Water Researchers at UVM
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Gund Fellow • Director, Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory
carol.adair@uvm.edu (802) 656-2907Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Natural Resources
Research: Global climate change, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
raju.badireddy@uvm.edu (802) 656-8443Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry
Professor, Department of Computer Science • Graduate Student Advisor
Brian.Beckage@uvm.edu
Professor, Rubenstein School • Gund Fellow • Director of UVM/NSF Community Cosmogenic Laboratory
paul.bierman@uvm.edu (802) 656-4411Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Geology, geohydrology, erosion and human-landscape interaction, climate change, science education and communication, geochemistry, geologic dating, landscape history
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
abomblie@uvm.edu (802) 656-2215Environmental Engineering, Hydrology.
Professor
Pablo.Bose@uvm.edu (802) 656-5717Refugee resettlement in non-traditional destinations, food and migration, environmental displacement, kolkata and Globalization, technology, education and representation.
Senior Lecturer
christopher.brooks@uvm.edu (802) 656-9570Instructional programs: Natural Resources; Sustainability, Ecology and Policy
Research: Environmental policy, land use planning, watershed management and flood resiliency, climate change mitigation and adaptation
Research Associate, Community Development and Applied Economics
matthew.burke@uvm.eduEnergy and environment, just transitions, political ecology, science-technology-society, social-ecological systems
Adjunct Assistant Professor • Director Research Computing and Data, Large Research Initiatives • Department of Computer Science • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
patrick.clemins@uvm.eduComputational Workflows, High Performance and High Throughput Computing, Integrated Modeling, Model Evaluation Testbeds, Digital Signal Processing, Systems Engineering
Acting Dean, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences • Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
mdewoolk@uvm.edu (802) 656-1942Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; transportation geotechnics, hazard mitigation; geotechnical aspects of space exploration; cultural preservation; engineering education
Research Assistant Professor
rebecca.diehl@uvm.eduFloodplain dynamics, Ecogeomorphology, Flood inundation mapping, Sediment and nutrient transport, Ecosystem flow quantifications.
Associate Professor • Director of the Bioinformatics Shared Resource • Interim Director of the Vermont Integrative Genomics Research
julie.dragon@med.uvm.edu (802) 656-7777- Bioinformatician finding high performance computing solutions to the analysis of high-throughput -omics data.
- Focus on a wide range of basic science and translational research projects, including those related to cancer and other diseases.
- In 2014, Director of the Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BSR), the Larner College of Medicine’s bioinformatics core facility.
- In 2017, Director of the Vermont Integrative Genomics Resource (VIGR), which fused the BSR with the Advanced Genome Technologies Core (AGTC).
Distinguished Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Lesley-Ann.Dupigny-Giroux@uvm.edu (802) 656-2146Climate variability and change, Climate education and literacy, Climate hazards; drought, New England and Vermont
Professor
Alice.Fothergill@uvm.edu (802) 656-2127Inequality and differential vulnerability in floods, hurricanes, and other disaster events, Disaster studies, Children and youth, Family, Qualitative methodology, Service learning
Research Associate Professor
gillian.galford@uvm.edu (802) 656-2920Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Environmental sustainability, ecosystems ecology, nitrogen and carbon cycling, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, ecosystems modeling, land-cover and land-use change, tropical agriculture
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ehsan.Ghazanfari@uvm.edu (802) 656-1770Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering; Geo-energy systems; Sensors/sensing for civil infrastructure
Director of Curricular Enrichment and Lecturer • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Courtney.Giles@uvm.edu (802) 656-8418Phosphorus biogeochemistry, Laboratory instrumentation & management, Technical writing, Active & project based learning
Director, Sustainability, Ecology, and Policy Program • Professor Emerita
clare.ginger@uvm.edu (802) 656-2698Instructional programs: Natural Resources; Sustainability, Ecology and Policy
Research: Environmental policy, watershed/forest planning, organization studies
Assistant Professor
kelsey.gleason@med.uvm.eduGlobal health, humanitarian crises, climate change, forced and climate-related displacement, refugee studies.
