Rate My Professor Nathan Wisnoski

Wisnoski's research specializes in metacommunity ecology, microbial ecology, dormancy, dispersal, and community assembly processes in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, employing field studies, laboratory experiments, and computational simulations. Notable publications include "Diversity–stability relationships across organism groups and ecosystem types become decoupled across spatial scales: a synthesis of organism and ecosystem types" in Ecology (2023), "Scaling up and down: movement ecology for microorganisms" in Trends in Microbiology (2023), "Seed banks alter metacommunity diversity: the interactive effects of competition, dispersal, and dormancy" in Ecology Letters (2022), and "Dormancy in metacommunities" in The American Naturalist (2019). As principal investigator, he secured a $614,757 grant from the Mississippi Based RESTORE Act Center of Excellence for the project "Transport and fate of bacterial communities in Mississippi coastal ecosystems" (2023–2025). Additional funding includes a $65,888 Wyoming EPSCoR grant as PI (2021–2022) and co-PI role on a $76,000 NSF LTER synthesis project (2016–2018). His honors encompass the Downer Undergraduate Research Award First Place Mentor Award (2024), Louise Constable Hoover Fellowship ($2,000, 2019), and George W. Brackenridge Fellowship ($2,000, 2017). Wisnoski contributes to departmental committees at Mississippi State University, including the Graduate Committee (2024–present) and Faculty Search Committee (2023–2024), and serves as a peer reviewer for journals such as Ecology Letters, Ecology, and The ISME Journal.