Water Researchers at UVM
Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Director, Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory
carol.adair@uvm.edu (802) 656-2907global climate change, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
raju.badireddy@uvm.edu (802) 656-8443Water quality engineering; water, soil, and air monitoring; resource recovery from wastewater and solids; environmental nanotechnology; remote sensors; PFAS; membrane separation processes.
Professor of Plant Biology • Professor of Computer Science • Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Brian.Beckage@uvm.edu (802) 656-0197- Ecological systems
- Earth-system modeling
- Human behavior
Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Director of UVM/NSF Community Cosmogenic Laboratory
paul.bierman@uvm.edu (802) 656-4411Geology, Greenland and glaciers, geohydrology, geochemistry, geologic dating, climate change, erosion and human-landscape interaction, landscape history, and science education and communication.
Chair, Department of Animal and Veterinary Science • Director, VT Agricultural Experiment Station • Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Eric.Bishop-Von-Wettberg@uvm.edu (802) 656-9117- Crop genetics, evolution, genomics, breeding, domestication and sustainability
- Legumes and germplasm
- Animal grazing and sustainability
- Agriculture, food, ecology, conservation
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
abomblie@uvm.edu (802) 656-2215Environmental Engineering, Hydrology.
Professor • Associate Dean, CAS • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Pablo.Bose@uvm.edu (802) 656-5717Forced migration due to climate change, development, environment and conflict, Refugee resettlement across the globe, Food access, food security and food sovereignty, Transnationalism, globalization and urbanization, Transportation and...
Lecturer
ariana.chiapella@uvm.edu- aquatic ecology
- food web dynamics
- ecotoxicology
- environmental health
- stable isotopes
Senior Lecturer
christopher.brooks@uvm.edu (802) 656-9570Instructional programs: Natural Resources; Sustainability, Ecology and Policy
Research: Environmental policy, land use planning, watershed management and flood resiliency, climate change mitigation and...
Research Assistant Professor • Leadership for the Ecozoic • Community Development and Applied Economics • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
matthew.burke@uvm.edu (802) 656-9275Just transition, ecological restoration, political economy and ecology, food systems, science-technology-society, bioregions.
Assistant Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Hao.Chen@uvm.edu (802) 656-0138Soil Chemistry
Adjunct Assistant Professor • Director Research Computing and Data, Large Research Initiatives • Department of Computer Science • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
patrick.clemins@uvm.eduComputer systems (personal devices, data centers, networks), computational workflows, high performance and high throughput computing, integrated modeling, model evaluation testbeds, digital signal processing, technology systems...
Director, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Program • Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
kimberly.coleman@uvm.eduInstructional programs: Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
Research: Human dimensions of natural resources; Outdoor recreation and tourism; Planning and management of public land; Environmental justice;...
Interim Dean, College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences • Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
mdewoolk@uvm.edu (802) 656-1942- Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering
- transportation geotechnics
- hazard mitigation
- geotechnical aspects of space exploration
- cultural preservation
- engineering education
Research Assistant Professor
rebecca.diehl@uvm.eduFloodplain dynamics, Ecogeomorphology, Flood inundation mapping, Sediment and nutrient transport, Ecosystem flow quantifications.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
elizabeth.doran@uvm.edu (802) 656-4203Urban climate; water quality best management practices; land use and land cover change; social-ecological systems; complex dynamic systems modeling
Associate Professor • Director, Bioinformatics Core • Director, Vermont Biomedical Research Network - Data Science Core
julie.dragon@med.uvm.edu (802) 656-7777data science, bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, cancer biology, evolution, team leadership, infectious disease, immunology.
Distinguished Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Lesley-Ann.Dupigny-Giroux@uvm.edu (802) 656-2146- climate variability and change
- climatology
- natural...
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education • Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
jon.erickson@uvm.edu (802) 656-3328- Ecological economics
- Sustainable development
- Systems modeling
Research Associate Professor • Director, Agricultural and Environmental Testing Lab • Director, UVM Extension Center for Sustainable Agriculture • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
joshua.faulkner@uvm.edu (802) 656-3495Climate 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 • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
brendan.fisher@uvm.edu (802) 656-0351
Professor
Alice.Fothergill@uvm.eduInequality and differential vulnerability in floods, hurricanes, and other disaster events, Disaster studies, Children and youth, Family, Qualitative methodology, Service learning
Research Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
gillian.galford@uvm.edu (802) 656-2920Climate 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 • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Ehsan.Ghazanfari@uvm.edu (802) 656-1770Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, geo-energy systems, sensors/sensing for civil infrastructure.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs • Senior Lecturer
cdgiles@uvm.edu- STEM Education
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Faculty Development
- Scheduling and Enrollment Management
- Institutional Effectiveness
- Environmental Biogeochemistry
- Service and Civic...
