In addition, several faculty members have written books that have helped shape modern ecology and evolution, including George William's classic Adaptation and Natural Selection , Slobodkin's Growth and Regulation of Animal Populations , and Sokal and Sneath's Numerical Taxonomy . Stony Brook has been the home of the Quarterly Review of Biology since its inception. Graduates of the Ph.D. Program at Stony Brook have gone on to a variety of successful careers, including faculty positions at a variety of prominent research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, as well as positions with conservation organizations, small colleges, consulting firms, and various governmental agencies. At any one time, there are about 40 graduate students in the Program. The research interests of faculty members in the Program range widely across the fields of ecology and evolution.
Most faculty members have diverse interests and more than one ongoing research project.
Because of this diversity, students entering the Program often have a choice of more than one faculty member with whom they can coordinate a fruitful research program. While there are no formal subdivisions within the Program, the faculty can be broken down into several broad interest groups. There are overlapping memberships in each of these groups, as well as individuals whose interests cannot easily be put in any single group. Select the faculty member's name to get a listing of the institutions where they received their Ph.D. degrees, office phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. A description of their research interests and a list of selected publications is also provided.