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Environmental Sciences

Faculty and Staff

An interdisciplinary approach

The Environmental Sciences program at UVM draws upon knowledge from many areas of study university-wide. Learn more about these professors, advisors and staff .

ENSC Faculty and Staff
Faculty Member /Role/Primary College Contact Info. Areas of Interest
Brian Beckage*
Assistant professor
CALS
Dynamics of forests
Paul Bierman*
Professor of geology
CAS
Isotope geochemistry, surface processes, human-induced landscape change, rates of erosion
Alison Brody*
Professor of biology
CAS
Forces that govern species abundance, distribution, population and community-dynamics
Breck Bowden*
Professor
Rubenstein School
Watershed science and planning
Sara Cahan*
Assistant professor of biology
CAS
Greg Druschel*
Assistant professor of geology
CAS
Microbial activity and geochemical cycling in a range of environments
Joel Goldberg*
Associate professor in chemistry and co-coordinator, College of Arts and Sciences
CAS
Charles Goodnight*
Professor of biology
CAS
Genetic differentiation and evolution in structured populations
Nicholas Gotelli*
Professor of biology
CAS
The organization of plant and animal communities
Kenneth Helms*
Research assistant professor of biology
CAS
Social insects
Linden Higgins*
Adjunct assistant professor and lecturer of biology
CAS
Behavioral and physiological ecology to better understand the environmental factors underlying morphological differentiation
Jim Hoffman*
Associate professor
CALS
Algae-wastewater project
Jen Jenkins
Research assistant professor
Rubenstein School/Gund Institute
Global change phenomena and their impacts on forest ecosystem processes
William Keeton*
Assistant professor
Rubenstein School
Forest ecology and sustainable forestry
Bill Kilpatrick*
Assistant professor of biology
CAS
Christopher Landry*
Associate professor of chemistry
CAS
Inorganic chemistry, chemical warfare agents, materials science
Andrea Lini*
Associate professor of geology
CAS
Limnogeology: the study of lake systems and their deposits
Dwight Matthews*
Professor, chairperson of chemistry
CAS
Mass spectrometry use in the study of stable isotopically-labeled compounds
Alan McIntosh*
ENSC program chair and director, Vermont Water Resources and Lake Study Center
Rubenstein School
Water resources
Char Mehrtens*
Professor and chair of geology
CAS
Stratigraphy and sedimentology
Leslie Morrissey*
Associate professor
Rubenstein School
Remote sensing, GIS, water resources, ecology
Deborah Neher*
Associate professor and chair
CALS
Soil ecology
Tom Neumann*
Research associate, research associate professor of geology
CAS
Modeling ice deformation and understanding the chemistry of near-surface polar snow
Giuseppe Petrucci*
Assistant professor of chemistry
CAS
Analytical chemistry and aerosols analysis
Don Ross*
Research associate professory and director, Ag Testing Lab
CALS
Soil chemistry
Daniel Savin*
Assistant professor of chemistry
CAS
Physical chemistry and materials science
Joe Schall*
Professor of biology
CAS
Evolution and ecology of parasites, with emphasis on malaria parasites
Felipe Soto*
Research assistant of professor of biology
CAS
Molecular evolution, insect systematics
Lori Stevens *
Professor of biology
CAS
Computational biology including spatial models of evolution, evolutionary computation and evolutionary algorithms
Michael Vayda*
Associate dean, professor
CALS
 
Tom Vogelmann*
Professor, chair
CALS
Plant physiology
Mary Watzin
Professor
Rubenstein School
Structure and function of lakes, streams, estuaries, and the way human involvement changes those functions

Key: * indicates a professor who also serves as an academic advisor.

Last modified September 08 2006 09:56 AM

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