Greg Adkison—plant ecology, evolution, and conservation
Peter Bates—(Program Coordinator, Natural Resources Management) - forestry and soil science
Joni Bugden-Storie—environmental studies and remote sensing
Kefyn M. Catley—science education; systematics and biology of spiders
James T. Costa—(Director, Highlands Biological Station) - evolutionary genetics and behavior of social insects
David Cozzo—(Program Director for the Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources)Cherokee ethnobotany, human ecology of the Southern Appalachians
Ron Davis—wildlife ecology, GIS and remote sensing
Laura E. DeWald—ecological genetics; restoration ecology; conservation biology
Jeremy Hyman—behavior ecology; ornithology
Thomas H. Martin—population and community ecology of aquatic organisms
Kathy Gould Mathews—plant systematics
Erin McNelis—Mathematical biology and ecology
Seán P. O’Connell—microbial ecology; diversity of bacteria and archaea in soil and water
Joseph Pechmann—population and community ecology, herpetology, wetlands ecology.
Malcolm R. (Mack) Powell– (Biology Department Head) - host-pathogen interactions, with an emphasis on Chagas’s disease
Lori Seischab—molecular pathology and biophysics
Ben Tanner—stable isotope geochemistry, organic geochemistry, quaternary climate change and paleoecology
Collaborators and Adjunct Faculty
Gary Wein—(Adjunct Assistant Professor; Director, Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust) - GIS, ecosystem restoration and remediation, plant ecology
Karen Kandl—(Adjunct Assistant Professor) - ecological genetics, conservation biology, and evolution
Paul Super—(National Park Service Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center) - biodiversity and ecology of GSMNP and surrounding southern Appalachians
National Forests in North Carolina, http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/, Dr. Duke Rankin, Botanist
Bent Creek Experimental Forest, www.srs.fs.usda.gov/bentcreek, scientists David Loftis - tree regeneration in mixed hardwood forest; Henry McNab - ecological site classification; Tara Keyser - forest ecology; Katie Greenberg - natural or silvicultural disturbance effects on wildlife, their habitat, and their food resources