| STEPHEN R. HUMPHREY
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College of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida
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Teaching Responsibilities
| EVS 4000 | Critical Thinking in Environmental Science (required of all seniors majoring in Environmental Science) |
Experience
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Dean, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Univ. of Florida. 1993-present. As founding dean for a new college, did the following: Obtained approval of the College and the baccalaureate degree program in Environmental Science from the State University System Board of Regents. Worked with 230 affiliate faculty and 55 deans and department chairs to plan the undergraduate curriculum (140 courses taught in 35 departments). Hired and trained secretarial and student services staff. Admitted the first class of 30 students into the degree program in Fall 1995, grew to 150 majors in Spring 1997. Prepared an endowment proposal and negotiated articulation agreements with Florida community colleges to prepare prospective transfer students.
Interim Chair, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Univ. of Florida, 1996-97. Responsible for 19 faculty, 11 staff, 95 graduate students, 198 undergraduate students, and liaison with USGS Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit. Worked with deans, faculty, staff, and students on a wide variety of strategic and tactical adaptations of departmental programs.
Current Civic Science
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Commissioner and Vice-Chair, Environmental Regulation Commission, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 1991-99. This quasi-legislative body is the rule-making arm of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. It sets standards for air quality, surface- and groundwater quality, stream classifications, and management of wastewater, solid waste, and hazardous waste.
Member, Florida Panther Technical Advisory Council, Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, 1992-97. Provides independent oversight on panther research and management activities of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.
Chief Financial Officer, Society for Conservation Biology, 1990-present. Provide leadership in the form of proposed budgets, manage the budget for 5,000 members, transact all financial business, and invest the Society endowment.
Chair, Board of Trustees, Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, 1987-89; Trustee 1982-present. Responsibility for full-time staff of 112, 42,000 members, $8 million budget. Main activity is work in the private real estate market to purchase environmentally sensitive lands.
Education
| Oklahoma State University, Stillwater | Ph.D. | Zoology | 1971 |
| Southern Illinois University, Carbondale | -- | Zoology | -- |
| Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana | B.A. | Biology | 1966 |
| Westtown School, Westtown, Pennsylvania | Secondary | 1962 |
Awards and Certifications
- 1995, the Bill Sadowski Memorial Public Service Award, received from the Environmental Law section of the Florida Bar, in recognition of outstanding public service in environmental and land use law.
- 1997, Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society.
- Certified Wildlife Biologist, The Wildlife Society.
Representative Publications
Forys, E.A. and S.R. Humphrey. In press. The effect of habitat quality on patch occupancy in a metapopulation of marsh rabbits. Landscape Ecology.
Marmontel, M., S.R. Humphrey, and T.J. O'Shea. 1997. Population viability analysis of the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), 1976-1991. Conservation Biology 11:(in press).
Klein, M.L., S.R. Humphrey, and H.F. Percival. 1995. Effects of ecotourism on distribution of waterbirds in a wildlife refuge. Conservation Biology 9:1454-1465.
Foster, M.L. and S.R. Humphrey. 1995. Use of highway underpasses by Florida panthers and other wildlife. Wildlife Society Bulletin 23:1-5.
Richter, A.R., S.R. Humphrey, J.B. Cope, and V. Brack, Jr. 1993. Modified cave entrances: thermal effect on body mass and resulting decline of endangered Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis). Conservation Biology 7:407-415.
Humphrey, S.R. (ed.). 1992. Rare and endangered biota of Florida. Vol. 1. Mammals. Univ. Presses of Florida. 392 + xxviii pp.
Jodice, P.G.R. and S.R. Humphrey. 1992. Activity and diet of urban Big Cypress fox squirrels. Journal of Wildlife Management 56:685-692.
Jones, C.A., S.R. Humphrey, T.M. Padgett, R.K. Rose, and J.F. Pagels. 1991. Geographic variation and taxonomy of the southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris). Journal of Mammalogy 72:263-272.
Humphrey, S.R. and J.R. Bain. 1990. Endangered animals of Thailand. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida. 468 pp.
