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 of Environmental Studies 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, faculty advisor to the undergraduate environmental group Emory Environmental Alliance (EEA), and Director of Undergraduate Studies. In Fall 2001 he became the university's environmental consultant.  In 2003, he became the Chief Environmental Officer for Emory University.

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.