Graduate Faculty

Graduate Faculty

Carol Adair

Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Director, Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory

carol.adair@uvm.edu (802) 656-2907
Expertise
  • global climate change
  • ecosystem ecology
  • biogeochemistry

Thaïs Bernos

Assistant Professor

thais.bernos@uvm.edu
Expertise

Nicholas Aflitto

Assistant Professor, Forest Ecosystem Health

nicholas.aflitto@uvm.edu (802) 656-4156
Expertise
  • entomology
  • forest health
  • semiochemicals
  • applied sensory ecology
  • machine learning
  • remote sensing

Paul Bierman

Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Director of UVM/NSF Community Cosmogenic Laboratory

paul.bierman@uvm.edu (802) 656-4411
Expertise

Geology, Greenland and glaciers, geohydrology, geochemistry, geologic dating, climate change, erosion and human-landscape interaction, landscape history, and science education and communication.

Christopher Brooks

Senior Lecturer

christopher.brooks@uvm.edu (802) 656-9570
Expertise

Instructional programs: Natural Resources; Sustainability, Ecology and Policy
Research: Environmental policy, land use planning, watershed management and flood resiliency, climate change mitigation and...

Kimberly (Kim) Coleman

Director, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Program • Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

kimberly.coleman@uvm.edu
Expertise

Instructional programs: Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
Research: Human dimensions of natural resources; Outdoor recreation and tourism; Planning and management of public land; Environmental justice;...

Anthony "Tony" D’Amato

Professor • Director of Forestry Program • Director of UVM Research Forests

anthony.damato@uvm.edu (802) 656-8030
Expertise

Silviculture, forest ecology, forest management, forest adaptation, forests. 

Cecilia Danks

Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

cecilia.danks@uvm.edu (802) 656-0175
Expertise
  • environmental studies
  • forestry
  • environmental policy
  • sustainable forestry
  • community forestry
  • climate change mitigation
  • forest carbon markets
  • woody biomass energy

Monika Derrien

Assistant Professor

mderrien@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • outdoor recreation
  • public land management
  • parks and protected areas
  • homelessness
  • human health and wellbeing

Luben Dimov

Senior Lecturer

LDimov@uvm.edu (802) 656-0616
Expertise

Instructional program: Forestry
Research: Silviculture; forest diversity, productivity, and resilience; forest restoration; sustainable forest management

Therese "Terri" Donovan

Research Associate Professor • Assistant Unit Leader of VT Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit

therese.donovan@uvm.edu (802) 656-2516
Expertise

Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Landscape ecology, wildlife population modeling, adaptive management

Jon Erickson

Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education • Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment

jon.erickson@uvm.edu (802) 656-3328
Expertise
  • Ecological economics
  • Sustainable development
  • Systems modeling

Joshua Farley

Professor • L4E Ecological Economics Lead • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

jfarley@uvm.edu
Expertise

Designing an economy to balance what is biophysically possible with what is socially, psychologically, and ethically desirable. 

Brendan Fisher

Professor • Director, Environmental Program • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

brendan.fisher@uvm.edu (802) 656-0351
Expertise

Gillian Galford

Research Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment

gillian.galford@uvm.edu (802) 656-2920
Expertise

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...

Rachelle Gould

Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment

rachelle.gould@uvm.edu (802) 656-5849
Expertise

Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental values, well-being, Cultural Ecosystem Services, environmental learning, human behavior, policy, diversity, equity

Mark Henderson

Research Associate Professor • Unit Leader of VT Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit

mark.henderson@uvm.edu (802) 656-2693
Expertise
  • Fish population modeling
  • Food web ecology
  • Environmental DNA
  • Acoustic telemetry
  • Mark-recapture
  • Fish ecology

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 • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

anne.jefferson@uvm.edu (802) 656-5734
Expertise
  • watershed hydrology
  • geomorphology
  • public engagement 

Helina Jolly

Assistant Professor

helina.jolly@uvm.edu
Expertise

Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC), Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Community-engaged Research, Conservation Sciences, Human Geography, Ethnography, Biocultural Systems, Land Stewardship, and Ecosystem...

