Dr. John P. Hayes
Professor
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon  97331

Office:  301L Richardson Hall
Email:  John.Hayes@orst.edu
Office Hours:  W 10-12

Background and interests:  John Hayes received his B.S. in Wildlife Science from Oregon State University, his M.S. in Biology from Southern Oregon University, and his Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University.  He has been a faculty member at Oregon State University since 1992.  His professional interests include the influences of forest management on wildlife populations, influences of spatial scale on vertebrate habitat associations, ecology of bats, and conservation biology.

Spring 2003 Teaching Assistants

Ed Arnett
Ph.D. Student
Department of Forest Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon  97331

Office: 301J Richardson Hall 
Email: Ed.Arnett@orst.edu
Office Hours: W 12-2

Background and interests:  Ed is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University where he is studying habitat selection of bats in the Cascade Range in western Oregon. He received his AAS in natural resources management from Colorado Mountain College, a BS in fish and wildlife management from Montana State University, and an MS in zoology and physiology from the University of Wyoming. Prior to returning to graduate school for his Ph.D., he worked as a wildlife research biologist for 7 years with Weyerhaeuser Company and was a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service in Oregon (2 years with each agency). 

Judith Jobse
Ph.D. Student
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon  97331

Office: Nash Hall 150
Email: jobsej@onid.oregonstate.edu
Office Hours: M 3-5

Background and interests:  Judith is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. She is studying the impacts of land use change (from primary forest to agriculture) on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen pools in the dominant bioclimatic zones (from Tropical dry forest to Lower Montane rain forest) in Costa Rica. She received her MS in Environmental Sciences with a major in water quality and aquatic ecology from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, and BS in Environmental Technology and Management from the Higher College of Agriculture in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Her professional interests include ecosystem ecology, tropical ecology, and conservation biology.

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