Faculty and Staff Directory
Faculty
Joel W Snodgrass, Professor and Department Head, Fish and Wildlife Conservation.
Joel Snodgrass
Professor and
Department Head
Email: joels@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5573
Office: 100 Cheatham Hall
Professor, Kathleen Alexander
Kathleen Alexander
Professor
Email: kathyalx@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5059
Office: 2103 ILSB
Paul Angermeier, Professor, Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Paul Angermeier
Professor and
Assistant Unit Leader for
VA Cooperative Fish &
Wildlife Research Unit
Email: biota@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4501
Office: 342 Latham Hall
Leandro Castello, Asst Professor, Fish and Wildlife Conservation.
Leandro Castello
Associate Professor
Email: leandro@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5046
Office: 442 Latham Hall
Dan Catlin
Research
Associate Professor
Email: dcatlin@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-1692
Office: 134 Cheatham Hall
Willandia Chaves
Assistant Professor
Email: wchaves@vt.edu
Ashley Dayer
Associate Professor
Email: dayer@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-8847
Office: 108 Cheatham Hall
Andrew Dolloff
Professor &
Project Leader for
USFS Southern Research Station Coldwater Fisheries Research Unit
Email: adoll@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4864
Office: 350 Latham Hall
Luis E. Escobar
Assistant Professor
Email: escobar1@vt.edu
Phone: 540-232-8454
Office: 444 Latham Hall
Lab: 340 Latham Hall
Francesco Ferretti
Assistant Professor
Email: ferretti@vt.edu
Office: 106E Cheatham Hall
Mark Ford
Associate Professor and Unit Lead for
VA Cooperative Fish &
Wildlife Research Unit
Email: wmford@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5927
Office: 106B Cheatham Hall
James (Jim) Fraser
Professor
Email: fraser@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-6064
Office: 106C Cheatham Hall
Emmanuel Frimpong
Professor
Email: frimp@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-6880
Office: 156 Cheatham Hall
Carola Haas
Professor
Email: cahaas@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-9269
Office: 112 Cheatham Hall
Eric Hallerman
Professor
Email: ehallerm@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-3257
Office: 114 Cheatham Hall
Michael Kevin Hamed
Collegiate Associate Professor
Email: khamed@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-1887
Office: 154 Cheatham Hall
William Hopkins
Professor and Director of
Global Change Center
Email: hopkinsw@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-7292
Elizabeth Hunter
Assistant Professor & Assistant Unit Leader for VA Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Email: ehunter1@vt.edu
Brett Jesmer
Assistant Professor
Email: brettjesmer@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-0492
Office: 148 Cheatham Hall
Yan Jiao
Professor
Email: yjiao@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5749
Office: 110 Cheatham Hall
Jess Jones
Associate Professor and
Restoration Biologist for
USFWS and Co-Director of
FMCC
Email: jess_jones@fws.gov
Phone: 540-231-2266/8865
Office: 106A Cheatham Hall
Sarah Karpanty
Professor
Email: karpanty@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4586
Office: 150 Cheatham Hall
Marcella Kelly
Professor & Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs
Email: makelly2@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-1734
Office: 146 Cheatham Hall
Holly Kindsvater
Assistant Professor Email: hkindsvater
Phone: 540-231-1169
Office: 114 Cheatham Hall
Donald Linzey
Instructional Faculty
Email: dlinzey@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-2290
Office: 154 Cheatham Hall
Ronald Meyers
Associate Professor of Practice
Email: rbmeyers@vt.edu
Phone: 540-570-9535
Office: 106 Cheatham Hall
Elizabeth Nyboer
Email: enyboer@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5919
Office: 106A Cheatham Hall
Jim Parkhurst
Associate Professor
Email: jparkhur@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-9283
Office: 350 Latham Hall
Research Scientists
George Brooks
Postdoctoral Associate
Email: boa10gb@vt.edu
Joseph Buckwalter
Research Associate
Email: joebuck@vt.edu
Lab: 339 Latham Hall
Nicholas Caruso
Research Scientist
Email: nmcaruso@vt.edu
Serena Ciparis
Research Scientist
Email: sciparis@vt.edu
Office: 154 Cheatham Hall
Corrine Diggins
Research Scientist
Email: cordie1@vt.edu
Bill Henley
Research Scientist
Email: whenley@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-7241
Office: Mollusk Center
Kelsi Hunt
Research Associate
Email: hunt0382@vt.edu
Office: 134 Cheatham Hall
Kelly Jones
Research Associate
Email: kcjones7@vt.edu
Office: Off Campus, Florida
Shannon Ritter
Research Associate
Email: sjritter@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4433
Office: 101 Cheatham Hall
Sarah Sweeten
Research Scientist
Email: sweeten@vt.edu
Office: Aquaculture Center
Emily Thorne
Postdoctoral Associate
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Email: edthorne@vt.edu
Office: 106 Cheatham Hall
Chelsea Weithman
Research Associate
Email: cweithm@vt.edu
Office: 134 Cheatham Hall
Staff
Cody Ewers
Natural Resource Spec II Email: ewers@vt.edu
Office: Off Campus, FL
Donald Fraser
Watercraft Operations Manager
Email: drfraser@vt.edu
Office: Boatshed
Lynn Hayes
Sr. Administrative Assistant
Email: lyhayes@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-1975
Office: 101D Cheatham Hall
Beth Jones
Business Manager
Email: ejones06@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-3983
Office: 101 Cheatham Hall
Stephen LaCasse
Administrative Assistant
Virginia Cooperative Fish &
Wildlife Research Unit
Email: slacasse@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-4934
Office: 101 Cheatham Hall
Kelsey Lester
Administrative Assistant
Email: kdlester@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-6944
Office: 101 Cheatham Hall
Jennifer Phillips
Executive Assistant to the Department Head
Email: jewolfor@vt.edu
Phone: 540-231-5573
Office: 100 Cheatham Hall
