Faculty


Nilsa Bosque-Perez PSES 208/885-7544 nbosque@uidaho.edu	Insect biodiversity, entomology, insect/plant interactions, host plant resistance

Aurelio Briones PSES 208/885-0136 abriones@uidaho.edu	Environmental microbiology relevant to dairy waste management (manure, composting, anaerobic digestion); environmental contaminants; soil biogeochemistry

Stephen Bunting Rangeland Ecology and Management 208-885-7103 sbunting@uidaho.edu	Rangeland ecology; fire ecology

Allan Caplan MMBB 208/885-9441 acaplan@uidaho.edu	Metabolic engineering of plants for phytoremediation

Mark Coleman Forest Resources 208/885-2604 mcoleman@uidaho.edu	Forest ecosystem processes related to productivity including soil resource acquisition and biogeochemical processes; helping public and private land managers sustain vigorous forests to provide commodities and ecosystem services; exploring forest bioenergy production systems as either a component of forest land management activities or through woody cropping systems

Stephen Cook Forest Resources 208-885-2722 stephenc@uidaho.edu	Impact of standard tree harvesting practices on insect biodiversity; impact of exotic insects on forest ecosystems; behavioral and chemical ecology of insect-tree interactions; remotely-sensed data use in forest insect infestations

Ronald Crawford ERI 208/885-1052 crawford@uidaho.edu	Biodegradation of natural & man-made chemicals

Anthony Davis Forest Resources 208/885-7211 asdavis@uidaho.edu	Native plant nursery production; restoration of degraded forests; effects of environmental stresses on native plant development

Sanford Eigenbrode PSES 208/885-2972 sanforde@uidaho.edu	Ecology and mechanisms of interactions between insects and plants; how plant morphological and chemical characteristics affect insect predators and parasitoids; field studies in agricultural and natural ecosystems

Edward Garton Fish & Wildlife 208/885-7426 ogarton@uidaho.edu	Population dynamics of birds & mammals; estimating wildlife abundance using aerial surveys; role of predation in controlling forest insect pests & in modeling populations such as elk

Paul Gessler Forest Resources 208/885-2595 paulg@uidaho.edu	Remote sensing and GIS; environmental, ecosystem and soil-landscape modeling; terrain and watershed analysis; forest soils; spatial statistics

Thomas Hess Bio & Ag Engr. 208/885-7461 tfhess@uidaho.edu	Wastewater treatment; land treatment of municipal wastewater & biosolids; coupled chemical/biological treatment of organic wastes; microbial kinetics; composting; bioremediation of contaminated soils and waters

James Johnson PSES 208/885-7543 djohnson@uidaho.edu	Aquatic entomology

Jodi Johnson-Maynard PSES 208/885-9245 jmaynard@uidaho.edu	Soil and water quality in relation to management; biogeochemical cycling in forested and agricultural environments; soil ecology

Alexander Karasev PSES 208/885-2350 akarasev@uidaho.edu	Ecology, epidemiology and evolution of plant viruses; plant virus-vector interactions in native and human-affected habitats

Kathleen Kavanagh Forest Resources 208/885-2552 katyk@uidaho.edu	Forest ecosystem science and applications; plant water relations; nutrient cycling

Brian Kennedy Fish and Wildlife 208/885-5171 kennedy@uidaho.edu	Fish ecology; bioenergetics and community ecology of streams; ecosystem controls on aquatic processes; bigeochemical tracers in aquatic systems

Guy Knudsen PSES 208/885-7933 gknudsen@uidaho.edu	Soil microbiology and microbial ecology in forest, wilderness and agricultural systems

Karen Launchbaugh Rangeland Ecology and Management 208/885-4394 klaunchb@uidaho.edu	Plant-animal interactions; foraging behavior; grazing ecology; and invasive plant management of wildlands

Robert L. Mahler PSES 208/885-7025 bmahler@uidaho.edu	Water quality; nutrient cycling in agricultural and forest ecosystems; soil quality; sustainable agriculture

John Marshall Forest Resources 208/885-6695 jdm@uidaho.edu	Physiological ecology of trees; stable isotope methods in ecology

