CAS Program Leadership
Soil & Water Management, Conservation, and Climate Data Analysis
andre.moraes@usu.edu
Wildland Resources
Plant population, community ecology, coexistence & patterns of diversity, climate change impacts on plant populations & communities, and plant-animal interaction
peter.adler@usu.edu
CAS Course Instructors
Paleoecology, Fire Ecology, Forest Ecosystems, Climate Change, and Climate Adaptation
kyra.clark-wolf@usu.edu
Community resilience, landscape strategies for climate adaptation, and disaster mitigation & planning
daniella.hirschfeld@usu.edu
Human-Environment Geography: Climate, Hazards, and People
peter.howe@usu.edu
Human-Environment Interactions, Human-Wildlife Interactions, Visitor Use & Impact Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
anna.miller@usu.edu
Drought/Flood, Precipitation, Hurricanes, Climate Modeling, Climate Dynamics, and Climate Change
w.zhang@usu.edu
Affiliated Faculty
Mentorship, Networking, & Teaching
Affiliated faculty are encouraged to 1) discuss their research and serve as mentors for CAS trainee cohorts, 2) suggest new internship partners and opportunities for CAS trainees, and 3) join with other faculty to develop new integrative Climate Adaptation research. We also appreciate when faculty attend our annual CAS events, including our Fall and Spring Report Out events, and our Science Management Policy Exchange (SMPE) event in October.
If you are interested in joining the CAS program faculty, or you are mentoring a student interested in the CAS program, please contact Lexi Turano.
Effects of global change on aquatic food webs & species interactions, ecosystem function, and aquatic ecosystem's effect on climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
trisha.atwood@usu.edu
Species interaction & subsequent impacts on ecosystem processes
karen.beard@usu.edu
Theoretical & spatial plant ecology, plant/animal/microbe interactions, and seed dispersal
noelle.beckman@usu.edu
Hydrology, erosion and sedimentation, wildfire, climate-energy-economic systems
patrick.belmont@usu.edu
Industry experience, e-learning, and project management
kristy.bloxham@usu.edu
Biogeochemistry, paleolimnology, anthropogenic controls on nutrient cycles, climate impacts on freshwater ecosystems, and applications of geochemistry to aquatic ecology
janice.brahney@usu.edu
Fostering environmental behavior, sustainable communities, behavioral theory, communication & social marketing techniques
roslynn.brain@usu.edu
Management of aquatic natural resources, fisheries management, and aquatic ecology
phaedra.budy@usu.edu
Environmental Planning, Geospatial Analysis & GIScience, Immersive Geovisualization, Environmental Psychology, Landscape Perception, Cultural Ecosystem Services, etc.
brent.chamberlain@usu.edu
Population Ecology, Community Ecology, and Conservation Biology
t.j.clark-wolf@usu.edu
The human place in ecosystems worldwide, the ability to use the archaeological past to calibrate our understanding of human resilience, and the feedbacks between ecosystem health and human health
stefani.crabtree@usu.edu
Communicating planetary boundaries, the anthropocene, and complex & sustainable systems
robert.davies@usu.edu
Silviculture, forest ecology, dendrochronology, and forestry
justin.derose@usu.edu
Measuring cultural impacts of AI and emerging tech in the AEC industry, systems-centric threats and resilience assessment (STRAT), complex social-ecological systems modeling, and geospatial visualization.
