E. Calvin Alexander Jr.
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Minneapolis
Phone: 612-624-3517
E-mail: alexa001@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/ALEXANDER.html
Research Interests:
Karst environmental geohydrology; groundwater pollution problems in fractured aquifers; non-point source pollution problems; age and residence times of groundwater; tracing of subsurface flow; isotope geohydrology.
Courses Taught:
Hydrogeology; Karst Hydrology/Tracing; Hydrogeology Field Camp; Geochronology; Perspectives on Energy, Water and Society; Planetary Geology |
James Almendinger
Senior Scientist, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota, and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and Department of Geology and Geophysics.
Phone: 651-433-5953 Ext. 19
E-mail: dinger@smm.org
Web site:
http://www.smm.org/scwrs/people/almendinger/
Research Interests:
Watershed hydrology and modeling; lake, wetland, and groundwater hydrology; human impacts on the environment; Quaternary paleohydrology and paleoecology |
Roger E. A. Arndt
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-2883
E-mail: arndt001@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/arndt/
Research Interests:
Aeration; hydropower; fluid mechanics; hydraulics.
Courses Taught:
Fluid Mechanics (Intro-Advanced); Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Water Resources Engineering; Hydropower; Turbulence |
Todd Arnold
Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-2220
E-mail: arnol065@umn.edu
Web site:
http://fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/arnold.php
Research Interests:
Ecology and management of wetland-dependent wildlife, with emphasis on waterfowl.
Courses Taught:
FW 1002: Wildlife Conservation; FW 5051: Analysis of Populations; FW 5571: Avian Conservation and Management (waterfowl portion) |
William Arnold
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-8582
E-mail: arnol032@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/arnold/
Research Interests:
Fate and abiotic transformations of anthropogenic chemicals in natural and engineered aquatic systems; adsorption and reaction kinetics modeling.
Courses Taught:
Environmental Water Chemistry; Chemistry of Organic Pollutants in Environmental Systems; Experimental Methods in Environmental Engineering |
Jay Austin
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Large Lakes Observatory Duluth.
Phone: 218- 726-8773
E-mail: jaustin@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/jaustin.html
Research Interests:
Coastal Physical Oceanography as well as the physics of estuaries and lakes; direct observations of physical properties in coastal, estuarine and lacustrine systems; numerical simulations of physical properties, particularly process-oriented idealized models of systems; instrument development.
Courses Taught:
Physical Limnology; Classical Physics |
Richard Axler
Senior Research Associate and Research Limnologist, Center for Water and the Environment, Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth.
Phone: 218-720-4316
E-mail: raxler@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.nrri.umn.edu/staff/raxler.asp
Research Interests:
Lake and water quality management and restoration; aquatic ecosystem responses to pollutants; nutrient cycling and food web dynamics web-based environmental education; constructed treatment wetlands.
Courses Taught (irregularly):
Limnology; Water Pollution Biology; Managing Lakes and Streams |
John M. Baker
Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-4249
E-mail: jbaker@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/John_Baker.html
Research Interests:
Soil/atmosphere interactions, including trace gas transport, transport processes in frozen soils, micrometeorology and hydrology of snowmelt, carbon cycling in agricultural systems. |
Lawrence A. Baker
Senior Fellow, Water Resources Center, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-7708
E-mail: baker127@umn.edu
Web site:
http://wrc.umn.edu/people/lawrencebaker/index.htm
Research Interests:
Environmental engineering with emphasis on natural systems and applied biogeochemistry, urban ecosystems; nutrient cycling; water quality; wetland treatment systems; aquatic ecosystems.
Courses Taught:
Water Resources: Individuals and Institutions |
Randal J. Barnes
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-5828
E-mail: barne003@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/barnes/
Research Interests:
Application of geostatistical techniques to groundwater sampling design.
Courses Taught:
Computer Applications in Civil Engineering; Engineering Geostatistics |
Marvin Bauer
Professor, Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-3703
E-mail: mbauer@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.forestry.umn.edu/people/facstaff/bauer/index.html
Research Interests:
Satellite remote sensing of land, vegetation and water resources.
Courses Taught:
Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and Environment; Digital Remote Sensing |
Dennis R. Becker
Assistant Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy, Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-7286
E-mail: drbecker@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.forestry.umn.edu/people/facstaff/becker/index.html
Research Interests:
Social and economic impact analysis, community forestry, collaborative planning, social dimensions of ecological restoration and monitoring, public land management policy.
