Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology at Stony Brook University (SUNY)

37 faculty and 0 courses in Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology at Stony Brook University (SUNY).

Faculty

• Catherine Graham, Associate Professor h-index 72
  Notable: “Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data” (2006) · 9,110 citations
• Christopher J. Gobler, Professor h-index 68
  Notable: “The rise of harmful cyanobacteria blooms: The potential roles of eutrophication and climate change” (2011) · 2,212 citations
• H. Resit Akcakaya, Professor h-index 67
  Notable: “Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species” (2008) · 1,385 citations
• Patricia Wright, Professor h-index 54
  Notable: “Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools” (2008) · 560 citations
• Stephan B. Munch, Assistant Professor h-index 42
  Notable: “Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems” (2012) · 2,548 citations
• Dianna K. Padilla, Professor h-index 42
  Notable: “Are invasive species a major cause of extinctions?” (2004) · 1,524 citations
• Liliana M. Dávalos, Professor h-index 42
  Notable: “The drivers and impacts of Amazon forest degradation” (2023) · 580 citations
• Robert W. Thacker, Professor h-index 41
  Notable: “Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome” (2016) · 739 citations
• Krishna R. Veeramah, Associate Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “Great ape genetic diversity and population history” (2013) · 987 citations
• Heather J. Lynch, Professor h-index 38
  Notable: “Neutral metacommunity models predict fish diversity patterns in Mississippi–Missouri basin” (2008) · 380 citations
• Gábor Balázsi, Associate Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “Cellular Decision Making and Biological Noise: From Microbes to Mammals” (2011) · 1,129 citations
• Andreas Koenig, Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “Competition for Resources and Its Behavioral Consequences Among Female Primates” (2002) · 337 citations
• Stephen B. Baines, Associate Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Lakes as sentinels of climate change” (2009) · 1,930 citations
• Ross H. Nehm, Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Biology Majors' Knowledge and Misconceptions of Natural Selection” (2007) · 405 citations
• Jackie Collier, Associate Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing” (2014) · 1,118 citations
• Bradley J. Peterson, Associate Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “DENITRIFICATION ACROSS LANDSCAPES AND WATERSCAPES: A SYNTHESIS” (2006) · 1,689 citations
• Jeroen B. Smaers, Associate Professor h-index 31
  Notable: “The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time” (2014) · 375 citations
• Elizabeth Watson, Associate Professor h-index 29
  Notable: “Mitochondrial Footprints of Human Expansions in Africa” (1997) · 413 citations
• John R. True, Associate Professor h-index 26
  Notable: “Developmental system drift and flexibility in evolutionary trajectories” (2001) · 717 citations
• Joshua S. Rest, Associate Professor and Chair h-index 24
  Notable: “The deepest divergences in land plants inferred from phylogenomic evidence” (2006) · 664 citations
• Dino J. Martins, Executive Director of Mpala h-index 23
  Notable: “Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification” (2019) · 389 citations
• Lesley Thorne, Assistant Professor h-index 23
  Notable: “Responses of cetaceans to anthropogenic noise” (2007) · 612 citations
• Nils Volkenborn, Assistant Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “Effects of bioturbation and bioirrigation by lugworms (Arenicola marina) on physical and chemical sediment properties and implications for intertidal habitat succession” (2007) · 208 citations
• Pascal O. Title, Assistant Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes” (2018) · 968 citations
• Daniel M. Griffith, Assistant Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “cooccur: Probabilistic Species Co-Occurrence Analysis inR” (2016) · 599 citations
• Katheryn C. Twiss, Associate Professor h-index 19
  Notable: “The Archaeology of Food and Social Diversity” (2012) · 247 citations
• Sheila Kitchen, Assistant Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “Considerations for maximizing the adaptive potential of restored coral populations in the western Atlantic” (2019) · 296 citations
• Fredric V. Vencl, Research Associate Professor h-index 17
  Notable: “Larval Beetles Form a Defense from Recycled Host-Plant Chemicals Discharged as Fecal Wastes” (1998) · 81 citations
• Rafael D'Andrea, Assistant Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Chesson's coexistence theory” (2018) · 451 citations
• Giovanna McClenachan, Assistant Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “The application of oyster reefs in shoreline protection: Are we over‐engineering for an ecosystem engineer?” (2019) · 127 citations
• Tara M. Smiley, Assistant Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Biodiversity and Topographic Complexity: Modern and Geohistorical Perspectives” (2017) · 316 citations
• Jackie Lee Weissman, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Estimating maximal microbial growth rates from cultures, metagenomes, and single cells via codon usage patterns” (2021) · 301 citations
• Natasha S. Vitek, Assistant Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “A nomenclature for fossil and living turtles using phylogenetically defined clade names” (2021) · 155 citations
• Aki H. Ohdera, Assistant Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits” (2018) · 275 citations
• Jordanna D. H. Sprayberry, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Notable: “Neural mechanisms underlying target detection in a dragonfly centrifugal neuron” (2007) · 80 citations
• Catherine Markham, Assistant Professor
• Marin L. M. Beaupré, Lecturer

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.