Suzanne Koptur


Professor of Biological Sciences

Florida International University

Office - OE 232, phone 305-348-3103 (w/ voice-mail)    Lab - OE 270, phone 305-348-3415

Office hours (Fall 2009) - Wednesday mornings 9 am - 12 pm, and by appointment
Spring 2009
 Summer 2009
 Fall 2009
sabbatical in Mexico
 at  INECOL
 Local Flora (BOT 3153 + L)
THANKS to
 Instituto de Ecologia Ecology (PCB 3043)
FIU for a one-semester sabbatical
Xalapa, Veracruz
 Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
and a

WS:  Insect/Plant Interactions (BOT 6920C)
Fulbright Garcia Robles Fellowship
PLANT TALK

Spring 2008
 Summer A 2008
 Fall 2008
Ecology (PCB 3043)
 Ecology (PCB 3043)
 Local Flora (BOT 3153 +L)
Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
 Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
 WS:  Insect/Plant Interactions (BOT 6920C)
Undergraduate Seminar (BSC 4931)
 Nature Teaching (IDS 4920)
 Ecology for QBIC (PCB 3043)
Readings in Pollination (BOT 6724)
PLANT TALK
PLANT TALK
Readings in Plant/Animal Interactions (BOT 6936)

Previous year's courses

Short CV

 

Education

                    B.S.  honors in Botany, 1976, University of Michigan
                    PhD  in Botany, 1982, University of California, Berkeley
 

Professional Societies

American Fern Society
American Society of Naturalists
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Botanical Society of America
British Ecological Society
Ecological Society of America
Florida Academy of Sciences
Florida Entomological Society
Florida Native Plant Society
Natural Areas Association
Organization for Tropical Studies
Plant Biologists of South Florida
Society for Conservation Biology
Society for Ecological Restoration
SER Coastal Plains Chapter
Society for the Study of Evolution
 

Committees

FIU Greenhouse Committee Chair
FIU Biology Graduate Committee Member
FIU Tenure and Promotion Committee Member
FIU Environmental Preserve Advisory Committee
FIU Women's Studies Center Advisory Council
FIU Agroecology Program

EPAC - Florida Endangered Plant Advisory Council
Rare Plant Task Force
Pine Rockland Working Group
 
 

Research Program

 
Pollination of Pine Rockland Plants
Habitat Fragmentation and Pollination of South Florida Pine Rockland Plants
South Florida Pine Rockland Wildflower Restoration in Schoolyards and on Roadsides
Developing Ecological Criteria for Fire in South Florida Pine Rockland Ecosystems
A Pollen Flora for Subtropical Florida
Hurricane Effects on Vegetation and Insect/Plant Interactions
Extrafloral nectaries and Insect/Plant Interactions
Inga ecology
Sedges and their herbivores
Project FIRST II - Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching
                    Schoolyard Ecology

Publications

 

Graduate Students


Lab expeditions

Planet-friendly pest control

Quilts

Acknowledgments

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