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CIROH Faculty

CIROH Faculty

Carol Adair

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

carol.adair@uvm.edu

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Forestry, Natural Resources
Research: Global climate change, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry

Appala Raju Badireddy

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

raju.badireddy@uvm.edu

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

Rebecca Diehl

Research Assistant Professor

rebecca.diehl@uvm.edu

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

Brendan Fisher

Professor • Director, Environmental Program

brendan.fisher@uvm.edu

Scott Hamshaw

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

shamshaw@uvm.edu

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

Instructional program: Environmental Sciences
Research: Watershed hydrology, geomorphology, public engagement 

Scott C. Merrill

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

Scott.C.Merrill@uvm.edu

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 modeling.

Panagiotis (Takis) Oikonomou

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

panagiotis.oikonomou@uvm.edu

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

Taylor Ricketts

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

taylor.ricketts@uvm.edu

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Community & landscape ecology, ecosystem services, ecological economics, conservation biology, environmental policy, pollination ecology, biogeography, linking research & conservation communities

Donna Rizzo

Acting Chair and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

drizzo@uvm.edu

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

eric.roy.1@uvm.edu

Instructional programs: Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources
Research: Nutrient biogeochemistry & management, ecological engineering & design, aquatic ecology, food systems, material flow analysis

Severin Schneebeli

Adjunct Associate Professor • Department of Chemistry • College of Arts and Sciences

Severin.Schneebeli@uvm.edu

Organic synthesis, Supramolecular chemistry, Polymer chemistry, Theoretical/computational chemistry

Andrew Schroth

Research Associate Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences

Andrew.Schroth@uvm.edu

Areas of Expertise, Low Temperature Geochemistry and Environmental Mineralogy

Trisha Shrum

Associate Professor

tshrum@uvm.edu

  • CDAE 2660: Introduction to Community Entrepreneurship
  • CDAE 3670: Strategic Planning for Community Entrepreneurs
  • CDAE 6510: Research & Evaluation Methods

Christian Skalka

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

ceskalka@uvm.edu

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

Kristine "Kris" Stepenuck

Extension Associate Professor

kris.stepenuck@uvm.edu

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

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

Beverley Wemple

WRI Faculty Director • Professor • Department of Geography & Geosciences • College of Arts and Sciences

beverley.wemple@uvm.edu

Water resources, Geomorphology, GIS, Spatial modeling, Human-environment interactions, Mountain environments

Safwan Wshah

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Safwan.Wshah@uvm.edu

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

Asim Zia

Associate Dean of Research and Postgraduate Education • Professor

Asim.Zia@uvm.edu

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

Ana "Mindy" Morales-Williams

Assistant Professor • The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources

ana.morales@uvm.edu

Environmental Sciences,  Natural Resources,  Sustainability, Ecology and Policy, Limnology, Phytoplankton ecology, Biogeochemistry, Carbon cycling, Lake ecosystem ecology