Advanced degrees within Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology are intercollegiate programs co-administered by the College of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Sciences, and College of Veterinary Medicine. Below is the list of all faculty and adjunct faculty associated with the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology (FWCB) Program at NC State University.

Program Coordinators

Nicole Mihnovets
Assistant Teaching Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate
Programs
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program
Area of Expertise: Marine conservation biology and endangered
species
[email protected]

Nils Peterson
Professor, and Director of Graduate Programs
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program
Area of Expertise: Human dimensions of wildlife management
[email protected]

Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Faculty

Name	Title	Area of Expertise	Contact
David Andow	Professor, Head, Department of Applied Ecology	Insect, population, and community ecology	[email protected]
Marcelo Ardon	Professor Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Aquatic ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry	[email protected]
Tal Ben-Horin	Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences	Shellfish pathology	[email protected]
Anthony Blikslager	Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences	Equine surgery and gastroenterology	[email protected] 919-513-6430
Jeffrey A. Buckel	Professor, Department of Applied Ecology, CMAST	Marine fisheries biology	[email protected] 252-222-6341
Jie Cao	Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Fish population dynamics and ecosystem modelling	[email protected]
Jaime A. Collazo	Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Wetland ecology, avian biology	[email protected] 919-515-8837
Caren Cooper	Professor Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Wildlife Biology, Citizen Science	[email protected] 919-707-9273
W. Gregory Cope	Professor, Department of Applied Ecology, Toxicology Extension	Professor and Toxicology Extension Leader	[email protected] 919-515-5296
Fred Cubbage	Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Forest resource policy, forest certification,	[email protected] 919-515-7789
Christopher S. DePerno	Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resource	Wildlife ecology, management	[email protected] 919-513-7559
Jeffery Doser	Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources	Statistical ecology, species occupancy and abundance	[email protected]
Rob Dunn	Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Public science; ecology, evolution and biodiversity of humans and food	[email protected] 919-515-7569
Corey Dunn	Assistant Professor Unit Leader – NC Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research	Conservation of rivers and river-dependent species	[email protected]
David B. Eggleston	Professor and Director of CMAST, Department of Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences	Marine ecology, conservation	[email protected] 919-515-7840
Ritwick Ghosh	Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Environmental sociology and governance	[email protected]
John Godwin	Professor, Department of Biological Sciences	Behavioral neuroendocrinology and neurogenomics	[email protected]
Craig Harms	Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, CMAST	Aquatic, wildlife, and zoologic medicine	[email protected] 252-222-6339
Tara Harrison	Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Services	Global health and infectious diseases in zoological and exotic animals	[email protected] 919-513-7350
George Hess	Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Biomathematics, natural resource management, ecology	[email protected] 919-515-7437
Nathan Hostetter	Assistant Professor Assistant Unit Leader – NC Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit	Population ecology, quantitative ecology, demographic modeling, endangered species research	[email protected]
Madhu Katti	Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources	Interdisciplinary Ecology	[email protected] 919-515-7586
Roland Kays	Research Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Director, Biodiversity & Earth Observation Lab, Nature Research Center, NC Museum of Natural Sciences	Ecology, evolution, and conservation of mammals	[email protected] 919-707-8250
Liz Kierepka	Research Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources	Wildlife genomics, conservation, management	[email protected]
Randall Langerhans	Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences	Evolutionary diversification of Gambusia fish	[email protected] 919-515-3514
Lincoln Larson	Assistant Professor, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management	Human dimension of natural resource management	[email protected] 919-515-8947
Jay F. Levine	Professor, Department of Population Health and Pathobiology	Population health and pathobiology	[email protected] 919-513-6397
Lewbart Gregory	Professor Assistant Department Head, Clinical Sciences	Aquatic, wildlife and zoological medicine	[email protected]
Ivana Mali	Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Ecology Wildlife Foundation Distinguished Scholar for Conservation Biology	Ecology and conservation of reptiles and amphibians	[email protected]
Nadya Mamoozadeh	Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist, Department of Applied Ecology	Genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics of fisheries management	[email protected]
Kathryn Meurs	Associate Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine	Genetics, spontaneous animal disease models	[email protected] 919-513-6213
Nicole Mihnovets	Assistant Teaching Professor, FWCB Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Conservation biology, undergraduate education	[email protected]
Christopher Moorman	Professor and Assistant Department Head, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Avian Ecology in Forest Systems, Forest and Urban Wildlife Ecology & Management	[email protected] 919-515-5578
Stacy Nelson	Professor, Associate Dean, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources	Fisheries, Remote Sensing, GIS technologies	[email protected] 919-513-7162
Krishna Pacifici	Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Quantitative ecology, wildlife ecology	[email protected] 919-515-8435
Lara Pacifici	Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Program, and Teaching Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Undergraduate Education	[email protected] 919-515-3431
M. Nils Peterson	Director of Graduate Programs and Professor, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources	Human dimensions of wildlife management	[email protected] 919-515-7588
Olivia Petritz	Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences	Avian and exotic animal medicine	[email protected]
Alonso Ramirez	Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Tropical stream ecosystem dynamics	[email protected] 919-515-5100
Benjamin Reading	Associate Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Reproductive physiology and aquaculture of fishes	[email protected] 919-515-3830
Martha Reiskind	Research Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Use of genetic tools in conservation	[email protected]
Robert Richardson	Professor and Extension Specialist, Department of Crop Science	Aquatic and non-cropland weed science	[email protected] 919-515-5653
Ann Ross	Professor, Biological Sciences	Forensic anthropology	[email protected] 919-515-3122
Robert Scheller	Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources	Forecasts of landscape change in response to disturbance	[email protected] 919-513-3973
Bruce Schulte	Professor, Head, Department of Applied Ecology	Communication and social behavior of herbivorous mammals	[email protected]
Clyde Sorenson	Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, Department of Entomology	Agriculture-wildlife interactions	[email protected] 919-515-8427
Kathryn Stevenson	Associate Professor, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Mgt	Identifying drivers of environmental literacy	[email protected] 919-515-2739
Bradley Taylor	Associate Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Freshwater ecosystems	[email protected] 919-513-7037
Elsa Youngsteadt	Associate Professor, Department of Applied Ecology	Urbanization-climate change interactions	[email protected] 919-515-1661