Leadership Team
Aquatic Ecosystem Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Water Quality, & Hydrology
Dynamics of Coupled Human-Natural Systems, Causes & Consequences of Human Behaviors in Natural Environments
mark.brunson@usu.edu
Community Actions & Perspectives in Changing Landscapes and Social and Natural Resource Conditions
courtney.flint@usu.edu
Mathematical Modeling in Biology, Theoretical Epidemiology, Population Ecology, Complex Networks
luis.gordillo@usu.edu
Human-Environment Geography: Climate, Hazards, & People
peter.howe@usu.edu
Biodiversity, Human Ecology, Herbivory, Food Webs & Networks
nancy.huntly@usu.edu
Cultural Ecosystem Services, Renewable Energy Landscapes
sarah.klain@usu.edu
Conservation and Management of Natural Resources, Fire Ecology, Ecosystem Analysis
james.lutz@usu.edu
Aquatic Systems Modeling, Environmental Water Monitoring, Climate Change effects on Hydrology
sarah.null@usu.edu
Biochemistry, Ecosystem Ecology, & Terrestrial Ecosystem's Response to Global Changes
screed@usgs.gov
Rural and Agricultural Populations Survey Methodology, Community Theory and Analysis, Rural Sociology, & Population Studies
jessica.schad@usu.edu
Plant Population Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Rare & Invasive Plants
eugene.schupp@usu.edu
Drought/flood, precipitation, hurricanes, climate modeling, climate dynamics and climate change
w.zhang@usu.edu
Program Faculty
Plant Population, Community Ecology, Coexistence & Patterns of Diversity, Climate Change Impacts on Plant Populations and Communities, and Plant-Animal Interaction.
peter.adler@usu.edu
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
Industry experience, e-learning, project management
kristy.bloxham@usu.edu
Theoretical and Spatial Plant Ecology, Plant/animal/microbe Interactions, & Seed Dispersal
noelle.beckman@usu.edu
Biogeochemistry, Paleolimnology, Anthropogenic Controls on Nutrient Cycles, Climate Impacts on Freshwater Ecosystems, & Applications of Geochemistry to Aquatic Ecology
janice.brahney@usu.edu
Management of Aquatic Natural Resources, Fisheries Management, Aquatic Ecology
phaedra.budy@usu.edu
Communicating Planetary Boundaries, the Anthropocene, and Complex & Sustainable Systems
robert.davies@usu.edu
Silviculture, Forest ecology, Dendrochronology, Forestry
justin.derose@usu.edu
Physiological Ecology, Life History Trade-offs, Immunity, 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
Conservation Planning & Land Management
edd.hammill@usu.edu
Aquatic Ecology, Freshwater Biodiversity, & Environmental Assessment
chuck.hawkins@usu.edu
Meteorology/Climatology, & Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Lawrence.Hipps@usu.edu
Community resilience, Landscape Strategies for Climate Adaptation, & Disaster Mitigation and Planning
daniella.hirschfeld@usu.edu
Hydroinformatics, Surface Water Quality, & 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
Environmental and Regional Economics, & Public Lands Analysis
paul.jakus@usu.edu
Evaporation from Porous Media, Microgravity Effects of Water Supply to Plant Roots, Porous Media Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Soil Water & Nutrient Flow and Transport, & Sensor Development for Soil Property Measurement and Monitoring
scott.jones@usu.edu
Wetland Plant Ecology, Restoration, & Management
karin.kettenring@usu.edu
Regional Economics, & Resource and Environmental Economics
mk.kim@usu.edu
Plant-soil Interactions
andrew.kulmatiski@usu.edu
Surface Hydrology, Geomorphology, & Water Resources Management
belize.lane@usu.edu
Land-use Based Sustainable Development, Water Resource Management, Rural Migration, and Climate Change, Mitigation, and 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
Drinking Water Treatment
laurie.mcneill@usu.edu
Human-Environment Interactions, Human-Wildlife Interactions, Visitor Use & Impact Management, Climate Change Adaptation, and Outdoor Recreation & Tourism
anna.miller@usu.edu
Recreation Ecology, Park & Protected Area Management
chris.monz@usu.edu
Soil & Water Management, Conservation, Climate Data Analysis
andre.moraes@usu.edu
Quantifying Groundwater/Surface Water Interactions, Associated Influences on Instream Water Quality, and Temperature Regimes
bethany.neilson@usu.edu
Ecosystem Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Soil Science, Microbial Ecology, Toxicology, & Dryland and Tropical Forest Ecosystems
brooke.osborne@usu.edu
Geomorphology, Landscape evolution of the interior Western US
joel.pederson@usu.edu
Groundwater Management & Systems Analysis
peralta.rc@gmail.com
Modeling, Mathematical Ecology, Model Competition, Dispersal & Spatial Structure in Populations
jim.powell@usu.edu
Human-environment Geography, Political Ecology, Migration, & Gender
claudia.radel@usu.edu
Interactions Among Natural enemies, Herbivorous Arthropods, and Plants in Managed Systems
ricardo.ramirez@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 and Ecological Genetics, Speciation, Plant Reproduction
cathy.rushworth@usu.edu
Evolutionary ecology, Population genomics, Computational biology
Evolution
norah.saarman@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 and collaborative learning
ramy.shaaban@usu.edu
Outdoor Recreation & Natural Resource Economics
jordan.smith@usu.edu
Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology, & Soil Biogeochemistry
john.stark@usu.edu
Surface Assessment, Mathematical Modeling, & Statistics
david.stevens@usu.edu
Surface Water, Information Systems, Modeling, Terrain Analysis, & 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, & Beaver Ecology
joe.wheaton@usu.edu
Erosion and Sedimentation, Watershed Restoration and Management
wilcock@usu.edu
How forests, fires, climate, and people interact over time and space
larissa.yocom@usu.edu
Agroclimate, Water Optimization, Precision Agriculture, & Soil Health
matt.yost@usu.edu
Behavior, Ecology, & Management of Mammals
julie.young@usu.edu
Drought/Flood, Precipitation, Hurricanes, Climate Modeling, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change
w.zhang@usu.edu
Diseases/pathogens, behavior ecology, conservation ecology, statistical ecology, wildlife ecology, ecology/landscape, population biology, livestock & wildlife interactions
kezia.manlove@usu.edu
Paleoecology, fire ecology, forest ecosystems, climate change, and climate adaptation
kyra.clark-wolf@usu.edu