"The best students pursue studies in biology to fulfill their burning curiosity about the world and how it works. Evolution is the great unifying concept of biology, and, as Darwin said, ‘There is grandeur in this view of life.’ Learning about it and teaching about it is thrilling."




 
 
Tom Vawter
 
 


Education:

1970     B.S. University of California – Irvine, Biological Sciences
1977     Ph.D. Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology


Select Publications:
O’Leary, N., Vawter, A.T., Wagenet, L., Pfeffer, M. “Efficacy of citizen volunteers in stream monitoring for water quality.” Freshwater Ecology 19:4
(2004): 581-586.

McCracken, G., McCracken, M., & Vawter, A.T. “Genetic structure in migratory populations of the bat Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana.” J. Mammal 75:2
(1994): 500-514.

Vawter, A.T., Gorman, G., & Rosenblatt, R. “Genetic divergence among fishes of the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean: support for the molecular clock.” Evolution 34:4
(1994): 705-711.

Courses Taught:
Ecology & Evolution
Animal Behavior
Aquatic Biology
Advanced Ecology: Conservation Biology
Biological Conservation
First Year Experience: Approaches to the Liberal Arts
First-Year Experience: The First-Year Seminar
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

Last updated: 09/26/2007

 


Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies

Herbert E. Ives Professor of Sciences

Director of Affiliated off-campus study program with School for Field Studies

tvawter@wells.edu

315.364.3269
Stratton 302