Meet Gund Affiliates

Affiliates

Samantha Alger

Research Assistant Professor

Pollinator Ecology, Habitat Restoration and Conservation, Public Outreach, Data Collection and Analysis

Saleem Ali

Gund Affiliate • Blue and Gold Professor of Energy and the Environment • University of Delaware

Francisco Alpizar

Gund Affiliate, Professor, Wageningen University

Climate change, ecosystem services, environmental, development and behavioral economics

Joe Ament

Assistant Professor • L4E Degrowth Lead

Monetary theory, ecological economics, degrowth, embeddedness, ecofeminist political ecology, labour theory, post-liberal theory.

Colin Anderson

Co-Director, Institute for Agroecology • Associate Research Professor, ALE (Agroecology, Landscape, and Environment)

Agroecology Transformations, Governance of Food Systems, Knowledge Mobilization, Participation and Power, Transformative Action Research, Learning and Pedagogy, Use of Media and Narratives for Transformative Change, People’s Knowledge

Ken Bagstad

Gund Affiliate, USGS

Ecosystem services, natural capital accounting, artificial intelligence, semantic web.

Andrew Balmford

Gund Affiliate • Professor of Conservation Science, University of Cambridge

David Batker

Gund Affiliate • President, Batker Consulting, LLC

Colin Beier

Gund Affiliate, Associate Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Mauricio Bellon

Arizona State University

Elena Bennett

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Laura Bloomfield

Gund Affiliate • Research Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Nature and human health, health tracking technology, human-wildlife diseases, human behavior, environment

Arne Bomblies

Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Environmental Engineering, Hydrology

David Bond

Gund Affiliate • Associate Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College

Kate Brauman

Gund Affiliate • Associate Director for Communications and Analysis, Global Water Security Center at The University at Alabama

Water resources, ecohydrology, ecosystem services, hydrology, agricultural water use, water scarcity.

Leah Bremer

Gund Affiliate • Faculty Associate Specialist UHERO and Water Resources Research Center • UHERO Environment Director, University of Hawai'i

Watershed conservation and management, social-ecological systems, biocultural restoration, social and ecological dimensions of payments for ecosystem services.

Paige Brochu

Director, Spatial Analysis Lab • Research Assistant Professor

environmental health, GIS, tree canopy, climate resilience

Alison Brody

Professor • Department of Biology • College of Arts and Sciences

Plant-animal interactions

Molly Brown

Gund Affiliate - Research Professor, University of Maryland

Remote sensing of vegetation, private sector agriculture, food security, Africa food prices, technology applications

Peter G. Brown

Gund Affiliate - Professor, McGill University

Thomas Buchholz

Gund Affiliate • Senior Scientist at Spatial Informatics Group

Mark Budolfson

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Public policy, ethics, sustainable development, environmental policy, climate change economics.

Marieka Brouwer Burg

Assistant Professor • Co-Director, Digital Anthropology Laboratory

Landscape and environmental archaeology; Hunter-gatherers; GIS and geospatial modeling; Paleoenvironment/Paleoclimate; Ancient Mesoamerica; European Mesolithic

Matthew Burke

Research Associate • Department of Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Just transition, Science-technology-society, Political economy and ecology, Ecological restoration, Food systems, Bioregions

Elizabeth Calabrese

Gund Affiliate • Calabrese Architects

Jan Carney, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy • Professor of Medicine • Chief, Division of Public Health

Marta Ceroni

Gund Affiliate • Executive Director, Donella Meadows Institute

Kai Chan

Gund Affiliate • Connected Human and Natural Systems Lab • The University of British Columbia

Michael Coe

Gund Affiliate • Senior Scientist, Tropics Program Director, Woodwell Climate Research Center

David Conner

Professor

The intersection of food systems and community development.

Robert Costanza

Gund Affiliate • Professor, University College London

John Crock

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor

Anthropology, archaeology, Caribbean, Native American, Amerindian.

Sarah Cusser

Gund Affiliate

Pollination ecology, landscape ecology, agriculture, habitat restoration.

Bathsheba Demuth

Assistant Professor of History and Environment and Society, Brown University

Environmental history, Russian & North American Arctic, climate, energy

Ian Deshmukh

Gund Affiliate, Tetra Tech Productive Landuse Project

Natural resource management and development, tropical ecology.

Thomas Dietz

Gund Affiliate • Sociology Professor, Michigan State University

Peter Dodds

Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Complex systems and networks, contagion, sociotechnical phenomena, happiness, stories.

Elizabeth M. B. Doran

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Urban climate; land use and land cover change;
social-ecological systems; systems modeling

Michael Dorsey

Gund Affiliate • Co-Founder & Limited Partner, IberSun Solar • Rob & Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service, Arizona State University • Program Chair, RMWSSS and Professor of Practice

Environment, sustainability, energy, climate, justice.

Paul Ehrlich

Gund Affiliate - Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University

Tafesse Estifanos

Gund Global Affiliate • Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia

Environmental evaluation, ecological economics, ecosystem services, human health, human livelihoods, matching methods, protected areas.