Professor Emerita
clare.ginger@uvm.edu (802) 656-2698Environmental policy, watershed/forest planning, organization studies
Assistant Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
kelsey.gleason@med.uvm.eduGlobal health, humanitarian crises, climate change, forced and climate-related displacement, refugee studies
Associate Professor, Rubenstein School • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
rachelle.gould@uvm.edu (802) 656-5849Instructional program: Environmental Studies
Research: Environmental values, well-being, Cultural Ecosystem Services, environmental learning, human behavior, policy, diversity, equity
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
shamshaw@uvm.edu- Water Resources
- Machine Learning
- Environmental Sensing
- Geomatics
Research Associate Professor • Unit Leader of VT Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
mark.henderson@uvm.edu (802) 656-2693- Fish population modeling
- Food web ecology
- Environmental DNA
- Acoustic telemetry
- Mark-recapture
- Fish ecology
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences • Professor - Ecological Landscape Design • Gund Institute for Environment Faculty Fellow
Stephanie.E.Hurley@uvm.edu (802) 656-9501Stormwater management, green infrastructure, landscape design, landscape architecture, land use and watershed management, urban ecology.
Director, UVM Cancer Center • Associate Dean Cancer Programs • Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology • J. Walter Juckett Chair in Cancer Research
Randall.Holcombe@med.uvm.edu (802) 656-2207Postdoctoral Training
1988-1989..... Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Clinical Fellow in Medicine
1986-1989..... Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Research/Clinical Fellow in Medicine...
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
dhuston@uvm.edu (802) 656-1922Smart cities and structures, structural health monitoring, subsurface infrastructure sensing, electromechanical systems.
Professor, Rubenstein School, Robert F. and Genevieve B. Patrick Endowed Chair in Watershed Science and Planning • Director, Lake Champlain Sea Grant • Director, Vermont Water Resources and Lake Studies Center • Senior Faculty Advisor, Water Resources Institute • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
anne.jefferson@uvm.edu (802) 656-5734watersheds, stormwater, flooding, river processes, Lake Champlain, microplastics, plastic pollution, water resources, science communication
Professor, Forest Ecology and Forestry • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
william.keeton@uvm.edu (802) 656-2518Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Forestry
Research: forest ecology and dynamics; old-growth forests, forest carbon and climate, forest-stream interactions; disturbance ecology, sustainable...
Professor
kklepeis@uvm.edu (802) 656-0247Structural geology, earthquakes, tectonics, landslides and rockfalls, natural hazards, faults, photogrammetry, drone surveys, bedrock aquifers, applied geology, geology of Vermont.
Professor, Department of Computer Science • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
bslee@uvm.edu (802) 656-1919- database
- data mining
- data science
- machine learning
- information retrieval
Senior Lecturer - Professor of Practice, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
John.Lens@uvm.eduPrimary: Geotechnical and geoenvironmental, Seismic, Infrastructure systems
Secondary: Structures and Materials, Climate and geo-hazard mitigation, Sustainable design processes
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
jmarsha1@uvm.edu (802) 363-8339Fluid Dynamics, Particulate Flows, Renewable Energy Systems, Biofluids
Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
bree.mathon@uvm.edu- hydrology
- geochemistry
- technical communication
- diversity in engineering
Assistant Professor • Department of Biology • College of Arts and Sciences
lmaycoll@uvm.edu (802) 656-4138Evolution, Animal communication, Soundscapes, Marine conservation, Behavior of marine vertebrates
Gund Fellow, Research Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment
scott.c.merrill@uvm.edu (802) 656-0711Landscape ecology, climate change, population modeling, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), social-ecological systems, Monte Carlo simulations, systems ecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and spatiotemporal modeling.
Associate Dean of Faculty Development • Associate Professor
ana.morales@uvm.edu (802) 656-8769Limnology, phytoplankton ecology, biogeochemistry, carbon cycling, lake ecosystem ecology
Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
brittany.mosher@uvm.edu (802) 656-3105Wildlife 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
james.murdoch@uvm.edu (802) 656-2912Instructional program: Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
Research: Wildlife ecology, conservation biology
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
panagiotis.oikonomou@uvm.eduWater Resources, Extreme Hydroclimatic Events, Hydroinformatics, Climate Change Impacts
Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Associate Director, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security (IEDS)
bindu.panikkar@uvm.edu (802) 656-5877Environmental health, community based research, environmental policy, natural resources, Arctic environment and health, environmental health social movements, environmental justice
Professor of Geochemistry • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Julia.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0665Investigates 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...
Associate Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Nicolas.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0245Environmental Geology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Contaminant Transport, Nanoparticles, Mineral-Bacteria Interactions, Archaeogeology, Analytical X-Rays, Ice Cores.
Associate Professor
Melissa.Pespeni@uvm.edu (802) 656-0628Marine biology, global change biology, ecology, experimental evolution, genomics, physiology, sea urchins, sea stars, copepods.
Professor — Analytical Chemistry, Aerosols Analysis, Mass Spectrometry
Giuseppe.Petrucci@uvm.edu (802) 656-0957- Analytical chemistry
- mass spectrometry
- environmental aerosols
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
gpinder@uvm.edu (802) 656-8697- Water Resources
- Environmental
- Sustainability & Energy
- Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental
- Climate Change & Hazard Mitigation
Chair, Professor of Economics • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
donna.ramirez-harrington@uvm.edu (802) 656-0964Environmental economics, policy and regulation, environmental innovation, technology adoption and technical change, corporate environmental strategy.
