School of Theoretical and Applied Science (TAS)

Associate Professor of Environmental Science   

Year Joined RCNJ: 2002   

Contact Information:   

• Phone: (201) 684-7728
• E-mail: ewiener@ramapo.edu  
• Office: (ASB-012 starting June 1, 2012)
• TAS Faculty Office Hours (PDF)

Education: 

• B.S., Pennsylvania State University
• Ph.D., University of Missouri - Saint Louis

Courses Offered: 

• First Year Seminar
• Introduction to Environmental Science
• General Ecology
• Research Design and Statistics
• Avian Ecology
• Ecological Field Research
• Natural Resources, Processes and Management

Teaching Interest: 

• Ecology
• Field research
• Sustainable use of natural resources
• Conservation biology
• Applied statistics for environmental and life sciences

Research Interest: 

• Temperate forest health and dynamics
• Tropical forest succession, restoration, sustainable use and management by small landholders (primary focus on Amazon basin)
• Avian conservation and restoration ecology
• Community ecologySustainable landscapes

Recent Publications: 

• Wiener, E. M.  2010.  Ecological research and the management of young successional forests: a case study on the reintroduction of native tree species on a terra firme site in Northeastern Peru. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 29(6):571-590..
• Wiener, E. M.  La Regeneración Arbórea en un Bosque Secundario Experimental en la Amazonía Occidental (Spanish translation of Ph. D. dissertation).
• Selected list of conference abstracts (reverse chronological order):
• Massoca, P. E. S., Nogueira, C. L. B., Bentos, T. V., Wiener, E. M., Mesquita, R. C. G. 2012.  Land use intensity affects biomass accumulation in Amazonian secondary forests. Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
• Wiener, E. M., Clark, M., Farrell, M., Rodgers, K., Camargo, K., Burke, S. Capozzi, Coraggio, P., Sposato, N., Jones, J., McArdle, M., Ratajczak, M, Zalme, O.  2011.  Differences in forest dynamics across ridge sites in the New Jersey Highlands. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Montclair, New Jersey, USA.
• Zalme, O., Ratajczak, M., Newhouse, M. Wiener, E.  2011.  Microhabitat use by songbirds on a capped landfill during three autumn migration seasons. Annual Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
• Klein, M., Wiener, E. M.  2009.  Tree selection by foraging, male red-eyed vireos (Vireo olivaceus) in a New Jersey Highlands forest.  Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Ewing, New Jersey, USA.
• Camargo, K., Rodgers, K., Wiener, E. M., Clark, M., Napolitano, V., Collins, A., Libert, S.  2009.  Trends in tree species composition across vertical strata in a mixed hardwood forest in the New Hersey Highlands.  Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Ewing, New Jersey, USA.
• Wiener, E. M.  2009.  Stand thinning and the reintroduction of a diverse assemblage of native tree species in a young secondary forest in the Peruvian Amazon.  Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Ewing, New Jersey, USA.
• Farrell, M., Wiener, E. M. 2007. Impacts of tree seedling browsing by white-tailed deer on forest dynamics in the New Jersey and New York Highlands.  Annual Meeting of the Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Bronx, New York, USA. (won conference Award for the Most Outstanding Platform Presentation in Ecology or Environmental Biology)