: scribne3@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Population and behavioral ecology; genetics; molecular; evolution and conservation biology |
 | Patricia Soranno Associate Professor Office Location: 9B Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-4330 E-mail: soranno@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Limnology; land-water interactions; landscape ecology |
 | William Taylor Professor; University Distinguished Professor in Global Fisheries Systems Office Location: 13D Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-3048 E-mail: taylorw@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Fisheries ecology; population and management; influence of fish on the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems; U.S. - Canada fishery resource policy and management |
 | Jean Tsao Assistant Professor Office Location: 11A Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-1737 E-mail: tsao@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Disease ecology; evolution; and management; emerging infectious disease/invasive species ecology and management |
 | Michael Wagner Assistant Professor Office Location: 334 Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-5485 E-mail: mwagner@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Fish ecology and behavior; invasive species |
 | Scott Winterstein Professor; Associate Chair Office Location: 2B Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-353-2022 E-mail: winterst@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Biometry; ecology; ethology; and dynamics of wildlife populations |
 | Lois Wolfson Specialist Office Location: 340 Natural Resources Building - FW / 101 Manly Miles Building - WRI Phone: 517-353-9222 / 517-432-1184 E-mail: wolfson1@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Limnology; aquatic plant management; and algal ecology |
 | Sang Seon Yun Assistant Professor Office Location: 13B Natural Resources Building Phone: 517-432-9511 E-mail: yuns@msu.edu Area of Expertise: Chemical ecology of aquatic organisms; fish physiology; and natural product chemistry |
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