Faculty

Andrew Kramer

Assistant Professor 

Andrew Kramer

CONTACT
Tampa campus
Office: SCA 330
Lab: SCA 323
Phone: (813) 974-2825

Email: amkramer@usf.edu

Specialty Area Recent Publications

Ecology & Evolution, Conservation & Disease, Quantitative Biology

Research Key Words: Population dynamics, Invasive species, Aquatic ecology, Disease ecology, Quantitative biology, Spatial ecology

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife / Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior, Michigan State University, 2007
B.S., Biology, Saint Louis University, 2000 (summa cum laude)

TEACHING
I teach Biometry with the goal of providing graduate students a foundation in statistics and with experience using R to implement those statistical approaches. I also teach Mathematical Modeling in Biology to provide graduate students with experience implementing analysis of ecological and evolutionary theories in R.

I enjoy teaching Biological Diversity because it spans all of ecology and evolution, and it is exciting to help students understand how ecology and evolution have led to our planet's incredible diversity of lifeforms.

RESEARCH
I am interested in the ecology of species invasions and zoonotic diseases, and in the underlying population ecology of small populations. Dynamics leading to the alternatives of persistence and extinction influence applied ecological problems from conservation of threatened species to rapid spatial spread of invasive species and emerging diseases.

I link theory with empirical data to produce general insights and work across scales from the microscopic to continental. My research aims to make effective use of increasingly powerful computational tools, and I use machine learning tools and network approaches to develop predictive models for the spread of invasive species and emerging infectious diseases.