Water Researchers at UVM
Associate Professor • Director of Environmental Sciences Program • Director of Aiken Forestry Sciences Laboratory • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
carol.adair@uvm.edu (802) 656-2907Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Natural Resources, Global climate change, Ecosystem ecology, Biogeochemistry
Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
raju.badireddy@uvm.edu (802) 656-8443Water Security, Soil Health, Emerging Contaminants, Separation Processes, Micro-Sensors, Environmental, Nanotechnology
Professor • Department of Computer Science • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Brian.Beckage@uvm.edu (802) 656-0197Biocomplexity, Computational models of ecosystems, Population and community dynamics, Effects of disturbances and climate change on biodiversity
Professor • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
paul.bierman@uvm.edu (802) 656-4411Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources, Geology, geohydrology, Erosion and human-landscape interaction, Climate change, Science education and communication
Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
abomblie@uvm.edu (802) 656-2215Environmental Engineering, Hydrology
Professor • Department of Geography and Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
pablo.bose@uvm.edu (802) 656-5717Environmentally-induced forced migration, Refugee resettlement, Urbanization in the global south political ecology, Development and displacement, Climate change
Senior Lecturer • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
christopher.brooks@uvm.edu (802) 656-9570Natural Resources; Sustainability, Ecology and Policy, Environmental policy, Land use planning, Watershed management and flood resiliency, Climate change mitigation and adaptation
Research Associate • Department of Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
matthew.burke@uvm.eduJust transition, Science-technology-society, Political economy and ecology, Ecological restoration, Food systems, Bioregions
Professor and Chair • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
mandar.dewoolkar@uvm.edu (802) 656-1942Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Hazard mitigation, Natural and built infrastructure, Engineering applications for heritage preservation, Geotechnical aspects of space exploration, Engineering education
Research Assistant Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
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 • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Elizabeth.Doran@uvm.edu (802) 656-7352Urban climate, Land use and land cover change, Social-ecological system, Systems modeling
Associate Professor • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Larner College of Medicine
Julie.Dragon@uvm.edu (802) 656-7777Integration of data sets of different resolutions, Expression analysis, Systems biology, Basket studies, Machine learning
Distinguished Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Lesley-Ann.Dupigny-Giroux@uvm.edu (802) 656-2146Climate variability and change, Climate education and literacy, Climate hazards; drought, New England and Vermont
Professor • Director of Environmental Program • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Brendan.Fisher@uvm.edu (802) 656-0351Environmental Studies, Natural Resources, Ecosystem services, ecological/environmental economics, Natural resource management, poverty & human health, Behavioral economics & sustainability
Professor • Department of Sociology • College of Arts and Sciences
Alice.Fothergill@uvm.edu (802) 656-2127Inequality and differential vulnerability in floods, hurricanes, and other disaster events, Disaster studies, Children and youth, Family, Qualitative methodology, Service learning
Research Associate Professor • Director of Natural Resources Program • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
gillian.galford@uvm.edu (802) 656-2920Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources, Environmental sustainability, Ecosystems ecology, Nitrogen and carbon cycling, Greenhouse gases, Remote sensing, Ecosystems modeling, Land-cover and land-use change, Tropical agriculture
Associate Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Ehsan.Ghazanfari@uvm.edu (802) 656-1770Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, Geo-energy systems, Sensors/sensing for civil infrastructure
Director of Curricular Enrichment and Lecturer • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Courtney.Giles@uvm.edu (802) 656-8418Phosphorus biogeochemistry, Laboratory instrumentation & management, Technical writing, Active & project based learning
Associate Professor • Director of Natural Resources Program • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
clare.ginger@uvm.edu (802) 656-2698Natural Resources, Sustainability, Ecology and Policy, Environmental policy, Watershed/forest planning, Organization studies
Assistant Professor • Department of Biomedical and Health Sciences • College of Nursing and Health Sciences
kelsey.gleason@med.uvm.eduPublic Health, Environmental Epidemiology, Global Health, Humanitarian Crises, Refugee Health, Natural Disasters
Adjunct Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Scott.Hamshaw@uvm.edu (802) 656-4265Water Resources, Machine Learning, Environmental Sensing, Geomatics
Research Associate Prof • Unit Leader of VT Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
mark.henderson@uvm.edu (802) 656-2693Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, Fish population modeling, Food web ecology, Environmental DNA, Acoustic telemetry, Mark-recapture, Fish ecology
Associate Professor • Department of Plant and Soil Science • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
stephanie.hurley@uvm.edu (802) 656-9501Landscape architecture, Ecological design, Restoration, water quality and urban agroecology
Professor • Department of Mechanical Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
dhuston@uvm.edu (802) 656-1922Smart Cities and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring, Subsurface Infrastructure Sensing, Electromechanical Systems
WRI Senior Faculty Advisor • Professor • Director of Lake Champlain Sea Grant • Robert F. and Genevieve B. Patrick Endowed Chair in Watershed Science and Planning • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
anne.jefferson@uvm.edu (802) 656-5734Watershed hydrology, Geomorphology, Public engagement
Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
kklepeis@uvm.edu (802) 656-0247Structural Geology, Tectonics, Landslides and Rockfalls, Faults, Photogrammetry, Drone Surveys, Bedrock Aquifers, Applied Geology
Senior Lecturer • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
John.Lens@uvm.edu (802) 656-8156Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental, Infrastructure Systems, Structures & Materials, Transportation, Environmental, Climate Change & Hazard Mitigation
Professor • Department of Mechanical Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
jmarsha1@uvm.edu (802) 656-3826Fluid 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
