Background & Professional Service

Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, and formerly Professor, Department of Animal Ecology, Iowa State University. I frequently work with faculty associated with the Iowa Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit. I also advise undergraduates in the Biology Program. I was also an Associate Professor at the University of Montana and an Instructor at Utah State University

Most of my graduate students are affiliated with the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. If you are interested in application materials, check that link.  I currently serve as chair of Graduate Studies in EEOB and I served as chair of the EEB program for five years.  Within the College of Agriculture, the Graduate College, and the University I have served on committees on Academic Advising, Promotion and Tenure, Undergraduate Curriculum, Graduate Curriculum, and Computer Technology. 

Professionally, I am active in The Wildlife Society and the Ecological Society of America. I have served a term as Associate Editor of the Journal of Wildlife Management, as Chair or Committee Member for the Program at three of the first four TWS Annual Meetings, and I have served terms on the Publications, and Awards committees. I am past-president of the Iowa Chapter of TWS. I am also active in the the American Society of Mammalogists, and the Iowa Academy of Science. 

Education:

• Utah State University, Ph.D. Wildlife Ecology, 1979

• Utah State University M.S. Wildlife Ecology, 1973

• Rutgers University, B.S. Environmental Science, 1971

For more information on my research and teaching interests, please click on the links below.