Professor and Chair • Co-Director of ENSC • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Shelly.Rayback@uvm.edu (802) 656-3019Biogeography, Paleoclimatology, Dendrochronology, Climate change, Isotopes, Arctic
Director of the Gund Institute for Environment • Professor, Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources
taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu (802) 656-7796Economic 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...
Acting Chair and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
drizzo@uvm.edu (802) 656-1495Development 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.
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Dana.Rowangould@uvm.edu- Transportation equity and justice
- rural travel behavior (including rural mobility
- rural decarbonization (and rural safety)
- electric vehicle adoption and use
- accessibility measurement
- transportation...
Director of the Casella Center for Circular Economy and Sustainability • Associate Professor
eric.roy@uvm.edu (802) 656-7359Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, Circular bioeconomy, Ecological engineering & design, Life cycle assessment, Green infrastructure, Emerging contaminants, Soil & water sciences, Waste management, Agricultural & biological...
Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
mscarbor@uvm.edu (802) 656-2463Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes
Research Associate Professor
Andrew.Schroth@uvm.edu (802) 656-3481- Low Temperature Geochemistry
- Environmental Mineralogy
Senior Lecturer • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
amy.seidl@uvm.edu (802) 656-0907- Global climate change
- climate adaptation
- sustainability science
- communicating science
- ecology
- evolutionary biology
Associate Professor • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
tshrum@uvm.eduClimate change, behavioral science, environmental policy, behavioral economics, environmental economics, experimental economics, risk uncertainty.
Professor, Department of Computer Science • Chair, Department of Computer Science
ceskalka@uvm.edu (802) 656-1920Programming languages and type theory, security and privacy in distributed systems
Professor and Chairperson, Department of Biochemistry • Professor, Department of Surgery • Larner College of Medicine
Gary.Stein@uvm.edu (802) 656-6613Cancer biology, Health and healthcare equity
Extension Associate Professor • Associate Director and Extension Program Leader for Lake Champlain Sea Grant • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
kris.stepenuck@uvm.edu (802) 656-8504Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Watershed science, water quality impacts of land use and road salt, flood resilience, community science and engagement, Lake...
Director, Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory • Professor
jason.stockwell@uvm.edu (802) 656-3009Aquatic ecology, food web dynamics, predator-prey interactions
Professor • Director, Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Program
allan.strong@uvm.eduAvian ecology, conservation biology, landscape ecology
Associate Professor, STEM Education • Program Coordinator, Computer Science Education Minor • Co-Program Coordinator, Secondary Education Master of Arts in Teaching • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Regina.Toolin@uvm.edu (802) 656-1024- STEM Education
- Environmental Education
- Project-based learning
- Place-based Education
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Computer Science Education
Assistant Professor • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
muddin@uvm.edu (802) 656-4449Impacts of global environmental changes; climate change adaptation, mitigation and policy; resilience to climate change induced natural disasters; environmental justice and disaster governance; nature-based solutions; natural resources...
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Kristen.Underwood@uvm.edu- Hydrology
- Fluvial Geomorphology
- Geostatistics
- Catchment Dynamics
- Clustering & Classification
- Infrastructure & Hazard Mitigation
- Bayesian Inference
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 • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
christine.vatovec@uvm.edu (802) 656-2728Planetary 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,...
Associate Professor of Education • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Leon.Walls@uvm.edu (802) 656-2274- Curriculum and Instruction
- Multiculturalism
- Race and Racism
- Science Education
- Science of Sustainability
- Teacher Education
Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Director, Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Sciences PhD Program
mwargo@uvm.edubacterial genetics, transcriptional regulation, microbial physiology and metabolism.
Professor — Inorganic, Organometallic, and Catalysis • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Rory.Waterman@uvm.edu (802) 656-0278Chemistry, synthetic and mechanistic inorganic/organometallic chemistry, energy, catalysis, professional development
Professor
Laura.Webb@uvm.edu (802) 656-8136Tectonics, geochronology, petrology, microstructure, medical geology.
University Scholar • Professor of Geography and Environmental Sciences • Faculty Director, Water Resources Institute • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment
Beverley.Wemple@uvm.edu (802) 656-2074Water resources, flood risk and resilience, snow hydrology, geomorphology, GIS, spatial modeling, human-environment interactions, mountain environments, water in Vermont.
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science • Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Safwan.Wshah@uvm.edu (802) 656-8086Machine Learning, Image & Video Processing, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Document Imaging & Digital Signal Processing.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
txia@uvm.edu (802) 656-8996Mixed Signal and RF Circuits and Systems Design and Test, Embedded Systems for Sensor and Communication, Reconfigurable Computing
Associate Dean of Research and Postgraduate Education • Professor of Public Policy (CDAE) • Senior Faculty Advisor, Water Resources Institute • Faculty Fellow, Gund Institute for Environment • Co-Director of the Social-Ecological Gaming and Simulation (SEGS) Lab
Asim.Zia@uvm.eduComputational policy analysis, governance networks, social ecological systems, coupled natural and human systems, sustainable development, food, energy and water systems