Kerry D. Woods, Biology
Woods is an ecologist. His teaching addresses ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental science and history; classes include field-courses in the Sonoran desert of Arizona. Current research addresses the ecology of old-growth forests in Michigan, and land-use history and landscape ecology in the Taconic Mountains of New York and Vermont. Many Bennington students have participated in his research. In addition to book reviews and book chapters, Woods has published peer-reviewed research papers in Ecology, Quaternary Research, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Remote Sensing of Environment, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Natural Areas Journal, American Midland Naturalist, Oikos, Journal of Vegetation Science, and Vegetatio. His research has been funded by NASA, National Science Foundation, U.S. Forest Service, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation. Woods was awarded a Bullard Fellowship at Harvard University in 1999, and has had visiting appointments at Central European University (Hungary), and University of Vermont. He is research director for the Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation, serves as an editor for journals of the Ecological Society of America and the International Association for Vegetation Science. He chaired the national meetings of the Ecological Society of America in 2007, and is on the Board of Advisors for the Society’s publication series, Issues of Ecology. BS, Illinois College; PhD, Cornell University. He has taught at Bennington since 1986.
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