The University of Maine offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary graduate training program in ecology and environmental science (EES). The graduate program in Ecology and Environmental Science is an interdisciplinary program that includes over 80 faculty members in 16 departments who collectively represent a broad spectrum of expertise in the analysis of the physical, chemical, biological, ecological, environmental policy, and paleoecological aspects of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Specific areas of program emphasis at The University of Maine include: conservation biology, community and landscape ecology, population ecology and environmental physiology, agricultural ecology, ecosystems analysis of watersheds,  wetland ecology, forest ecology, marine and estuarine ecology, paleoecology, soil chemistry, biogeochemistry, environmental chemistry, environmental engineering, environmental measurements and remote sensing, geographic information systems, global change, environmental pollution, environmental economics, environmental policy, population genetics, and freshwater ecology.

Degrees

Graduate students focusing in ecology and environmental science can earn either a Doctor of Philosophy or a Master of Science Degree (thesis or non-thesis).

Optional Areas of  Concentration in Ecology and Environmental Science

Aquatic and Wetland Ecology
Biogeochemistry and Environmental Chemistry
Community and Landscape Ecology
Conservation Biology
Ecosystem Analysis and Watershed Studies
Environmental Engineering and Hydrology
Environmental Policy and Management
Forest Ecology
Marine and Estuarine Ecology
Population Ecology/Environmental Physiology
Sustainable Agriculture/Agricultural Ecology

Application

To inquire about specific opportunities and the availability of graduate assistantships, write to any of the faculty members listed at our website whose interests are close to yours. For  more information about the Graduate Program in Ecology and Environmental Science, visit our web site at http://ees.umaine.edu or write to Graduate Program in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 100 Murray Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5751, or e-mail: ees@umit.maine.edu

Graduate Faculty

Departmen of Anthropology

James Acheson (economic anthropology)
Constanza Ocampo-Raeder (ecological anthropology)

Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology

Julie Gosse (toxicology)

School of Biology and Ecology

Randall Alford (Insect behavior and chemical ecology)
Andrei Alyokhin (Applied insect ecology, behavior and management)
Seanna Annis (Physiology of plant-pathogenic fungi)
Christopher Campbell (Plant systematics and genetics, rare plants)
Christopher Cronan (Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry)
Francis Drummond (Insect population dynamics)
Adria Elskus (Aquatic toxicology)
William Glanz (Community ecology of mammals)
Eleanor Groden (Applied insect ecology)
Rebecca Holberton (endocrine physiology and ecology of migrant birds)
Jody Jellison (wood decay and fungal biochemistry)
Michael Kinnison (Evolution and population ecology of fish)
Brian Olsen (avian ecology and behavior)
Jasmine Saros (paleoecology and aquatic ecology)
Christa Schwintzer (Plant physiological ecology)
Kevin Simon (stream ecology)
Robert Vadas (Algal ecology)
Katherine Webster (Limnology and lake management)

School of Business

Terry Porter (corporate environmentalism and organizational theory)
Stephanie Welcomer (sustainable issues in business)

Department of Chemistry

Barbara Cole (Plant and wood chemistry)
Howard Patterson (Environmental chemistry)
Touradj Solouki (Environmental chemistry, mass spectrometry)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Aria Amirbahman (Environmental chemistry, pollutant fate and transport)
Shaleen Jain (hydroclimatology)
Jean MacRae (Environmental microbiology)

School of Forest Resources

Barry Goodell (Fungal deterioration of wood)
Anthony Halog (life cycle assessment, industrial ecology)
Laura Kennefic (forest ecology and management)
Alan Kimball (Integrated forest management)
Jessica Leahy (human dimensions of natural resources)
Robert Lilieholm (forest resource economics and land use change)
William Livingston (Forest pathology)
Steve Sader (Remote sensing, GIS)
Robert Seymour (Forest stand dynamics)
Robert Wagner (Silviculture, vegetation ecology, and forest management)
Alan White (Forest ecology)
Jeremy Wilson (forest ecology and modeling)

Department of Earth Sciences

Daniel Belknap (Marine geology)
Joseph Kelley (Coastal geology)
Stephen Norton (Environmental geochemistry)
Andrew Reeve (Groundwater geochemistry, hydrology, wetlands, modeling)

Department of History

Richard Judd (environmental history)

Department of Mathematics

William Halteman (Statistics)
David Hiebeler (mathematical population ecology)

Department of Philosophy

Michael Howard (Environmental ethics, policy)
Roger King (Environmental ethics, philosophy)

Department of Plant, Soil, and Environmental Sciences

Aram Calhoun (Wetland ecology)
Susan Erich (Soil and environmental chemistry)
Ivan Fernandez (Forest soils and element cycling, watershed studies)
Eric Gallandt (Sustainable agriculture, weed ecology and management)
Wayne Honeycutt (Soil biology and chemistry)
Tsutomu Ohno (Soil chemistry)
Gregory Porter (Crop physiology)
Marianne Sarrantonio (Sustainable cropping systems, nitrogen cycling)

Department of Public Administration

Edward Laverty (Public administration, environmental policy)

School of Economics

Kathleen Bell (Environmental and resource economics, land use, GIS)
George Criner (Waste management)
Timothy Dalton (Farm production economics and resource economics)
Mary Davis (environmental health economics)
Jonathan Rubin (Energy and environmental policy)
Stewart Smith (Policy and sustainable agriculture)
Mario Teisl (Environmental labeling, resource economics)

Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering

Kate Beard-Tisdale (GIS)
Max Egenhofer (Geographic databases)
Harlan Onsrud (GIS and environmental law)

Department of Wildlife Ecology

Stephen Coghlan (fisheries ecology and management)
James Gilbert (Population ecology)
Daniel Harrison (Mammal ecology)
Malcolm Hunter (Conservation biology, landscape ecology)
William Krohn (Habitat assessment)
Cynthia Loftin (Systems and wetlands ecology, hydrology, GIS)
Judith Rhymer (Conservation genetics, population biology)
Frederick Servello (Wildlife ecology)
Joseph Zydlewski (Fish ecology and physiology)

School of Marine Sciences

Susan Brawley (Marine algal ecology)
Irving Kornfield (Population biology and genetics of fish)
Lawrence Mayer (Marine biogeochemistry)
Robert Steneck (Benthic ecology)
Mark Wells (Marine biogeochemistry, oceanography)
James Wilson (Marine resource economics and modeling)

Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research

David Hart (Aquatic ecology, river restoration)
Peter Vaux (Aquatic ecology, biodiversity, GIS)