Faculty

Name	Department	Research Interests	Position	Email
Peter Adler	Wildland Resources	Wildland plant ecosystems, community ecology	Professor, Ecology Center Director	peter.adler@usu.edu
Michelle Baker	Biology	Ecosystem ecology, hydrogeology, geochemistry	Professor, Dean of the College of Science	mbaker@biology.usu.edu
Noelle Beckman	Biology	Theoretical ecology, plant ecology, tropical ecology, spatial ecology, population ecology, community ecology, seed dispersal, quantitative ecology, plant-animal interactions, plant-microbe interactions, functional traits, life history strategies	Assistant Professor	noelle.beckman@usu.edu
Susannah French	Biology	Population monitoring and physiological trade-offs, population physiology and genomics, ecoimmunology, ecotourism and anthropogenic disturbance	Professor, Associate Dean of Science	susannah.french@usu.edu
Zach Gompert	Biology	Hybridization and speciation, contemporary ecolution and fluctuating selection, genetic diversity patterns and the structure of biodiversity, genetics of adaptation and the evolution of interactions, statistical models and computational biology	Associate Professor	zach.gompert@usu.edu
Karen Kapheim	Biology	Ecology, evolution, evolutionary genomics, animal behavior, behavioral ecology	Associate Professor	karen.kapheim@usu.edu
Norah Saarman	Biology	Spatial ecology, population biology, speciation, vector biology	Assitant Professor	norah.saarman@usu.edu
Alan Savitsky	Biology	Evolution, morphology, development, chemical ecology, and conservation of snakes	Professor, Interim Department Head	savitzky@usu.edu
Carol von Dohlen	Biology	Evolution and genomics of insect-bacterial symbioses; insect phylogenetics; insect life cycle evolution; historical biogeography	Professor, Assistant Department Head	carol.vondohlen@usu.edu
Joseph Wilson	Biology	Biogeography, evolution, ecology, conservation of bees and wasps	Associate Professor	joseph.wilson@usu.edu
Ricardo Ramirez	Biology	Agro-ecology, integrated pest management	Adjunct Professor	ricardo.ramirez@usu.edu
Carl Rothfels	Biology	Phylogenetics theory and practice, plant systematics, reticulate evolution, fern biology, polyploidy	Associate Professor	carl.rothfels@usu.edu
Robert Schaeffer	Biology	Agroecology, community ecology, mutualism, plant-microbe interactions, pollination	Assistant Professor	robert.schaeffer@usu.edu
Cagan Sekercioglu	Biology	Biodiversity and ecosystems in human-dominated landscapes, coexistance of humans and other species	Associate Professor	c.s@utah.edu
Bethany Neilson	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Numerical modeling, identification of dominant heat and mass fate and transport mechanisms, groundwater/surface interactions, instream water quality and temperature regimes	Professor	bethany.neilson@usu.edu
David Rosenberg	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Innovative water management	Professor	david.rosenberg@usu.edu
David Tarboton	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Surface water hydrology, hydrologic modeling and information systems, terrain and watershed analysis in hydrology, stochasti hydrology and snowmelt	Professor, Director of Utah Water Research Laboratory	david.tarboton@usu.edu
Belize Lane	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Water management, relationships between lanscape and channel context and hydrologic behavior across multiple scales and disturbances	Assistant Professor	belize.lane@usu.edu
Som Dutta	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	Turbulent multiphase flows, environmental fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, river and coastal mechanics, high-performance computing	Assistant Professor	som.dutta@usu.edu
Fabiane Mundim	Biology	Multitrophic interactions: host-parasite, plant-herbivore, plant phytochemistry, drought stress	Assistant Professor	fabianemmundim@gmail.com
Jeff Horsburgh	Civil & Environmental Engineering	Watershed hydrology, surface water quality, and human dimensions of water use	Associate Professor	jeff.horsburgh@usu.edu
Mark Brunson	Environment & Society	Human-invasive species relationships, effects of recreation use and recreation management, management decision processes post rangeland fires	Professor	mark.brunson@usu.edu
