Faculty

Dr. Daniel Barton Website Phone: (707) 826-3430 Email: Daniel.Barton@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Life history evolution, basic and applied population ecology, and wildlife conservation. Courses taught: Conservation Biology, Principles of Wildlife Management, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Ecology of Wildlife Populations.

Dr. William "Tim" Bean Website Phone: (707) 826-3658 Email: bean@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Population ecology and species distribution models of small mammals; conservation science; historical ecology; wildlife and humanities. Courses include: Introduction to Wildlife Conservation, Upland Habitat Ecology, Senior Thesis

Dr. Jeff Black Website Phone: (707) 826-3439 Email: Jeff.Black@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Behavior studies, waterfowl ecology and conservation. Courses include: Introduction to Wildlife, Waterfowl Ecology & Management, and Behavioral Ecology.

Dr. Richard Brown Website Phone: (707) 826-3320 Email: rnb2@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Ecology and management of mammalian populations, communities, and associated disease agents. Courses include: Wildlife Diseases, Mammal Management, Environmental Ethics, and Animal Welfare Wildlife Policy.

Dr. Barbara Clucas Website Phone: (707) 826-5651 Email: barbara.clucas@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Conservation Biology, Urban Ecology and Animal Behavior. Research focuses on biodiversity in urban areas and interspecific interactions including human-wildlife relationships.

Dr. Mark Colwell Website Phone: (707) 826-3723 Email: mac3@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Shorebird ecology, management of wetlands for shorebirds, refuge design. Courses include: Ornithology, Conservation Biology, Management of Shorebirds, Birds and Human Society.

Dr. Ana Davidson Website Email: ana.davidson@humboldt.edu Status: Lecturer Vertebrate ecology and conservation, mammals, community ecology, macroecology. Her research centers broadly on the ecology and conservation of biological diversity, in the context of global change. Courses include: Senior Project, Management of Mammals, Wildlife Techniques, and Upland Habitat Ecology.

Dr. Lowell Diller Email: ldillerconsulting@gmail.com Status: Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty Population dynamics, habitat use, and foraging ecology of Spotted Owls in managed redwood forests. The effects of forest management on small mammals, and amphibians. Dr. Diller is the Senior Biologist for Simpson Timber Company in Korbel, CA.

Dr. Katy Gieder Email: Katherina.Gieder@humboldt.edu Status: Lecturer Coastal habitat management, shorebird ecology, population dynamics, geographic information systems (GIS), Bayesian networks. Courses include Waterbirds and Ornithology.

Dr. Micaela Szykman Gunther Website Phone: (707) 826-3520 Email: ms147@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Research interests focus on reproductive behavior and its underlying physiology in social mammals. Her work is primarily based on field studies and uses naturally occurring variation in wild populations to address testable alternative evolutionary hypotheses in behavioral ecology. Courses include: Wildlife Techniques, Management of Mammals, Wildlife Ethology.

Dr. Matthew Johnson Website Phone: (707) 826-3218 Email: mdj6@humboldt.edu Status: Faculty Wildlife habitat relationships, habitat selection, ecology and conservation of migratory songbirds, tropical wildlife ecology. Courses include: Habitat Ecology, Advanced Habitat Ecology, Ornithology, Wildlife Techniques, Wildlife Conclave.

Dr. Sharon Kahara Phone: (707) 826-3724 Email: sharon.kahara@humboldt.edu Status: Lecturer, Research Associate Wetland ecosystem functioning in natural and modified landscapes as well as wetland wildlife use. Past research activities included evaluating impacts of urbanization on aquatic systems in a developing country, and investigating effects of climate and human activities on wetland ecosystem service delivery.

Dr. Seafha Ramos Email: seafha.ramos@humboldt.edu Status: Lecturer Research interests include small mammal and mesocarnivore ecology, conservation genetics, traditional ecological knowledge in wildlife conservation, human dimensions of wildlife. Course taught: Wildlife Seminar

Dr. Jared Wolfe Phone: (707) 825-2949 Email: jared.wolfe@humboldt.edu Status: Research Faculty Bird ecology, demography and conservation with a focus on temperate and tropical systems in the Americas and Africa. Courses include: Ecology of Upland Habitats, Advanced Ornithology (molts and plumages), Ornithology, and Biogeography of Wildlife.

