Faculty Fellows
Director of the Gund Institute for Environment • Professor, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources
Economic and health benefits that nature provides to people, crop pollination by wild bees, climate and environmental impacts on children's health, conservation of global biodiversity, ecological dynamics across agricultural...
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Director, Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory
- global climate change
- ecosystem ecology
- biogeochemistry
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
- Power and Energy Systems
- Control Systems
- Mathematical Optimization
- Renewable Energy Integration
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry
Lecturer
- invasive species
- climate change
- community ecology
- ecosystem ecology
Emeritus Professor, Rubenstein Sch Env & Nat Res, Political Science
Research: American environmental politics, comparative environmental policy, international environmental governance, and global green politics
Professor, Department of Computer Science • Gund Institute for Environment Faculty Fellow • Graduate Student Advisor
- Forest ecology
- Theoretical ecology
- Statistics
Assistant Professor
- Public Health Nutrition
- Food System-Nutrition linkages
Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Director of UVM/NSF Community Cosmogenic Laboratory
Geology, Greenland and glaciers, geohydrology, geochemistry, geologic dating, climate change, erosion and human-landscape interaction, landscape history, and science education and communication.
Professor
Refugee resettlement in non-traditional destinations, food and migration, environmental displacement, kolkata and Globalization, technology, education and representation.
Assistant Professor
Corporate sustainability efforts, business strategy and climate change, corporate and investor management of climate change, including carbon emissions reductions goals and information disclosure strategies.
Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
- Insect Ecology
- Population Genetics
- Agroecology
- Evolutionary Biology
- Insect-plant Interactions,
- Evolution
- Epigenetics
- Ecological Pest Management
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics • Director, Vermont Advanced Computing Center • Co-Director, Computational Story Lab • Associate Director, Vermont Complex Systems Institute • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
- Computational social science
- complex systems
- chaos
- global happiness
- health benefits of nature
Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
- environmental studies
- forestry
- environmental policy
- sustainable forestry
- community forestry
- climate change mitigation
- forest carbon markets
- woody biomass energy
Extension Professor
Soil quality and nutrient management, Grain production, Organic farming, Forages, Hops, Oilseed crops.
Interim Dean, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences • Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
- Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
- transportation geotechnics
- hazard mitigation
- geotechnical aspects of space exploration
- cultural preservation
- engineering education
Distinguished Professor
Climate variability and change; climatology; natural hazards; drought; floods; severe weather; frontline communities; State of Vermont; State Climatologist; New England; Northeast; regional climate; adaptation; resilience.
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education • Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
- Ecological economics
- Sustainable development
- Systems modeling
Professor • L4E Ecological Economics Lead • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Designing an economy to balance what is biophysically possible with what is socially, psychologically, and ethically desirable.
Research Associate Professor • Director, Agricultural and Environmental Testing Lab • Director, UVM Extension Center for Sustainable Agriculture
Climate change impacts and adaptation in Northeastern agricultural systems; Treatment of agricultural wastewater and best management practices for control of nonpoint source pollution; Field scale hydrology and water management in agricultural...
Professor • Director, Environmental Program • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Research Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Climate change and measurement, environmental sustainability, ecosystems ecology, nitrogen and carbon cycling, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, ecosystems modeling, land-cover and land-use change, tropical agriculture, Vermont's...
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
- Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
- Geo-energy systems
- Sensors/sensing for civil infrastructure
Assistant Professor
Global health, humanitarian crises, climate change, forced and climate-related displacement, refugee studies.
University Distinguished Professor of Biology • George H. Perkins Professor of Zoology
Organization of animal and plant communities
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences • Professor - Ecological Landscape Design • Gund Institute for Environment Faculty Fellow
Stormwater management, green infrastructure, landscape design, landscape architecture, land use and watershed management, urban ecology.