Andrea Etter, PhD

Assistant Professor • Gund Affiliate

Food microbiology; Food Safety; Salmonella stress tolerance; Listeria persistence; Biosecurity of backyard poultry

Dror Etzion, Ph.D.

Professor and Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business

Margarita Fernandez

Gund Affiliate • Executive Director, Caribbean Agroecology Institute

Agroecology and food systems, sustainable livelihoods, certification systems, food security/sovereignty, biodiversity conservation.

Carolyn Finney

Gund Affiliate • Storyteller, Author and a Cultural Geographer

Identity, difference, creativity, and resilience, gender and environmental issues.

Gary Flomenhoft

Gund Affiliate • Research Fellow | Development Minerals, University of Queensland

Rachael Floreani

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Materials customization, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry, food biotechnology

Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío

Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Agroecology

Agroecology, indigenous people, rural studies, public health nutrition, social marketing, applied participatory research

Edward N. Gamble, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Accounting

Ante Glavas, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility, employees, psychology, meaningfulness

Patricia Gonzales

Gund Affiliate - Furgason Fellowship International Chair for Coastal and Marine Studies in Cuba, • Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi

John Gowdy

Gund Affiliate • Professor Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Deborah Guber

Professor (1998)

American Politics, National Elections, Electoral Behavior and Public Opinion

Scott Hamshaw

Adjunct Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Water Resources, Machine Learning, Environmental Sensing, Geomatics

Donna Ramirez-Harrington

Associate Professor • Department of Economics • College of Arts and Sciences

Environmental economics and policy, Environmental regulation, Environmental technology adoption and innovation, Corporate environmental strategy, Environmental information disclosure

Stuart L. Hart

Practicum Advisor

Robert Herendeen

Gund Affiliate - Adjunct Professor, Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources

Energy’s role in supporting all consumption, the role of efficiency in energy policy

Paul Hines

Gund Global Affiliate - Vice President of Power Systems at EnergyHub

Electric energy, network science, cascading failures, electrification, renewable energy

Britt Holmén

Gund Fellow • Professor

Airborne particles, air pollution, greenhouse gas dynamics and emissions, biogas, methane, real-time emissions monitoring.

Thomas Hudspeth

Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies and Natural Resources

Sustainability, sustainability education, sustainable communities, environmental education, environmental interpretation, ecotourism, behavior and environment, citizen participation, service-learning, community-engaged learning, community-based conservation, international environmental issues

Adrian Ivakhiv

Professor Emeritus

Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental thought, cultural theory, global cultural change

Tim Jackson

Gund Affiliate • Director, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity • Professor, University of Surrey

Sustainability; the links between lifestyles, values, and the environment; ecological macroeconomics.

Anne Jefferson

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

Instructional program: Environmental Sciences
Research: Watershed hydrology, geomorphology, public engagement 

Sikina Jinnah

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz

Climate change governance, trade-environment politics, climate engineering governance, and environmental politics.

Neil Kamman

Gund Affiliate - Director of the Water Investment Division, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

Environmental conservation, policy, state-level policy issues

Kathleen Kesson

Gund Affiliate • Professor Emerita, Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University

Democratic schools, environmental education, community schools.

Mike Kline

Gund Affiliate • Principal/Owner, Fluvial Matters, LLC

Applied fluvial geomorphology, river ecology, natural floodplain functions, flood resiliency, river management, floodplain management, sustainable communities, watershed science.

Christopher Koliba

Professor Emeritus

Laurie Kutner

Library Associate Professor • Information & Instruction Howe Library

Research: Environmental information literacy, environmental research methods, global information environment, Costa Rica

Chandar Lewis

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration, Foundations, and Research, College of Education and Human Development at Jackson State University

Leadership, instructional practices, curriculum design, and educational norms.

Eric Lonsdorf

Gund Affiliate, Senior Fellow, Natural Capital Project, Emory University

Marilyn Lucas

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor of Operations Management • UVM Grossman School of Business

Marcia Macedo

Gund Affiliate • Water Program Director • Associate Scientist, Woodwell Climate Research Center

Mario Machado

Gund Affiliate

Political ecology, agroecology, landscape ecology, landscape multifunctionality, qualitative methods, remote sensing, agrarian change, sustainability.

Thomas Macias

Professor

immigration, race and ethnic relations, consumerism, environmental justice.

Deb Markowitz

Gund Affiliate • Executive Coach, Empowering Women

Climate change, forest health, water quality. 

Pamela A. Matson

Gund Affiliate • Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Environmental Studies, Stanford University

Ben McCall

Gund Affiliate • Professor of Sustainability and Chemistry at the Hanley Sustainability Institute • University of Dayton

Planetary limits, sustainability, modernity.

Kellie Merrell

Gund Affiliate • Environmental Scientist • Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

Harlan Morehouse

Co-director

Nature-Society Studies, Social and Cultural Geography, Political Ecology, Environmental Humanities.

