Faculty Research and Practice Areas

Karen Bailey: Climate adaptation/resilience, sustainable rural livelihoods, human health and well-being, human-wildlife conflict, and justice and equity in STEM

:ÌýEnvironmental governance, environmental communication, political economy and the environment.

Cassandra Brooks:ÌýEnvironmental governance and policy across scales from local to international, marine science, and natural resourceÌýconservation.

Amanda Carrico: Human-environment interactions; environmental psychology; decision-making and behavior; climate change and migration.

Dave Ciplet: Climate and energy justice, just transitions, global climate governance

: Conservation biology, ecology

Mark GastaÌý(does not accept students): Outdoor recreation economy, leadership development, corporate social and environmental responsibility, systemic change

:ÌýEnvironmental ethics and policy, applied ethics, normative ethics, metaethics, and ethical and environmental concerns of emerging technologies.

: Sustainability, Outdoor recreation economy, human-environment interactions, conservation, and natural resource management

Joanna Lambert:ÌýCommunity ecology, nutritional ecology, mammals in anthropogenic landscapes, human-wildlife coexistence and conflict, special focus on primates and carnivores.

:ÌýNeighborhoodÌýenvironments and health, nature-based social prescribing, environmental and policy change to support pro-health behaviors,Ìýand community-based participatory research.

:ÌýLimnology, aquatic ecology, and reactive transport of metals and organic material in streams and rivers.

Zia Mehrabi:ÌýFood security, climate change, biodiversity, human health, welfare, infrastructure, technology.

:ÌýEnvironmental & Scientific writing, undergraduate career development, & sustainable building.

Steve Miller:ÌýEnvironmental and natural resource economics, quantitative environmental policy analysis, effects of climate change on natural resource use and economies, applied statistics and machine learning.

: Socio-environmental systems, food systems, tropical forests, rural livelihoods, sustainable development.

Natalie OoiÌý(does not accept students): Outdoor Recreation Economy, Sustainable Tourism Destination Management, Community Economic Development, Mountain Resort Communities

Josh RadoffÌý(does not accept students): Decarbonization, energy systems electrification, renewable energy development, green building, climate action planning, corporate sustainability, local government policy development.

William ShutkinÌý(does not accept students): Urban resilience and sustainability, climate justice, sustainable cities, sustainability planning and management

Carrie Vodehnal:ÌýNormative Ethical Theory, Applied Ethics, Moral Psychology


Associated Faculty

Lisa Barlow:ÌýClimate change and resilience Education (works primarily with first-year undergraduates)

Joe Bryan: Focuses on the politics of indigeneity in the Americas, with particular attention to questions of land, territory, and rights.

Deserai Crow:ÌýLocal and state-level environmental policy, natural disaster recovery and risk mitigation in local communities and natural resource agencies

:ÌýEnvironmental sociology, environmental inequality, race and ethnic relations, urban sociology, stratification/inequality, political sociology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Nicholas Flores:ÌýEnvironmental and resource economics

Karen Gebhardt: Economics of human-wildlife interaction, economics education, and the economics of gender in the United States economy.

Michael Gooseff:Ìý Stream-groundwater interactions, contaminant transport and fate, polar earth system responses to climate change, ecosystem processes in polar landscapes, aquatic biogeochemical cycling, andÌýwater quality modeling.

:ÌýEnvironmental sociology, environmental justice, Sociology of agriculture and food, immigration politics, and political theories of justice.

Jonathan Hughes:ÌýEnvironmental economics, empirical industrial organization, and transportation and energy economics

:ÌýEnvironmental Sociology, population dynamics and environmental context, rural livelihoods and natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa, climate and migration.

Rita Klees:ÌýBiodiversity conservation, water supply and sanitation, water resource management, and environmental policy.

:ÌýEnvironmental history, history of science in the American West, cultural perceptions of nature.

Nicole Lovenduski:ÌýModeling and observation of ocean biogeochemistry, polar climate change and its impact on the oceans,Ìýglobal carbon cycle dynamics, and global climate modeling

:ÌýLivelihood strategies and decisions relating to land use among the pastoral peoples of Eastern Africa, mostly with the Turkana of northern Kenya and the Maasai of northern Tanzania.

:ÌýCommunication and interpretation of weather and climate risks, the use of scientific information in decision making, and weather hazard prediction and predictability.

Brian Muller: Planning methods, regional planning, and planning for hazards and climate change.

:Ìý Using theatre as a tool for women to empower their voices for participation in the development that impacts their own lives and communities.

Phaedra Pezzullo: Environmental communication, environmental justice, climate justice, public advocacy, toxic politics, qualitative research

:ÌýEvolution of biodiversity, mechanisms of trait evolution, and population genomics.

:ÌýU.S. and global environmental history,Ìýdisease and the environment,Ìýand history of the environmental sciences.

William Travis:ÌýInteraction of environment and society, including land use and anthropogenic transformations of land cover, with a focus on the American West.

Leaf Van Boven: Cocial psychology,Ìýenvironmental psychology, and political psychology

James White:ÌýPaleoclimate and paleoceanography, global change, and geochemistry