CIROH Faculty

CIROH Faculty

Carol Adair

Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Gund Fellow • Director, Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory

carol.adair@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • global climate change
  • ecosystem ecology
  • biogeochemistry

Appala Raju Badireddy

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

raju.badireddy@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water Quality Engineering, Membrane Separation Processes, Resource Recovery from Solid- and Liquid-Waste, Environmental Photochemistry

Rebecca Diehl

Research Assistant Professor

rebecca.diehl@uvm.edu
Expertise

Floodplain dynamics, Ecogeomorphology, Flood inundation mapping, Sediment and nutrient transport, Ecosystem flow quantifications.

Elizabeth Doran

Research Assistant Professor

elizabeth.doran@uvm.edu
Expertise

Brendan Fisher

Professor • Director, Environmental Program

brendan.fisher@uvm.edu
Expertise

Scott Hamshaw

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

shamshaw@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water Resources, Machine Learning, Environmental Sensing, and Geomatics

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

anne.jefferson@uvm.edu
Expertise

Watershed hydrology, geomorphology, public engagement 

Scott C. Merrill

Research Associate Professor • Managing Director, Social-Ecological Gaming & Simulation (SEGS) Lab UVM

Scott.C.Merrill@uvm.edu
Expertise

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...

Panagiotis (Takis) Oikonomou

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

panagiotis.oikonomou@uvm.edu
Expertise

Water Resources, Extreme Hydroclimatic Events, Hydroinformatics, Climate Change Impacts

Taylor Ricketts

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

taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu
Expertise

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Community & landscape ecology, ecosystem services, ecological economics, conservation biology, environmental...

Donna Rizzo

Acting Chair and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

drizzo@uvm.edu
Expertise

Development of new computational tools, including artificial neural networks, to improve the understanding of human induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources.

Eric Roy

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

eric.roy@uvm.edu
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
Expertise
  • Low Temperature Geochemistry
  • Environmental Mineralogy

Trisha Shrum

Associate Professor

tshrum@uvm.edu
Expertise
  • Climate Change
  • Behavioral Science
  • Environmental Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Economics
  • Environmental Policy
  • Risk & Uncertainty

Christian Skalka

Professor, Department of Computer Science • Chair, Department of Computer Science

ceskalka@uvm.edu
Expertise

Programming languages and type theory, security and privacy in distributed systems

Kristine "Kris" Stepenuck

Extension Associate Professor

kris.stepenuck@uvm.edu
Expertise

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

Kristen Underwood

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kristen.Underwood@uvm.edu
Expertise

Hydrology, Fluvial Geomorphology, Geostatistics, Catchment Dynamics, Clustering & Classification, Infrastructure & Hazard Mitigation, Bayesian Inference

Beverley C. Wemple

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

Beverley.Wemple@uvm.edu
Expertise

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

Safwan Wshah

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Safwan.Wshah@uvm.edu
Expertise

Machine Learning, Image & Video Processing, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Imaging & Digital Signal Processing.

Asim Zia, PhD

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

Asim.Zia@uvm.edu
Expertise

Computational policy analysis, governance networks, social ecological systems, coupled natural and human systems, sustainable development, food, energy and water systems