Courses Taught:
ESPM 2021 (3) Environmental Sciences – Integrated Problem Solving; ESPM 3141W/5241 (3) Natural Resource and Environmental Policy; ESPM 4242/5242 (3) Methods in Natural Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis |
James (Jay) C. Bell
Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-6703
E-mail: jaybell@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Jay_Bell.html
Research Interests:
Soil genesis and morphology; soil hydrology and formation of hydromorphic soils; digital terrain analysis; spatial analysis and modeling of soil-landscapes.
Courses Taught:
Wetland Soils; Soil Genesis and Landscape Analysis; Orientation to Environmental Science: Soil Geomorphology Field Tour; Freshman Seminar: Human Impact on the Environment: Then and Now |
David Biesboer
Professor, Department of Plant Biology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-1799
E-mail: biesboer@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/plantbio/faculty/BiesboerDavid/
Research Interests:
Ecophysiology and anatomy of aquatic macrophytes; nutrient cycling in marsh ecosystems.
Courses Taught:
General Botany; Developmental Plant Anatomy |
Paul R. Bloom
Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-4711
E-mail: prb@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Paul_Bloom.html
Research Interests:
Soil chemistry with interest in the applications of basic principles of chemistry to problems in soil science including metal ion interactions with humic substances (e.g. mercury), phosphorous chemistry related to bioavailability, iron chlorosis, and soil fertility in wild rice production
Courses Taught:
Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy |
Valerie J. Brady
Research Associate, Department of Biology, Natural Resources Research Institute, and Minnesota Sea Grant, Duluth.
Phone:
218-720-4353; 218-726-8714
E-mail:
vbrady@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~vbrady
Research Interests:
Watershed influences on riparian habitat and aquatic community structure and function; restoration of streams and wetlands; use of the aquatic invertebrate community for diagnostic assessment and monitoring of streams and wetlands; use of stable isotopes to analyze aquatic ecosystem functions.
Courses Taught:
Wetlands Ecology |
Donn K. Branstrator
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-9422
E-mail: dbranstr@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/biology/faculty/branstrator.html
Research Interests:
Zooplankton ecology and evolution; aquatic food webs; large lakes.
Courses Taught:
General Ecology; Ecology Lab; Field Limnology; Plankton Biology |
Patrick L. Brezonik
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis
On leave 2004-2006. Currently serving as Program Director for Environmental Engineering at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia. Current email address: pbrezoni@nsf.gov
Phone: 612-625-0866
E-mail: brezonik@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/brezonik/
Research Interests:
Water quality; pollutant behavior in lakes; water chemistry; nutrient cycling processes; metal chemistry and cycling in aquatic systems; effects of atmospheric contaminants on aquatic systems; hydrological and limnological applications of satellite imagery.
Courses Taught:
Aquatic Chemistry; Environmental Water Chemistry; Water Resources: Individuals and Institutions |
Kenneth N. Brooks
Professor, Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-2774
E-mail: kbrooks@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.forestry.umn.edu/people/facstaff/brooks/index.html
Research Interests:
Forest hydrology; peatland/wetland hydrology; hydrologic modeling; role of watershed science and management in sustainable development.
Courses Taught: Forest Hydrology; Forest and Wetland Hydrology; Agroforestry: Role in Watershed Science and Management |
Erik T. Brown
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth; and Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Program in Water Resources Science, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-8891
E-mail: etbrown@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/etbrown.html
Research Interests:
Trace element geochemistry in lakes and rivers; cosmic ray exposure dating; climate history.
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Environmental Science; Inorganic Geochemistry; Seminar in Isotope Geochemistry; Limnology II: Chemical and Biological Limnology |
Paul D. Capel
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-3082
E-mail: capel001@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/capel/
Research Interests:
Aquatic chemistry of organic contaminants; movement of pesticides and herbicides through hydrologic cycle, including atmospheric transport, runoff, river, and groundwater transport.
Courses Taught:
Environmental/Aquatic Chemistry (UG and G) |
Charles J. Clanton
Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, St. Paul
Phone: 612-625-9218
E-mail: cjclanton@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.bbe.umn.edu/Clanton.html
Research Interests:
Agricultural waste management; food processing waste management; land application of waste; on-site sewage treatment.
Courses Taught:
Engineering Principles of Soil-Water-Plant Systems; Agricultural Waste Management Engineering |
Steve Colman
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, and Director, Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth
Phone: 218-726-6723
E-mail: scolman@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/scolman.html
Research Interests:
Paleolimnology; paleoclimate reconstruction; lacustrine sedimentary processes; seismic-reflection stratigraphy.
