Shorna B. Allred
Associate Professor
SRB237@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Human dimensions of natural resource management with emphasis on forest and water resources and conservation related attitudes and behavior.
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 4000: Global Citizenship and Sustainability
- NTRES 4940: Cook Community Engagement: Bridging Self, Community, and World
- NTRES 4940/6940: Global Env. Service Learning-Thailand
- NTRES 6000: Introduction to Graduate Study in Natural Resources
Bernd Blossey
Associate Professor
BB22@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Impact of invasive plants on native species and food webs, biological control of nonindigenous plants in natural areas, conservation biology, plant-insect interactions, invasion biology
Evan Cooch
Associate Professor
EGC7@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Wildlife ecology and management, population dynamics, population modeling, quantitative methods, theoretical ecology
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3100: Applied Population Ecology
- NTRES 4100: Conservation Biology: Concepts and Techniques
- NTRES 4120/6120: Wildlife Population Analysis: Techniques and Models
- NTRES 4601: Decision Making in Natural Resource Management
Paul Curtis
Associate Professor
PDC1@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Population biology of birds and mammals, public policy education, management of human-wildlife conflicts
Courses Taught:
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NTRES 4280/6280: Principles and Practices of Applied Wildlife Science
Daniel Decker
Professor
DJD6@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Human dimensions of wildlife management and policy
Timothy Fahey
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor
Undergraduate Advising Coordinator
TJF5@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Dynamics of forest ecosystems
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3301: Sustainability Science
- NTRES 4200/4201: Forest Ecology, Lec/Lab
Marc Goebel
Research Associate
Research Interests:
Forest ecology, plant and soil interactions, soil carbon and nutrient cycling, impacts of environmental change on belowground plant dynamics
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 2100: Introduction to Field Biology
Matthew Hare
Associate Professor
MPH75@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Population and conservation genetics
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 2830: DNA, Genes and Conserving Diversity
- NTRES 4100: Conservation Biology: Concepts and Techniques
- NTRES 7283: Molecular Genetic Approaches to the Study of Ecology and Evolution
Karim-Aly Kassam
Associate Professor
KSK28@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Biocultural Diversity, Human Ecology, Indigenous Studies, Natural Resource Policy, Central Asian Studies, Pluralism, Socio-Cultural and Environmental change.
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3330: Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge
- NTRES 7330: Socio-cultural and Ecological Role of Diversity
- AIS 1110: Introduction to American Indian Studies II: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous North America
- AIS 6010: American Indian Studies Proseminar
Barbara Knuth
Vice Provost
Dean of Graduate School
Professor
BAK3@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Natural resource and environmental policy; human dimensions of natural resource management
Clifford Kraft
Associate Professor
CEK7@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Fish and aquatic ecology, aquatic ecosystem management; advises biology majors and pre-med students
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 1101: Intro Environmental Science and Sustainability
- NTRES 4300: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Processes
- NTRES/BIOEE 4560: Stream Ecology
Marianne Krasny
Professor
MEK2@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Environmental education, urban youth and community environmental programs, civic ecology education
James Lassoie
International Professor of Conservation
JPL4@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Conservation science, community-based natural resource management, eco-agriculture, international development, sustainability
Courses Taught:
- IARD/NTRES/SNES 4850: Case Studies in International Eco agriculture and Environmental Conservation
Bruce Lauber
Senior Research Associate
TBL3@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Collaborative and community-based natural resource management. Invasive species. Human dimensions of Great Lakes fisheries.
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3300: Natural Resource Planning and Management
Stephen Morreale
Senior Research Associate
Adjunct Associate Professor
SJM11@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Conservation ecology, vertebrate zoology, amphibians and reptiles, wildlife, forest conservation, marine conservation
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3260: Applied Conservation Ecology
Amanda Rodewald
Associate Professor
Director of Conservation Science Cornell Lab of Ornithology
ARODEWALD@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Conservation biology, wildlife population and community ecology, avian ecology and conservation in temperate and tropical regions
Courses Taught:
- NTRES/BIOEE 2670: Introduction to Conservation Biology
Paul Rodewald
Senior Lecturer
Senior Research Associate Cornell Lab of Ornithology
pgr35@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Ornithological research, studying ecology of migratory songbirds.
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 2100: Introduction to Field Biology
Lars Rudstam
Professor
LGR1@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Fish and aquatic ecology, fisheries management
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3110/3111: Fish Ecology Conservation and Management
Rebecca Schneider
Associate Professor
RLS11@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Sustainable management of water resources, wetland ecology and hydrology, plants and groundwater.
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3240/6240: Sustainable, Ecologically Based Management of Water Resources
Peter Smallidge
Sr. Extension Associate
PJS23@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Forest and woodlot management, sugarbush management, organic and conventional integrated vegetation management, invasive plant management, forest health, low impact logging and silvopasture
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3250: Forest Management and Maple Syrup Production
Richard Stedman
Associate Professor
RCS6@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Natural resource based communities, natural resources and social change, coupled human and environmental systems, environmental attitudes, social science methods, and environmental risk
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 2201: Society and Natural Resources
- NTRES 4320: Social Science and Resource Policy: Applications
- DSOC/NTRES 6201: Community, Place, and Environment
Patrick Sullivan
Professor and Department Chair
Career Development Faculty Representative
Research Interests:
Quantitative population and community dynamics, natural resource assessment and modeling, biological statistics, spatial statistic, marine and freshwater fisheries
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 4110/6110: Quantitative Ecology & Management of Fisheries Resources
- NTRES 6140: Introduction and Application of Bayesian Methods for Inference in Ecology (Fall 2012)
- NTRES 6700: Spatial Statistics
James Tantillo
Lecturer
Research Associate
JAT4@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Environmental philosophy, environmental history, science policy, and animal ethics
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 2320: Nature and Culture
- NTRES 3320: Introduction to Ethics and the Environment
- NTRES 4330: Applied Environmental Philosophy
Nina Overgaard Therkildsen
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Integration of molecular ecology and evolutionary genomics to study contemporary evolution and local adaptation in fish populations with a keen interest in developing ways to leverage genomic analysis for improving sustainable fisheries management.
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3400: Molecular Tools Ecology/Conservation
- NTRES 3500: Computational Skills for Efficient Data Processing and Analysis
Steven Wolf
Associate Professor
SAW44@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Political economy of environment, environmental governance, multifunctional landscapes, agrienvironmental policy
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 3301: Sustainability Science
- NTRES/S&TS/B&SOC 3311: Environmental Governance
- NTRES 6310: Environmental Governance
- DSOC/NTRES 7600: Economy, Ecology and Limits: A Graduate Seminar in Environmental Sociology
Joseph Yavitt
Professor / Director of Graduate Studies
JBY1@cornell.edu
Research Interests:
Ecology and biogeochemistry of soil ecosystems, microorganisms, and wetlands
Courses Taught:
- NTRES 2010: Environmental Conservation
- NTRES/EAS 3030: Introduction to Biogeochemistry
- NTRES 3220: Global Ecology and Management
- NTRES 6000: Introduction to Graduate Study in Natural Resources