Stefani Crabtree	Environment & Society	Computational social science, archaeoecology, food webs, coupled human-natural systems, human dimensions of climate change, complex adaptive systems, network science, agent-based modeling	Assistant Professor	stefani.crabtree@usu.edu
Claudia Radel	Environment & Society	Cash transfers, gender, conservation and land-use change in Latin America, gender, land, and agriculture in Mesoamerical labor migration, agrarian/environmental change, and food insecurity in Mesoamerica	Professor, Department Head	claudia.radel@usu.edu
Joanna Endter-Wada	Environment & Society	Water policy, natural resources and environmental policy, human dimensions of ecosystem science and management	Professor, Director of NEPA Graduate Certificate Program	joanna.endter-wada@usu.edu
Courtney Flint	Environment & Society	Water science, engineering, forestry, biogeochemistry, plant phytochemistry, agricultural science and engineering, systems ecology, landscape planning	Professor	courtney.flint@usu.edu
Wayne Freimund	Environment & Society, Moab Campus	Parks, recreation and tourism management	Professor	wayne.freimund@usu.edu
Peter Howe	Environment & Society	Perceptions of local-scale environmental change in contect of global climate change, vulnerability assessment and planning, coastal hazard perception and mitigation, water resource management	Professor, QCNR Associate Dean for Academics	peter.howe@usu.edu
Christopher Lant	Environment & Society	Water resources, the water-food nexus, environmental and agricultural conservation policies	Professor	chris.lant@usu.edu
Christopher Monz	Environment & Society	Recreation ecology, biophysical science, soil science, park planning, recreation disturbance, park transportation management	Professor	chris.monz@usu.edu
Paul Rogers	Environment & Society	Aspen and community ecology, biogeography, disturbance ecology, large-scale forest monitoring	Adjunct Assistant Professor, Director of Western Aspen Alliance	p.rogers@usu.edu
Jordan Smith	Environment & Society	Adaptive behavior of outdoor recreationists and natural resource dependent communities affected by climate change, natural hazards, and crisis events	Professor, Director of Institute of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism	jordan.smith@usu.edu
Joseph Tainter	Environment & Society	Sustainability, societal collapse, energy and innovation, land-use conflict and human responses to climate change	Professor	joseph.tainter@usu.edu
Dennis Newell	Geosciences	Geochemistry	Associate Professor, Graduate Director	dennis.newell@usu.edu
Tammy Rittenour	Geosciences	Paleoclimatology and quaternary geology	Professor, Director of Luminescence Lab	tammy.rittenour@usu.edu
Daniella Hirschfeld	Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning	Urban ecology, environmental planning, resilient systems, spatial analysis	Assistant Professor	daniella.hirschfeld@usu.edu
Brent Chamberlain	Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning	Environmental psychology, landscape perception, cultural ecosystem services, geovisualization, urban form and health	Associate Professor	brent.chamberlain@usu.edu
James Powell	Mathematics & Statistics	Mathematical biology and ecology, organism dispersal and demographics, spatial spread of populations, movement ecology and habitat usage	Professor	jim.powell@usu.edu
Luis Gordillo	Mathematics & Statistics	Applied mathematics, theoretical and computatinal tools to characterize biological phenomena	Associate Professor	luis.gordillo@usu.edu
Janis Boettinger	Plants, Soils & Climate	Soil science, pedology, mapping, modeling and assessment, soil-plant-landscape relationships	Professor	janis.boettinger@usu.edu
Yoshi Chikamoto	Plants, Soils & Climate	Climate variability, predictability, and change	Associate professor	yoshi.chikamoto@usu.edu
Robert Gillies	Plants, Soils & Climate	Aviation weather	Professor, State Climatologist	robert.gillies@usu.edu
Paul Grossl	Plants, Soils & Climate	Biogeochemistry, environmental soil chemistry	Professor	paul.grossl@usu.edu
Lawrence Hipps	Plants, Soils & Climate	Meteorology, land-atmosphere exchange, remote sensing	Professor	lawrence.hipps@usu.edu
Astrid Jacobson	Plants, Soils & Climate	Fate and transport of non-essential trace elements and xenobiotics, spatial distribution of soil contaminants or nutrients at the microscale, the composition and interactions of soil organic carbon with mineral surfaces	Associate Professor	astrid.jacobson@usu.edu
