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Brent Chamberlain
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environmental planning, geospatial analysis, giscience, immersive geovisualization
Daniella Hirschfeld
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environmental planning, climate adaption, urban ecology, hazard mitigationE; spatial analysis
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Karen Beard
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community/ecosystem ecology, invasion ecology, and conservation
Tal Avgar
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ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of animal movement behaviour
Patrick Singleton
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travel behavior analysis, active transportation, walking & bicycling, health & transportation, physical activity, safety & security, transportation planning, travel demand modeling, public transit, autonomous vehicles, transportation & the built environment
Jessica Schad
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rural communities, natural resource sociology, & survey methodology
Paul C. Rogers
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human impacts on vegetation, aspen ecosystems, lichen biomonitoring, environmental science
WATER
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Michelle Baker
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freshwater ecology, biogeochemistry, water quality
Yoshimitsu Chikamoto
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earth system science, climate modeling and simulation, climate variability, predictability and change
Sarah Null
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environmental water management, climate adaptation, water quality, aquatic habitat
John C. Schmidt
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water supplies and ecosystems on the Colorado and Green Rivers, water resources, hydrology, river planning models
Janice Brahney
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transport nutrients, freshwater ecosystems, watershed hydrology, watershed hydrology, water quality
Karin Kettenring
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wetland plant communities and restoration ecology
Erin Rivers
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water quality, ecohydrology, watershed biogeochemistry, nitrogen cycling, green stormwater infrastructure and low impact development, environmental justice in water resources
Rachel Shilton
Utah Division of Water Resources
David Tarboton
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surface water hydrology, water resources, modeling, hydrologic information systems, and snow
Bethany Neilson
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collection of data sets fundamental to numerical modeling and identification of dominant heat and mass fate and transport mechanisms, quantifying groundwater/surface water interactions and the associated influences on instream water quality and temperature regimes
Joseph Wheaton
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river restoration, riverine habitats, watersheds, geomorphology, fluvial hydraulics, ecohyrdraulics, GIS, geomorphic change detection, and river restoration
Wei Zhang
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climate dynamics and modeling, tropical climate, climate change, climate variability, climatology
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Courtney Flint
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natural resource sociology, community resources & engagement, interdisciplinary ecosystem science, mixed methods
Christopher Lant
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ecosystem services, human appropriation of net primary production, virtual water, food-energy water nexus
Patrick Belmont
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understanding of how landscapes and rivers change over time and the implications for water quantity and quality, flood risk, water resource management, and ecosystem health
Niel Allen
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irrigation management practices and technologies, opportunities for cooperation that mutually benefit agriculture, domestic, commercial, municipal, industrial, energy, and environmental water users, multiple disciplines that utilize or impact water
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Kerry Kelly
Judy Ou
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Simon Wang
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climate data analysis, climate dynamics and prediction, interdisciplinary climate study, weather processes and extremes, air quality and fire meteorology
Edwin Stafford
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market diffusion of renewable energy, clean technology, and green products; sustainable entrepreneurship; "green marketing" strategy and message framing; sustainable transportation; air pollution outreach and social influence (the Inconvenient Youth effect)
Janice Brahney
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transport nutrients, freshwater ecosystems, watershed hydrology, water quality
Roslynn McCann
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application of effective marketing and communication techniques to enact pro-environmental behavior change, permaculture design as a climate change adaptation and mitigation framework, barriers, successes, and opportunities in offering climate change programming within the United States’ Cooperative Extension system
Kimberly Hageman
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quantification of organic contaminants in environmental matrices (air, water, soil, organisms). Investigation into fate, transport, and impacts of these chemicals using field and lab studies, and chemical fate modelling