Cheryl Morse

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences

Working landscapes; migration; rural geography; place, power, and identity.

Joshua Moses

Gund Affiliate • Department of Anthropology, Haverford College

Disasters, mental health, arctic indigenous politics and resource extraction, response to the climate crisis, expert knowledge, uncertainty, ethnography and organizational change, experimental and participatory methods, community driven research.

Brittany Mosher

Assistant Professor

Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Disease and population ecology, quantitative ecology, conservation decision-making, herpetology, conservation biology

Robin Naidoo

Gund Affiliate - Senior Conservation Scientist and Lead Wildlife Scientist at World Wildlife Federation

Amritanshu Pandey

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering

My research is at the intersection of modeling, simulation, and optimization of electric energy systems

Nico Perdrial

Assistant Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences

Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Contaminant Transport. Environmental Geology, Nanoparticles' Mineral-Bacteria, Interactions, Archaeogeology

Rick Peyser

Gund Affiliate • Member, Board of Directors, The Tropics Foundation

Coffee, cocoa, supply chain management, Fair Trade, food insecurity among farmers.

Kristen Pierce

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor, Larner College of Medicine

Vaccines, dengue, vector borne diseases, Zika, West Nile

Steve Polasky

Gund External Advisory Board • Gund Affiliate • Professor, University of Minnesota

Stephen Posner

Gund Affiliate • Director of Pathways to Planetary Health, The Garrison Institute

Case Prager

Gund Affiliate, Foreign Affairs Officer, United States Department of State

Global change, carbon cycling, biodiversity and ecosystem function, nature-based solutions, conservation.

Edward Prutzer

Gund Affiliate • Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech

Media studies, online communities, open source collaboration, responsible invotation and sustainability, science and technology studies (STS).

Dan Quinlan

Gund Affiliate • Founder, SolaVida

Climate change and health, climate change communication, state climate and clean energy policy.

Ranaivo Rasolofoson

Gund Affiliate - Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment

Environmental economics, fishery, forests, impact evaluation, nature conservation, planetary health

Meryl Richards

Gund Affiliate • Senior Manager, Food and Forests, Ceres

Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, corporate sustainability.

David V. Rosowsky

Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Structural Reliability, Performance of Wood Structural Systems, Design for Natural Hazards, Stochastic Modeling of Structural and Environmental Loads, Probability-Based Codified Design, Wind and Earthquake Engineering.

Dana Rowangould

Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Rural travel behavior, Transportation justice, Accessibility, Transportation and land use planning, Air quality, Safety

Michael Ruggiero

Gund Affiliate, Associate Professor of Chemistry • Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester

Vibrational spectroscopy, computational modelling, advanced materials, toxic chemical removal, microplastic degradation.

J.B. Ruhl

Gund Affiliate • Director, Program on Law and Innovation • Co-director, Energy, Environment and Land Use Program, Vanderbilt Law School

Ecosystem services, endangered species, adaptive management, complex adaptive systems, climate change adaptation.

Jim Salzman

Gund Affiliate • Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law • UCLA School of Law

Drinking water, policy instrument design, creating markets for ecosystem services

Nathan Sanders

Gund Affiliate • Chair of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Professor, University of Michigan

Jack Scambos

Gund Affiliate • President and CEO of Suparator International

Rachel Schattman

Gund Affiliate - Assistant Professor, University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture

Climate change adaptation in Northeast agriculture, water use efficiency in irrigation systems, decision making and behavior under climate uncertainty, participatory action research

Amy Seidl

Senior Lecturer

Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Sustainability science, ecology, evolution, climate change, environmental communication

Susan Sgorbati

Gund Affiliate • Director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College

Marc Simard

Gund Affiliate • Senior Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Radar remote sensing of forests, surface topography, ocean topography, climatic and hydrogeomorphic processes on vegetation.

Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho

Gund Affiliate • Professor • Institute of Geosciences, University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Laura Sonter

Gund Affiliate • Associate Professor, The University of Queensland

Dan Spethmann

Gund Affiliate • Managing Partner, Working Lands Investment Partners LLC

Projects benefiting the public, creating a flourishing environmental foundation for life in all forms, restoration, rehabilitation, regeneration, and preservation.

Kris Stepenuck

Extension Assistant Professor • Watershed Science, Policy and Education • Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program Leader

Impacts of land use on water quality, citizen science and volunteer monitoring, understanding outcomes of monitoring and community outreach efforts

Jennie Stephens

Gund Affiliate • Dean's Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy • Northeastern's School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs

John Todd

Professor Emeritus, Ecological Design

Ecological design

Austin Troy

Adjunct Professor/University of Colorado-Denver

Amy Trubek

Gund Affiliate • Professor • Chairperson of Nutrition and Food Sciences • University of Vermont

Taste of place, culinary history and anthropology, food supply chains

M. Salim Uddin

Assistant Professor

Social-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.

M. D. Usher

Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classical Languages and Literature

Ancient Mediterranean world, sustainable systems, orality studies, environmental humanities, ancient ecologies.