Department Directory
Graduate Assistant
Master's student - FWCB - Dr. Yoichiro Kanno's lab
Graduate Assistant
I’m a PhD student studying how wildfire and mining impact freshwater insects in Rocky Mountain streams. By combining observational and experimental methods, I aim to uncover how these two stressors interact to impact how the ecosystem functions.
Assistant Professor
water policy and governance, water security, transboundary resources, water system adaptation, environmental governance
Research Ecologist with USGS, and Affiliate Professor and Research Scientist at CSU
Professor
I am a geophysicist with interests in seismic imaging and source studies applied to diverse Earth processes that encompass deep structure, earthquakes, volcanos, ocean processes, and glaciers.
Associate Professor
I am a population ecologist interested in quantifying the impacts of anthropogenic factors (e.g. climate change, habitat fragmentation, urbanization) on the ecology, demography, and microevolution of wild animals (mostly birds, mammals, and reptiles). My research calls for the analyses of longitudinal data and methodologies that stem from demography, population ecology, and life history theory.
Professor
I am an applied quantitative ecologist whose research applies to a variety of taxa and focuses on ways of measuring and monitoring biological systems to increase our scientific understanding and improve decision-making. I am particularly interested in factors influencing at-risk species (e.g., amphibians), including disease, invasive species, and habitat change.
Instructor
Limnology, Water quality in lakes and reservoirs, Aquatic Biogeochemistry, Hydrology, Data Science
Assistant Professor
Transformations in Rural and Indigenous Lands, Livelihoods, and Autonomous Regimes (TRILLAR Lab)
Research Associate IV
Computer Programmer, Web Design, ESRI Javascript API
Barbara Anthony Cox Chair of Wildlife Conservation
Professor Endowed Chair
I’m a conservation biologist concentrating mostly on lesser-studied mammals (bigger than a bread box) at the planet’s extreme edges. My lab and I target issues about climate challenge, behavioral ecology of disturbance, predator-prey interactions, and how best to inspire with science while (yet) attempting to improve our present human messiness.
Senior Research Scientist, Joint Faculty Appointment-Assistant Professor, Director Larval Fish Lab
I am an aquatic ecologist working mainly on native and endangered fishes and their ecosystems.
Graduate Assistant
PhD student GDPE/FWCB - Veterinary Comparative Medicine Resident
Assistant Professor
I am a conservation biologist that leverages scientific research to find innovative solutions to conserve biodiversity while meeting diverse human needs. My science is informed by a social justice lens and covers topics ranging from human-wildlife relationships, acoustic ecology, and advancing social justice in science.
Professor and Senior Research Scientist
Wildlife and pastoral ecology; Simulation; Teaching
Associate Professor
My passion is connecting citizen science, art and science using multicultural perspectives and international agreements to global sustainability issues such as pollinator decline. I also believe in the integration of art and culture into ecological research and communication.
Department Head
I am an applied ecologist interested in the eco-evolutionary causes and consequences of species rarity within the context of abiotic and biotic pressures. My research aims to inform the conservation of endangered, threatened, and candidate plant species.
Affiliate Faculty-Assistant Professor; Graduate MS Adviser, PhD Co-Advise
Associate Director of Learning, Center for Collaborative Conservation
Master 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, diversity and inclusion.
Colorado State Forest Service and Warner College of Natural Resources
Academic Liaison and Experiential Learning Specialist
Ph.D. Student
I am a Ph.D. student studying sylvatic plague in black-tailed prairie dogs, with a focus on the mechanisms that drive patterns of disease resistance. I am broadly interested in understanding how anthropogenic change and disease can influence the ecology and evolution of wild animals, with the ultimate goal of informing effective conservation practices.
Graduate Assistant, Online Certificate Student - Wildlife Conservation Actions
Interim Department Head, Dept. of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Collaborative planning, monitoring, and adaptive management for forest restoration and wildfire risk management; forest governance, policy, and administration
MSc - FWCB - Dr. Caitlin Well's & Dr. Yoichiro Kanno's labs
I am broadly interested in applied fisheries restoration science. My MS research uses whole genomes to inform conservation management of cutthroat trout throughout Colorado, while my PhD research aims to investigate the impacts of wood addition on a population of masu salmon in Southern Hokkaido, Japan, in collaboration with the University of Hokkaido.
Professor
I am an ecotoxicologist studying how contaminants and other stressors affect aquatic ecosystems. My research integrates experimental and observational approaches to understand how ecological factors influence responses to and recovery from anthropogenic disturbances.
Development Operations Coordinator, Warner College of Natural Resources
Emeritus Master Instructor
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) , Forest Measurements , Dendrology
Senior Research Scientist
The full range of issues related to wetland and riparian ecosystems.
Assistant Professor
Climate & environmental justice, political ecologies of conservation & development, Indigenous rights, social dimensions of disaster, Latin America
Professor, Sustainable Tourism, Coordinator of Global Tourism Concentration
His research focus includes sustainable tourism development - linking tourism, nature conservation and protected areas; collaborative conservation and protected area management; and perceptions of landscape disturbance - implications for human dimensions of natural resources, recreation and tourism.
