Eric Long
Professor
Department of Biology
Seattle Pacific University
United States of America
Biography
Education: BS, Wheaton College, 1998; MS, University of North Dakota, 2001; PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2005. At SPU since 2006. Eric Long came to SPU from Pennsylvania, where he was born, raised, and went to graduate school, studying wildlife ecology at Penn State University. Since an early age, he has been fascinated with wildlife and sought to combine a love of nature with a passion for education. At SPU, Dr. Long teaches upper-division courses in ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, tropical ecology, biostatistics, and vertebrate biology, as well as sections of the introductory biology sequence. His current research focuses on population ecology of black-tailed deer on Blakely Island, Washington, where SPU maintains a field station. He was elected by the SPU student body as Professor of the Year in 2009. If Dr. Long is not in the lecture hall, there is a good chance he is in his favorite classroom of all: the outdoors. Numerous courses of his are taught at SPU’s field station or abroad, including Winter Break courses in Belize and the Galapagos Islands.
Research Interest
ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, tropical ecology, biostatistics, and vertebrate biology
Publications
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Long ES, Diefenbach DR, Rosenberry CS, Wallingford BD. Multiple proximate and ultimate causes of natal dispersal in white-tailed deer. Behavioral Ecology. 2008 Aug 4;19(6):1235-42.
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Long ES, Diefenbach DR, Wallingford BD, Rosenberry CS. Influence of roads, rivers, and mountains on natal dispersal of white-tailed deer. Journal of Wildlife Management. 2010 Aug;74(6):1242-9.
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Long ES, Jacobsen TC, Nelson BJ, Steensma KM. Conditional daily and seasonal movement strategies of male Columbia black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus). Canadian journal of zoology. 2013 Aug 15;91(10):679-88.
