Dr. Robert A. Thomas
Center Environmental Communications
Office: Communications/Music 327
Campus Box 199
Phone: 504-865-2107
FAX: 504-865-3799
E-mail: rathomas@loyno.edu
Personal Website: http://www.loyno.edu/lucec/chair/chairweb.htm
Website: Center Environmental Communications
Holds the Loyola Chair in Environmental Communications, Professor of Communications, Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences. Ph.D. in Vertebrate Zoology from Texas A&M University, 1976. Courses taught in the Environmental Studies Minor Program are Introduction to Environmental Communications (CMMN A370), Ecology of the Mississippi River Delta Region (BIOL Z144), and Tropical Biology (BIOL A118). Also teaches Covering the Environmental Beat (CMMN A371), Herpetology (BIOL A345 & 346), and several other courses on occasion. He is Director of the Center for Environmental Communications. His communications students and he are involved in several studies analyzing how environmental issues are covered in the press. Additionally, he is very active in environmental communications and journalism in the West Indies and Central America. His biological research interests are in the area of the systematics of South American and Caribbean snakes and the status of declining amphibian populations.