Ginger RH Allington

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management
• Research Interests: landscape ecology; social-ecological systems modeling; land use/land cover change; rangelands & pastoralists; remote sensing
• Not considering new students. 

Jose A. Andres

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: conservation biology; fishery and aquatic science; wildlife science
• Research Interests: ecological genetics, systematics, population biology, molecular population genetics; evolutionary-ecological genomics; environmental DNA

Christopher Barrett

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis; program development and evaluation; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: poverty-environment relationship; natural resources management in developing country agriculture; tropical biodiversity conservation; environment and development economics
• Not considering new students. 

Bernd Blossey

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science; forest science
• Research Interests: forest and wetland ecology; impact of invasive species; plant-insect interactions; biological control; management of multiple stressors
• Not considering new students. 

David N. Bonter

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; wildlife science
• Research Interests: avian ecology, general ecology, citizen science

Evan G Cooch

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; quantitative ecology; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: wildlife ecology and management; population dynamics; population modeling; quantitative methods; theoretical ecology
• Not considering new students. 

Paul D Curtis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; conservation biology
• Research Interests: wildlife damage management; wildlife policy and conflict resolution; extension program development
• Not considering new students. 

Anna Margaret Davidson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: program development and evaluation
• Research Interests: Ecological Arts, Visual Art, Environment & Sustainability, Science Communication, Interdisciplinary Education Research in Art and Science.

Courtney Lynn Davis

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; quantitative ecology; wildlife science
• Research Interests: My research program leverages population and community ecology, and conservation biology, and information science to quantify the status, trends, drivers, and benefits of biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales and levels of biological organization.
• Considering new students for Spring and Fall 2026.

Daniel Joseph Decker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management; program development and evaluation
• Research Interests: human dimensions of wildlife management

Andre Alfons Dhondt

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; wildlife science
• Research Interests: population ecology; disease ecology

Gregory P. Dietl

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: Research Interests: ecology and paleoecology of marine ecosystems; conservation paleobiology; knowledge co-production in conservation science; natural security
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.

Kathryn Fiorella

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: conservation biology; fishery and aquatic science; human dimensions of natural resources management; program development and evaluation
• Research Interests: planetary health/one health, fisheries, food and livelihood security, nutrition
• Not considering new students. 

Alexander S Flecker

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: stream ecology; fish ecology; food web and ecosystem ecology; tropical ecology and conservation

Angela K. Fuller

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; conservation biology; quantitative ecology
• Research Interests: wildlife ecology and management; landscape ecology; conservation biology; decision analysis

Jacqueline Gerson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: I am a watershed biogeochemist and ecosystem ecologist. I study how humans impact biogeochemical cycling in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. I am particularly interested in how landscape change, acid deposition, climate change, and the introduction of contaminants alter elemental movement, microbial processing of elements, and the resulting impacts on wildlife and people.
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.

Martin Gilbert

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; conservation biology; human dimensions of natural resources management; wildlife science
• Research Interests: Understanding and addressing health threats to the conservation of endangered carnivore and scavenger species. Epidemiology of multi-host pathogens at the domestic-wild animal interface.
• Not considering new students. 

Marc Goebel

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; forest science; quantitative ecology
• Research Interests: Forest ecosystems & community dynamics, reforestation and seedling establishment, plant soil interactions and belowground growth dynamics, carbon sequestration

Christine L Goodale

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; forest science
• Research Interests: ecosystem ecology, terrestrial biogeochemistry, global change
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.

Steven M Grodsky

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; conservation biology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; forest science; wildlife science
• Research Interests: renewable energy ecology, wildlife ecology and management, entomology, sustainability science

Reem Fouad Hajjar

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis; program development and evaluation
• Research Interests: Forest governance, institutions, and livelihoods; Environmental justice and just conservation; Community forestry; Social-ecological systems; Conservation social sciences
• Not considering new students. 