phillip.fernberg@usu.edu
People’s perspectives and collective actions in changing landscapes and social and natural resource conditions
courtney.flint@usu.edu
Physiological ecology, life history trade-offs, immunity, and conservation
susannah.french@usu.edu
Environmental, global, & comparative sociology; political economy & development
jennifer.givens@usu.edu
Genetic architecture of ecologically important traits, determinants of genetic variation & molecular evolution in natural populations, and the nature & evolution of species boundaries & barriers to gene flow
zachariah.gompert@usu.edu
Aquatic ecology, freshwater biodiversity, and environmental assessment
chuck.hawkins@usu.edu
Meteorology/climatology, and land-atmosphere interactions
Lawrence.Hipps@usu.edu
Hydroinformatics, surface water quality, and hydrology
jeff.horsburgh@usu.edu
Biodiversity, population genetics, conservation biology, ecology & evolution, species diversity, evolution, conservation, ecosystem ecology, taxonomy, and climate change
scott.hotaling@usu.edu
Biodiversity, Herbivory, & Long-term Human Ecology
nancy.huntly@usu.edu
Evaporation from porous media, microgravity effects of water supply to plant roots, porous media greenhouse gas emissions, soil water & nutrient flow, and sensor development for soil property measurement & monitoring
scott.jones@usu.edu
Wetland plant ecology, restoration, and management
karin.kettenring@usu.edu
Regional economics, and resource & environmental economics
mk.kim@usu.edu
Surface hydrology, geomorphology, and water resources management
belize.lane@usu.edu
Land-use based sustainable development, water resource management, rural migration, and climate change mitigation & adaptation
man.li@usu.edu
How people learn about science topics in various contexts, including social media, schools, museums, and comic-cons
lisa.lundgren@usu.edu
Animal behavior, population biology, predator-prey interactions, large mammal conservation & management
dan.macnulty@usu.edu
Geology, biogeochemistry, hydrology, ecology, remote sensing, vegetation community productivity, water/nutrient use, local-based ecosystem monitoring, wildfire hazard mitigation, and technology training & outreach
m.mayes@usu.edu
Diseases/Pathogens, Behavior Ecology, Conservation Ecology, Statistical Ecology, Wildlife Ecology, Ecology/Landscape, Population Biology, and Livestock & Wildlife Interactions
Recreation ecology, park & protected area management
chris.monz@usu.edu
Quantifying groundwater/surface water interactions, associated influences on instream water quality, and temperature regimes
bethany.neilson@usu.edu
Climate Adaptation, Great Salt Lake, Water Quality, Water Resources Management
sarah.null@usu.edu
Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, soil science, microbial ecology, toxicology, and dryland & tropical forest ecosystems
brooke.osborne@usu.edu
Modeling, mathematical ecology, model competition, dispersal & spatial structure in populations
jim.powell@usu.edu
Human-environment geography, political ecology, migration, and gender
claudia.radel@usu.edu
Geomorphology, luminescence dating, quaternary geology, paleoclimate
tammy.rittenour@usu.edu
Plant-insect interactions, food web ecology, abiotic factors shaping plant-herbivore assemblages, native Lepidoptera (butterflies & moths)
moria.robinson@usu.edu
Water resources management, systems analysis, water conservation & planning
david.rosenberg@usu.edu
Phylogenetics theory and practice, plant systematics, reticulate evolution, fern biology, polyploid
carl.rothfels@usu.edu
Plant evolutionary ecology, evolutionary & ecological genetics, speciation, plant reproduction
cathy.rushworth@usu.edu
Environmental Sociology, Environmental Justice, and Sociology of Disasters
stacia.ryder@usu.edu
Evolutionary ecology, population genomics, computational biology evolution
norah.saarman@usu.edu
Rural Communities, Natural Resource Sociology, & Survey Methodology
jessica.schad@usu.edu
Cross-kingdom interactions between plants, insects, and microbes
robert.schaeffer@usu.edu
Exploring the impact of emerging technologies on learning in the educational field, game-based learning, scaffolding & collaborative learning
ramy.shaaban@usu.edu
Outdoor recreation, natural resource economics
jordan.smith@usu.edu
Surface assessment, mathematical modeling, and statistics
david.stevens@usu.edu
Surface water, information systems, modeling terrain analysis, and snow hydrology
dtarb@usu.edu
Using ground, UAVs, and satellite combined technologies and data to validate, harmonize, and enhance agricultural information
alfonso.torres@usu.edu
Plant community ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, livestock-wild ungulate interactions, and restoration ecology
kari.veblen@usu.edu
Environmental sociology, federal land management, climate change, indigenous land stewardship, and political dimensions of wildfire management
kirsten.vinyeta@usu.edu
Evolution of host-symbiont associations, parasite infection impacts, and disease dynamic change in human altered-landscape
sara.weinstein@usu.edu
Fluvial geomorphology, biogeomorphology, watershed management, and beaver ecology
joe.wheaton@usu.edu
Natural Resources, Agriculture, Food Systems, Humanity's Relationship with Resources and Systems.
steven.wilcox@usu.edu
How forests, fires, climate, and people interact over time and space
larissa.yocom@usu.edu
Agroclimate, water optimization, precision agriculture, and soil health
matt.yost@usu.edu
