Faculty Profiles

Dr. Benjamin F Schwartz

PhD in Geosciences

Virginia Poly Inst & State Univ, 2007

BS in Geology

Radford University, 2003

Nowlin, Weston Hugh, Schwartz, Benjamin F, Nice, Chris. Population Genetics of the Endangered Comal Springs Dryopid Beetle (Stygoparnus comalensis), Texas Parks and Wildlife/US Fish and Wildlife Service, Federal, $59598. (Submitted: October 2018, Funded: January 2019 - December 2021). Grant.
Schwartz, Benjamin F (Principal), Hutchins, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Swink, Aaron (Co-Principal). Cave Conservancy of the Virginias., $9930. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
Nowlin, WH (Principal), Schwartz, Benjamin F (Co-Principal). Evaluation of the Long-Term, Elevated Temperature and Low Dissolved Oxygen Tolerances of the Comal Springs Riffle Beetle., $93034. (Funded: 2016). Grant.
Schwartz, Benjamin F (Principal), Nice, Chris (Co-Principal), Nowlin, Weston (Co-Principal). Status Assessment and Ecological Characterization for the Texas Troglobitic Water Slater, Lirceolus smithii., $73537. (Funded: 2015). Grant.
Nowlin, Weston (Principal), Schwartz, Benjamin F. Evaluation of Long-Term, Elevated Temperature and Low Dissolved Oxygen Tolerances of the Comal Springs Riffle Beetle., $99034. (Funded: 2015). Grant.

Coleman, W., Bell, K. L., Gibson, J. R., Schwartz, B. F., Nowlin, W. H., & Nice, C. (2025). Evolutionary isolation and ecological stasis in the endangered Comal Springs Dryopid beetle (Stygoparnus comalensis). Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
Austin-Bingamon, E., Schwartz, B. F., Hutchins, B., & Altman, S. (n.d.). Classifying flow regime by modelling hydrological indices at ungauged stream segments. Hydrological Processes.
Engstrom, G. C., Diaz, P. H., Hutchins, B., & Schwartz, B. F. (n.d.). EURYCEA TROGLODYTES (Valdina Farms Salamander). INTERSTITIAL BREEDING. Herpetological Review.
Frandsen, E., Schwartz, B. F., Hutchins, B., Nowlin, W. H., Sams, M. D., Determan, K., … Herman, B. (2026). Relationships between benthic and hyporheic insect communities across environmental gradients in Texas Rivers.
Austin-Bingamon, E., Schwartz, B. F., Engel, A. S., Hutchins, B., Paterson, A. T., & Herman, B. D. (2026). Hyporheic Microbial Communities at Two Central Texas Rivers.

Award / Honor Recipient: Lew Bicking Award, National Speleological Society. 2023 - Present
Award / Honor Recipient: Byron N. Cooper Graduate Fellowship award. 2006
Award / Honor Recipient: Full Research Assistantship and other funding. 2006
Award / Honor Recipient: Fellow award, National Speleological Society. 1999