Matthew P. Hare

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: conservation biology; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: conservation genetics; phylogeography; population genetics
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.

Brandon P Hedrick

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; wildlife science
• Research Interests: Comparative morphology, functional anatomy, species distribution modeling, movement ecology.
• Not considering new students. 

Robert Warren Howarth

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science; policy and institutional analysis; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: aquatic science; resource policy and management; environmental management; biochemistry; aquatic ecosystem science; application of science to environmental management; coastal marine ecology; watershed science and management
• Not considering new students. 

Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; fishery and aquatic science; human dimensions of natural resources management
• Research Interests: Social-ecological systems, Climate change, Coral reef ecology and conservation, Marine protected areas, Fisheries, Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in conservation, Traditional ecological and Indigenous knowledge.
• Not considering new students.

Karim-Aly S. Kassam

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis
• Research Interests: bio-cultural diversity; indigenous cultures and change; climate change and its impacts; community economic development; gender analysis; human ecology; indigenous knowledge (ways of knowing)
• Not considering new students. 

Kade Keranen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: quantitative ecology; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: I use geophysical and quantitative tools to study physical properties in the subsurface and their relationship to physical processes, including climate change and related hazards. My research has a strong field component, in which I acquire data in forests, in arctic environments, and in agricultural regions, and a strong computational component including everything from synthetic data modeling, data processing, physics-guided inversions, and machine/deep learning. I intend for my work to tie closely to community needs in the regions in which I work, including impacts of climate change, drought, erosion, and natural and cultural resource protection.
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.

Holger Klinck

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; wildlife science
• Research Interests: bioacoustics, passive-acoustic monitoring, acoustic communication, ecoacoustics
• Considering new students for Spring and Fall 2026.

Catherine Louise Kling

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: human dimensions of natural resources management

Barbara A Knuth

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis; program development and evaluation; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: resource policy and evaluation; human dimensions of natural resource management
• Not considering new students. 

Clifford E Kraft

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: fish ecology; ecology of lakes and streams; aquatic resource conservation and management
• Not considering new students. 

Marianne Elizabeth Krasny

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; program development and evaluation
• Research Interests: civic ecology; urban environmental stewardship; environmental education; environmental learning in stressed communities
• Not considering new students. 

Bruce Lauber

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management; program development and evaluation; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: conflict and collaboration in natural resource and environmental management, stakeholder engagement in decision making, risk management and communication related to fisheries management
• Not considering new students. 

David R. Lee

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis; program development and evaluation; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: public policy analysis; applied econometrics and quantitative analysis

Chuan Liao

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: Community-based Natural Resource Management; Risk Analysis and Management; Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
• Research Interests: Sustainability, development; spatial data science; human-environment systems
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.

Peter McIntyre

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science

Amelia Maginley Moore

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; fishery and aquatic science; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis
• Research Interests: I am a sociocultural environmental anthropologist informed by science and technology studies and Black/intersectional studies. My research areas include ocean and environmental justice; antiracist and anticolonial research methods, governance, and institutional praxis; the analysis of small island and archipelagic ecological projects, including coral restoration and ecotourism.
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.

Stephen J. Morreale

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; conservation biology; wildlife science
• Research Interests: conservation ecology; vertebrate conservation; marine conservation; remote sensing and telemetry; spatial analysis and GIS;forest biodiversity conservation; amphibian and reptile ecology

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: human dimensions of natural resources management
• Research Interests: Climate change; environmental change; impacts and adaptation; agricultural development; geospatial analysis; coupled human and natural systems; quantitative and econometric methods.
• Not considering new students. 

Steven A. Osofsky

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; conservation biology; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis; wildlife science
• Research Interests: wildlife conservation; ecology
• Not considering new students. 

Robin William Radcliffe

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; conservation biology
• Research Interests: wildlife conservation, ecology, community conservation
• Not considering new students. 