Research Assistant Professor • Department of Plant and Soil Science • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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), Spatiotemporal modeling
Professor • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
james.murdoch@uvm.edu (802) 656-2912Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, Wildlife ecology, Conservation biology
Associate Professor, Nutrition & Food Sciences • Acting Director of the Gund Institute for Environment • Associate Director of the Food Systems Research Center • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
mtniles@uvm.eduFood Systems Sustainability, Food Policy, Food Security, Farmer Behavior, Social-Ecological Systems
Research Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Panagiotis.Oikonomou@uvm.eduWater Resources, Extreme Hydroclimatic Events, Hydroinformatics, Climate Change Impacts
Associate Professor • Director of Geosciences • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Julia.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0665Environmental geochemistry, Low temperature (bio)-geochemical processes, Carbon dynamics, Dissolved organic, matter chemistry, Hydrology and biochemistry, Mineral alteration and weathering, Clay mineralogy
Assistant Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Nicolas.Perdrial@uvm.edu (802) 656-0245Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Contaminant Transport. Environmental Geology, Nanoparticles' Mineral-Bacteria, Interactions, Archaeogeology
Associate Professor • Department of Biology • College of Arts and Sciences
Melissa.Pespeni@uvm.edu (802) 656-0628Ecological genomics, Population genetics, Evolutionary biology, Physiology
Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
gpinder@uvm.edu (802) 656-8697Groundwater hydrology, Numerical mathematics, Porous media flow, Porous media transport, Groundwater modeling
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
Professor • Director of the Gund Institute • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu (802) 656-7796Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources, Community & landscape ecology, Ecosystem services, ecological economics, Conservation biology, Environmental policy, Pollination ecology, Biogeography, linking research & conservation communities
Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
drizzo@uvm.edu (802) 656-1495Environmental, Water Resources, Environmental & Public Health, Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental, Sustainability & Energy, Infrastructure Systems, Climate Change & Hazard Mitigation
Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
drowango@uvm.edu (802) 656-1904Rural travel behavior, Transportation justice, Accessibility, Transportation and land use planning, Air quality, Safety
Associate Professor • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
eric.roy.1@uvm.edu (802) 656-7359Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources, Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, Ecological engineering & design, Aquatic ecology, Food systems, Material flow analysis
Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
mscarbor@uvm.edu (802) 656-2463Biological Wastewater Treatment, Anaerobic Bioprocessing of Wastes, Microbiome Engineering, Modeling of Microbiomes
Research Associate Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Andrew.Schroth@uvm.edu (802) 656-3481Areas of Expertise, Low Temperature Geochemistry and Environmental Mineralogy
Assistant Professor • Department of Community Development & Applied Economics • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Trisha.Shrum@uvm.edu (802) 656-8117Climate Change, Behavioral Science, Environmental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Environmental Policy, Risk & Uncertainty
Professor and Chairperson • Department of Computer Science • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
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 • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
kris.stepenuck@uvm.edu (802) 656-8504Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources, Watershed science, Impacts of land use on water quality, Community science, Community engagement
Professor • Director of Wildlife & Fisheries Biology Program • Director of Rubenstein Ecosystem Science Laboratory • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
jason.stockwell@uvm.edu (802) 656-3009Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, Aquatic ecology, Food web dynamics, Predator-prey interactions
Assistant Professor • Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
M-Salim.Uddin@uvm.edu (802) 656-4449Natural resource management, Forest ecology, Biodiversity, Environment, Conservation. Sustainability, Conservation biology, Sustainable development, Emergency management, Environmental management
Research Assistant Professor • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Kristen.Underwood@uvm.edu (802) 656-4571Catchment dynamics, Fluvial Geomorphology, Clustering & Classifcation, Infrastructure & Hazard Mitigation, Bayesian Inference
Associate Professor • Department of Education • College of Education and Social Services
Leon.Walls@uvm.edu (802) 656-2274Curriculum and Instruction, Multiculturalism, Race and Racism, Science Education, Science of Sustainability, Teacher Education
Associate Professor • Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics • Larner College of Medicine
Matthew.Wargo@uvm.edu (802) 656-1115Genetic and transcriptomic techniques, Biofilm formation in potable water
Professor • Department of Chemistry • College of Arts and Sciences
Rory.Waterman@uvm.edu (802) 656-0278Synthetic and mechanistic inorganic/organometallic chemistry, Catalysis, Energy. Professional development
Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
Laura.Webb@uvm.edu (802) 656-8136Tectonics, Geochronology, Petrology, Microstructure, Medical geology
WRI Faculty Director • Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences
beverley.wemple@uvm.edu (802) 656-2074Water resources, Geomorphology, GIS, Spatial modeling, Human-environment interactions. Mountain environments
Research Professor • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
lini.wollenberg@uvm.edu (802) 656-9891Natural Resources, Climate change & land use, Natural resource management & governance, Agriculture-forest landscapes, Anthropology, International rural livelihoods
Associate Professor • Department of Computer Science • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
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 • College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
txia@uvm.edu (802) 656-8996Mixed Signal Circuit Design and Test, Adaptive Multifunctional Integrated Circuit Design, Reconfigurable Computing
WRI Senior Faculty Advisor, Professor • Department of Community Development and Applied Economics (CDAE) • College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Asim.Zia@uvm.edu (802) 656-4695Computational policy analysis, Governance networks, Social ecological systems, Coupled natural and human systems, Sustainable development, Food, energy and water systems