Botany Faculty
Botany faculty conduct basic and applied research relevant to the state, nation and
globe. Our faculty have won national and international awards, and are among the top
most-cited faculty according to Google Scholar.
Professor and Department Head
Area of Focus—Plant biophysics, physiological ecology, ecohydrology, process, empirical, phenomenological modeling of plant controls over energy and mass from cells to landscapes.
Biodiversity Institute
Instructional Professor
Area of Focus—Soil micobiology, biogeochemistry, and soil health afer ecosystem disturbance and in agricultural systems.
Enzi STEM 261B
WRSP Program Director, LIFE 1010 and 1020 Instructor
Area of Focus—Wildlife ecology, mammalogy, predator-prey dynamics, and ecosystem ecology.
Agriculture Building 5007
Professor
Area of Focus—Paleobotany, paleoecology, plant-insect interactions, ancient forest response to environmental perturbations.
Science Initiative 4228
Assistant Professor
Area of Focus—Forest dynamics and disturbance, dendroecology, tree responses to climate change, plant-insect interactions.
Aven Nelson 126
Professor
Area of Focus—Plant Ecology, Restoration Ecology, and Ecological Modeling
Science Initiative 3264
Curator, Rocky Mountain Herbarium
Area of Focus—Floristics, biodiversity informatics, and herbarium management.
Aven Nelson 311
Senior Lecturer
Area of Focus—Science Education
Science Initiative 2030D
Professor
Area of Focus—Fungal Ecology and Symbiosis
Aven Nelson 222
Curator, Rocky Mountain Herbarium
Area of Focus—Floristics, biodiversity, and herbarium management.
Aven Nelson 311
Instructional Professor, Associate
Area of Focus—Aquatic ecology (freshwater and marine), and food web ecology.
Enzi STEM 261B
Professor
Area of Focus—Plant oxidative stress responses, epigenomics and machine learning in plant research, climate resilience, and extremeophilic algae antioxidant metabolism.
Office & Lab: Aven Nelson 202
Assistant Professor
Area of Focus—Population and community ecology, mathematical modeling, complex systems analyses, grassland and alpine ecosystems.
Science Initiative 3232
Professor | Director, Rocky Mountain Herbarium
Area of Focus—Plant systematics, macroevolution, floristics, biodiversity informatics, and community phylogenetics.
Aven Nelson 304
Associate Professor
Area of Focus—Evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics, freshwater fishes, evolutionary ecology, and macroevolution.
Berry Center 144
Professor
Area of Focus—Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics
Science Initiative 4264
Assistant Professor
Area of Focus—Eco-evolutionary dynamics of populations and communities in experiments and models.
Science Initiative 4238
Professor
Area of Focus—Plant physiological ecology, ecohydrology, terrestrial ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, and stable isotope ecology.
Berry Center 308, 222A
