I am the Coburn Professor of Environmental Science at John Carroll University in Cleveland, USA. I am always interested in hearing from undergraduates enrolled at JCU or students interested in coming to JCU for their masters degree. If you are a student who wants to join the lab, please send me an email describing your academic background, work experience, and research interests to jwatling [at] jcu.edu.

In our lab, we use observational, experimental, and geospatial modeling approaches to understand how drivers of global change such as landscape modification and climate change impact species and the landscapes in which they occur. My students and I do fieldwork in the United States and South America, working with a network of graduate students and undergraduate collaborators, technicians, and researchers from the federal government. Click on the links below for more information about current research projects, courses, and more, and check out this video about recent work in the lab

Several years ago, students in the lab and I collaborated on our first lab philosophy statement, which we upadted and reaffirmed most recently in 2023.

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