Christine Moffitt Fish and Wildlife 208/885-7047 cmoffitt@uidaho.edu	Measuring and interpreting factors affecting the epidemiology of diseases and parasites in free ranging and hatchery populations of fish; risk characterization, assessment, and management of aquatic invasive species; behavioral and physiological responses of fish populations to increasing water temperatures; development of sustainable aquaculture production

Matt Morra PSES 208/885-6315 mmorra@uidaho.edu	Environmental organic chemistry; fate of synthetic and natural organics in soils

George Newcombe Forest Resources 208/885-5289 georgen@uidaho.edu	Plant-fungus-insect interactions in plant invasions; mycorrhizae; endophytes; genetics of disease resistance in plants

Beth Newingham Rangeland Ecology & Management 208/885-6538 beth@uidaho.edu	Community and ecosystem ecology; plant-animal, plant-microbe and plant-soil interactions; effects of fire, global change and invasive species on communities and ecosystems; restoration ecology

Andrzej Paszczynski MMBB 208/885-6318 andrzej@uidaho.edu	Biodegradation (bioremediation) of organic compounds, including nitroaromatics (TNT, RDX, dinoseb), chlorinated aromatic (pentachlorophenol) and aliphatic (carbon tetrachloride) compounds, azo compounds (azo dyes), and petroleum hydrocarbons (diesel) by fungi and bacteria

Tim Prather PSES 208/885-9246 tprather@uidaho.edu	Research in invasive plant ecology; invasive plant detection with emphasis on remote sensing; integrated pest management of weeds in pasture and wildland areas

Kerry Reese Fish & Wildlife 208/885-6435 kreese@uidaho.edu	Avian ecology, particularly waterfowl & upland game birds and their habitat relationships; wetland ecology, non-game wildlife; population biology; and riparian habitat management

Ronald Robberecht Plant Ecophysiology 208/885-7404	Plant response to environmental stress factors; mechanisms of plant competition; extensive research on mechanisms of plant response to natural and enhanced levels of UV-B radiation; use of information technology and scientific visualization in ecology

Dennis Scarnecchia Fish & Wildlife 208/885-5981 scar@uidaho.edu	Large river fisheries

Mark Schwarzlaender PSES 208/885-9319 markschw@uidaho.edu	Biological control of alien plant invaders using host-specific herbivore insects; research on ecological mechanisms explaining plant invasions and interactions between herbivore insects, their alien host plants and surrounding plant communities

J. Michael Scott Fish & Wildlife 208/885-6336 mscott@uidaho.edu	Conservation biology; ornithology; wildlife management

Eva Strand Rangeland Ecology 208/885-7408 evas@uidaho.edu	Applied Landscape Ecology and GIS applications in natural resources

David Tank Forest Resources 208/885-7033 dtank@uidaho.edu	Reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships in plants by molecular methods and the use of phylogenetic inference to understand plant evolution; the evolutionary and ecological effects of contemporary environmental concerns such as climate change, biological invasions, and the global biodiversity crisis from a phylogenetic perspective

Kerri Vierling Fish and Wildlife 208/885-5378 kerriv@uidaho.edu	Wildlife-habitat relationships; population ecology; examinations of cavity nester dynamics in burned forests and the incorporation of remote sensing technology in wildlife studies.

Lee Vierling Rangeland Ecology 208/885-5743 leev@uidaho.edu	Remote sensing; spatial ecology, terrestrial biogeochemistry; global change; interdisciplinary science education

Lisette Waits Fish and Wildlife 208/885-7823 lwaits@uidaho.edu	Conservation biology; conservation genetics

Frank Wilhelm Fish and Wildlife 208/885-7218 fwilhelm@uidaho.edu	Limnology; water quality and management of lakes; alpine lakes; ecology and role of invertebrates in surface waters and cave ecosystems

Faculty: Physical Sciences

Vladimir Aizen Geography 208/885-5888 aizen@uidaho.edu	Alpine glaciology, climatology and hydrology; glacier dynamics; ice-core paleo-climatic and environmental analysis

Eric Aston Chemical Engineering 208/885-6953 aston@uidaho.edu	Materials development and testing for chemical sensors in aqueous media detection of ionic species; toxicity and toxicology of nanomaterials to animal life; colloidal interactions in water for remediation and toward understanding microfluidic regimes

