Department Directory
Research Ecologist with USGS, and Affiliate Professor and Research Scientist at CSU
Department Head
Professor
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
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.
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 III
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
Research Associate IV
Computer Programmer, Web Design, ESRI Javascript API
Research Associate III
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
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.
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.
Research Scientist and Professor
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.
Affiliate Faculty-Assistant Professor; Graduate MS Adviser, PhD Co-Advise
Associate Director of Learning, Center for Collaborative Conservation
Research Associate II
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
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.
"Bucky"
Urban Ecology, Urban Forestry, Human-Wildlife Interactions, Environmental Justice/Equity, Asian Elephants
Colorado State Forest Service and Warner College of Natural Resources
Academic Liaison and Experiential Learning Specialist
Research Associate IV
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
Research Associate IV
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
limnology, ecosystem ecology, paleolimnology, global change ecology
Professor and Director, CO Forest Restoration Institute
Collaborative planning, monitoring, and adaptive management for forest restoration and wildfire risk management; forest governance, policy, and administration
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.
MS Program, Hydrogeology/Hydrogeophysics - Mike Ronayne, Advisor
Emeritus Master Instructor
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) , Forest Measurements , Dendrology
Senior Research Scientist
The full range of issues related to wetland and riparian ecosystems.
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.
Senior Research Scientist and Advising Faculty
Ecosystem science and systems ecology, particularly of the world's large herbivore ecosystems.
Assistant Professor
Indigenous Natural Resource Stewardship
Research Associate III, Joint Faculty Appointment-Instructor, Graduate Co-Advise only
Research Associate II
Web Developer / Database Administrator
Program Coordinator/Advisor/Joint Faculty/Online Masters FWCB
Domain & Database Administrator
Database-driven web applications utilizing ColdFusion & PHP | MSSQL & MySQL database design & management | Active Directory Group Policy
MS Program, Geochemical Modeling - Sally Sutton, Advisor
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.
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.
Research Associate III
Species Distribution Modeling | Invasion Ecology | R Programming
Ph.D. Student, GDPE; Research Assistant, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center
Professor
Snow Hydrology, Climate Impacts on Water Resources
Emeritus Professor
Ecology and management of stream-riparian ecosystems, focusing on stream fish and their habitat
Senior Research Scientist
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
Senior Research Scientist
Ecology and conservation biology
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.
Professor
Regional Climate/Ecosystem Modeling, Remote Sensing, Solar UV Radiation Monitoring and Research
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.
Senior Research Associate
Planning for Biodiversity Conservation
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.
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.
Edward M. Warner Chair of Geophysics
Professor
I am a geophysicist focusing on geodynamic studies of continental rift systems and rifted continental margins.
Assistant Professor
Dryland Ecology and Management
Resch Sci/Scholar II
Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology
Research Associate (Retired)
Soil and ecosystem modeling: land-use change, climate change, geomorphology
Wildlife Project Coordinator
Wildlife, Threatened/Endangered Species, GIS, Fort McCoy
Associate Professor
Wildland fire science across spatial and temporal scales
Academic Success/Internship Coordinator / WCNR Learning Communities Director
Sustainability in Higher Education | Student Engagement |Curriculum Development | Education Program Management
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 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
Program Coordinator/Advisor/Senior Instructor/online Certificate Wildlife Conservation Action
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.
Research Associate II, National Park Service Cooperator
I am a behavioral ecologist who specialises in equids and endangered species conservation.
Assistant Professor; Natural Resource Tourism
community-based tourism, sustainability, empowerment, poverty alleviation, tourism resilience
James C. Kennedy Chair of Wetland and Waterfowl Conservation
Professor, Endowed Chair
James C Kennedy Endowed Wetland/Waterfowl Conservation Chair. I use demography to solve problems and answer questions in conservation, management, ecology, and evolution.
Research Associate III
I am a zoologist with interests in conservation, population ecology and the biogeography of amphibians and reptiles in Colorado.
Assistant Professor
Gendered livelihoods, resource stewardship, and feminist political ecology
Instructor, Undergraduate Coordinator, and Internship and Outreach 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 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.
Research Associate III
Ecohydrology, with a focus on conserving and restoring wetlands and riparian areas
PSM ESS - Water Track Student
Hydrology, Watershed Science, Groundwater, Geomorphology, Water Quality
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.
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.
Assistant Professor
Pollination and Pollinator Ecology, Insect Ecology, Conservation Biology, Disturbance Ecology
Social-ecological dynamics of collaborative grazing management on government-owned lands
Research Associate II
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
Professor
I am a fish physiological ecologist working on applied fisheries conservation, management, and aquaculture challenges. My areas of focus include the design and evaluation of fish passage structures for native fishes and developing techniques for the culture of rare native fishes.
Administrative Assistant III
Assistant to Department Head
Research Associate I
Colorado Forest Restoration Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
Forest management, wildland fire management, operations research, stochastic optimization
Associate Professor, Interim Department Head
Plant ecophysiology, plant water-use strategies, plant drought tolerance, drought-induced mortality, sensor development and implementation.
Program Assistant / Assistant to the Department Head
Professor and Shell Endowed Chair of Restoration Ecology
WCNR Research Associate Dean
Restoration Ecology
Research Associate
Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change Climate Change Adaptation
Assistant Professor
I am an aquatic ecologist with interests in freshwater food webs, disease ecology, invasive species, and environmental change.
Assistant Professor
Forest inventory, analysis, monitoring, adaptive forest management, silviculture, carbon management
Undergraduate Program Coordinator/Assistant Professor/Academic Advisor
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 on channel morphology and vegetation-channel feedbacks, and process-based channel restoration and monitoring.
Assistant Professor
Forest and woodland ecology; vegetation response to global change
Malcolm McCallum Chair of Economic Geology
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.
