Department Directory
M.S. Candidate - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Professor and Department Head
I am a geophysicist with interests in seismic imaging and source studies applied to diverse Earth processes that encompass deep structure, earthquakes, volcanos, and glaciers.
Assistant Professor
Demography, Population Ecology, Life History Evolution, Conservation Biology, Wildlife Management, Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Climate Change, Habitat Degradation.
Research Associate II
Specializing in plant community ecology and use of the US National Vegetation Classification (USNVC).
Co-Director, Center for Protected Area Management
Jim Barborak is a multilingual specialist in protected area planning and management with over 40 years experience in over 25 nations
Research Associate
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
Research Associate IV
Computer Programmer, Web Design, ESRI Javascript API
Ph.D. Student
Cultural evolution, cultural transmission, transmission biases, social learning
Senior Research Scientist, Joint Faculty Appointment-Assistant Professor, Director Larval Fish Lab
CAREER CENTER LIAISON TO WARNER COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Research Scientist and Professor
Wildlife and pastoral ecology; Simulation; Teaching
Affiliate Faculty-Assistant Professor; Graduate MS Adviser, PhD Co-Advise
Graduate Assistant
Snowpack hydrology, automated image recognition
Senior Instructor
I am a geoscientist interested in the lessons of Earth’s past about climate change, ocean circulation, and carbon cycling. I am also interested in advancing geoscience education and literacy.
Research Associate
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
Sr Research Associate
I am an Environmental Toxicologist and Associate Director at the Center for Environmental Management - Military Lands.
Research Scientist
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, applied research on the causes and consequences of forest spatial patterns in the context of natural and human disturbances, especially wildfire, restoration, and forest management actions.
Research Associate
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
Professor and Director, CO Forest Restoration Institute
Collaborative forest governance, policy, and administration
M.S. Candidate - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
MS Program, Hydrogeology/Hydrogeophysics - Mike Ronayne, Advisor
Instructor
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) , Forest Measurements , Dendrology
Senior Research Scientist/Professor
The full range of issues related to wetland and riparian ecosystems.
Professor, Sustainable Tourism, Coordinator of Global Tourism Concentration
Senior Research Scientist and Advising Faculty
Ecosystem science and systems ecology, particularly of the world's large herbivore ecosystems.
Research Associate III, Joint Faculty Appointment-Instructor, Graduate Co-Advise only
Assistant Professor
The chemical, behavioral, and microbial ecology of insects in both forest and agricultural ecosystems.
Research Associate II
Web Developer / Database Administrator
Joint Faculty Appointment-Assistant Professor, MFWCB Coordinator/Adviser
MS Program, Geochemical Modeling - Sally Sutton, Advisor
Professor
I am a sedimentary geologist focusing on process geology in shales and carbonates. I apply the depositional and diagenetic models me and my students generate to characterize hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Professor Emeritus
I am a structural geologist with interests in Laramide tectonics, fault-related folding, fabric analysis and Rocky Mountain geology in general.
Professor Emeritus
My geology interests include fluvial sedimentology, stratigraphy, petroleum geology, basin analysis. After retiring from full-time teaching, I became a part time instructor in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at CSU.
Ph.D. Student, GDPE; Research Assistant, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Assistant Professor, Silviculture
Silviculture and applied forest ecology
Professor
Snow Hydrology, Climate Impacts on Water Resources
Emeritus Professor
Ecology and management of stream-riparian ecosystems, focusing on stream fish and their habitat
Professor
Rangeland Social-ecological Systems
Ph.D. Candidate - Fish, Wildife, and Conservation Biology
Research Associate II
Remote sensing of vegetation and geospatial analyses.
Co-Director, Center for Protected Area Management
Protected Area Management, Ecotourism, Environmental Interpretation, and Conservation Leadership
Research Associate IV
Landscape Ecology and Spatial Analysis
Ph.D. Candidate - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Senior Management II, Joint Faculty Appointment-Professor, MS and PhD Graduate Advising
Ecology and conservation biology
Research Scientist/Ecologist
Research interests: Wetland ecology, management and restoration; Urban ecohydrology; GIS and remote sensing
Assistant Professor
I am an Earth Scientist interested in geomorphology, active tectonics, landscape evolution, and critical zone science. My research is multidisciplinary and involves fieldwork, geochronology, GIS, numerical modeling, and laboratory and data analysis.
Research Associate
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Fire Ecology and Wildfire Risk Analysis
Professor
Regional Climate/Ecosystem Modeling, Remote Sensing, Solar UV Radiation Monitoring and Research
Associate Professor
Extensive experience in aligning innovative human capital solutions with business strategy resulting in the long-term prosperity of organizations. Passionate about developing purpose-driven leaders with the capacity to build sustainable organizations that create profit for stakeholders while protecting the environment and improving the lives of those with whom they interact. Committed to helping leverage tourism as a superior economic development tool and an avenue to protect and preserve wild places and threatened cultures.
