Professor Sherry has taught at Tulane since Spring, 1989, after extensive studies at Dartmouth College (undergraduate, MS degree, and post-doc) and UCLA (Ph.D. dissertation). He is married with two grown children, and enjoys gardening, watching birds, hiking and camping, cooking, and enjoying New Orleans Jazz, food, and other aspects of its rich culture. His research has focused on understanding the population and community ecology of migration, especially long-distance migration of New World wood warblers (Parulidae) wintering in the Caribbean region. He has worked in Jamaica since 1986. Another research interest is foraging, feeding ecology, and diets, mostly focusing on birds that eat insects. Since studying tropical birds extensively, including both migratory birds wintering in the Caribbean and resident tropical birds, he is now working on a book on the evolution of specialization in tropical insectivorous birds, and consequences of this specialization for understanding biological communities including the vulnerability of tropical organisms to global change. In most of his teaching and research, Professor Sherry is passionate about addressing climate change and other environmental threats.

Professor Sherry has taught a variety of courses at Tulane, including Vertebrate Morphology, Population Ecology, and Evolution. He now teaches General Ecology (for all EE Biology majors) and Conservation Biology (for Environmental Biology majors). He uses a variety of pedagogies, including lecturing (flipped classroom), writing-intensive projects, and lots of student-centered classroom activities.

Dr. Ribeiro's fields of research include avian ecology, behavior, conservation and evolution.

Dr. McLean's field of research includes Molecular Marine Microbiology.

Dr. Karubian's fields of research include Animal Behavior, Tropical Ecology and Conservation.

Donata Henry is a Senior Professor of Practice in EBIO and Associate Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching. She has operated a bird banding station in the Honey Island Swamp for over fifteen years, tracking avian community responses to hurricane disturbance and bottomland hardwood forest succession. She currently teaches courses in general biology, ecology, ornithology, natural history and the intersection of art and conservation. Dr. Henry especially enjoys bringing students out into the field (in Louisiana, the Grand Canyon, and Scandinavia) and experimenting with different pedagogical techniques to enliven the learning for her students…and herself! In 2019 she was awarded the Weiss Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. She also founded Girls in STEM at Tulane, an outreach program for middle-school girls.

Dr. Gunderson's field of research includes physiological and evolutionary ecology, global change biology, and herpetology.

Dr. Kathleen Ferris is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University. Dr. Ferris has Bachelor degrees in Biology and English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago, she earned her PhD in Biology from Duke University, and did post-doctoral work in population and quantitative genetics at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. Dr. Ferris has always been fascinated by three things: how things work, natural beauty, and storytelling. she is passionate about evolutionary biology because it combines all three. To understand how the evolutionary story has unfolded Dr. Ferris combines quantitative genetics, population genomics, and field experiments to determine the genetic, phenotypic, and environmental basis of adaptation and speciation in Monkeyflowers. Projects in the lab focus on the genetic basis of local adaptation, parallel evolution, phenotypic plasticity, and traits under temporally varying selection using members of the Mimulus guttatus species complex. Dr. Ferris is particularly interested in how differences in leaf morphology, mating system, and phenology within and between species contribute to adaptation to harsh rocky environments. By combining genetic, experimental, and field methods Dr. Ferris hopes to gain a holistic understanding of the evolutionary narrative.

Dr. Farrer's fields of research include Plant Ecology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Global Change Biology, Invasive Species, Wetland Ecology, Population Genetics, and Botany.

Dr. Clay's research focuses primarily on symbiosis, which encompasses both mutualistic and pathogenic interactions, and everything in between. Most of his research, and that of his students, has focused on plant-fungal interactions but they have also investigated bacterial communities associated with ticks, important vectors of human pathogens. The overarching questions of interest are how are symbionts transmitted and maintained in host populations, and how do symbiotic interactions affect the structure and dynamics of ecological communities? To address these questions Dr. Clay uses a wide range of approaches ranging from long-term field experiments to lab-based molecular and microbiology.

Dr. Clay recently moved to Tulane after 32 years at Indiana University to become the chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He still has several large research projects based at Indiana University but is initiating new research at Tulane that takes advantage of the unique habitats and high biodiversity along the Gulf of Mexico. As he rebuilds his lab here, he is actively seeking talented undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.

Dr. Cheruiyot's field of research includes plants and animal interactions, elemental defense, biointeraction between elements and organic defense chemicals, and trophic transfer of elements