Courses Taught:
Global Climate Change; Glacial Geology |
James B. Cotner
Associate Professor, Malcolm Moos Chair in Freshwater Biology, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-1706
E-mail: cotne002@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/CotnerJames/
Research Interests:
Biological limnology and oceanography; biogeochemistry; microbial ecology.
Courses Taught:
Limnology (Graduate and Undergraduate); Biogeochemistry |
K. William Easter
Professor, Department of Applied Economics, and Director of the Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-7728
E-mail: easte001@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/weaster/
Research Interests:
Water resource management in U.S. and developing countries; benefit/cost analysis including investment strategies for different natural resource systems; and water pollution problems in the U.S. with particular emphasis on agricultural pollution.
Courses Taught:
Economics of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy; Natural Resources and Environmental Economics |
Karlyn Eckman
Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor, Water Resources Center and Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul.
Phone:
612-625-6781
E-mail: eckma001@umn.edu
Web site:
http://wrc.umn.edu/people/karlyneckman/
Research Interests:
Evaluation research; impact evaluation; social dimensions of water and forestry in developing countries; natural resources property rights; participatory assessment methods; and international forestry and water policies, planning and programs.
Courses Taught:
Directed/independent studies courses |
Mark Edlund
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Associate Research Scientist, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota.
Phone: 651-433-5953 Ext: 26
E-mail: mbedlund@smm.org
Web site:
http://www.smm.org/scwrs/people/edlund/
Research Interests:
Paleolimnology; linking paleoecology to aquatic resource management, taxonomy, systematics, and life histories of diatoms; and large lakes and rivers.
Courses Taught:
Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms (summer field course taught at Iowa Lakeside Laboratory through Iowa State University) |
Daniel Engstrom
Director, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota and Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics
Phone: 651-433-5953 Ext:11
E-mail: dre@smm.org
Web site:
http://www.smm.org/scwrs/people/engstrom/
Research Interests:
My research centers on the use of lake sediment records to understand long-term environmental change, particularly the effects of human activities on water quality, atmospheric chemistry, and biogeochemical processes on a global scale. I'm particularly interested in approaches that quantify the magnitude and rates of change and establish mechanistic linkages to modern-day systems. |
Mindy L. Erickson
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering and Research Scientist, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Phone: 651-297-8383 (at MPCA)
E-mail:
eric0984@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.bbe.umn.edu/admin/M_Erickson
Research Interests:
Bio-geochemical influences on the fate and transport of environmental contaminants in aqueous systems; emerging contaminants and other types of emerging environmental issues. Examples of current projects include developing a better understanding of the distribution of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in Minnesota’s ambient environments (http://www.pca.state.mn.us/cleanup/pfc/), and assessing the effect of increased, concentrated infiltration of stormwater runoff on ground water chemistry.
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Leonard C. Ferrington Jr.
Professor, Department of Entomology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-3265
E-mail: ferri016@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.entomology.umn.edu/faculty/ferrington/ferringtoncv.html
Research Interests:
Modeling the responses of aquatic insect communities to water pollution;
Ecology, taxonomy, and systematics of Chironomidae and other aquatic insects.
Courses Taught:
ENT 5361 Aquatic Insects; ENT 5081 Insects, Aquatic Habitats & Pollution |
Jacques Finlay
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-4672
E-mail: jfinlay@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/FinlayJacques/
Research Interests:
Limnology; biogeochemistry; food web and ecosystem ecology; land-water interactions; stable isotope applications in ecological research
Courses Taught:
Limnology; Stream and Watershed Ecology |
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-627-4595 or 612-626-0369
E-mail: efi@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/foufoula/
Research Interests:
Space-time modeling of radar rainfall; scaling issues in hydrologic processes; frequency analysis of extreme events; geomorphology and hydrologic response; subsurface transport processes; groundwater monitoring design.
Courses Taught:
Hydrology and Hydrologic Design; Stochastic Hydrology; Special Topics in Hydrology |
David Fulton
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-5256
E-mail: dcfulton@umn.edu
Web site:
http://fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/fulton.php
Research Interests:
Human dimensions of fish and wildlife, natural resource policy; wildlife and fisheries planning; natural resource negotiation and decision processes; benefits-based management of fish and wildlife resources. |
Susan Galatowitsch
Professor, Departments of Horticultural Science and Landscape Architecture, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-3242
E-mail: galat001@tc.umn.edu
Web site: http://www.consbio.umn.edu/SG/
Research Interests:
Wetland ecology; restoration ecology; landscape ecology.