Associate Professor
I am a conservation biologist that integrates field ecology with environmental finance and policy to identify innovative ways to sustain and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Ph.D. Candidate - Fish, Wildife, and Conservation Biology
Conservation Social Science, Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Senior Research Associate
Planning for Biodiversity Conservation
Senior Research Associate
Jill Handwerk, Botany Team Lead and Information Manager at CNHP, has over 20 years of experience in Colorado botany. Through her work as lead organizer of the annual Colorado Rare Plant Symposia, and at CNHP, she has close working relationships with botanists throughout the region, including USFWS, USFS, BLM, UT and WY heritage programs, local consultants, and regional herbaria. Ms. Handwerk has been the principal investigator on numerous botanical projects including work for the USFWS, USFS, BLM, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Most recently Ms. Handwerk was the lead author on the Rare Plant Addendum to the 2015 Colorado Wildlife Action Plan, and the lead botanical editor of the 2015 Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Colorado Bureau of Land Management.
Professor
As a geologist/isotope geochemist with the AIRIE Program, my interests span petroleum and mineral resources and paleoclimatology. I also manage CSU’s collaborative National Park Service Geologic Resources Inventory group.
Professor
I am a geophysicist focusing on geodynamic studies of continental rift systems and rifted continental margins.
Dean of Warner College and Professor
Academic leadership, applied vertebrate ecology, and forest management.
Associate Professor
Wildland fire science across spatial and temporal scales
Academic Success/Internship Coordinator
Sustainability in Higher Education | Student Engagement |Curriculum Development | Education Program Management
PhD Program, Snow Hydrology - Steven Fassnacht, Advisor
Mr. Hultstrand has a passion for scale and spatial variability in precipitation processes as related to hydrology and hydrometeorology. His research and expertise are in modeling the spatial variability in snowpack processes and rainfall as function of terrain parameters and atmospheric energy to better understand and model hydrologic regimes. Physical Science Techniques • Water Balance • Discharge Measurements • Meteorological Measurement & Analysis • Spatial Modeling • Water Quality Sampling • Snow Survey and Sampling Methods • Data Analysis • Watershed Modeling • Snow & Ground Energy Balance Computations • Storm Analysis • Dew Point Analysis • Areal Reduction Factor (ARF) Calculations • Error Analysis/QC • Eddy Covariance • Snowmelt & Snowpack Sublimation Analysis • Proposal Writing • Regional L-moments • Turbulent Flux Modeling (Latent and Sensible) • PMP Analysis • Develop Scripts/Code • Regional Climate Modeling and Data Analysis Computer Software • ArcView • ArcGIS • ArcInfo • MATLAB • MS Word • MS Excel • MS Access • MS Power Point • SPLUS/R • IDL • HEC-HMS • Lecia Software • PRMS • GIS Weasel • ERDAS • Solar Analyst • GRASS GIS • Linux/Unix • HTML • RAOB • Perl • GrADS • IPW Toporad • DNR Garmin • Python • GPS Interface • WATFLOOD • AWK/GWAK • Hysplit • NetCDF • GRIB • UEB Snow Model Computer Programming • PERL • R/SPLUS • Python • IDL • Matlab • GRASS GIS • AWK • Shell Scripts Computer Operating Systems • Linux/Unix • Microsoft Windows • Macintosh
Research Associate III
DoD Environmental Compliance: Stormwater, GIS
Professor
I study food webs, predator-prey interactions, lake and reservoir ecology, effects of nonnative species, fisheries management, contaminants, and effects of climate.
Affilate Research Scientist/Scholar III- Associate Professor
Associate Professor Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
Hydrology
Assistant Professor
Stream fish ecology and conservation
Research Associate II, National Park Service Cooperator
Research Associate
Geographic Information System Developer, Wildland Fire Systems
I am a behavioral ecologist who specialises in equids and endangered species conservation.
Associate Professor
I use demography to solve problems and answer questions in conservation, management, ecology, and evolution.
M.S. Candidate - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Research Associate III
I am a zoologist with interests in conservation, population ecology and the biogeography of amphibians and reptiles in Colorado.
Web Application Developer
Interactive web-based map development
Ph.D. Candidate - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Instructor, Undergraduate Coordinator, and Internship Coordinator
Internships, career preparation, event planning, natural resource ecology and measurements.
Wetland Ecologist
I am a wetland ecologist who specializes in inventory, assessment and monitoring of wetlands throughout the Western U.S, from protocol development to implementation of large-scale resource assessments. I am also involved with developing educational resources about wetlands.
Research Associate III: Archaeologist / Rock Art Specialist
Postdoctoral Fellow
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change
Research Scientist II
Social-ecological systems, African drylands and mixed-methods research
Senior Research Scientist/Associate Professor
Timber harvesting and wood utilization
Associate Professor
I am a structural geologist/hard rock petrologist, with interests in faults, shear zones, fault rocks, the geochemical and isotopic aspects of deformation, metamorphic and igneous petrology, and geoeducation including geophotography.
