Dr. John Wegner Chief Environmental Officer Emory University Senior Lecturer 400 Dowman Drive Atlanta, GA 30322 jwegner@emory.edu Telephone: 404-727-4206 Fax: 404-727-4448

John joined the faculty at Emory University in 1998 after teaching for 23 years at Carleton University (Canada). He is active in the University Senate Committee on the Environment a June 24, 2008 l literacy group (ECOSEAC). In the fall of 2001 he became the University's environmental consultant, and he maintains an office in Facilities Management

Couses Taught

• ENVS 240 Ecosystem Ecology
• ENVS 442 Ecology of Emory
• ENVS 444 Ecosystems of the Southeastern United States
• ENVS 491 Service Learning
• ENVS 497 Internship Coordinator

Research Interests

• Green building design--especially using the US Green Building Council's LEED(TM) rating system
• Urban forest ecology
• Aquatic ecology
• Effects of habitat fragmentation on the abundance and distribution of animals

Publications

• Goodwin, B.J, D.J. Bender, T.A. Contreras, L. Fahrig and J.F. Wegner, 1999. Testing for habitat detection distances using orientation data. Oikos 84:160-163.

• Henein, K, J. Wegner, and G. Merriam, 1998. Population effects of landscape model manipulation on two behaviourally different woodland small mammals. Oikos 81:168-186.

• Fahrig, L., J. H. Pedlar, S. E. Pope, P. D. Taylor, and J. F. Wegner. 1995. Effect of road traffic on amphibian density. Biol. Conserv. 73:177-182.