Concentration Chair
Dr. Brad Taylor
M.S. and Ph.D. students choose one of the following:
- AEC592, Foundations of Freshwater Science (Spring; Taylor)
- AEC592, Water Quality (Fall; Daniels)
- AEC624, Marine Fisheries Ecology (Fall, Buckel)
Choose a minimum of one course for M.S., two for Ph.D.:
AEC515 — Fish Physiology (Fall odd years; Reading) | AEC519 — Freshwater Ecology (Fall even years; Taylor) |
AEC550 — Conservation Genetics (Spring odd years; Reiskind) | AEC586 & 587 — Aquaculture & Laboratory (Spring even years; Daniels) |
AEC592 — Foundations of Freshwater Science (Spring; Taylor) (*If not taken as required course) | AEC592 — Water Quality (Fall; Daniels) (*If not taken as required course) |
AEC592 — Management of Small Impounds (Fall; Kwak) | AEC592 — Fish Bioenergetics Modeling (Spring; Rice) |
AEC592 — Aquatic Plant Ecology (Fall; Burkholder) | AEC624 — Marine Fisheries Ecology (Fall, Buckel) (*If not taken as required course) |
AEC726 — Quantitative Fisheries Management (Fall even years; Fischer) | AEC/ENT509 — Biology of Aquatic Insects (Spring odd years; Taylor/Silverman) |
BMA772 — Stochastic Processes in Biology (Spring odd years; Gross) | FW511 — Human Dimensions of Wildlife (Spring odd years; Peterson) |
MEA549 — Principles of Biological Oceanography (Fall; Eggleston) | NR595 — Natural Resource Policy and Management (Fall; Hess) |
ZO524 — Comparative Endocrinology (Spring; Borski) |
Classes to consider but not required (consult with your mentor and advisory committee):
AEC592, Machine Learning Approaches in Biology (Spring odd years; Reading) | AEC592, Topics, Methods, and Applications in Decision Science (Spring; Eaton) |
AEC592, Climate Change and Conservation (Fall; Terando) | AEC601, Seminar (Fall & Spring; Staff) |
AEC761, Conservation Biology (Fall; Staff) | BMA560, Population Ecology (Spring odd years; Gross) |
BMA567, Modeling Biological Systems (Alternate years; Gross) | FW730, Ethics in Fisheries and Wildlife (Fall; Stoskopf) |
GIS510, Introduction to Geographic Information Science (Fall&Spring; Staff) | ST505, Applied Nonparametric Statistics (Spring; Lu) |
ST511, Experimental Statistics in Biological Sciences I (Fall&Spring; Staff) | ST512, Experimental Statistics in Biological Sciences I (Fall&Spring; Staff) |
TOX715, Environmental Toxicology (Fall; Buchwalter) | ZO592, Evolutionary Ecology (Fall odd years; Langerhans) |
ZO710, Hierarchical Species-Habitat Modeling (Spring; Collazo) |
Name | Department | Research Interests | |
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Aday, Derek | ddaday@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Aquatic ecology and fisheries |
Bogan,Arthur | aebogan@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Boreman Jr,John | john.boreman@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Borski, Russell | rjb@ncsu.edu | Biological Sciences | Fish endocrinology and physiological, molecular, and cellular developmental biology |
Buchwalter, David | dbbuchwa@ncsu.edu | Biological Sciences | Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Integrative Physiology, Neurobiology, and Behavior |
Buckel, Jeff | jabuckel@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Marine fisheries biology |
Cope, Greg | greg_cope@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Aquatic toxicology, molluscan and fish biology, physiology |
Daniels, Harry | harry_daniels@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Aquaculture of freshwater and marine fish and shrimp |
Eggleston,David | eggleston@ncsu.edu | Marine, Earth And Atmospheric | |
Fischer, Jesse | jessefischer@gmail.com | Applied Ecology | |
Godwin, John | godwin@ncsu.edu | Biological Sciences | |
Heise, Ryan | rjheise@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Hinshaw, Jeffrey | jeff_hinshaw@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Kwak, Tom | tkwak@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Fish and mussel ecology and management, conservation ecology, production biology |
Losordo, Thomas | tlosordo@ncsu.edu | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
Morris, James | jamorri2@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Pollock, Kenneth | pollock@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Sampling theory and survey methodology of wildlife and fisheries |
Reading, Benjamin | bjreadin@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Reiskind, Martha Burford | mbreiski@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Molecular ecology of aquatic species |
Rice, James | jrice@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Roberts, Reade | rbrober2@ncsu.edu | Biological Sciences | |
Shertzer, Kyle | kyle_shertzer@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | |
Taylor, Brad | bwtaylo3@ncsu.edu | Applied Ecology | Freshwater Ecosystems |