Don Blackketter Mechanical Engr. 208/885-5228 dblack@uidaho.edu	Clean vehicle technology; biodiesel; hybrid vehicles

Jan Boll Bio & Ag Engr. 208/885-7324 jboll@uidaho.edu	Surface & sub-surface hydrology; non-point source pollution; watershed mgmt., GIS applications; distributed hydrologic modeling

Frank Cheng Chemistry 208/885-6387 ifcheng@uidaho.edu	Green oxidations

Susan E. Childers Geomicrobiology 208/885-4289 childers@uidaho.edu	Microbial respiration of arsenic, selenium and iron; weathering of shales and basalt; microbial diversity of extreme environments, specifically fumaroles

Erik Coats Civil Engineering 208/885-7559 ecoats@uidaho.edu	Biological removal of pharmaceuticals; sustainable treatment technologies; biological nutrient removal; water re-use

Maxine Dakins Environmental Science Idaho Falls 208/282-7957 medakins@if.uidaho.edu	Statistical analysis of environmental data; pollution prevention; probabilistic risk assessment; uncertainty and sensitivity analysis; environmental decision analysis

Donald F. Elger Mechanical Engr. 208/885-7889 delger@uidaho.edu	Heat transfer; fluid mechanics; methodologies for engineering problem-solving and design

Jerry Fairley Geology 208/885-9259 jfairley@uidaho.edu	Fault hydrology; geothermal systems; biodiversity in extreme environments; geological considerations in fisheries management; management practices of ancient cultures

Fritz Fiedler Civil Engineering 208/885-2980 fritz@uidaho.edu	Characterizing and modeling complex hydrologic systems; hydrologic forecasting; water resources sustainability

Alexander Fremier Fish and Wildlife 208/885-6405 afremier@uidaho.edu	Landscape scale interactions between organisms and physical process; understanding complex physical and biotic linkages; answering applied questions with a basic understanding of physical process, ecological function and their intricate feedbacks; interdisciplinary approaches to science, such as eco-agriculture and landscape genetics

Dennis Geist Geological Sciences 208/885-6491 dgeist@uidaho.edu	Volcanology and Island Biodiversity

Mickey Gunter Geological Sciences 208/885-6015 mgunter@uidaho.edu	X-ray and optical crystallography; health effects of minerals

Jeffrey Hicke Geography 208/885-6240 jhicke@uidaho.edu	Global biogeochemical cycles; ecosystem dynamics; forest disturbances, including insect outbreaks and fire; remote sensing; modeling; global environmental change

Karen Humes Geography 208/885-6506 khumes@uidaho.edu	Near surface hydrology; Vadose zone; Predicting soil moisture and water needs; Remote sensing of forests, range lands and crop lands

Tim Link Forest Resources 208/885-9465 tlink@uidaho.edu	Surface hydrology, snow hydrology, interactions of vegetation and hydrologic processes, hydroclimatology, modeling land-surface processes

Paul McDaniel PSES 208/885-7012 paulm@uidaho.edu	Soil formation, mineralogy, hydrology, mgt., geomorphology; geographic distribution of soils; forest soils; soil/plant community relations

Armando McDonald Forest Products 208/885-9454 armandm@uidaho.edu	Development of "green" bioproducts such as plastics, adhesives, natural products and composite materials from waste agricultural/biomass feedstocks; analysis and characterization of VOCs from wood processing operations

Gregory Moller Food Science & Toxicology 208/885-7081 gmoller@uidaho.edu	Biogeochemical cycling; oxidative stress; chemical ecotoxicology; instrumental analysis laboratory automation & robotics; decision support systems; scientific groupware development; environmental information management

Amber Moore Twin Falls Research Extension Center 208/736-3629 amberm@uidaho.edu	Monitoring impact of dairy manure field applications on water quality; conservation tillage and sugar beets; estimating nitrogen mineralization of field applied dairy manures; managing nutrients in a certified organic potato rotation systems

James L. Osiensky Geological Sciences 208/885-4681 osiensky@uidaho.edu	Artifical recharge; contaminant hydrogeology; point source and nonpoint source groundwater contamination; groundwater resource evaluation; phytoremediation using alfalfa