Kantola, A.T. and S.R. Humphrey. 1990. Habitat use by Sherman's fox squirrel (Sciurus niger shermani) in Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 71:411-419.
Humphrey, S.R. and H.W. Setzer. 1989. Geographic variation and taxonomic revision of rice rats (Oryzomys palustris and O. argentatus) in the United States. Journal of Mammalogy 70:557-570.
Humphrey, S.R. and H.W. Setzer. 1989. Geographic variation and taxonomic revision of mink (Mustela vison) in Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 70:241-252.
Arita, H.T. and S.R. Humphrey. 1988. Revision taxonomica de los murcielagos magueyeros del genero Leptonycteris (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Acta Zoologica Mexicana, neuva serie 29:1-60.
Humphrey, S.R. 1988. Density estimates of the Key Largo woodrat and cotton mouse (Neotoma floridana smalli and Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola), using the nested grid approach. Journal of Mammalogy 69:524-531.
Humphrey, S.R. and B. Bell. 1986. The Key deer population is declining. Wildlife Society Bulletin 14:261-265.
Humphrey, S.R., F.J. Bonaccorso, and T.L. Zinn. 1983. Guild structure of surface-gleaning bats in Panama. Ecology 64:284-294.
Humphrey, S.R. and T.L. Zinn. 1982. Seasonal habitat use by river otters and Everglades mink in Florida. Journal of Wildlife Management 46:375-381.
Humphrey, S.R. 1981. Goff's pocket gopher (Geomys pinetus goffi) is extinct. Florida Scientist 44:250-252.
Humphrey, S.R. and D.B. Barbour. 1981. Status and habitat of three subspecies of Peromyscus polionotus in Florida. Journal of Mammalogy 60:840-844.
Humphrey, S.R., C.H. Courtney, and D.J. Forrester. 1978. Community ecology of the helminth parasites of the brown pelican. Wilson Bulletin 90:587-598.
Humphrey, S.R. 1978. Status, winter habitat, and management of the Indiana bat, Myotis sodalis. Florida Scientist 41:65-76.
Humphrey, S.R. and J.B. Cope. 1977. Survival rates of the endangered Indiana bat, Myotis sodalis. Journal of Mammalogy 58:32-36.
Humphrey, S.R., A.R. Richter, and J.B. Cope. 1977. Summer habitat and ecology of the endangered Indiana Bat, Myotis sodalis. Journal of Mammalogy 58:334-346.
Humphrey, S.R. and J.B. Cope. 1976. Population ecology of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus, in Indiana and north-central Kentucky. American Society of Mammalogy Special Publication No. 4. Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 83 p.
Humphrey, S.R. and T.H. Kunz. 1976. Ecology of a Pleistocene relict, the western big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii), in the southern Great Plains. Journal of Mammalogy 57:470-491.
Humphrey, S.R. 1975. Nursery roosts and community diversity of Nearctic bats. Journal of Mammalogy 56:321-346.
Humphrey, S.R. 1975. Zoogeography of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the United States. BioScience 24:457-462.
| Graduate Advisees | Note: I am not currently accepting new graduate students. |
| Master of Science | ||
| Graduated: | James R. Bain, Mark S. Robson, Angela T. Kantola, Mary V. Klein, Bradley M. Stith, Patrick G.R. Jodice, Andres J. Novaro, Melissa L. Foster, Christine M. Champe, Adi Susilo, Carlos Iudica | |
| Current: | ||
| Doctor of Philosophy | ||
| Graduated: | Hector T. Arita-Watanabe, Miriam Marmontel, Elizabeth A. Forys, Philip A. Frank | |
| Current: |
Joan L. Morrison, Ecology of the threatened crested caracara on Florida ranchland. Rebecca S. Ditgen, Ecology of the threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel on golf courses. Bradley M. Stith, Metapopulation dynamics and experimental management of habitat for the threatened Florida scrub jay. John B. Wooding, Biology of the threatened Sherman's fox squirrel. |
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