Professor/Director, Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence
I am a conservation biologist whose work examines the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on wildlife and the natural systems in which they live. As the Director of the Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence, a particular focus is reducing conflict and facilitating coexistence between humans and carnivores to minimize impacts on both people and predators.
Assistant Professor of Indigenous Natural Resource Stewardship
Indigenous Natural Resource Stewardship
Research Associate III, Joint Faculty Appointment-Instructor, Graduate Co-Advise only
Program Director/Advisor/Joint Faculty/Online Masters FWCB
I am an ecologist who currently directs the department’s online Masters program and teaches on the topics of ecotoxicology, conservation biology, habitat management, wildlife management, and conservation of freshwater systems.
Domain & Database Administrator
Database-driven web applications utilizing ColdFusion & PHP | MSSQL & MySQL database design & management | Active Directory Group Policy
Professor
I am a wildlife biologist primarily focused on population-level questions and working with applied agencies. I have worked on a wide variety of taxa, including many species of conservation concern as well as with harvested animals. I enjoy applying sampling design, demographic parameter (e.g., survival, fecundity, population growth) estimation, population modeling, and field skills to questions of interest.
Research Associate II
Water Resources, Groundwater, Hydrology, Water Rights
Assistant Professor
Functional ecology, tropical forests, remote sensing of vegetation
Database and Web Developer
Web Development (Php, Html, Css, Angular, etc) and Database developer (Mysql, SQL Server, Postgres, NoSql)
Research Associate IV
Species Distribution Modeling | Invasion Ecology | R Programming
Ph.D. Student, GDPE; Research Assistant, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Emeritus Professor
Ecology and management of stream-riparian ecosystems, focusing on stream fish and their habitat
Senior Research Scientist
Rangeland Social-ecological Systems
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
Academic Advisor
Academic Advising | Student Development | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Representation and Access | Education Abroad
Associate Professor
I am an Earth Scientist interested in landscape evolution, tectonics, critical zone science, and natural hazards.
Professor
Regional Climate/Ecosystem Modeling, Remote Sensing, Solar UV Radiation Monitoring and Research
Digital Communications Coordinator
Multimedia Communications | Department-Wide Communications | Outreach and Events | Website and Social Media | Press Releases and SOURCE | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Opportunities
COOP Assistant Unit Leader | Associate Professor
I am a quantitative animal ecologist. I work with scientists and resource and land managers to help learn through data to provide inferential or predictive knowledge or decision-support that is used for empirically informed conservation management of biodiversity.
Professor
I am a conservation biologist that integrates field ecology with conservation practice and policy to identify innovative and equitable ways to sustain and restore biodiversity and ecosystem services. My research program focuses on advancing bird community conservation on islands and in human-dominated landscapes.
Assistant Professor
Behavior change, human processes of the coupled human-nature systems
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.
Assistant Professor
I am a geochemist interested in the composition and plumbing systems of Earth’s volcanoes, studying long-lived mantle plumes to infer Earth’s chemical composition, and identifying and mitigating volcanic impacts and hazards.
Edward M. Warner Chair of Geophysics
Professor
I am a geophysicist focusing on geodynamic studies of continental rift systems and rifted continental margins.
Graduate Assistant
I am a graduate student studying the effects of anthropogenic environmental changes on wildlife parasites and diseases using an allostatic load framework. My research focuses on identifying how the immune system explains adverse health in White-tail and Mule deer with a focus on Chronic Wasting Disease.
I have been working as a lab tech in the SOIL Innovation Lab doing soil processing work since May 2022.
Graduate Assistant
I am a PhD student studying carnivore-livestock conflict with a focus on the wolf reintroduction in Colorado.
Research Associate (Retired)
Soil and ecosystem modeling: land-use change, climate change, geomorphology
Wildlife Project Coordinator
Wildlife, Threatened/Endangered Species, GIS, Fort McCoy
Academic Success/Internship Coordinator / WCNR Learning Communities Director
Student Engagement | High-Impact Practices | Education Program Management | Sustainable Community Development
Assistant Professor
I am an ornithologist working on bird migration throughout the Western Hemisphere using radar remote sensing. My area of expertise encompasses themes of aeroecology, spatial ecology, movement ecology, macroecology, impacts of light pollution, and ecological forecasting.
Research Associate III
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
PhD
Dr. 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
Senior Instructor/Graduate Certificate Coordinator
I am a landscape and conservation ecologist with the goal of empowering nature's stewards. I live in Denver.
Research Associate III
DoD Environmental Compliance: Stormwater, GIS
Professor
I am a fisheries ecologist. I study fisheries management, food webs, predator-prey interactions, lake and reservoir ecology, management of invasive species, contaminants, and effects of climate.
Associate Professor
I am a stream fish ecologist working at the intersection of fundamental and applied ecology in North America and Japan. My area of expertise includes population and community ecology, conservation genetics, riverscape ecology, and fish behavior.
I am a behavioral ecologist who specialises in equids and endangered species conservation.