Graduate Faculty

What F&W Faculty Do - A a reference guide to what our faculty members do, helpful for students trying to select their committees.

* indicates graduate faculty who can accept MS and PhD candidates

Photo	Person	Research/Career Interests
	Ivan Arismendi * Associate Professor 541-737-2639 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 136 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331 , Nash Hall Nash Hall 124 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Jonathan Armstrong * Associate Professor 541-737-1080 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 132 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	I integrate animal behavior, physiology, and landscape ecology to better understand how fish and wildlife interact with their environment. My research employs observational study, field experiments, and simulation modeling.
	C Scott Baker * Professor 541-867-0255 Contact person by email Hatfield Marine Science Center Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, OR 97365
	Michael Banks * Professor 541-867-0420 Contact person by email Hatfield Marine Science Center Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, OR 97365
	Cheryl Barnes * Assistant Professor (541) 867-0116 Contact person by email
	Kelly Biedenweg * Associate Professor 541-737-2207 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 154 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Stephen Brandt * Professor 541-737-3396 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 104 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Fish ecology and management of marine and freshwater ecosystems; Specifically: 1) Bioenergetics, food webs, physical-biological interactions, and predator-prey interactions among fishes; 2) The ecology of thermal fronts; 3) Ecosystem forecasting; 4) Spatial modeling of fish growth and production;
	Samantha Chisho... * Assistant Professor (Sr Res) Contact person by email	Specialization areas: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), climate change impacts, Indigenous ecosystems, Indigenous food systems
	Melanie Davis * Assistant Professor and Assistant Unit Leader, USGS 541-737-1961 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 170 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	My work is focused on ecosystem and community level responses to disturbance events, landscape scale processes and their effects on target species, and the development of monitoring tools, programs, and strategies to inform management actions.
	Sandra DeBano , Associate Professor 541-567-6337 Contact person by email Hermiston Exp Sta Hermiston Ag Res & Ext Ctr 2121 South 1st Street Hermiston Ag Res & Ext Ctr 2121 South 1st Street Hermiston, OR 97838	My research focuses on how human activities affect terrestrial invertebrate communities and the ecosystem services they provide, with a special interest in riparian and grassland ecology, food webs, native bees, and invertebrate predators.
	Katie Dugger * Assistant Professor and Assistant Unit Leader, USGS 541-737-2473 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 130 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Bruce Dugger * Professor 541-737-2465 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 166 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	Jason Dunham * Courtesy Appointment 541-737-4531 Contact person by email Forest Science Lab 3200 SW Jefferson Way 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Fish ecology and conservation biology. Landscape ecology of aquatic ecosystems, conservation biology of focal species, ecology of natural disturbance, biological invasions, monitoring
	Collin Eagles Smith * Courtesy Appointment 541-750-0949 Contact person by email	My research focuses on the interactions among ecological processes, contaminant bioaccumulation, and effects on wild populations.
	Lisa Ellsworth * Associate Professor (Sr Res) 541-737-0008 Nash Hall Nash Hall 034 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Fire Behavior and Modeling, Habitat Ecology, Rangeland Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Representation in STEM
	Clinton Epps * Professor 541-737-2478 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 140 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Connectivity and dispersal in fragmented landscapes Effects of climate and climate change on distribution and demography Conservation genetics Wildlife ecology and conservation Wildlife disease
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	Tiffany Garcia * Professor 541-737-2164 Contact person by email
	Guillermo Giannico * Professor 541-737-2479 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 114 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Freshwater Fish Ecology. Salmonid behavior and habitat selection in freshwater and estuarine systems. Aquatic habitat restoration. Land use impacts on fish habitat. Integrated watershed management. Fish passage.
	Christian Hagen * Associate Professor (Sr Res) Contact person by email	Evaluating population level responses of gallinaceous birds to large scale conservation effort and/or habitat perturbations, whether they be natural (e.g., wildfire) or anthropogenic.
	Scott Heppell * Professor 541-737-1086 Contact person by email
