Department Directory

Tamee Albrecht

Assistant Professor

water policy and governance, water security, transboundary resources, water system adaptation, environmental governance

Carolina Barbosa

Instructor

Limnology, Water quality in lakes and reservoirs, Aquatic Biogeochemistry, Hydrology, Data Science

Andrea Baudoin Farah

Assistant Professor

Transformations in Rural and Indigenous Lands, Livelihoods, and Autonomous Regimes (TRILLAR Lab)

Gillian Bowser

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.

Natalie Buchholz

"Bucky"

Urban Ecology, Urban Forestry, Human-Wildlife Interactions, Environmental Justice/Equity, Asian Elephants

Alan Cai

Graduate Assistant

Rich Conant

Department Head
Professor

Tim Covino

Associate Professor Ecosystem Science and Sustainability

Chris Dorich

Research Associate III

Jemma Fadum

Affiliate

Tropical limnology and aquatic biogeochemistry

Steven Fassnacht

Professor

Snow Hydrology, Climate Impacts on Water Resources

Wei Gao

Professor

Regional Climate/Ecosystem Modeling, Remote Sensing, Solar UV Radiation Monitoring and Research

Ed Hall

Associate Professor

Microbial Ecology

Claire Hengesbaugh

Online Certificate Student - Wildlife Conservation Actions

Kaye Holman

Academic Success/Internship Coordinator / WCNR Learning Communities Director

Student Engagement | High-Impact Practices | Education Program Management | Sustainable Community Development

Douglas Hultstrand

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

Erika Lee

Graduate Assistant

Danica Lombardozzi

Assistant Professor

Global Change Ecology, Earth System Modeling, Climate Change Impacts, Agriculture, Ozone Bioindicator Gardens

Melissa McHale

Associate Professor

Urban Ecology and Sustainability

John Moore

Professor
Director of NREL

Clara Mosso

Graduate Assistant

Ecosystem services modeling, participatory methodologies, remote sensing and GIS.

Nathan Mueller

Associate Professor

Agricultural Sustainability and Climate Change Impacts

Jessica O'Connell

Assistant Professor

Remote Sensing, Landscape Ecology, Data Science, Wetlands, Plants, Carbon, Water

Jacob Petersen-Perlman

Research Scientist II

Water conflict, water cooperation, water security, water governance, natural resources management

Anika Pyle

Research Associate II

Communications, graphic design, community organizing, art+science

Mike Ryan

SR Resch Sci/Scholar

Gabriella Scolio

Ecosystem Science and Sustainability Masters Student

Sara Simonson

PhD Program, Watershed Science - Steven Fassnacht, Advisor

B Steele

Research Associate III

Elizabeth Toman

Assistant Professor

Hydrologist - Water Quality & Quantity, Land Management Impacts

Elizabeth Tulanowski

Instructor

Geospatial Educator with 25 years of GIS and teaching experience, and a background in Natural Resources.

Sarah Whipple

PhD Candidate

Pollinator ecologist studying biodiversity and climate change in United States Protected Areas

Natalie Wiley

PSM - Carbon, Global Change, and Greenhouse Gas Management

Codie Wilson

PhD Program, Watershed Science - Stephanie Kampf, Advisor