Ph.D. Candidate - GDPE
Wildlife Distributions & Population Monitoring Wildlife Conservation & Biodiversity
CSFS-WCNR Liaison and Experiential Learning Coordinator / Instructor
Research Scientist and Instructor
Environmental Policy & Governance
Graduate Research Assistant
Structural geology and geologic mapping.
MS Program, Reservoir Characterization - Lisa Stright, Advisor
Assistant Professor
I am a geoscientist who utilizes novel in situ geophysical and remote sensing tools to study earth surface processes, particularly related to the cryosphere. My research has involved more than 15 expeditions to Antarctica, Greenland, Alaska and Patagonia.
Associate Professor
Rangeland and plant ecology and management
Research Associate III: Environmental Review and Data Distribution
I am a conservation scientist at CNHP with expertise in technical report writing, geographic information systems, spatial analysis, information technology, graphic design, desktop publishing software, project administration, photography, public outreach and communications.
Program Coordinator for Conservation Leadership
Leadership development with emphasis in environmental education.
Professor
Applied fish physiological ecology and fish conservation
PhD Program, Sedimentology/Stratigraphy - Sven Egenhoff, Advisor
Assistant Professor
Plant ecophysiology, plant water-use strategies, plant drought tolerance, drought-induced mortality, sensor development and implementation.
Graduate Research Assistant
limnology, biogeochemistry, ecology
Assistant Professor and Ski Area Management Program Director
Natalie Ooi's teaching expertise lies within ski area management and more broadly, tourism management. She is an instructor in both the Graduate Certificate in Ski Area Management and the Master of Tourism Management programs. Natalie Ooi's research expertise lies within the nexus of sustainable tourism development and mountain resort development. Past and current areas of research include backpacker tourism, volunteer tourism, sustainable tourism development, mountain resort development, social capital.
Program Assistant / Assistant to the Department Head
Shell Endowed Chair of Restoration Ecology
Restoration Ecology
Research Associate
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change
Manager of Urban CO/WY Forest Inventory Analysis / Instructor
Forest inventory, analysis, monitoring, adaptive forest management, silviculture
Assistant Professor/Undergraduate Advisor
Conservation Education, Animal Behavior and Ecology. Not taking graduate students.
Associate Professor
I am a fluvial geomorphologist with interests in drainage basin response and recovery to sediment disturbances including floods, fires and mass movements, the influences of climate change, and process-based channel restoration and monitoring.
Assistant Professor
Forest and woodland ecology; vegetation response to global change
Assistant Professor/Undergraduate Advisor
insect ecology, herbivore-plant interactions, invasive species/biocontrol, climate change ecology, rangeland productivity, animal behavior
Professor, Director of the Center for Collaborative Conservation
Graduate Assistant
watershed biogeochemistry and disturbance hydrology
Professor/Director WESTFIRE Research Center
Wildfire and prescribed fire economics, timber industry sales and analyses
Associate Professor
I study economic geology building on a background in petrology, structural geology, field geology, inorganic and organic geochemistry. My current research projects examine fluid:ore interactions from magmas to environmental impacts.
PhD Candidate
Market-based conservation incentives, payments for ecosystem services, collaborative conservation, carbon credit markets, watershed investment, ecotourism, public lands management, evidence-based conservation, program assessments and feasibility analysis.
Associate Professor
I am a hydrogeologist researching flow and transport through heterogeneous aquifers and connected groundwater-surface water systems. I develop groundwater management models to inform the sustainable use of water resources.
Ph.D. Candidate - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Assistant Professor
Human adaptation to environmental change
Associate Professor
I am a hydrogeologist interested in developing nanoparticles as groundwater tracers, Isotope and tracer hydrogeology, groundwater recharge, groundwater/surface water interactions, flow and transport in fractured media and hydrogeophysics.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Riparian Ecologist, Fluvial Geomorphologist
Senior Research Associate
Population ecology and conservation of rare vertebrates and invertebrates
Associate Professor
Natural resource policy and governance
Associate Professor
I am a seismologist and geophysicist interested in understanding deep Earth structures and their effects on past and present tectonics and landscapes.
Research Associate III
Larval Fish Laboratory Curator Assistant Collection Manager (145k containers and counting!)
PhD Program, Structural Geology - John Singleton, Advisor
PhD Student in Structural Geology
Research Scientist
Multidisciplinary Riparian & Wetland Ecologist
PhD Program, Watershed Science - Steven Fassnacht, Advisor
Assistant Professor
structural geology, geologic mapping, tectonics of the North American Cordillera
Research Associate III
I am a botanist focusing on Colorado's rare plants, conducting plant population monitoring and assessments of natural areas across the state. I have assessed plant communities and populations in a variety of ecosystems around the county, with seven years experience specific to the Colorado flora.
