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George Folkerts Ph.D., Professor

 Office Location: 311A Funchess,
Lab 312 Funchess,
Wetlands Lab 311B Funchess

Mailing Address:
Department of Biological Sciences
331 Funchess Hall
Auburn University, AL 36849-5414
Tel: Office(334) 844-8623, Lab 844-9251
Fax: (334) 844-9234
folkegw@auburn.edu
 Personal Web Site

One of our most beloved professors and an intellectual giant, Dr. Folkerts recently passed away on December 14, 2007. He is terribly missed by his colleagues and students.  Please read more.  Please visit the Opelika-Auburn News Guestbook (active until 1/15/2007).

Experience and Education
1969-present, Auburn University
1968-1969 - Clemson University
1968 Auburn University, Ph. D. Zoology, minors Botany, Entomology
1963 Southern Illinois University, M. A. Botany, minor Zoology
1961 Southern Illinois University, B. A. Zoology, minors Botany, Forestry

Research and Teaching Interests:
Field Biology. Wetland Biology. Aquatic Coleoptera. Herpetology.
Endangered Species Biology. Evolutionary Biology. Conservation Biology.
Arachnology. Global Change Biology

Selected Publications:
The range of the eastern woodeating cockroach, Cryptocercus punctulatus  Scudder (Blattaria:Cryptocercidae) in the United States. 2006. Entomological News 117:101-108.

Okefenokee (Book) (with photographs by Lucian Niemeyer) University Press of Mississippi. 2002.  More information on this book.

State and fate of the world's aquatic fauna.  pp. 11-29  in Benz, G. and D. Collins (eds.) Aquatic fauna in peril: the southeastern perspective.
Tennessee Aquarium Symposium. Lenz Design and Communications, Decatur, GA. 1998.

Citronelle ponds:  little-known wetlands of the Central Gulf Coastal Plain, USA.  1997. Natural Areas Journal 17:6-16.

Arthropods associated with xeric longleaf pine habitats in the southeastern United States: a brief overview. 1995.  Proc. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 18:122-146. (with M. Deyrup and C. Sisson)

A preliminary classification of pitcher plant habitats in the southeastern United States. Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science. 1991. 62:199-225.

The Gulf Coast pitcher plant bogs.  American Scientist. 1982. 70:260-267.

Spanglerogyrus albiventris, a primitive new genus and species of Gyrinidae from Alabama. Coleopterists' Bulletin. 1978. 33:1-8.

Reassignment of Colpius inflatus and a description of its larva (Coleoptera: Noteridae).  Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 1973. 86:501-510. (with P. J. Spangler)

Foods of the seepage salamander, Desmognathus aeneus Brown and Bishop.  Herpetologica 1972. 28:35-37. (with L. A. Donavan)

A new subspecies of the turtle Graptemys nigrinoda Cagle. Copeia 1969:677-682. (with R. H. Mount)

Courses:

Offered Regularly Offered Irregularly
Evolution & Systematics, BIOL 3030 Iconoclastic Biology
Wetland Biology, BIOL 5550, 6550 Biology of Rare & Declining Habitats
Evolutionary Biology, BIOL 7200