Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University

Faculty

Brown, Carl
Chaves, Luis
Gillespie, Tom
Gunderson, Lance
Hall, Anne
Hickcox, Woody
Kitron, Uriel
Martin, Tony
Prokopec, Gonzalo Vazquez
Ruttan, Lore
Seares, Jessica
Size, William

Spears, Ellen
Wegner, John
Wilson, Larry
Yandle, Tracy

Staff

Jerald Byrd (Jerry)
Carolyn Keogh (Carrie)

 

 


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.
 

 

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