Paul Johnson	Plants, Soils & Climate	Breeding and genetics of Poa and native grasses, turfgrass ecology and management, especially related to water conservation	Professor, Department Head	paul.johnson@usu.edu
Scott Jones	Plants, Soils & Climate	Evaporation from porous media, microgravity effects of water supply to plant roots, porous media greenhouse gas emissions, soil water and nutrient flow and transport, sensor development for soil property measurement and monitoring	Professor	scott.jones@usu.edu
Kelly Kopp	Plants, Soils & Climate	Landscape irrigation efficiency, turfgrass water and nutrient dynamics, smart irrigation technologies, water efficiency programming	Professor	kelly.kopp@usu.edu
Jeanette Norton	Plants, Soils & Climate	Ecology of nitrification and genomics of ammonia oxidizing bacteria, microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling in soils, DNA probes for enzymatic functions, microbial / plant interactions in waste management, and role of microbial community structure in biogeochemistry and bioremediation	Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator	jeanette.norton@usu.edu
S. -Y. Simon Wang	Plants, Soils & Climate	Climate diagnostics and prediction, weather processes and extremes, tropical and monsoon meteorology, applied meteorology and climatology	Professor	simon.wang@usu.edu
Wei Zhang	Plants, Soils & Climate	Drought, climate modeling, climate dynamics	Assistant Professor	w.zhang@usu.edu
David Byers	Sociology & Anthropology	Zooarchaeology, site formation, stable isotope analysis, upland/alpine archaeology of Western U.S., coastal foragers of Jamaica, paleoecology, paleoindian studies, and human/proboscidean interaction	Associate Professor	david.byers@usu.edu
Judson Finley	Sociology & Anthropology	Quaternary paleoecology of western North America, rockshelter and cave sedimentary records, obsidian and ceramic artifact geochemistry, ceramic petrography	Associate Professor, Department Head	judson.finley@usu.edu
Jacob Freeman	Sociology & Anthropology	Human population ecology, collective action, complex systems, resilience, antifragility	Associate Professor, Anthropology Program Coordinator	jacob.freeman@usu.edu
Trisha Atwood	Watershed Sciences	Effects of global change on aquatic food webs and species interactions, how food webs and species interactions influence ecosystem function, and the role of aquatic ecosystems in climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation	Associate Professor	trisha.atwood@usu.edu
Patrick Belmont	Watershed Sciences	Hydrology, geomorphology, landscape and river change over geologic and human timescales	Professor, Department Head	patrick.belmont@usu.edu
Janice Brahney	Watershed Sciences	Anthropogenic controls on nutrient cycles, climate impacts on freshwater ecosystems, applications of geochemistry to aquatic ecology	Associate Professor	janice.brahney@usu.edu
Phaedra Budy	Watershed Sciences	Fisheries management and aquatic ecology: evaluating the factors that structure and limit fish populations and communities in both lentic and lotic systems, conservation biology, invasion ecology, and food web dynamics of aquatic systems	Professor, Unit leader US Geological Survey	phaedra.budy@usu.edu
Edd Hamill	Watershed Sciences	Spatial community ecology	Associate Professor	edd.hammill@usu.edu
Charles Hawkins	Watershed Sciences	Understanding and predicting how climate, geology, geomorphology, and hydrology interact to influence biodiversity at different spatial scales	Professor	charles.hawkins@usu.edu
Karin Kettenring	Watershed Sciences	Basic and applied questions related to wetland, plant, seed, invasion, and restoration ecology	Professor	karin.kettenring@usu.edu
Sarah Null	Watershed Sciences	Water resources systems analysis and physical geography, modeling	Professor	sarah.null@usu.edu
Erin Rivers	Watershed Sciences	Ecohydrology, watershed biogeochemistry, runoff, nonpoint source pollution concerns in urban landscapes	Associate Professor, Water Quality Extension Specialist	erin.rivers@usu.edu
Timothy Walsworth	Watershed Sciences	How fish and aquatic communities respond to spatio-temporal changes in environmental and management conditions, how managers and stakeholders can best manage ecosystems while accounting for unavoidable uncertainties	Assistant Professor	timothy.walsworth@usu.edu
