Thomas Wilson teaches UHON 2850 – Innovation Lab I and UHON 2860 – Innovation Lab II. He is a broadly trained and experienced field biologist who specializes in solving
field-based problems. At UTC, he has established two long-term studies concerning
amphibians and freshwater turtles, and much of this research focuses on population
viability and spatial ecology. Specifically, he has designed a series of green-ways
to study amphibian landscape dynamics so that managers can make adaptive conservation
and management strategies. His background in classical ecological analyses developed
his interest in designing new methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity, and
evaluating the statistical biases associated with sampling vertebrates in various
habitats. To this end, he has collaborated with scientists in the public and private
sectors in an effort to encourage decision makers to standardize ecological and environmental
census techniques.