William Keeton

Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment

william.keeton@uvm.edu (802) 656-2518
Expertise

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Forestry
Research: Forest ecology and dynamics; climate, forest carbon & energy; sustainable forestry

Ana "Mindy" Morales

Associate Dean of Faculty Development • Associate Professor

ana.morales@uvm.edu (802) 656-8769
Expertise

Limnology, phytoplankton ecology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, lake ecosystem ecology

James "Jed" Murdoch

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs • Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment

james.murdoch@uvm.edu (802) 656-2912
Expertise

Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Wildlife ecology, conservation biology

Brittany Mosher

Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

brittany.mosher@uvm.edu (802) 656-3105
Expertise
  • Disease and population ecology
  • Quantitative ecology
  • Conservation decision-making
  • Herpetology
  • Conservation biology

Bindu Panikkar

Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS)

bindu.panikkar@uvm.edu (802) 656-5877
Expertise

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

Walter Poleman

Director, Field Naturalist Program • Senior Lecturer

walter.poleman@uvm.edu (802) 656-2501
Expertise
  • landscape analysis
  • place-based education
  • land conservation
  • social-ecological systems science

Jennifer "Jen" Pontius

Associate Dean of Programs and Curriculum • Senior Lecturer • Director, Environmental Sciences Program • Director, Geospatial Technologies Program • Assessment Coordinator for the Rubenstein School

jennifer.pontius@uvm.edu (802) 656-3091
Expertise

Forest ecology & health, satellite remote sensing, GIS modeling, experimental design & statistical analyses

Taylor Ricketts

Director of the Gund Institute for Environment • Professor, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources

taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu (802) 656-7796
Expertise

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...

Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal

Assistant Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

mariano.rodriguez-cabal@uvm.edu (802) 652-0224
Expertise
  • Community ecology
  • Global change ecology
  • Invasive species
  • Plant-animal interactions

Eric Roy

Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment • Director of the Casella Center for Circular Economy and Sustainability

eric.roy@uvm.edu (802) 656-7359
Expertise

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences; Sustainability, Ecology, & Policy
Research: Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, Circular bioeconomy, Ecological engineering & design, Life cycle...

Andrew Schroth

Research Associate Professor

Andrew.Schroth@uvm.edu (802) 656-3481
Expertise
  • Low Temperature Geochemistry
  • Environmental Mineralogy

Kristine "Kris" Stepenuck

Extension Associate Professor • Associate Director and Extension Program Leader for Lake Champlain Sea Grant • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

kris.stepenuck@uvm.edu (802) 656-8504
Expertise

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Watershed science, impacts of land use on water quality, community science, community engagement

Jason Stockwell

Director, Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory • Professor

jason.stockwell@uvm.edu (802) 656-3009
Expertise

Aquatic ecology, food web dynamics, predator-prey interactions

Allan Strong

Professor • Director, Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Program

allan.strong@uvm.edu
Expertise

Avian ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology

M. Salim Uddin

Assistant Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

muddin@uvm.edu (802) 656-4449
Expertise
  • Social-Ecological Systems Resilience
  • Community Resilience to Climate-Change Induced Natural Disasters
  • Social Learning
  • Impacts of Global Environmental Changes
  • Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and...

Christine Vatovec

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

christine.vatovec@uvm.edu (802) 656-2728
Expertise

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,...

Beverley C. Wemple

University Scholar • Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences • Faculty Director, Water Resources Institute

Beverley.Wemple@uvm.edu (802) 656-2074
Expertise

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

Eva "Lini" Wollenberg

Research Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment

lini.wollenberg@uvm.edu (802) 656-9891
Expertise

Instructional program: Natural Resources
Research: Climate change & land use, natural resource management & governance, agriculture-forest landscapes, anthropology, international rural livelihoods