Name

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Email

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Director

Environment and health, conservation biology, ecology, pollination and agriculture, ecosystem services, ecological economics, biogeography, environmental policy

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Global change (including climate change), ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, carbon storage and cycling, and non-invasive plant invasions, modeling and statistics

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Power systems, energy storage, distributed energy systems, clean energy, control systems, optimization

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Water Security, Soil Health, Emerging Contaminants, Separation Processes, Micro-Sensors, Environmental Nanotechnology

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor and Gund Chair of the Liberal Arts, Department of Political Science

Environmental politics, environmental policy, environmental governance, deliberative democracy, global governance, climate governance

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Department of Computer Science

Ecology, climate change, complex systems, agent-based modeling, system dynamic modeling

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Food systems, food security, nutrition security, public health, sustainable diets

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor

Environmental geology, geochemistry, Earth surface processes, geologic dating, human impact, landscape history

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Climate change impacts on malaria transmission in Ethiopian highlands; understanding impacts of extreme precipitation on watershed hydrology; regional Adaptation to Climate Change (Vermont EPSCoR) 

Name

Pablo Bose

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Environmentally-induced forced migration; refugee resettlement; urbanization in the global south political ecology; development and displacement; climate change

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, Grossman School of Business

Corporate sustainability, climate change, carbon disclosure, clean innovation

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Science

Insect ecology, evolution, agroecology, population genetics, organic and sustainable agriculture, international

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Sciences, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Chaos, mathematical modeling, computational methods, numerical weather prediction, complex systems, computational social science

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Institutional arrangements for community-based resource management, forest stewardship

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, UVM Extension

Soil quality and nutrient management; water quality; participatory research; grain production; organic farming; forages; hops; hemp; oilseed crops; milkweed; biofuel production

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, hazard mitigation, natural and built infrastructure, engineering applications for heritage preservation, geotechnical aspects of space exploration, engineering education

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Geography

Climate variability and change, geospatial climate, National Climate Assessment, K-12 climate education and literacy, floods and droughts, human vulnerability

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Ecological economics, sustainable development, energy and climate change policy, land conservation, watershed planning, environmental public health, systems modelling.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics

Ecological economics, essential resources, evolution of cooperation, agroecology, commons, money and finance, steady state economy

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Research Assistant Professor, UVM Extension

Agriculture, water quality, climate change, hydrology, soil and water engineering

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Conservation, development, natural resource economics, and human behavior

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Research Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Environmental Sustainability, Ecosystems Ecology, Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling, Greenhouse Gases, Remote Sensing, Ecosystems Modeling, Land-cover and Land-use Change, Tropical Agriculture

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

shallow and deep geothermal systems, geo-mechanical and environmental aspects of shale energy and geological carbon storage

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Internal Steering Committee, Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Grossman School of Business

Sustainability, corporate social responsibility, employees, psychology, meaningfulness

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor

Public Health, Environmental Epidemiology, Global Health, Humanitarian Crises, Refugee Health, Natural Disasters

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Biology

Biodiversity, climate change, demography, null models, species distribution modeling, carnivorous plants, ants

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Cultural ecosystem services, environmental education, environmental values, environmental behavior, justice, equity

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Grossman School of Business

Sustainable business, base of the pyramid economic theory, the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Science

Landscape architecture, ecological design, restoration, and planning

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Environmental thought, cultural studies, environmental humanities 

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Rubenstein School for Environment and Natural Resources

The role of forests in climate change mitigation; sustainable forest management, restoration, and conservation; forest carbon management; climate change impacts on forest ecosystems; sustainable forest management policy and practice

Name

Matt Kolan

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Senior Lecturer, Director of MPS in Leadership for Sustainability, Director of PhD in Transdisciplinary Leadership and Creativity for Sustainability

Instructional programs: Leadership for Sustainability MPS, Transdisciplinary Leadership and Creativity for Sustainability PhD
Research: Ecological leadership and learning; power, privilege, and equity; social transformation and systems change; field ecology and animal tracking