	Thomas Hurst * Courtesy Appointment 541-737-7022 Contact person by email	I am interested in the ecology of early life stages of marine species and the constraints imposed by the environment. I am particularly interested in the pervasive influence on temperature variation on all aspects of physiology and ecology of ectotherms.
	Sherri Johnson * Courtesy Appointment 541-758-7771 Contact person by email	Aquatic Ecology and Biogeochemistry
	Megan Jones * Assistant Professor and Assistant Unit Leader, USGS 541-737-6691 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 162 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331
	J Kauffman * Courtesy Appointment 541-737-4531 Contact person by email	Interactions of ecosystems, land use, and climate change in wetlands and tropical forests (current emphasis is on mangroves and other coastal ecosystems, tropical swamp forests, and riparian zones). Riparian ecology and restoration. Approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation.
	Holger Klinck * Courtesy Appointment 541-867-0182 Contact person by email	My current research focuses on the development of hard- and software for real-time monitoring of marine mammals. I am also involved in research projects investigating the underwater vocal behavior of Antarctic pinnipeds - especially leopard seals, Hydrurga leptonyx. Marine Bioacoustic.
	Robert Lackey , Professor 541-602-5904 Contact person by email Weniger Hall Weniger Hall 459 103 SW Memorial Place 103 SW Memorial Place Corvallis, OR 97331	Research Interests: Assessing alternative Pacific Northwest ecological futures; Pacific salmon policy and management; ecosystem management and alternative management paradigms; ecological policy and decision analysis; interface between science, scientists, and policy.
	Taal Levi * Associate Professor 541-737-4067 Contact person by email
	Jessica Miller * Professor 541-867-0381 Contact person by email Hatfield Marine Science Center Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, OR 97365	Research Areas: Marine ecology, fisheries science, otolith chemistry, mixing and migration, early life history
	Kathleen O Malley * Associate Professor 541-961-3311 Contact person by email Hatfield Marine Science Center Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, OR 97365	Research Areas: Fisheries genetics and genomics, fisheries conservation and management.
	Daniel Palacios * Associate Professor Contact person by email Hatfield Marine Science Center Hatfield Marine Science Center 227 Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, OR 97365	Quantitative ecology & habitat modeling Analysis and visualization of whale telemetry data Characterization of critical habitat for large whales Study of long-distance migration and navigation in whales
	Susan Piacenza , Senior Instructor I Contact person by email	Population dynamics and modelling of marine species, population assessments, conservation management
	Gordon Reeves * Fisheries Researcher 541-750-7314 Contact person by email Forest Science Lab Forest Science Lab 264 3200 SW Jefferson Way 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Ecology of anadromous salmonids, stream habitat landscape ecology and monitoring
	Douglas Robinson * Professor 541-737-9501 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 036 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Bird ecology and conservation; benchmarking biodiversity; environmental change; citizen science; tropical and aridlands ecology Undergraduate Student Advisor - Meet Doug!
	Daniel Roby * Courtesy Appointment 541-737-1955 Contact person by email	Seabird and Colonial Waterbird Ecology, Conservation, and Management.
	Dana Sanchez * Associate Professor 541-737-6003 Contact person by email Nash Hall Nash Hall 118 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Mammalian space use and habitat selection. Human-wildlife issues. Prospective graduate students should read through Future Ecologists on my Extension Wildlife site before contacting me.
	Brian Sidlauskas * Professor 541-737-6789 Contact person by email	Ichthyology, Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity and Conservation of Fishes
	Leigh Torres * Associate Professor 541-867-0895 Contact person by email Hatfield Marine Science Center Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Hatfield Marine Science Center 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, OR 97365	I specialize in the spatial and behavioral ecology of marine megafauna including marine mammals, seabirds and sharks.
	Dana Warren * Associate Professor 541-737-5319 Contact person by email
	Seth White * OHRC Director and Associate Professor Contact person by email Nash Hall 2820 SW Campus Way 2820 SW Campus Way Corvallis, OR 97331	Modeling of fish distributions and population dynamics, juvenile salmonid ecology, climate impacts to freshwater biodiversity, and fisheries as a social ecological system.
	Will White * Associate Professor 541-867-0385 Contact person by email	Fishery oceanography and population dynamics, spatial fisheries management, and climate change effects on fisheries. Most of our work uses statistical or dynamic models.
	David Wooster , Associate Professor 541-567-6337 Contact person by email	My research interests would be stream ecology, aquatic invertebrate biology, restoration effectiveness monitoring, stream food webs, stream and riparian linkages.