Beth Forys**  2009-2010 Discipline Coordinator
Professor of Environmental Science
I am interested in how to preserve declining and rare species.  Much of my current research focuses on beach-nesting birds and the use of GIS to better understand and manage these threatened species.

Dr. Forys was the recipient of the 2003 Robert A. Staub Distinguished Teacher Award

CONTACT: (727) 864-7880 or forysea@eckerd.edu

Kent "Kip" Curtis
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Research interests include environmental history, contemporary urban ecology, and environmental justice issues, as well as field experiments with education for sustainability.  Currently completing an environmental history of 19th-century United States mining and its impacts on American ideas about nature.

CONTACT: (727) 864-7854 or curtiska@eckerd.edu

Paul Hindsley
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Research interests include coastal resource management and policy, natural hazards research, and applied statistics/econometrics.  Current research includes the measurement of coastal homeowners’ valuation of natural features for mitigating risks from natural hazards, measuring individual’s assignment of responsibility and willingness-to-pay for rebuilding New Orleans post-Katrina, and methods for addressing bias from onsite sampling in recreation demand models.

CONTACT: (727) 864-7722 or hindslpr@eckerd.edu

Alison Ormsby  On leave until August 2010
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Research interests include people-nature interactions, the role of environmental education in biodiversity conservation, and protected areas management.  Current research focuses on people-park interactions in Madagascar and Florida as well as sacred forests in Ghana and India.

Dr. Ormsby was the recipient of the 2008 Robert A. Staub Distinguished Teacher Award 

CONTACT:(727) 864-8379 or ormsbyaa@eckerd.edu