Courses Taught:
Landscape Ecology; Restoration and Reclamation Ecology |
Christina D. Gallup
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, and Adjunct Faculty at the Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth
Phone: 218-726-8984
E-mail: cgallup@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~cgallup/
Research Interests:
Paleoclimatology, including the study of sea level change in the last 500,000 years, and the geochemistry of natural waters and fossil carbonates.
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Environmental Science; Earth's Climate and Environment Past and Future; Geochronology |
Florence K. Gleason
Professor, Department of Plant Biology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-4275
E-mail: iqa6016@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/plantbio/faculty/GleasonFlorence/
Research Interests:
Chemical ecology of aquatic plants |
Jeffrey A. Gralnick
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and The BioTechnology Institute, St. Paul
Phone: 612-626-6496
E-mail: gralnick@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.bti.umn.edu/gralnick/
Research Interests:
Microbial physiology and geomicrobiology - molecular mechanisms to understand how bacteria influence geochemical cycles in aquatic environments
Courses Taught:
Microbial Physiology and Diversity |
Karen Gran
Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Duluth.
Phone:
218-726-7406
E-mail:
kgran@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~kgran
Research Interests:
Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport, watershed history, disturbed systems, stream restoration, volcanic geomorphology
Courses Taught:
GEOL 3210: Geomorphology; GEOL 5260: Fluvial Geomorphology |
Timothy Griffis
Associate Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul
Phone:612-625-3117
E-mail: tgriffis@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.biometeorology.umn.edu/
Research Interests:
Biometeorology; boundary layer meteorology; carbon and water cycling; application of stable isotope techniques to problems in land-atmosphere science
Courses Taught:
Biometeorology ESPM 5402, The Atmosphere ESPM 1425 |
Stephanie J Guildford
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology and Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth.
Phone:
218-726-8064
E-mail:
sguildfo@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/sguildford.html
Research Interests:
Phytoplankton ecology in relation to interacting physical, chemical and biological processes with a focus on the health and productivity of African and North American great lakes
Courses Taught:
General Ecology, Algal Ecology and Physiology |
John S. Gulliver
Joseph T. and Rose S. Ling Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-4080
E-mail: gulli003@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/gulliver/
Research Interests:
Major research interests are environmental fluid mechanics, mass transport in environmental systems, and flow and mass transport at hydraulic structures. Current research projects include the measurement and prediction of air-water mass transfer at hydraulic structures, developing new assessment techniques for water quality performance of stormwater treatment practices, and establishing the relationship between free-surface turbulence and gas transfer.
Courses Taught:
Fluid Mechanics; Hydrologic Design; Urban Hydrology and Land Development; Environmental Mass Transport |
Satish C. Gupta
Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-1241
E-mail: gupta002@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Satish_Gupta.html
Research Interests:
Water and contaminant transport through soil; fate and transport of antibiotics; antibiotic feeding in food animals and emergence of antibiotic resistance bacteria; surface and subsurface hydrologic processes; frozen soil hydrology; preferential transport processes; soil and river bank erosion; soil water relations; manure and other agricultural waste application impacts on surface and subsurface water quality.
Courses Taught:
Contaminant Hydrology (ES 4216); Vadose Zone Hydrology (Soils 5232); Advanced Soil Physics (Soils 8252) |
Lorin K. Hatch
HDR Engineering Inc., Twin Cities
E-mail: lorin.hatch@hdrinc.com
Research Interests:
Sediment and nutrient transport in streams; impaired waters and TMDL listing, lake restoration techniques; watershed nutrient modeling. |
Robert E. Hecky
McKnight Presidential Endowed Professor in Lake Ecology,
Department of Biology and Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-7926
E-mail: rhecky@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/bhecky.html
Research Interests:
Productivity and nutrient cycling in the Great Lakes; tropical limnology and fisheries; benthic-pelagic coupling; applications of stable isotopes to aquatic ecology; food web dynamics; paleolimnology
Courses Taught:
Biology 5861: Lake Ecology; Biology 2802: Ecology Laboratory |
Randall E. Hicks
Professor, Department of Biology, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-8438
E-mail: rhicks@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~rhicks/lab/Home.html
Research Interests:
Microbial ecology; limnology and oceanography; organic geochemistry; biodegradation
Courses Taught:
Microbial Ecology; Microbial Ecology Laboratory |
Brian H. Hill
Chief of the Watershed Research Branch, US Environmental Protection Agency and Senior Research Associate, Department of Biology, Duluth.
Phone: 218-529-5224
E-mail: hill.brian@epa.gov
Research Interests:
The ecology of streams, large rivers and wetlands; nutrient cycling and
energy flow in aquatic systems; ecological indicators. |
Kimberly Hill
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Twin Cities.
