Natural Resource Management Faculty General Research Interests
The SDSU Graduate School has application deadlines, but the Department of Natural Resource Management does not have application deadlines; we review applications year-round. However, applicants are not admitted to our program until a faculty advisor agrees to support them. While some applicants bring their own funding, most natural resource management graduate students are supported through research assistantships. An advisor will not accept a student without available funding. Before applying online through the Graduate School website, it's best to start contacting faculty members who share your research interests.
Assistant professor
- Advance knowledge of freshwater ecosystems
- Improve conservation management for imperiled fishes
- Manage ecosystems that have been heavily altered by human activities and non-native species' invasions
Assistant professor
- Wildlife management
- Spatial ecology
- Population genetics
Adjunct professor/leader, U.S. Geological Survey South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
- Fisheries ecology and management
- Bioenergetics modeling
- Endangered species
- Food web theory
- Aquatic invertebrate ecology
Assistant professor
- Fisheries ecology and management
- Invasion ecology
- Movement ecology
Assistant professor
- Fisheries ecology and management
- Invasion ecology
- Movement ecology
Assistant professor
- Rangeland ecology
- Rangeland modeling
- Remote sensing
- Grazing management
- Rangeland plant succession
- Reclamation and restoration ecology
Professor/department head
Evolutionary ecologist:
- Plant-pollinator interactions
- Plant mating system evolution
- Plant population biology
- Conservation genetics
Associate professor /range field specialist, West River Research and Extension
- Impact of invasive plants in rangeland settings
- Ecologically based rangeland management
- Developing Extension programming to engage youth
- Education and outreach as a means to sustain South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã ranching
Natural resource management affiliate professor/director of Agricultural Experiment Station's Oak Lake Field Station
- Evolutionary and ecological genetics
- Role of mutations in nature
- Plant-pollinator interactions
- Evolutionary and agricultural perspectives
Associate professor/assistant department head
- Physiological ecology and ecosystem ecology
- Green-up and grazing phenology influences on ecosystem processes in Western Alaska
- Future forage value of North Slope tundra for caribou
- Carbon exchange and grazing in mixed-grass prairie
- Plant physiological ecology, ecosystem ecology, plant and ecosystem response to climate change
Assistant professor, West River Research and Extension
- Bison
- Climate change
- Thermoregulation
- Translocations
- Body size change
- Wildlife conservation
- Livestock and grassland sustainability
- Vertebrate paleontology
- Food sovereignty
Professor
- Invasive species
- Anthropogenic impacts to the landscape
- Restoration ecology
Adjunct associate professor/assistant unit leader, U.S. Geological Survey South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
- Recreational harvest management
- Invasive species
- Aquaculture stocking programs
Natural resource management affiliate professor/professor of statistics
- Statistical learning theory
- Pattern recognition
- Forensic identification of source problems
- Categorical data analysis
- Statistical approximation theory
Assistant professor
- Population dynamics
- Predator-prey interactions
- Movement ecology
- Wildlife disease
- Wildlife management
Assistant professor, West River Research and Extension
- Conservation paleobiology
- Anthropogenic effects on mammals
- Informal STEM education
Adjunct associate professor/assistant unit leader, U.S. Geological Survey South à£à£Ö±²¥Ðã Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
- Waterfowl and wetlands ecology, particularly in agro-ecosystems
- Ecology of other wetland-dependent wildlife
- Factors influencing bird migration
Assistant professor
- Management and conservation of birds and their habitat (terrestrial and aquatic)
- Impact of threats (e.g., invasive predators, habitat loss and land use change)
Assistant professor/C.A. Taylor Herbarium director
- Plant-pollinator interactions
- Floral trait variation
- Population and conservation genetics
Professor
- Reclamation/restoration of disturbed lands
- Ecology of soil seed banks and bud banks
- Understanding how plants adapt and grow
- Spatial distribution of vegetation in relation to environmental gradient factors
Assistant professor
- Biodiversity conservation
- Local food systems
- Environmental policy
- Sustainable development
- Women in hunting and fishing
