Participants
IGERT council * Participating faculty by department * Trainees * Affiliates * External advisory board
IGERT council
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Ben Bolker | Botany & Zoology | Theoretical, spatial and host-pathogen ecology | bolker@ufl.edu |
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Emilio Bruna | Wildlife Ecology & Conservation | Habitat fragmentation, plant-animal interactions, plant demography | embruna@ufl.edu |
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Mary Christman | Statistics | Ecological statistics, sampling designs | mcxman@ufl.edu |
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Kaoru Kitajima | Botany & Zoology | Plant ecophysiology, plant/pathogen interactions | kitajima@ufl.edu |
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Maia Martcheva | Mathematics | Mathematical epidemiology, ODEs, PDEs | maia@math.ufl.edu |
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Craig Osenberg | Botany & Zoology | Aquatic ecology, assessment designs; meta-analysis | osenberg@ufl.edu |
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Jane Southworth | Geography | Land change science, remote sensing, landscape analysis | jsouthwo@geog.ufl.edu |
Participating faculty by department
Agricultural and Biological Engineering * Biology * Computer & Information Science & Engineering * Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences * Forest Resources & Conservation * Geography * Infectious Diseases & Pathology * Mathematics * Statistics * Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Agricultural and Biological Engineering (College of Engineering) |
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| Greg Kiker | Mesoscale ecological modeling, uncertainty analysis | |
| Rafael Munoz-Carpena | ||
Biology (Botany & Zoology) (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) |
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| Ben Bolker | Theoretical, spatial, and host-pathogen ecology | |
| Jamie Gillooly | Scaling physiology to communities and ecosystems | |
| Bob Holt | Spatial ecology and evolutionary biology | |
| Kaoru Kitajima | Plant ecophysiology, plant/pathogen interactions | |
| Doug Levey | Landscape ecology, bird migration, conservation biology | |
| Michelle Mack | Ecosystem Ecology, global change | |
| Craig Osenberg | Aquatic ecology, assessment designs; meta-analysis | |
| Colette St. Mary | Evolutionary behavioral ecology | |
| Brian Silliman | Experimental marine community ecology | |
| David Smith | Epidemiological modeling, emerging pathogens | EPI |
Computer & Information Science & Engineering (College of Engineering) |
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| Markus Schneider | GIS, spatio-temporal databases | |
| Meera Sitharam | Computer geometry, bioinformatics | |
Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences (School of Forest Resources & Conservation) |
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| Micheal Allen | Fish population dynamics, fisheries management | |
| James Austin | Landscape and conservation genetics, phylogeography | WEC |
| Thomas Frazer | Ecology of oceanic and coastal marine systems | |
| William J. Lindberg | Marine and behavioral ecology, fisheries habitat and spatial processes | |
| Bill Pine | River and estuarine ecology | |
Forest Resources & Conservation (School of Forest Resources & Conservation) |
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| Christie Staudhammer | Forest biometrics | |
| Wendell Cropper | Forest simulation modeling | |
Geography (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) |
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| Brian Child | African conservation biology | |
| Michael Binford | GIS and Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Systems; Land use change | |
| Jane Southworth | Land change science, remote sensing, landscape analysis | |
Infectious Diseases and Pathology (College of Veterinary Medicine) |
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| Mary Brown | Respiratory disease in gopher tortoises | |
Mathematics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) |
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| Maia Martcheva | Mathematical epidemiology, ODEs, PDEs | |
| Sergei Pilyugin | Models of microbial physiology & immunology | |
Statistics (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) |
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| Mary Christman | Ecological statistics, sampling design | |
| Linda Young | Geostatistics, merging data sources | |
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (College of Agricultural Life Sciences) |
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| Emilio Bruna | Habitat fragmentation, plant-animal interactions, plant demography | |
| Madan Oli | Population ecology | |
| Robert Fletcher | Landscape ecology | |
IGERT council * Participating faculty by department * Trainees * Affiliates * External advisory board
IGERT trainees
| Miguel Acevedo | Wildlife Ecology & Conservation | landscape ecology | Rob Fletcher | |
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Tommy Bohrmann | Statistics | marine protected areas | Mary Christman |
| Mollie Brooks | Botany & Zoology | theoretical ecology | Ben Bolker, Mary Christman | |
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Trevor Caughlin | Botany & Zoology | seed dispersal | Doug Levey |
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Kenny Lopiano | Statistics | Mary Christman | |
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Joe Lucchetti | Mathematics | epidemiological modeling | Maia Martcheva |
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Olivia Prosper | Mathematics | ||
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Nick Ruktanonchai | Botany & Zoology | malaria, mosquito behavior | David Smith |
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Forrest Stevens | Geography | land use change | Jane Southworth |
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Andrew Hein | Zoology | biodiversity, extinction, speciation | Jamie Gillooly |
| Tim Fullman | Geography | Arican conservation biology | Jamie Gillooly | |
| Jessica Steele | Geography | |||
| Mike Hyman | Forestry | Forest Biometrics | Christie Staudhammer |
Executive Assessment Board
![]() | Dr. Michael Antolin | Dept. of Biology - Colorado State Univ. | population genetics, patchy or fragmented habitats, wildlife epidemics, metapopulation dynamics | michael.antolin@colostate.edu |
![]() | Carlos Castillo-Chavez | School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences - Arizona State Univ. | interface of mathematical and natural sciences, disease dispersal and evolution | ccchavez@asu.edu |
![]() | Loveday Conquest | School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, Univ. of Washington | statistical methods for environmental monitoring and natural resource management | conquest@u.washington.edu |
![]() | Marc Mangel | Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Univ. of California Santa Cruz | mathematical and theoretical biology with applications | msmangel@ucsc.edu |
![]() | Mary Ruckelshaus | Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA | evolutionary ecology and conservation of marine and anadromous species | Mary.Ruckelshaus@noaa.gov |
IGERT council * Participating faculty by department * Trainees * Affiliates * External advisory board





















