The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences faculty work and collaborate in five primary research areas; ecology applied to conservation and management with strengths in wildlife (terrestrial) ecology, fish (aquatic) ecology, and ecological modeling; biodiversity science (evolution, genetics, systematics, and zoogeography); and aquaculture science.
Our research faculty are recognized as campus, national, and international leaders in multidisciplinary engagements. Their research has a strong focus in quantitative biology, especially ecological modeling of natural and human-coupled systems.