Timothy Swartz has joined McDaniel College as assistant professor of environmental studies. An ecologist whose expertise is in community, restoration, landscape, and urban ecology, along with biodiversity conservation and restoration, Swartz is particularly interested in understanding how ecosystems and the biodiversity they support respond to human activity.
Swartz, who previously taught as an assistant professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, is teaching courses on Urban Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Conservation Biology, and Environmental Problem Solving, as well as conducting field experiments with students at McDaniel.
Currently an editorial board member for “Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems,” an international journal dedicated to the multidisciplinary science of conservation in all aquatic ecosystems, Swartz has had articles included in research publications and has presented at annual meetings for the Ecological Society of America, International Association for Landscape Ecology, and Society of Wetland Scientists, among others.
A graduate of Messiah University with a bachelor’s degree in biology, Swartz earned a master’s degree in natural resources and environmental sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and conducted research in the ecology and conservation biology lab. Swartz completed a Ph.D. in biology from Temple University while working in the integrative ecology lab.