Joe Wheaton	Watershed Sciences	Ecogeomorphology, riverscape science, restoration	Professor	joe.wheaton@usu.edu
Peter Wilcock	Watershed Sciences	Watershed Science	Professor	wilcock@usu.edu
Tal Avgar	Wildland Resources	Animal movement and space-use ecology, wildlife population biology, consumer-resource interactions, ecological modelling and biometry	Adjunct Assistant Professor	tal.avgar@usu.edu
Karen Beard	Wildland Resources	Species interactions and subsequent impacts on ecosystem processes involving non-native species and climate change	Professor	karen.beard@usu.edu
Mary Conner	Wildland Resources	Mark-resight data, population monitoring designs, multi-model inference, bayesian MCMC methods, population dynamics modeling	Research Associate Professor	mary.conner@usu.edu
Michael Conover	Wildland Resources	Avian ecology of the Great Salt Lake	Professor	mike.conover@usu.edu
Justin DeRose	Wildland Resources	Silviculture, forest ecology, dendrochronology, forestry	Assistant Professor	justin.derose@usu.edu
Johan du Toit	Wildland Resources	Ecology of large mammals in terrestrial ecosystems	Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor, Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London	johan.dutoit@usu.edu
Jim Lutz	Wildland Resources	Forest ecology, fire ecology	Professor	james.lutz@usu.edu
Scott Hotaling	Watershed Resources	Global change in high mountain ecosystems, cryosphere ecology and how recession of glaciers and snowfields impacts biodiversity, climate adaptation in mountain environments, long-term monitoring	Assistant Professor	scott.hotaling@usu.edu
Kezia Manlove	Wildland Resources	Disease ecology, interface of movement, life-history, behavior, and disease	Assistant Professor	kezia.manlove@usu.edu
Karen Mock	Wildland Resources	Genetics, conservation and management	Professor, Department Head	karen.mock@usu.edu
R. Douglas Ramsey	Wildland Resources	Rangeland and landscape ecology, geospatial science, remote sensing of natural and anthropogenic environments	Professor	doug.ramsey@usu.edu
Geno Schupp	Wildland Resources	Plant ecology, restoration ecology	Professor	eugene.schupp@usu.edu
Erica Stuber	Wildland Resources	Spatial ecology, landscape ecology, behavioral ecology	Assistant Professor	erica.stuber@usu.edu
Kari Veblen	Wildland Resources	Plant community ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, livestock-wild ungulate interactions, and restoration ecology	Professor	kari.veblen@usu.edu
Juan Villalba	Wildland Resources	Behavioral science, biodiversity, conservation, dietary behaviors, foraging, plant-herbivore interactions, ruminant nutrition, toxicology	Professor	juan.villalba@usu.edu
Larissa Yocom	Wildland Resources	Fire ecology, relationship between climate, fire, and vegetation are related over time and space, fire and forest managment	Associate Professor	larissa.yocom@usu.edu
Julie Young	Wildland Resources	Behavior, ecology, and management of mammals, human-wildlife conflict	Associate Professor	julie.young@usu.edu
David Stoner	Wildland Resources	Satellite imagery, animal behavior, demography, habitat use for applications in wildlife conservation, vertebrate responses to plant phenology, exploitation, habitat fragmentation.	Research Assistant Professor	david.stoner@usu.edu
Cathy Rushworth	Biology	Plant evolutionary ecology, evolutionary and ecological genetics, speciation, plant reproduction	Assistant Professor	cathy.rushworth@usu.edu
Anna Miller	Environment & Society	Interactions between outdoor recreation and the environment, human-wildlife interactions, recreation ecology, climate adaptation for outdoor recreation	Assistant Professor	anna.miller@usu.edu
Brooke Osborne	Environment & Society, Moab Campus	Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, soil science, microbial ecology, dryland and tropical forest ecosystems	Assistant Professor	brooke.osborne@usu.edu
Yong Zhou	Wildland Resources	Soil biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology	Assistant Professor	yong.zhou@usu.edu
Sara Weinstein	Biology	Microbial Ecology	Assistant Professor	sara.weinstein@usu.edu
Moria Robinson	Biology	Ecology and evolution of insects, particularly moths and butterflies, interactions between plants, insects, and their enemies in natural and agricultural systems, food web structure and function, effects of abiotic context on multitrophic processes	Assistant Professor	moria.robinson@usu.edu
