People

Lab Director

Mark Ritchie portraitDr. Mark Ritchie
Professor
meritchi@syr.edu
Office: 436 Life Sciences Complex (LSC)
Phone: 315-443-2479

Faculty Profile

Former Graduate Students

Elizabeth Bodnaruk – M.S. 2015

Megan McSherry – Ph.D. 2015

  • Research Interests: the effects of grazing by domestic livestock and native herbivores on plant community composition in and around Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Geofrey Soka – Ph.D. 2014

Adam Willis – M.S. Student

Andrew Siefert – Ph.D. 2014

  • Research Interests: trait-based plant community ecology.

Zhongan Chen – M.S. 2010

Stephanie Eby – Ph.D. 2010

  • Dissertation: “Fire and the Reasons for its Influence on Mammalian Herbivore Distributions in an African Savanna Ecosystem.”

Sumanta Bagchi – Ph.D. 2009

  • Sumanta is currently a postdoc at Texas A&M University.

Nathan Brown – M.S. 2009

  • Nathan is a Wildlife Biologist for the State of Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife Resources in Cedar City, UT.

Peibing Qin – Ph.D. 2007

  • Peibing is employed by Becton Dickinson, in Sparks, MD.

Kerry Griffis-Kyle – Ph.D. 2005

  • Kerry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources Management at Texas Tech University.