Lou Weber - Biology and Environmental Studies

Phone: 828-771-3071
E-Mail: lweber@warren-wilson.edu
Address : CPO# 6038
Warren Wilson College Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000

Arrival Year: 1997

Education:

Ph.D., Zoology, Clemson University.  1994. Dissertation:  Foraging ecology and conservation of shorebirds in South Carolina coastal wetlands.        

M.S., Aquatic Ecology, University of Notre Dame.  1988. Thesis:  Interactions of grazing snails and periphyton in northern Wisconsin lakes.

B.S., Biology, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.  1983.   /Magna cum laude/.

Classes I am currently teaching at Warren Wilson:
Ecology, Ornithology, Conservation and Wildlife Biology, Research Design, Introduction to Environmental Studies

Publications:
Moerschbaecher, M.K. and L.M. Weber, 2004. A Survey of Road Kill on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science.

C.R. Rossell, Hamilton, C.D., _L.M. Weber_, S.W. Kress.  1999.  Chick provisioning by common terns in the southern Gulf of Maine, USA. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78:158-160.

Weber, L.M_. and J.J. Isely.  1997.  Water quality assessment of the Chattooga River using a macroinvertebrate biotic index.  Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 113:37-45.

Weber, L.M_. and S.M. Haig.  1997.  Shorebird diet and size selection of nereid polychaetes in South Carolina coastal impoundments.  Journal of Field Ornithology. 68:358-366.

Weber, L.M_. and S.M. Haig.  1997.  Shorebird-prey interactions in South Carolina coastal soft-sediments.  Canadian Journal of Zoology 75:245-252.

Weber,  L.M_. and S.M. Haig.  1996.  Shorebird use of South Carolina managed and natural areas. Journal of Wildlife Management 60:73-82.

Weber, L M._ and B.H. Martin. 1991.  Piping plovers nest on dry and nearly dry alkali wetlands in the northern Great Plains, 1986-1990. Prairie Naturalist  23:209-212.

Weber, L.M._ and D.M. Lodge. 1990.  Periphytic food and predatory crayfish:  relative roles in determining snail distribution.  Oecologia 82:33-39.

Research:
I am the chairperson of the Environmental Studies Department and serve as a professor in both ENS and Biology. I am the main advisor for those in the conservation biology concentration. I also advise those with an interest in wildlife management. My specialties are conservation biology, ecology, ornithology, research design, and wildlife management.

I serve as chairperson of the Buildings and Grounds Committee and am a member of the Land Use Committee.