Faculty Mentors

Faculty mentors from the College of William and Mary will be matched with students applying to the REU program:

Greg Capelli

(Associate Professor, Biology Department): Behavior and ecology of freshwater benthic invertebrates; stream biomonitoring; response of benthos to chemical gradients. [[gmcape]]

Martha Case

(Associate Professor, Biology Department): Systematics and evolutionary mechanisms of Orchid taxa; rare species conservation and applications of population genetic data to plant conservation; lichen ecology. [[macase]]

Randy Chambers

(Associate Professor, Biology Department): Ecology and restoration of wetlands; environmental sciences; biology and geochemistry of sedimentary environments. [[rmcham]]

Dan Cristol

(Associate Professor, Biology Department): Animal Behavior; Behavioral ecology and neuroethology of bird migration and foraging; conservation biology. [[dacris]]

Matt Evans

(Assistant Professor, Geology Department): Geochemistry of groundwater contamination and streamwater discharge. [[mjevan]]

Mark Forsyth

(Assistant Professor, Biology Department): Mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis; bacterial contamination of surface waters. [[mhfors]]

Greg Hancock

(Assistant Professor, Geology Department): Hydrogeology, geomorphology, and fluvial processes. [[gshanc]]

George Gilchrist

(Associate Professor, Biology Department): Adaptive responses of insects to environmental change; computational biology; evolutionary genetics and genomics. [[gwgilc]]

Rob Hicks

(Assistant Professor, Economics Department): environmental economics; non-market valuation of natural resources. [[rlhick]]

Rowan Lockwood

(Assistant Professor, Geology Department): Invertebrate paleontology, evolutionary biology, mass extinctions, morphometrics, and biogeography. [[rslock]]

Timmons Roberts

(Professor, Sociology Department): Development and social change; globalization and environmental justice. [[jtrobe]]

John Swaddle

(Assistant Professor, Biology Department): Behavioral ecology of birds; sexual selection; influence of developmental variation on evolutionary processes; functional morphology; body mass regulation. [[jpswad]]

Stewart Ware

(Professor, Biology Department): Environmental control of plant distribution and abundance; edaphic factors and vegetation; role of interspecific competition in plant community structure. [[saware]]