Affiliated Researchers: Ecology

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment.

Displaying 136 search result(s) for Ecology.

Erika Machtinger


Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Diptera, Ticks, Musca Domestica, Muscidae, Deer

Juliet Pinto


Associate Professor, Journalism
Top research keywords: News, Coverage, Journalism, Social Construction, Latin America

David Hughes


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Ants, Formicidae, Parasites, Ant, Fungi

Jill Hamilton


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Picea, Hybrid Zone, Pinus Torreyana, Picea Glauca, Climate

David Toews


Assistant Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Songbirds, Hybrid Zone, Setophaga, Genomics, Plumage

David A.W. Miller


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Amphibians, Salamander, Amphibian, Branta Canadensis, Nest

Margot Kaye


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Fire History, Deciduous Forests, Pinus Ponderosa, Climate, Pine

Gary Felton


Department Head and Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Herbivory, Insecta, Zea Mays, Herbivores, Helicoverpa Zea

Autumn Sabo


Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State Beaver
Top research keywords: Deer, Temperate Forests, Herbivory, Temperate Forest, Understory

Kim Steiner


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Oak, Quercus, Seedling, Quercus Rubra, Acer Rubrum

Christina Grozinger


Distinguished Professor and Publius Vergilius Maro Professor of Entomology, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Honey, Bee, Honey Bees, Apis Mellifera

Duane Diefenbach


Adjunct Professor of Wildlife Ecology
Top research keywords: Deer, Odocoileus Virginianus, Harvest, Lynx Rufus, Hunters

Tracy Langkilde


Interim Executive Vice President and Provost, Eberly College of Science
Top research keywords: Lizard, Lizards, Sceloporus Undulatus, Fire Ants, Ant

Laura Leites


Associate Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Climate, Quercus, Oak, Pseudotsuga Menziesii, Pinus Ponderosa

Travis Flohr


Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Learning, Online Courses, Pedagogy, Design For Environment, Life Events

Jason Keagy


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Mating Success, Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteus Aculeatus, Smegmamorpha, Sexual Selection

Rebecca Bliege Bird


Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Hunting, Hunters, Foraging, Desert, Deserts

Bradley Cardinale


Department Head and Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Biomass, Ecosystems, Species Richness

Marc E. McDill


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Harvest, Forest Management, Planning, Oak, Quercus

Prem Kandel


Postdoctoral Scholar Hockett Lab

Ed Rajotte


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Malus, Orchard, Orchards, Apples

Christian Huber


Assistant Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Population, Mutation, Drosophila Melanogaster, Genetic Variation, Genomics

Karl Zimmerer


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Agrobiodiversity, Bolivia, Food, Peasant, Livelihood

Daniel E. Walters


Assistant Professor, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Administrative Law, Doctrine, Market Reaction, Transnational Law, Supreme Court

Isabella Cattadori


Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Helminths, Parasites, Myxoma Virus, Rabbits, Infections

Clare Randolph


Ph.D. Student

Katriona Shea


Alumni Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Carduus Nutans, Carduus, Carduus Acanthoides, Invasive Species, Seed

Mary Ann Bruns


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Soil, Manure, Dairy Manure, Odorants, Bacteria

Daniel Allen


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Rivers, Ecosystem, River, Mussels, Biodiversity

Natalie Boyle


Assistant Research Professor, Genomics of Social Behavior and Bee Health, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Osmia Lignaria, Bee, Megachilidae, Pollination

Ottar Bjornstad


Distinguished Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Synchrony, Epidemics, Population Dynamics, Disease Outbreaks, Arvicolinae

Bronwen Powell


Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Forests, Food, Diet, Morocco, Tanzania

Denice Wardrop


Research Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Wetlands, Wetland, Headwater, Watershed, Mid-Atlantic Region

Dave Biddinger


Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Bee, Malus, Orchards, Orchard

William Driscoll



Top research keywords: Altruism, Allelopathy, Sociobiology, Eutrophication, Haptophyta

Melissa Kreye


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Private Forest, Private Land, Landowner, Private Forestry, Private Lands

Julian D. Avery


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Bird, Sialia Sialis, Nestling, Lizard, Nestlings

Megan Schall



Top research keywords: Micropterus Dolomieu, Fisheries, Fish, Fishery, Mass Spectrometry

Jon Sweetman


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management

Jennifer Baka


Associate Professor and John T. Ryan, Jr. Faculty Fellow, College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
Top research keywords: Biofuel, Energy, Wasteland, Biofuels, Energy Security