Sofie Pasilis Chemistry 208/885-4014 spasilis@uidaho.edu	Aqueous geochemistry; environmental actinide chemistry; water quality; isotope hydrology; development of analytical methods for environmental applications

Batric Pesic Materials, Metallurgical, Mining, and Geological Engineering 208/885-6569 pesic@uidaho.edu	Waste water treatment; heavy metal removal; soil stabilization

Keith Prisbrey Metallurgical & Mining Engr. 208/885-6743 pris@uidaho.edu	Global warming and energy alternatives; nuclear energy alternatives; near earth orbit-based energy alternatives; recycling of manufacturing waste; manufacturing waste and acid mine drainage remediation

You Qiang Physics 208/885-7558 youqiang@uidaho.edu	Nanoparticle science and technology for environmental and biomedical applications

Russell Qualls Bio. & Ag. Engineering 208/885-6184 rqualls@uidaho.edu	Hydrology; climate change; land-atmosphere interactions; evapotranspiration; remote sensing of land surfaces; snowmelt runoff modeling

Bahman Shafii PSES 208/885-7173 bshafii@uidaho.edu	Statistical ecology, design and analyses of experiments; Empirical model building; linear and nonlinear regression; biometrical applications; statistical computing

Alistair Smith Forest Resources 208/885-1009 alistair@uidaho.edu	Improving the physical linkages between remote sensing and ground measurements to reduce uncertainties in various biogeoscience cycles, such as the biogeochemical cycles and radiative transfer budgets; improving ground and remote measurements of fire effects to better quantity carbon and water cycles; using optical and thermal imagery to improve regional assessment of the impact on fires on smoke and regional air quality; developing approaches to characterize vegetation structure with LiDAR and aerial photography to improve our understanding of carbon, water, and energy budgets

Dan Strawn PSES 208/885-2713 dgstrawn@uidaho.edu	Soil chemistry; trace metals in soils

Ray von Wandruszka Chemistry 208/885-6827 rvw@uidaho.edu	Chemistry of humic acid; analysis of anabolic steroids; decontamination of soil by cloud point extraction; remote sensors for high explosives

Chien Wai Chemistry 208/885-6552 wchien@uidaho.edu	Separation science; developing new chelating agents for selective extraction of metal ions, synthesis & characterization of ionizable crown ethers for metal complexation, supercritical fluid extraction for recovery of metal ions, radioisotopes

Von D. Walden Geography 208/885-5058 vonw@uidaho.edu	Global climate change; polar atmospheres; remote sensing; validation of satellite instruments; hydro-meteorological modeling of streamflow in western mountain basins

Barbara C. Williams Bio Ag Engineering 208/885-9436 barbwill@uidaho.edu	Nanoparticle and microbe transport in groundwater; microfluidics

Scott Wood Geological Sciences 208/885-5966 swood@uidaho.edu	Aqueous geochemistry; thermodynamics; metal transport in aqueous solutions; mineral solubility; radioactive waste disposal, acid-mine drainage, asbestiform minerals

Faculty: Social Science

Kathy Aiken History 208/885-6551 kaiken@uidaho.edu	History of 20^th century; labor, women, social reform; impact of new technology on management and workers

Rula Awwad-Rafferty Architecture 208/885-6832 rulaa@uidaho.edu	Factors affecting quality of life in the built environment; Adaptive reuse applications and community building; Place attachment and identity; Stewardship and sustainability; Interdisciplinary design education; design leadership

Steve Cooke Agricultural Economics 208/885-7170 scooke@uidaho.edu	Public policy analysis; public finance and taxation; institutional economics/public choice theory

Barbara Cosens Law 208/885-6298 bcosens@uidaho.edu	Water and law policy

Stephen Drown Landscape Architecture 208/885-7448 sdrown@uidaho.edu	Human behavior and environmental design

Phil Druker English 208/885-5704 phild@uidaho.edu	Writing for general audiences in natural history, natural resource management, earth science and geology

Levan Elbakidze Agricultural Economics 208/885-7382 lelbakidze@uidaho.edu	Natural resource economics; environmental policy; invasive species management; climate change mitigation; economics of transnational terrorism; mathematical modeling in economics

