Welcome Natural Sciences

Faculty

Dr. Jeffery T. Burkhart
Chair of Biology Department and Fletcher Jones Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Arizona State University; B.A., Humboldt State University
Website: http://faculty.ulv.edu/~burkhartj/
Email: burkhart@ulv.edu

• Areas of research expertise:
Tropical and coral reef ecology, ecology of iguanid lizards, biology of desert invertebrates.

Dr. Harvey F. Good
Professor of Biology
Ed.D., University of La Verne; M.S., Purdue University; B.A., La Verne College. Chairman of the Biology Department and Professor of Biology
Website: http://faculty.ulv.edu/~goodh/
Email: goodh@ulv.edu

• Areas of research expertise:
Environmental quality, environmental physiology, biofeedback and stress reduction, genetics and aquaculture.

Dr. Jay Jones
Professor of Biology and Biochemistry
M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University; B.A., B.S., M.S., Southern Illinois University. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, Chair, Academic Computing
Website: http://faculty.ulv.edu/~jonesj/
Email: jonesj@ulv.edu

• Areas of research expertise:
Effects of metals and gases on soil microbes and on plant fluorescence, remote sensing, biogeochemistry, diagenetic changes in biochemical components of plants (particularly cutin), plant physiology, paleobotany.

Dr. Sheridan V. (Dan) Merritt
Professor of Zoology and Environmental Science
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin; B.S., M.S., Oregon State University
Webpage: http://faculty.ulv.edu/~merrittd
Email: merrittd@ulv.edu

• Areas of research expertise & teaching areas of particular interest:

Aquatic ecosystem assessment, management and restoration
Modern ecology and Native American beliefs & practices
Interactions between science, technology and society.
Recent sabbatical spent learning wetlands restoration from Steve Smith at Oregon Dept of Fish & Wildlife. Also prepared report, "Preliminary assessment of macroinvertebrates in the Wetlands Reach of Soap Creek".

Dr. Robert T. Neher
Chair of Natural Scences Division and Professor of Biology
Ph.D., Indiana University; B.S., Manchester College; M.R.E., Bethany Theological Seminary. Professor of Biology and Chairman of the Natural Science Division
Email: neherr@ulv.edu

• Areas of research expertise:
Environmental quality, plant systematics, biofeedback and stress reduction, nutritional biology and cytogenetics

Dr. Stacey Darling Novak
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D. in Biology, University of California, Riverside; M.A. in Biology, Certificate in Biotechnology, and B.A. in Biology, California State University, Fresno
Email: novaks@ulv.edu

• Areas of research expertise:
My general area of research interest is apoptosis or programmed cell death (PCD). Specifically, I am interested in this process in plants. The model system that I am currently using is maize kernel development in which PCD normally occurs in the endosperm, but the process is accelerated in high sugar and viviparous mutants. My present focus is on the role of stress and hormones in the signaling pathway for plant apoptosis.

Dr. Christine Ann Broussard
Associate Professor of Biology
Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas M.S., Louisiana State University B.S., Louisiana State University Baton Rouge
Website: http://faculty.ulv.edu/~broussac/
Email: broussac@ulv.edu

Jerome V. Garcia
Assistant Professor of Biology
B.A., University of La Verne
Email: garciaj@ulv.edu