Robert Davies	Physics	Atmospheric physics, surface physics, quantum optics, critical science communications, global environmental change, sustainable human systems	Professional Practice Associate Professor	robert.davies@usu.edu
Terry Dial	Environment & Society, Moab Campus	Organismal biology, functional morphology, biomechanics and fluid dynamics	Professional Practice Assistant Professor	terry.dial@usu.edu
Sara Freeman	Biology	Social behavior, autism, attachment, neuroscience, receptor pharmacology, oxytocin, vasopressin, hormones, comparative neuroanatomy, animal models of psychiatric disease, nonhuman primates	Assistant Professor	sara.freeman@usu.edu
Marc Mayes	Watershed Sciences	Interdisciplinary Earth sciences (geology, biogeochemistry, hydrology, ecology) and remote sensing; forest, rangeland and water resources management; drought adaptation and wildfire hazard mitigation	Ecosystems and remote sensing scientist, SIG-NAL; Adjunct Asst. Professor, USU Watershed Sciences; Research Associate, UCSB Earth Research Institute	m.mayes@usu.edu
Donald Penman	Geosciences	Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, biogeochemical cycles	Assistant Professor	donald.penman@usu.edu
Kirsten Vinyeta	Sociology	Environmental sociology, indigenous and settler colonial studies, land management policy, environmental and climate justice, intersectionality, multispecies approaches to sociology, visual methodologies	Assistant Professor	kirsten.vinyeta@usu.edu
Andrew Kulmatiski	Wildland Resources	Plant-soil feedbacks, plant water use, range management, agriculture, silviculture	Associate Professor	andrew.kulmatiski@usu.edu
Andre Moraes	Watershed Sciences	Soils, climatology, hydrology, remote sensing, spatial modeling	Assistant Professor	andre.moraes@usu.edu
Kyra Clark-Wolf	Wildland Resources	Paleoecology, fire ecology, forest ecosystems, climate adaptation	Adjunct Assistant Professor	kyra.clark-wolf@usu.edu
T.J. Clark-Wolf	Wildland Resources	Population ecology and community ecology, conservation biology, Bayesian statistics, theoretical ecology	Assistant Professor	t.j.clark-wolf@usu.edu
Chad Teal	Watershed Sciences	Aquaculture, fisheries biology, invasive species management, and fisheries conservation and management	Assistant UT Coop Unit Director, Assistant Professor	chad.teal@usu.edu
Stacia Ryder	Sociology	Environmental sociology, critical and intersectional environmental, energy, disaster and climate justice, community engagement in environmental, energy and climate decision-making, systems of power and formations of environmental inequality, place and place attachment, climate migration and displacement	Assistant Professor	stacia.ryder@usu.edu
Jessica Schad	Sociology	Amenity Migration, Rural Community Natural Resource Dependency, Rural Health and Wellbeing, Agricultural Conservation	Associate Professor	jessica.schad@usu.edu
Jennifer Givens	Sociology	Environmental sociology, comparative international sociology, political economy, environmental and climate change concern, climate and environmental justice, climate change mitigation and adaptation, well-being.	Associate Professor	jennifer.givens@usu.edu
Lucy Lu	Mathematics & Statistics	Bayesian hierarchical modeling, spatial/spatio-temporal statistics, and statistical network analysis, marine and freshwater population modeling	Assistant Professor	lucy.lu@usu.edu
Nancy Huntly	Biology	Population, community, and human ecology; climate adaptation science	Research Professor, Professor Emerita	nancy.huntly@usu.edu
Elise Laugier	Environment & Society	Environmental and landscape archaeology, dryland agropastoral systems, historical land use, archaeobotany/paleoethnobotany (phytoliths), geospatial science, remote sensing	Assistant Professor	elise.laugier@usu.edu
Steven Wilcox	Applied Economics	Environmental and natural resource economics, agricultural and development economics, food, agriculture, food security, land & resource use, conservation & policy, remote sensing applications in applied economics	Assistant Professor	steven.wilcox@usu.edu
Derrick Vaughn	Geosciences	Biogeochemistry, carbon cycling in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, anthropogenic and climate change impacts on carbon cycling	Assistant Professor	derrick.vaughn@usu.edu
Chris Smith	Biology	Evolutionary ecology, sociobiology, phenotypic plasticity	Professor and Department Head	c.r.smith@usu.edu