Jo Ellen Force Forest Resources 208/885-7311 joellen@uidaho.edu	Forest and resource policy, sense of place/land use change, public participation in natural resource

Dale D. Goble Law 208/885-7976 gobled@uidaho.edu	The intersection natural resource law, science, and policy with an emphasis on biodiversity, wildlife, and at-risk species

Bruce Haglund Architecture 208/885-6781 bhaglund@uidaho.edu	Green, sustainable, and regenerative architecture; energy use in buildings; sustainable buildings and communities; carbon-neutral design

Chuck Harris Conservation Social Sciences 208/885-6314 charris@uidaho.edu	Human dimensions of ecosystem management and restoration ecology; impacts of resource management activities and policies on rural communities; social impact assessment and deliberative public input processes; resource management, policy, and planning; organizational sociology of resource management; and natural resource tourism, impacts, and market analysis

Lorie Higgins Agricultural Economics 208/885-9717 higgins@uidaho.edu	Natural resource policy impacts on rural communities and environmental outcomes, collaborative decision making, rural change and development

Steven Hollenhorst Conservation Social Sciences 208/885-7911 stevenh@uidaho.edu	Environmental policy; wilderness and protected area management; land trusts and conservation easements; environmental education; bioregional planning and community design

Leontina Hormel Sociology 208/885-6735 lhormel@uidaho.edu	Globalization, informal economies, political economy, and inequalities with regional specialization in post-Soviet societies; economic activities, such as subsistence gardening in Ukraine, and the Karuk peoples' efforts to restore salmon populations through dam removal on the Klamath River

Harley Johansen Geography 208/885-6216 johansen@uidaho.edu	Economic geography; rural development

John Lawrence Mgmt., Marketing & Operations 208/885-5821 jjl@uidaho.edu	Quality management; business/environmental sustainability; case research methods

Douglas Lind Philosophy 208/885-5671 dlind@uidaho.edu	Environmental ethics, justice, and law; philosophy of law; indigenous law

Gary Machlis Forest Resources 208/885-7129 gmachlis@uidaho.edu	Environmental sociology; human/social ecology; conservation biology; science policy, protected area mgmt, ecology of war

Michael O'Rourke Philosophy 208/885-5997 morourke@uidaho.edu	Philosophy of language and mind; interdisciplinary theory; environmental philosophy

Sandra Pinel Conservation Social Sciences 208/885-7792 spinel@uidaho.edu	Sense of place and indigenous peoples: environmental places as cultural landscapes, incorporating local values and knowledge into governance of places at the local and regional scales; collaborative resource management, conflict management and planning including regional plan implementation through local partnerships; community development and capacity-building processes that strengthen local identity

Abelardo Rodriguez Agricultural Economics 208/885-7444 abelardo@uidaho.edu	Mountain, rural and economic development; land use and regional planning

Gundars Rudzitis Geography 208/885-6613 gundars@uidaho.edu	Estimated value of environmental cleanup/ amenities; public lands/wilderness policy; environmental attitudes; development & environmental amenities; migration and regional vitality

Nick Sanyal Conservation Social Sciences 208/885-7528 nsanyal@uidaho.edu	Human dimensions of fish and wildlife mgmt, recreation and tourism planning, survey research, recreation and tourism behavior

Adam Sowards History 208/885-7704 asowards@uidaho.edu	Environmental history, environmentalism, Pacific Northwest/Canadian West borderlands

Larry Van Tassell Agricultural Economics 208/885-7635 larryv@uidaho.edu	Farm and ranch management; production systems; strategic planning

Philip Watson Agricultural Economics 208/885-6934 pwatson@uidaho.edu	Regional economic development; natural resource economics; environmental economics; alternative agriculture

Patrick Wilson Conservation Social Sciences 208/885-6178 pwilson@uidaho.edu	Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, collaborative approaches to natural resource management issues, Endangered Species policy

J.D. Wulfhorst Rural Sociology 208/885-7645 jd@uidaho.edu	Rural community sociology; rangeland health; natural resource policy analysis; and adoption of conservation technology measures; environmental justice; social impact assessment

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