Associate Professor
rachelle.gould@uvm.edu (802) 656-5849Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental values, well-being, Cultural Ecosystem Services, environmental learning, human behavior, policy, diversity, equity
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
shamshaw@uvm.eduWater Resources, Machine Learning, Environmental Sensing, and Geomatics
Unit Leader of VT Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
mark.henderson@uvm.edu (802) 656-2693Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Fish population modeling, food web ecology, environmental DNA, acoustic telemetry, mark-recapture, fish ecology
Associate Dean - Faculty and Curricular Affairs • Associate Professor
stephanie.hurley@uvm.eduLandscape Architecture; Green Stormwater Infrastructure; Design for Urban and Peri-urban Agroecosystems
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
dhuston@uvm.edu (802) 656-1922Smart Cities and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Subsurface Infrastructure Sensing, Electromechanical Systems
Professor, Rubenstein School, Robert F. and Genevieve B. Patrick Endowed Chair in Watershed Science and Planning • Director, Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center • Senior Faculty Advisor, Water Resources Institute • Director, Lake Champlain Sea Grant
anne.jefferson@uvm.edu (802) 656-5734Instructional program: Environmental Sciences
Research: Watershed hydrology, geomorphology, public engagement
Professor
kklepeis@uvm.edu (802) 656-0247Structural Geology, Tectonics, Landslides and Rockfalls, Faults, Photogrammetry, Drone Surveys, Bedrock Aquifers, Applied Geology
Senior Lecturer - Professor of Practice, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
John.Lens@uvm.eduPrimary: Geotechnical and geoenvironmental, Seismic, Infrastructure systems
Secondary: Structures and Materials, Climate and geo-hazard mitigation, Sustainable design processes
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
jmarsha1@uvm.edu (802) 363-8339Fluid Dynamics, Particulate Flows, Renewable Energy Systems, Biofluids
Research Assistant Professor • Department of Plant and Soil Science • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
scott.c.merrill@uvm.edu (802) 656-0711Landscape ecology, Climate change, Population modeling, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Social-ecological systems, Monte Carlo simulations, Systems ecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Spatiotemporal modeling
Acting Director, Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory • Associate Professor
ana.morales@uvm.edu (802) 656-8769Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences; Natural Resources; Sustainability, Ecology and Policy
Research: Limnology, phytoplankton ecology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, lake ecosystem ecology
Assistant Professor
brittany.mosher@uvm.edu (802) 656-3105Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Disease and population ecology, quantitative ecology, conservation decision-making, herpetology, conservation biology
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs • Professor • Gund Institute for Environment Fellow
james.murdoch@uvm.edu (802) 656-2912Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Wildlife ecology, conservation biology
Professor
Meredith.Niles@uvm.edu (802) 656-4337- Food Systems Sustainability
- Food Security
- Farmer Behavior
- Social-Ecological Systems
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
panagiotis.oikonomou@uvm.eduWater Resources, Extreme Hydroclimatic Events, Hydroinformatics, Climate Change Impacts
Associate Professor of Geochemistry • Director of Geosciences
Julia.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0665Collaborative research on land -interactions that integrates laboratory, field and data-based investigations to investigate the Earth surface (i.e. Critical Zone) resilience, including carbon and nutrient dynamics, catchment hydrology and biogeochemistry, biotic and abiotic primary and secondary mineral alteration and weathering, clay mineralogy, and general environmental geochemistry.
Associate Professor
Nicolas.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0245Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Contaminant Transport, Environmental Geology, Nanoparticles, Mineral-Bacteria Interactions, Archaeogeology.