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental values, well-being, Cultural Ecosystem Services, environmental learning, human behavior, policy, diversity, equity
Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Forestry
Research: Forest ecology and dynamics; climate, forest carbon & energy; sustainable forestry
Adjunct Senior Lecturer • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
- Ecological leadership and learning
- Power, privilege, and equity
- Social transformation and systems change
- Field ecology and animal tracking
Professor Emeritus
- consumer behavior
- economics of information
- genetic engineering
- hemp
- applied econometrics
- consumer policy
Professor, Department of Computer Science
- database
- data mining
- data science
- machine learning
- information retrieval
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Food security, migration, labor studies, border studies, food justice
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
Fluid Dynamics, Particulate Flows, Renewable Energy Systems, Biofluids
Professor of Agroecology and Environmental Studies
- Agroecology
- Food Security and Sovereignty
- Rural Livelihoods
- Agrifood Systems
- Political Ecology
- Participatory Action Research (PAR)
- Environmental Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes
Research Associate Professor • Managing Director, Social-Ecological Gaming & Simulation (SEGS) Lab UVM
Systems ecology, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), social-ecological systems, Landscape ecology, serious games, experimental gaming, animal biosecurity, climate change, population modeling, Monte Carlo simulations, and spatiotemporal modeling.
Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Wildlife ecology, conservation biology, conservation decision-making, herpetology, amphibians (frogs, toads, salamanders, etc.), reptiles (snakes, turtles, lizards, etc.), disease and population ecology, and quantitative ecology.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs • Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Wildlife ecology, conservation biology
Professor Emerita
Soil ecology, plant-soil interactions, biology of compost and its uses, biological indicators of soil, epidemiology of root pathogens.
Professor
- Food Systems Sustainability
- Food Security
- Farmer Behavior
- Social-Ecological Systems
Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS)
Environmental health, community based research, environmental policy, natural resources, Arctic environment and health, environmental health social movements, environmental justice
Professor of Geochemistry
Investigates how land-water interactions shape water quality and water security; specializes in geosciences, mineralogy, and biogeochemistry to study soil and stream health; leads interdisciplinary research teams on Big Data, offers insights into...
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
- Water Resources
- Environmental
- Sustainability & Energy
- Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental
- Climate Change & Hazard Mitigation
Associate Professor • MPA Program Director
- food policy
- food security
- agricultural development
- sustainable agriculture
- rural livelihoods
Assistant Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Global change ecology, invasive species, plant-animal interactions, biological invasions, community ecology.
Research Affiliate • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Biodiversity, biological invasions, conservation biology, ecosystem services, marine ecology, marine mammals
Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes
Emerita Faculty • Professor of Economics
Macroeconomics and development.
Racial and gender inequality.
Associate Professor
- Climate Change
- Behavioral Science
- Environmental Economics
- Behavioral Economics
- Experimental Economics
- Environmental Policy
- Risk & Uncertainty
Director of the Sustainable Development Policy, Economics, and Governance Ph.D. program • Associate Professor • Graduate Faculty, Food Systems • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Sociology of agriculture, Development Sociology, Political economy of agricultural development, Crop diversity conservation, and Seed Systems.
Associate Professor, STEM Education • Program Coordinator, Computer Science Education Minor • Co-Program Coordinator, Secondary Education Master of Arts in Teaching
- STEM Education
- Environmental Education
- Project-based learning
- Place-based Education
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Computer Science Education
Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences • Planetary Health Lead, Osher Center for Integrative Health • Research Assistant Professor, Larner College of Medicine • Lecturer and Research Affiliate, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources • Gund Institute for Environment Fellow
Planetary health, climate change and human health, decarbonizing healthcare, environmental public health, health benefits of nature contact, integrative healthcare, Whole Person Health, pharmaceutical pollution, social science surveys,...
Chair of the Anthropology Department • Professor
Cultural and environmental anthropology, development and social movements, knowledge, science and technology, cultures of mobility, tourism, ethnographic methods; Latin America.
Associate Professor of Education
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Multiculturalism
- Race and Racism
- Science Education
- Science of Sustainability
- Teacher Education
Professor — Inorganic, Organometallic, and Catalysis
Chemistry, synthetic and mechanistic inorganic/organometallic chemistry, energy, catalysis, professional development
University Scholar • Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences • Faculty Director, Water Resources Institute
Water resources, geomorphology, GIS, spatial modeling, human-environment interactions, mountain environments.
Research Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Instructional program: Natural Resources
Research: Climate change & land use, natural resource management & governance, agriculture-forest landscapes, anthropology, international rural livelihoods
Associate Dean of Research and Postgraduate Education • Professor of Public Policy (CDAE) • Senior Faculty Advisor, Water Resources Institute • Gund Fellow • Co-Director of the Social-Ecological Gaming and Simulation (SEGS) Lab
Computational policy analysis, governance networks, social ecological systems, coupled natural and human systems, sustainable development, food, energy and water systems