Phone: 612-626-0311
E-mail: kmhill@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/hill/
Research Interests:
Pattern formation in complex systems; pattern formation in nature, such as gravel patch formation; granular materials, experimental studies and computational modeling; particle-laden flows, such as debris flows and sediment transport; granular materials in road beds; river restoration.
Courses Taught:
CE 8502 Environmental Fluid Mechanics II; CE 8511 Mechanics of Sediment Transport (co-instructor) |
Sarah E. Hobbie
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-6269
E-mail: shobbie@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/labs/shobbie/
Research Interests:
Ecosystem ecology, carbon and nutrient cycling, decomposition, species effects on ecosystem processes, plant-soil interactions
Courses Taught:
Ecosystem Ecology (EEB 4609W/5609); Science and Policy of Global Environmental Change (EEB/FR 5146) |
Frances Homans
Professor, Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-6220
E-mail: homan004@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/fhomans/
Research Interests:
Resource management of fisheries, regulation of natural resources.
Courses Taught:
Applied Microeconomics; Consumers and Markets; Resource Economics |
Miki Hondzo
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-0053
E-mail: mhondzo@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/hondzo/
Research Interests:
Environmental fluid dynamics; fluid flow-biological-chemical interactions. Water quality and transport processes in lakes, rivers, and watersheds. |
George Host
Senior Research Associate, Center for Water and the Environment, Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth.
Phone: 218-720-4264
E-mail: ghost@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~ghost/
Research Interests:
Use of GIS in land use and planning/decision support systems; interactive Web technologies for delivering water quality information (public and student audiences); ecological indicators; multivariate analysis of community data, biocriteria, watershed/landscape modeling.
Courses Taught:
Landscape Ecology (UMD Biology Dept); Vegetation Sampling and Analysis (University College Workshop) |
Raymond M. Hozalski
Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-626-9650
E-mail: hozal001@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/hozalski/
Research Interests:
Water treatment; wastewater treatment; bioremediation of contaminated soil and groundwater; natural organic matter composition and reactivity.
Courses Taught:
Water and Wastewater Treatment; Remediation Technologies; Biofilms; Biological Processes |
Thomas Hrabik
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-7626
E-mail: thrabik@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/biology/faculty/hrabik.html
Research Interests:
Aquatic Ecology, Fisheries, Hydroacoustics.
Courses Taught:
Ichthyology; Fisheries Ecology |
Qiuqiong Huang
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul
Phone: 612-624-1692
E-mail: qhuang@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/qhuang/
Research Interests:
Environmental and natural resource economics; development economics; applied econometrics; economics of water resources.
Courses Taught:
Econometric Analysis I (APEC 8211) |
Emi Ito
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Professor and Director, Limnological Research Center, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-624-7881
E-mail: eito@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/ITO.html
Research Interests:
Study of past climates and paleohydrology using proxy records preserved in lake sediments; interaction of groundwater with lakes and wetlands.
Courses Taught:
Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Geology; Earth System: Geosphere-Biosphere Interactions; Climate Change and Human History; Isotope Geology |
Carrie E. Jennings
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics and Senior Scientist, Minnesota Geological Survey, Twin Cities (off-campus)
Phone: 612-627-4780 Ext: 220
E-mail: carrie@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/JENNINGS.html
Research Interests:
I am a glacial geologist with background in glaciology and geomorphology and an interest in process. I am interested in how glaciers respond to a variety of forces, how that affects the final sediment record in Minnesota, and how this helps us predict the behavior of modern ice sheets. I am also interested in how the distribution of glacial sediment in Minnesota affects the distribution and quality of resources including surface and ground water. I am currently applying my knowledge of the distribution of glacial sediment in Minnesota (as well as the history of landscape and river evolution) to better define sources of sediment to the modern river systems of Minnesota, most notably, the Minnesota River and its tributaries.
Courses Taught:
Glacial Geology |
Lucinda Johnson
Senior Research Associate and Associate Director, Center for Water and the Environment, Natural Resources Research Institute, Duluth.
Phone: 218-720-4251 or 218-720-4279
E-mail: ljohnson@nrri.umn.edu
Web site: http://www.nrri.umn.edu/staff/ljohnson.asp
Research Interests:
Aquatic ecology; interaction between landscapes and stream structure and function; landscape and habitat-scale factors influencing amphibian community structure and health; effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems.