Emeritus Faculty

Adjunct and Associate Faculty

Adjunct and associate faculty are affiliated with the Wildlife Department but have positions in other agencies or organizations and do not teach classes on a regular basis. Adjunct faculty may advise up to three graduate students.

Harry Carter Status: Associate Faculty Seabird Ecology, Conservation and restoration of seabird colonies.

Dr. Lowell Diller Email: ldillerconsulting@gmail.com Status: Adjunct Faculty Population dynamics, habitat use, and foraging ecology of Spotted Owls in managed redwood forests. The effects of forest management on small mammals, and amphibians. Dr. Diller is the Senior Biologist for Simpson Timber Company in Korbel, CA.

Dr. Alan Franklin Status: Adjunct Faculty Research interests: ecology and dynamics of wildlife populations, especially in the context of management and conservation problems; spotted owls. Dr. Franklin is a research scientist for the Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

Dr. Judd Howell Status: Adjunct Faculty Mammalian population dynamics and management, e.g. tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore, wildlife-habitat relationships, effects of human activities on biodiversity in coastal ecosystems, raptor migration, effects of wind energy development on birds. Dr Howell is the director of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland.

Dr. Brian Hudgens Phone: (707) 822-4258 Email: hudgens@iws.org Status: Adjunct Faculty Quantitative ecology and conservation biology. Integrating field studies with population models to predict population dynamics, disease spread in, and dispersal of rare, threatened and endangered species. Study species include amphibians, birds, birds and carnivores. Dr. Hudgens is a research ecologist at the Institute for Wildlife Studies in Arcata, CA.

Dr. Steve Zack Email: szack@wcs.org Status: Adjunct Faculty The effects of fire on bird and small mammal communities, the interaction between snag decay processes and woodpecker foraging and cavity excavation, restoration ecology, the effects of oil development on nesting shorebirds. Dr. Zack is a scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society and lives in Portland, OR.

Dr. William Zielinski Email: bzielinski@fs.fed.us Status: Associate Faculty Research interests: carnivore conservation, forest mammals, bats. Dr. Zielinksi is a Research Scientist with the US Forest Service working out of Redwood Sciences Laboratory, Arcata, CA.

Staff

Dr. Gilly Black Phone: (707) 826-3458 Email: gcb4@humboldt.edu Gilly Black is the Academic Advisor for Majors in Wildlife Biology, Environmental Science and Environmental Management and Protection. Gilly's duties include meeting regularly with students to provide sound advising for course schedules, making recommendations on progress towards degree and helping freshmen and sophomore students to create personalized graduation plans.

Tamar Danufsky Phone: (707) 826-4034 Email: td6@humboldt.edu As curator of the Wildlife museum, Tamar prepares, catalogs, and maintains bird and mammal specimens and exhibits for classes and research. She also is the primary contact person for oiled birds, and ensures our spill response facility is in a state of readiness.

Anthony Desch Phone: (707) 826-3460 Email: ajd44@humboldt.edu The Wildlife and Fisheries stockroom is filled with equipment and supplies to support teaching and research such as binoculars and spotting scopes, mammal live-traps, aquatic sampling devices, GPS units, etc. With proper training, many of the items can be checked out to students enrolled is Wildlife classes for individual projects. Stockroom hours: 8:30 - 10:00 A.M. Monday through Friday, 2:00 - 3:30 P.M. Monday through Friday except Tuesday, and by appointment.

Katherine Moon Phone: (707) 826-3953 Email: moon@humboldt.edu Katherine Moon is the Administrative Support Coordinator for the Departments of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology. Katherine's duties include providing administrative support for the faculty, managing the budget, and assisting students.

ASA II - Vacant Phone: (707) 826-3953 Provides administrative support in the Wildlife and Fisheries Department Office. In addition to answering the phone and assisting faculty and students, also maintains the web pages for the departments.