Chandreyee Mitra
Associate Professor of Biology; Director of Environmental Studies
Contact +1 630 637 5198
cmitra@noctrl.edu
Office Location
WSC
I am a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist, interested in examining how organisms respond to changing environments.
Courses I teach regularly include: Ecology and Evolution; Animal Behavior; Conservation Ecology; Biostatistics; and The Science of Water.
I take a whole organism and interdisciplinary approach to my research, using tools from animal behavior, physiology and anatomy, and evolutionary biology. The central goal of my research is to explore how phenotypically plastic traits (behavioral and physiological) are affected by changes in environmental variables. My research program at NC examines this topic by using field crickets.
I am NC's Director of Environmental Programs - NC's largest interdisciplinary program; and a co-PI on NC's NSF Noyce Grant - CREATE, which supports students working to become STEM teachers.
I serve of the Board of Trustees of College of the Atlantic - #1 Green School 10 years running (Princeton Review).