Courses Taught:
Landscape Ecology; Wetland Ecology |
Thomas C. Johnson
Regents Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Director, Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-8128 or 218-726-7639
E-mail: tcj@d.umn.edu
Web site: http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/tjohnson.html
Research Interests:
Sedimentary processes in large lakes; paleoclimatology; seismic reflection profiling; side-scan sonar; geochemistry.
Courses Taught:
Global Climate Change; Geological Limnology |
Nicholas Jordan
Professor,
Agronomy and Plant Genetics, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-3754
E-mail: jorda020@umn.edu
Web site: http://agronomy.cfans.umn.edu/Jordan_Nicholas_R_Ph_D.html
Research Interests:
Adding plant diversity and perenniality to agricultural landscapes to improve water quality and hydrology as well as producing other 'ecological services' and agricultural commodities
Courses Taught:
Agronomy 5321, Ecology of Agricultural Systems |
Sergei Katsev
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, and Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth.
Phone:
218-726-6057
E-mail:
skatsev@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/skatsev.html
Research Interests:
Physics and geochemistry of lakes, estuaries, and oceans, sediment-water exchanges, bioturbation, reaction-transport modeling of sediment early diagenesis, physical modeling of lakes, biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nutrients, and major and trace metals, decision support for lake restoration, methane ebullition.
Courses Taught:
Classical Physics (more in development) |
Katherine Klink
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-3452 or 612-625-6080
E-mail: klink@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.geog.umn.edu/people/profile.php?UID=klink
Research Interests:
Climate-biosphere interaction; physical climatology; quantitative methods.
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Meteorology/ The Atmosphere; Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change; Climate Models and Modeling; Proseminar in Physical Geography; Seminar in Climatology |
Joe Knight
Assistant Professor, Departments of
Forest Resources and Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul
Phone:
612-625-5354
E-mail:
jknight@umn.edu
Web Site:
http://www.forestry.umn.edu/people/facstaff/knight/index.html
Research Interests:
Identifying and characterizing natural and anthropogenic landscape change using multispectral and multitemporal remotely sensed data, wetland delineation and characterization, thematic accuracy assessment methods development.
Courses Taught:
Remote Sensing of Natural Resources and Environment, Field Remote Sensing, Issues in the Environment |
Tim LaPara
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-624-6028
E-mail: lapar001@umn.edu
Web Site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/lapara/
Research Interests:
Biological wastewater treatment; wastewater microbiology; environmental microbiology; structure-function relationships in mixed microbial communities; microbial ecology; microbial evolution.
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Environmental Engineering; Water and Wastewater Treatment; Environmental Microbiology Laboratory; Environmental Microbiology: Molecular Theory and Methods |
Joe Magner
Senior Research Scientist (MPCA) and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Departments of Forest Resources; Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology; and Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, St. Paul.
Phone: 651-757-2546
Fax: 651-297-8676
E-mail: joseph.magner@state.mn.us or magne027@umn.edu
Research Interests:
Development of assessment and diagnostic tools for impaired waters (focus on impaired biota in streams, sediment/habitat issues) and using a watershed systems approach (hydrologic process and pathway analysis using geochemistry and isotopes); the development of tools for surface/groundwater interactions, (riparian wetlands, stream and lake/groundwater exchange) and the development of watershed best management practices (2-stage ditch).
Courses Taught:
ESPM 5111 (Field Hydrology and Water Quality); BBE 5533 (Assessment & Diagnosis of Impaired Waters) |
Katsumi Matsumoto
Assistant Professor, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-624-0275
E-mail: katsumi@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/MATSUMOTO.html
Research Interests:
Oceanography; biogeochemistry; carbon cycle; climate change; numerical modeling; earth system science; Lake Superior; fossil fuel CO2
Courses Taught:
Oceanography; Biogeochemical Cycles in the Ocean |
Kristopher McNeill
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-0781
E-mail: mcnei014@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/mcneill/
Research Interests:
Aquatic photochemistry; chemical fate of organic pollutants in aquatic systems; chemical reactions involved in the photochemical-microbial utilization of dissolved organic matter; fundamentals of dehalogenation reactions.
