Beverly Collins—(Director, SABEC) - plant community ecology; land use effects on vegetation dynamics; disturbance ecology
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
Karen Kandl—ecological genetics, conservation biology, and evolution
Brian Kloeppel-carbon dynamics; ecosystem structure and function
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
Benjamin R. 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
Paul Super - National Park Service Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center
Duke Rankin - National Forests in North Carolina
David Loftis – Bent Creek Experimental Forest
Henry McNab – Bent Creek Experimental Forest
Tara Keyser – Bent Creek Experimental Forest
Katie Greenberg – Bent Creek Experimental Forest
Advisory Committee
Dr. Pete Bates – WCU Geosciences and Natural Resources
Dr. Patricia Bricker – WCU College of Education and Allied Professions
Dr. Jim Costa – WCU Biology and Highlands Biological Station
Dr. Cathryn Greenberg – USFS Bent Creek Experimental Forest
Dr. Peter White – UNC-Chapel Hill