Associate Professor
melissa.pespeni@uvm.edu (802) 656-0628Ecological genomics, population genetics, evolutionary biology, physiology
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
gpinder@uvm.edu (802) 656-8697Water Resources, Environmental, Sustainability & Energy, Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental, Climate Change & Hazard Mitigation
Professor and Chair • Co-Director of ENSC • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Shelly.Rayback@uvm.edu (802) 656-3019Biogeography, Paleoclimatology, Dendrochronology, Climate change, Isotopes, Arctic
Director of the Gund Institute for Environment • Professor, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources
taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu (802) 656-7796Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Community & landscape ecology, ecosystem services, ecological economics, conservation biology, environmental policy, pollination ecology, biogeography, linking research & conservation communities
Acting Chair and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
drizzo@uvm.edu (802) 656-1495Development of new computational tools, including artificial neural networks, to improve the understanding of human induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dana.Rowangould@uvm.eduTransportation equity and justice, rural travel behavior, accessibility measurement, transportation planning
Associate Professor • Director of the Casella Center for Circular Economy and Sustainability • Gund Institute for Environment Fellow
eric.roy@uvm.edu (802) 656-7359Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences; Sustainability, Ecology, & Policy
Research: Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, Circular bioeconomy, Ecological engineering & design, Life cycle assessment, Green infrastructure, Emerging contaminants, Soil & water sciences, Waste management, Agricultural & biological engineering
Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
mscarbor@uvm.edu (802) 656-2463Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes
Research Associate Professor
Andrew.Schroth@uvm.edu (802) 656-3481Low Temperature Geochemistry and Environmental Mineralogy.
Associate Professor
tshrum@uvm.edu- CDAE 2660: Introduction to Community Entrepreneurship
- CDAE 3670: Strategic Planning for Community Entrepreneurs
- CDAE 6510: Research & Evaluation Methods
Professor, Department of Computer Science • Chair, Department of Computer Science
ceskalka@uvm.edu (802) 656-1920Programming languages and type theory, security and privacy in distributed systems
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Biochemistry • Professor, Department of Surgery • Larner College of Medicine
Gary.Stein@uvm.edu (802) 656-6613Cancer biology, Health and healthcare equity
Extension Associate Professor
kris.stepenuck@uvm.edu (802) 656-8504Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Watershed science, impacts of land use on water quality, community science, community engagement
Professor
jason.stockwell@uvm.edu (802) 656-3009Instructional programs: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Aquatic ecology, food web dynamics, predator-prey interactions
Associate Professor • Department of Education • College of Education and Social Services
Regina.Toolin@uvm.edu (802) 656-1024STEM Education, Environmental Education, Project-based learning, Place-based Education, Teacher Professional, Learning, Computer Science Education
Assistant Professor
muddin@uvm.edu (802) 656-4449Social-Ecological Systems Resilience; Community Resilience to Climate-Change Induced Natural Disasters; Social Learning; Impacts of Global Environmental Changes; Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Policy; Nature-Based Solutions; Community-Based Natural Resources Management; Community Development; Environmental Justice and Disaster Governance.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kristen.Underwood@uvm.eduHydrology, Fluvial Geomorphology, Geostatistics, Catchment Dynamics, Clustering & Classification, Infrastructure & Hazard Mitigation, Bayesian Inference
Associate Professor • Department of Education • College of Education and Social Services
Leon.Walls@uvm.edu (802) 656-2274Curriculum and Instruction, Multiculturalism, Race and Racism, Science Education, Science of Sustainability, Teacher Education
Associate Professor • Larner College of Medicine
matthew.wargo@uvm.eduMicrobial genetics, Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Professor — Inorganic, Organometallic, and Catalysis • Material Science Program Director
Rory.Waterman@uvm.edu (802) 656-0278Synthetic and mechanistic inorganic/organometallic chemistry, catalysis, energy, professional development
Professor
Laura.Webb@uvm.edu (802) 656-8136Tectonics, geochronology, petrology, microstructure, medical geology.
Professor, Geography, Environmental Sciences
beverley.wemple@uvm.edu (802) 656-2074Water resources, geomorphology, GIS, spatial modeling, human-environment interactions, mountain environments
Research Professor
lini.wollenberg@uvm.edu (802) 656-9891Instructional program: Natural Resources
Research: Climate change & land use, natural resource management & governance, agriculture-forest landscapes, anthropology, international rural livelihoods
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Safwan.Wshah@uvm.edu (802) 656-8086Machine Learning, Image & Video Processing, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Imaging & Digital Signal Processing.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
txia@uvm.edu (802) 656-8996Mixed Signal and RF Circuits and Systems Design and Test, Embedded Systems for Sensor and Communication, Reconfigurable Computing
Associate Dean of Research and Postgraduate Education • Professor
Asim.Zia@uvm.eduComputational policy analysis, governance networks, social ecological systems, coupled natural and human systems, sustainable development, food, energy and water systems