Courses Taught:
Physical Organic Chemistry |
Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Professor, Department of
Horticultural Science, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-3665; 952-443-1447
E-mail:
meyer023@umn.edu
Web site:
http://horticulture.cfans.umn.edu/Mary_Meyer.html
Research Interests:
Ornamental, native and turfgrass culture and cold hardiness; alternative lawns; using grasses for restoration; herbaceous plants
Courses Taught:
Hort 4000: International Experiences in Horticulture; Hort 3000 English Garden History; Hort 1015: Woody and Herbaceous Plants; Hort 1003: Horticulture for the Home and Garden |
Elizabeth C. Minor
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-7097
E-mail: eminor@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/eminor.html
Research Interests:
Relationships between the packaging of aquatic organic matter (in various size classes and particle morphologies), the molecular level characteristics of this organic matter, and the reactivity of this material in the water column. Various techniques employed include direct-temperature resolved mass spectrometry, electrospray mass spectrometry, FTIR, flow cytometry, size-exclusion chromatography, and ultrafiltration.
Courses Taught:
Chemical Limnology; Organic Chemistry; General Chemistry |
John F. Moncrief
Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-2771
E-mail: moncr001@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/John_Moncrief.html
Research Interests:
Effects of soil management and crop production on groundwater and surface water; transformation of nitrogen and transport through soil to aquifers; sediment, phosphorus, and biochemical oxygen demand transport across the landscape or through tile and entry into surface waters. |
Howard Mooers
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-7239 or 218-726-7238
E-mail: hmooers@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~hmooers/
Research Interests:
Hydrogeology of glacial sedimentary environments; sedimentology, stratigraphy, and glacial landform genesis; spatial distribution of recharge; surface water/groundwater interaction; isotopic composition of glacial meltwater. |
David Mulla
Professor and W. E. Larson Chair, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-6721
E-mail: mulla003@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/David_Mulla.html
Research Interests:
Watershed science and management of non-point source surface and groundwater pollution, use of GIS and simulation modeling to assess risk and uncertainty in site-specific vulnerabilities.
Courses Taught:
Soil Conservation and Land-Use Management |
Laura Musacchio
Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-626-0810
E-mail: musac003@umn.edu
Web site: http://landarch.cdes.umn.edu/people/musacchio.php
Research Interests:
Water-sensitive development; sustainable metropolitan landscapes; environmentally beneficial cultural landscapes; landscape ecology; landscape regeneration; spatial analysis.
Courses Taught:
Landscape Ecology; Urban Ecology; Landscape Planning; Restoration Design; Ecological Design |
Edward A. Nater
Professor and Department Head, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-1725
E-mail: enater@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Edward_Nater.html
Research Interests:
Biogeochemical processes of mercury and other pollutants; fate and behavior of atmospherically-deposited pollutants; wet soils; peatlands.
Courses Taught:
Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy |
Kristen Nelson
Associate Professor, Departments of Forest Resources and Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-1277
E-mail: kcn@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.forestry.umn.edu/people/facstaff/nelson/
Research Interests:
Community participation in natural resource planning and knowledge formation; environmental dispute resolution; conservation and sustainable development; community forestry and agroforestry; political and cultural ecology in forest and agricultural ecosystems; social science indicators for pollution prevention; human choice and nutrient cycling in urban ecosystems; multi-stakeholder dialogues and collaboration.
Courses Taught:
Conflict Management, Leadership, and Planning; Sustainable International Development |
Raymond M. Newman
Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, St. Paul; Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Program in Water Resources Science, Twin Cities.
Phone: 612-625-5704
E-mail: rnewman@umn.edu
Web site:
http://fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/newman.php
Research Interests:
Aquatic ecology and trophic relations; effects of exotics; plant herbivore interactions; biological control of macrophytes including Eurasian watermilfoil.
Courses Taught:
Fisheries Ecology and Management; Stream and River Ecology; Aquatic Exotics |
John L. Nieber
Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-6724
E-mail: nieber@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.bbe.umn.edu/Nieber.html
Research Interests:
Hydrologic modeling; groundwater quality; coupled flow and transport processes in porous media; hydrology of cold regions; drainage of agricultural lands.
Courses Taught:
Water Management Engineering; Transport in Biological Systems; Coupled Heat, Moisture and Chemical Transport in Porous Media |
Paige J. Novak
Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-626-9846
E-mail: novak010@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/novak/
Research Interests:
Groundwater remediation; pollutant fate; environmental microbiology; anaerobic systems.
Courses Taught:
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management; Principles of Environmental Engineering; Biological and Chemical Processes for Wastewater Treatment; Environmental Microbiology |
Patrick Nunnally
Program Coordinator and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Institute on the Environment and Department of Landscape Architecture, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-626-7014; 612-624-3739
E-mail: pdn@umn.edu
Web site:
http://environment.umn.edu/riverlife
Research Interests:
Water policy; planning and design at the water/human intersections; history and politics of water in the United States
Courses Taught:
Learning from the Landscape, Making the Mississippi, Planning and Design at World Heritage Sites |
Chris Paola
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Director, National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, Minneapolis
Phone: 612 624-8025
E-mail: cpaola@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.geo.umn.edu/orgs/seds/
Research Interests:
Sedimentation; river dynamics; sedimentary basin evolution.