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics

Consumer behavior, economics of information, genetic engineering, hemp, applied econometrics, consumer policy

Name

Byung Lee

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Computer Science

Database, data stream, data mining, machine learning

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences

Food security, migration, labor studies, border studies, food justice

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Fluid mechanics and particulate flows; renewable energy (wind energy, algae biofuels, solar panel dust mitigation); complex systems; vortex dynamics and vortex-structure interaction; biofluid flows, Lagrangian and multiscale computational methods; thin-film flows

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor and Chair, Department of Plant and Soil Science and Environmental Program

Agroecology. Participatory Action Research (PAR), agricultural livelihoods, agrifood systems, agricultural resilience, climate change

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Research Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Science

Landscape ecology, climate change, population modeling, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), social-ecological systems, Monte Carlo simulations, systems ecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and spatiotemporal modeling.

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Wildlife biology, animal behavior and ecology, population dynamics, conservation biology, landscape ecology

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, UVM Department of Plant and Soil Science

Compost ecology, biological indicators of soil, soil ecology, plant disease epidemiology

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Food systems, climate change, food security, food policy, integrated crop-livestock systems, environmental behavior

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Grossman School of Business

Distribution channels, procurement, franchising

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Environmental health, community based research, environmental policy, Natural resources, Arctic environment and health, environmental health social movements, and environmental justice

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, Department of Geology

Environmental geochemistry, low temperature (bio)-geochemical processes, carbon dynamics, dissolved organic matter chemistry, hydrology and biochemistry, mineral alteration and weathering, clay mineralogy

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Groundwater hydrology, numerical mathematics, porous media flow, porous media transport, groundwater modeling 

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Community Development and Applied Economics

Institutional economics, agricultural development, food policy, payments for environmental services, with an emphasis on the links between agriculture, food security, community governance institutions and the environment

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Development of new computational tools to improve the understanding of human-induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources

Name

Joe Roman

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Research Assistant Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Biodiversity and ecosystem services, biological invasions, marine population genetics, and marine ecology

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Nutrient biogeochemistry and management; ecological engineering and design; green infrastructure; industrial ecology; resource recovery and recycling; sustainable agriculture

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences

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

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences

Anaerobic digestion, bioprocessing, waste valorization, wastewater treatment, microbiomes, microbial ecology

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Economics

Macroeconomics and development

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Climate Change, Behavioral Science, Environmental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Environmental Policy, Risk & Uncertainty

Name

Gund Fellow Dan Tobin

Dan Tobin

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics

Agricultural development, rural sociology, in situ conservation, seed systems

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Research Assistant Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Larner College of Medicine at UVM

Planetary health, climate change and human health, climate co-benefits, healthcare sustainability, integrative health, health benefits of nature contact

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor and Co-Director, UVM Humanities Center, Department of Anthropology

Cultural and environmental anthropology, development and social movements, knowledge, science and technology, cultures of mobility, tourism, ethnographic methods, Latin America

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Research Professor, Gund Institute for Environment

Modeling, analyzing and quantifying land use change; ecosystem service assessment and valuation; quantitative spatial analysis; simulation modeling; natural hazards planning, policy, and risk assessment

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Science

Agroecology, climate resilient agriculture, crop domestication, crop wild relatives, microbiome, symbiosis

Name

Leon Walls

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Associate Professor, Department of Education

Science education, nature of science, critical race theory, equity, social justice, sustainability 

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Internal Steering Committee, Gund Fellow, Professor, Associate Dean, Department of Chemistry

Catalysis, photocatalysis, phosphorus utilization, remediation, semiconductors, hydrogen storage

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Department of Geography

Water resources, geomorphology, GIS, spatial modeling, human-environment interactions, mountain environments

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Research Professor, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

Climate change mitigation, anthropology, natural resource management, international rural livelihoods

Name

Asim Zia

Title  /  Areas of Expertise

Gund Fellow, Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics

Environmental policy, social ecological systems, coupled natural and human systems, integrated assessment models, adaptive management