Faculty Actively Recruiting Graduate Students

This page lists a subset of all GDPE faculty, who are actively recruiting graduate students. Propsective students may also browse our Full Faculty Directory or search all faculty by specific research area(s).

Key to Department Abbreviations

Anthropology: Department of Anthropology
ARE: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
AS: Department of Animal Sciences
Atmospheric Science: Department of Atmospheric Science
Biology: Department of Biology
Biomedical Sciences: Department of Biomedical Sciences
BSPM: Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management
CBE: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
CEE: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Chemistry: Department of Chemistry
CIRA: Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Clinical Sciences: Department of Clinical Sciences
COHS: College of Applied Human Sciences
CPW: Colorado Parks and Wildlife
CRB: Center for Rhizosphere Biology
CS: Department of Computer Science
CSFS: Colorado State Forest Service
CSUWC: CSU Water Center
CU: University of Colorado
Ed: School of Education
ENGL: Department of English
ERHS: Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences
ESS: Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
Fort Lewis College: Fort Lewis College
FRS: Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship
FWCB: Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Geosciences: Department of Geosciences

HDNR: Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Hist: Department of History
HLA: Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
LFL: Larval Fish Laboratory
LTER: Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research Station
Mathematics: Department of Mathematics
ME: Department of Mechanical Engineering
MIP: Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology
NCAR: National Center for Atmospheric Research
NPS: National Park Service
NREL: Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
NWRC: National Wildlife Research Center
Philosophy: Department of Philosophy
Political Science: Department of Political Science
RMRS: Rocky Mountain Research Station
RMTR: Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research
SCS: Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
SoGES: School of Global Environmental Sustainability
Statistics: Department of Statistics
The Nature Conservancy: The Nature Conservancy
University of Wyoming: University of Wyoming
USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
USFS-RMRS: USDA Forest Service - Rocky Mountain Research Station
USFWS: United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS: United States Geological Survey
WCNR: Warner College of Natural Resources Dean's Office

Showing Faculty Seeking Grad Students. Hover your mouse over the dept. abbreviation to see the full department name.
	Angeloni, Lisa Biology angeloni@colostate.edu website »	Behavioral ecology; reproductive strategies; conservation biology
	Betsill, Michele Political Science m.betsill@colostate.edu website »	My research focuses on the governance of global climate change from the global to the local level. I am particularly interested in understanding how governance initiatives interact across scales and ways that this enables/constrains global efforts to deal with climate change.
	Cooper, David FRS david.cooper@colostate.edu website »	Wetland ecosystem studies, wetland vegetation ecology, wetland restoration and creation, wetland hydrology.
	Funk, Chris Biology chris.funk@colostate.edu website »	I am broadly interested in conservation, gene flow, adaptation, and speciation. Research foci currently include landscape and conservation genetics; predicting vulnerability to climate change based on species' traits; the effects of gene flow on fitness; the role of ecological and sexual selection in speciation; and quantitative natural history. I address questions using an integrative approach that combines population genetics and genomics, phylogenetics, experiments, ecology, and behavior.
	Ghalambor, Cameron Biology cameron1@lamar.colostate.edu website »	I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in the empirical study of adaptation. My lab works on adaptive divergence in morphology, behavior, life history, and physiology of fish, birds, and aquatic insects. A common theme in our work is to partition phenotypic variation into its genetic and environmental components, thus we are very interested in the ecological and evolutionary implications of phenotypic plasticity. We conduct fieldwork in freshwater streams, forests, and scrub habitats in both temperate and tropical environments, and carry out lab-based experiments. Our current projects include studies of adaptive divergence in Trinidadian guppies, birds on the California Channel Islands, and aquatic insects in Colorado and Ecuador.
	Kumar, Sunil NREL (ESS ) sunil.kumar@colostate.edu website »	My current research interests are (1) spatial modeling and mapping of invasive plants, pathogens and diseases, (2) spatial modeling of threatened and endangered species distributions, (3) assessment of population vulnerability to vector-borne disease, (4) pest risk analysis, and (5) quantification of landscape spatial heterogeneity and its effects on native and non-native species and ecosystems.
	McKay, John BSPM jkmckay@colostate.edu website »	We study the study the ecological and molecular genetic mechanisms of adaptation in plants. For environmental factors such as temperature and drought, this requires identifying the traits, QTL, genes and transcripts involved in the production of adaptive phenotypes. In addition, this research will seek to identify how plants sense environmental conditions and activate regulatory networks that underlie adaptive mechanisms.
	Naug, Dhruba Biology dhruba@lamar.colostate.edu website »	I am broadly interested in Behavioral and Cognitive ecology, specifically in social dynamics, decision-making, and host-parasite interactions, answering such questions with honeybees as a model.
	Ode, Paul BSPM paul.ode@colostate.edu website »	Plant-insect interactions, especially multi-trophic interactions involving plant chemistry, insect herbivores, and natural enemies.
	Smith, Melinda Biology melinda.smith@colostate.edu	My research focuses on understanding the consequences of human-caused global changes, especially the impacts of climatic changes, biological invasions, eutrophication (e.g., increased N deposition), and altered disturbance regimes for biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function. Within this context, my research addresses questions about the functional roles of species in ecosystems, the causes and impacts of loss and gain of genetic and species diversity, the factors that influence species coexistence and patterns of species abundance, and the relative strength of bottom-up (resources) vs. top-down (consumers) controls in structuring communities. My research employs a mixture of empirical approaches (observational, experimental, comparative and synthetic) and utilizes C4-dominated grasslands as experimentally tractable and dynamic model systems.
	Webb, Colleen Biology (Mathematics ) colleen.webb@colostate.edu website »	Theoretical evolutionary ecology, disease ecology and trait-based approaches in ecology.