Aaron N. Rice

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: fish ecology, marine biology, conservation, bioacoustics

Amanda Rodewald

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology
• Research Interests: community ecology, population ecology, conservation biology, avian ecology, urban ecology, wildlife management
• Not considering new students. 

Jeffrey Andrew Royle

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; quantitative ecology; wildlife science
• Research Interests: capture-recapture methods, bayesian analysis

Lars Gosta Rudstam

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; fishery and aquatic science; quantitative ecology
• Research Interests: fish biology; fisheries management; aquatic ecology; limnology
• Not considering new students. 

Rebecca L Schneider

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; community-based natural resources management; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; quantitative ecology
• Research Interests: wetlands; integrated water resource management; landscape ecology; hydrology

Jonathon Schuldt

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: human dimensions of natural resources management; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: public opinion, environmental communication, message framing, environmental attitudes and behavior
• Not considering new students. 

Richard C. Stedman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis; program development and evaluation; risk analysis and management
• Research Interests: linkages between social and ecological systems; natural resource and community interactions; natural resources; environmental sociology; human dimensions of natural resource management
• Not considering new students. 

Christopher Sullivan

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; fishery and aquatic science; quantitative ecology
• Research Interests: I study freshwater fish populations and aquatic communities, focusing on how they respond to environmental changes and human activities. I tackle these important topics using a variety of methods, including field observations, data syntheses, and rigorous statistical and simulation modeling approaches. My research is closely aligned with the needs of state and federal agencies, which helps build strong, collaborative relationships with managers and other researchers. By working together, I aim to provide practical insights and solutions for preserving and managing all types of freshwater ecosystems.

Nina Overgaard Therkildsen

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; conservation biology; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: population genetics, evolutionary genomics, rapid adaptation, molecular ecology, fisheries, conservation

Keith G. Tidball

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; human dimensions of natural resources management
• Research Interests: Keith is an environmental anthropologist and naturalist focused on better understanding how to amplify recruitment of citizen conservationists and the development of a 21st century land ethic. His work features efforts to locate and explore portals and pathways into conservation behaviors and other human dimensions of social-ecological systems resilience. Grounded in cultural anthropology, disturbance ecology and environmental psychology, he approaches this challenge via his integrated research and extension work exploring the dynamics of natural resource management in the contexts of trauma, disturbance, disasters and war. Experiences in the military and in the field of international disaster response and relief inform his unique brand of applied scholarship, including stints throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Kurt Waldman

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: Policy and Institutional Analysis; Risk Analysis and Management; Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
• Research Interests: Areas of research include judgment and decision making related to climate adaptation, food security, and environmental sustainability. My research draws on the disciplines of decision science, environmental psychology, and environmental science and involves quantitative analysis of social and environmental data.
• Considering new students for Spring and Fall 2026.

Todd Walter

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science; quantitative ecology
• Research Interests: ecohydrology; water resources; pollutant fate-transport; watershed modeling; biogeochemistry

James Martin Watkins

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: applied ecology; ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry; fishery and aquatic science
• Research Interests: Great Lakes, lower food web ecology, new technologies

Steven A Wolf

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: community-based natural resources management; conservation biology; human dimensions of natural resources management; policy and institutional analysis
• Research Interests: environmental policy; agricultural development; conservation planning; innovation and technical change; institutional analysis
• Not actively recruiting new students but is open to inquiries from prospective students. Prospective students with a background in political economy of environment, digital agriculture innovation, and/or carbon governance are welcome to send inquiries.

Joseph B Yavitt

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: ecosystem biology and biogeochemistry
• Research Interests: ecology of forest and wetland ecosystems; biogeochemistry
• Not considering new students. 

John Aloysius Zinda

• Campus: Ithaca
• Concentrations: Natural Resources: human dimensions of natural resources management
• Research Interests: environmental sociology, rural livelihoods, agriculture, forest restoration, risk and disasters, community, political ecology, China
• Considering new students for Fall 2026.