Position(s):
Research Professor
Dept. of Biology
Director, Pinelands Research Center

Office: 416A Stratton Hall
Lab: 214 Stratton Hall

Phone: (215) 895-2266 (Office)
            
Email: walter.f.bien@drexel.edu

B.S. - West Chester University
M.S. - College of New Jersey
Ph.D. - Drexel University

Courses Taught

Marine Biology Field Study
Ecology of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Field Botany of the New Jersey Pinelands

I am the Principal Investigator for research being conducted at the Warren Grove Gunnery Range, Burlington County, NJ. My research focuses primarily on natural resource management, restoration ecology, conservation biology, and Pinelands community dynamics. Current research at Warren Grove Range includes a floral survey of threatened and endangered plant species, rare plant community analysis, fire management assessment, forest restoration assessment, invasive plant survey, reptile and amphibian survey, radiotelemetry study of the spatial ecology of the northern pine snake and timber rattlesnake, small mammal survey, water quality assessment and freshwater fish survey.

Post-Docs and Graduate Students

Michael Zolkewitz: Restoration ecology in the New Jersey Pinelands
Ronald Smith: The spatial ecology of timber rattlesnakes and northern pine snakes in the 
                     New Jersey Pinelands
Alicia Buchanan: The spatial ecology of small mammals in the New Jersey Pinelands 

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