Contact Information
Dr. Joshua King
Biology Department
University of Central Florida
email: Joshua.King@ucf.edu

Education
2004    Ph.D., Entomology, University of Florida
1998    M.A., Education, Tufts University
1997    B.S. Biology, Tufts University

Professional Experience

2023- Professor, Biology Department, University of Central Florida.
2020-22 Undergraduate Program Coordinator, University of Central Florida Biology
2015-23 Associate Professor, Biology Department, University of Central Florida.
2011-5 Assistant Professor, Biology Department, University of Central Florida.
2008-11 Assistant Professor. Biology Department, Central Connecticut State University. Coordinator, Professional Education Program (secondary education teaching certification), Biology Department, CCSU.
2005-08 Postdoctoral Associate. Biological Sciences, Florida State University.

Funding

2023-2027 National Science Foundation. The influence of ants on regional-scale soil carbon dynamics.

2022-2026 Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. Synergistic impacts of widespread stressors on Threatened, Endangered, and at-risk species on Department of Defense lands of the southeastern US.

2018-22 USDA AFRI. Insect services and disservices: impacts of dung beetles and fire ants on central Florida ranchlands.

2016-20 Florida Fish and Wildlife Service. Eliminating fire ants around Florida Grasshopper Sparrow nests.

2015 Sea Turtle Grants Program. A rapid, non-toxic system for control of fire ants along Florida beaches, with special emphasis on Fort De Soto Park, Pinellas County, Florida.

2010-14   NSF DEB 1020415 Collaborative research: Community assembly in natural and disturbed ecosystems: testing the role of ecological sorting in ant community assembly. + REU supplements.
 
Courses
Conservation Biology and Conservation Biology Theory: Development and application of theory, principles, factual knowledge, and techniques of population ecology, community ecology, landscape ecology, biogeography, and systematics to the conservation of biodiversity.  4 credits. Graduate students.

Conservation Biology: A class room course focused on the science of conservation biology with an emphasis on the impact of humans on the environment.  3 credits. Undergraduate biology majors.

Mentoring

Current postdoctoral scholars:

 

Current graduate students:

Jenny Stewart

Kristyn Gorton

Amanda Jacobs

Past postdoctoral scholars:

Dr. Roisin Stanbrook

Past graduate students:

Abigail Johnson, MA (non-thesis) Summer 2022

Leo Ohyama, MA Biology Summer 2019

Philip Schadegg, MA Biology Fall 2019

Christen Steele, MA Biology Summer 2016

Hester Dingle, MA (non-thesis) Biology Spring 2016

Vinnie Coello, MA (non-thesis) Biology Spring 2016

Robert Clark, MA Biology Fall 2010.

Raquel Carson, MA Biology Summer 2010.

Professional Service

Editorial
Associate editor, Ecological Entomology