Thomas Diggins

1997

Ph D, Biological Sciences

State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

1991

MS, Natural Sciences/Environmental Studies

SUNY at Buffalo

1986

BA, Political Science

Kent State University

2023

Youngstown State University

Research Professorship

2022

Youngstown State University

Research Professorship

2022

Youngstown State University

Distinguished Professor Award in Scholarship

2018

Youngstown State University

Research Professorship

2015

Youngstown State University

Faculty Improvement Leave

2006

Youngstown State University

Research Professorship

2005

Youngstown State University

Research Professorship

2003

Youngstown State University

Research Professorship

1997

International Association for Great Lakes Research

IAGLR-Hydrolab Award

1996

SUNY at Buffalo

Graduate Excellence in Teaching Award

1996

Great Lakes Research Consortium

Don Rennie Memorial Award

2002 - 2029

Biology, Youngstown State University, OH

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor

2001 - 2002

Biological Sciences, Hamilton College, Clinton NY

Visiting Assistant Professor

2000 - 2001

Biomaterials Department, SUNY at Buffalo

Research Assistant Professor

1998 - 2000

Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces, SUNY at Buffalo

Research Scientist

1997 - 1998

Biological Sciences, SUNY College at Brockport, Brockport NY

Adjunct Professor

2024

"Steep slopes and cliff edges are browsing refugia for woody species within temperate deciduous forest."

H. Assour, T. Diggins, e. al.

Natural Areas Journal

2024

"Large boulders provide refuge to browse-sensitive species and reveal a legacy of overbrowsing and shifting baselines in temperate old-growth forest."

G. Revenis, T. Diggins, e. al.

Journal of Vegetation Science

2023

"Understory plant communities fail to recover after excluding deer for nearly 20 years."

A. Knauer, T. Diggins, e. al.

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, volume 53, p. 379-390

2023

"Native tree species prosper while exotics falter during gap-phase regeneration, but only where deer densities are near historical lows"

A. Yacucci, T. Diggins, e. al.

New Forests, volume 55, p. 1083-1100

2021

"Punctuated decadal morphodynamics and coupled vegetation succession along a nontidal, wave-dominated Great Lakes barrier spit, Gull Point, Lake Erie, USA"

R. Mattheus, T. Diggins, J. Santoro

Journal of Great Lakes Research, volume 47, p. 1538-1553

2014

"Topographic patterns in forest composition and diversity on slopes of Zoar Valley Canyon, western New York State."

T. Diggins, R. Catterlin

Northeastern Naturalist, volume 21, p. 337-350

2013

"A 300-year successional sequence in an eastern United States riparian hardwood forest."

T. Diggins

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, volume 140, p. 65-88

2007

"Volume, composition, and orientation of down deadwood in old-growth riparian woodlands in Zoar Valley, New York, USA."

E. Pfeil, T. Diggins, e. al.

Forest Ecology and Management, volume 239, p. 159-168

2005

"Canopy and understory composition of old-growth riparian forest in Zoar Valley, New York, USA."

T. Diggins, B. Kershner

Natural Areas Journal, volume 25, p. 219-227