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.
Brent E. Ewers
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.
Berry Center
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Instructional Professor
Area of Focus—Soil micobiology, biogeochemistry, and soil health afer ecosystem disturbance and in agricultural systems.
Enzi STEM 261B
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Associate Instructional Professor | Director, Wyoming Research Scholars Program
Area of Focus—Wildlife ecology.
Science Initiative Building 4017D
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Professor
Area of Focus—Paleobotany, paleoecology, plant-insect interactions, ancient forest response to environmental perturbations.
Science Initiative Building 4228
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Assistant Professor
Area of Focus—Forest dynamics and disturbance, dendroecology, tree responses to climate change, plant-insect interactions.
AG 6006
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Professor of Plant Ecology
Area of Focus—Plant Ecology, Restoration Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.
Science Initiative Building 3264
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Curator, Rocky Mountain Herbarium
Area of Focus—Floristics, biodiversity informatics, and herbarium management.
Aven Nelson 304
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Senior Lecturer
Area of Focus—Science Education.
Science Initiative Building 2030D
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Associate Instructional Professor
Area of Focus—Aquatic ecology (freshwater and marine), and food web ecology.
Enzi STEM 261B
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Professor
Area of Focus—Plant oxidative stress responses, epigenomics and machine learning in plant research, climate resilience, and extremophilic algae antioxidant metabolism.
Aven Nelson 202
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Assistant Professor
Area of Focus—Population and community ecology, mathematical modeling, complex systems analyses, grassland and alpine ecosystems.
Science Initiative Building 3232
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Professor | Director, Rocky Mountain Herbarium
Area of Focus—Plant systematics, macroevolution, floristics, biodiversity informatics, and community phylogenetics.
Berry Center 149
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Associate Professor
Area of Focus—Evolutionary biology, evolutionary genetics, freshwater fishes, evolutionary ecology, and macroevolution.
Berry Center 144
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Associate Instructional Professor | Coordinator, Course-Based Undergraduate Research
Area of Focus—Mycology, plant and fungal physiology, selenium metabolism.
Science Initiative Building 4017-B
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Professor
Area of Focus—Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics.
Science Initiative Building 4264
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Assistant Professor
Area of Focus—Eco-evolutionary dynamics of populations and communities in experiments and models.
Science Initiative Building 4238
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Professor
Area of Focus—Plant physiological ecology, ecohydrology, terrestrial ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, and stable isotope ecology.
Berry Center 308, 222A
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The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.