Courses Taught:
Introductory Oceanography; Depositional Mechanics; Sedimentology and Stratigraphy; Graduate Seminars in River Mechanics |
John Pastor
Professor, Department of Biology, Duluth
Phone: 218-726-7001
E-mail: jpastor@nrri.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/biology/faculty/pastor.html
Research Interests:
Forest and wetland ecology; effects of climate change.
Courses Taught:
Biology and Society; Mathematical Ecology; Issues in Global Change; Evolutionary Biology; Forest Ecology |
R. Lee Penn
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-626-4680
E-mail: penn@chem.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.chem.umn.edu/groups/penn/
Research Interests:
Solid-state environmental chemistry: Chemical reactivity of natural and synthetic nanoparticles, chemistry at the solid-liquid interface, tracking solid-state changes as degradation reactions proceed, role of nanoparticles in fate and transport of natural and anthropogenic chemical species in the environment.
Courses Taught:
Materials Characterization; Garbage (Freshman seminar); Green (Freshman seminar); General Chemistry; Introduction to Nanoparticle Science and Engineering |
James Perry
Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-4717
E-mail: jperry@umn.edu
Web site:
http://fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/perry.php
Research Interests:
Water quality, interpreted as an applied ecological approach to water resource decision making at the scale of landscapes and larger areas; development and evaluation of informed policy and decision making tools; water resources education and decision making in non-US countries.
Courses Taught:
The Role of Water Quality in Natural Resources Management (ESPM 65061); Tropical Water Quality: Jamaica (CFANS 5500 Section X, taught in the January term) |
David G. Pitt
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Minneapolis
Phone: 612-625-7370
E-mail: pittx001@umn.edu
Web site:
http://landarch.cdes.umn.edu/people/pitt.php
Research Interests:
Regional landscape planning; applications of GIS technology to natural resource planning; landscape perception; and development of collaborative decision-making systems for landscape and land use planning.
Courses Taught:
Making Regional Space; Environmental and Infrastructure Planning |
Steve Polasky
Fessler Lampert Professor of Ecological/ Environmental Economics, Department of Applied Economics and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-9213
E-mail: spolasky@apec.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/spolasky/
Research Interests:
Biodiversity conservation, endangered species policy, common property resources, game-theoretic models of resource extraction, and environmental regulation.
Courses Taught:
Economics of the Environment; Natural Resource Economics; Economic and Social Aspects of Conservation Biology; Applied Game Theory |
Fernando Porte-Agel
McKnight Land-Grant Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-8055
E-mail: fporte@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/porte/
Research Interests:
Land-atmosphere exchange processes, turbulence and computational fluid dynamics. The main goal is to better understand the physics underlying transport of momentum, heat, water vapor and pollutants at different scales in the atmospheric boundary layer.
Courses Taught:
Hydrological Design; Computational Environmental Fluid Dynamics; Atmospheric Boundary Layers. |
Euan Reavie
Director and Research Associate, Center for Water and the Environment, Natural Resources Research Institute, Ely Field Station.
Phone: 218.235.2184
E-mail: ereavie@nrri.umn.edu
Web site: http://www.nrri.umn.edu/staff/ereavie.asp
Research Interests:
Lake and river paleoecology; development of algal bioindicators for pollution; management and restoration of eutrophic lakes. |
Pamela Rice
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate; USDA/ARS Soil and Water Management Unit, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-9210
E-mail: pamrice@umn.edu or Pamela.Rice@ars.usda.gov
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Pam_Rice.html
Research Interests:
Fate and transport of plant and animal protection products; development of management strategies to reduce pesticides loss with runoff from agricultural and non-agricultural environments; evaluate environmental impact and toxicological significance of chemical residues. |
Carl Richards
Director, Environmental Protection Agency Laboratory, Duluth and Professor, Department of Biology, Duluth
Phone: 218-529-5010
E-mail: Richards.Carl@epamail.epa.gov
Research Interests:
Stream ecology; aquatic ecology; landscape ecology; ecological indicators. |
Carl Rosen
Professor and Extension Soil Scientist, Departments of Soil, Water and Climate and Horticultural Science, St. Paul
Phone: 612-625-8114
E-mail: crosen@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Carl_Rosen.html
Research Interests:
Impact of crop production on nutrient leaching/runoff; nutrient cycling in crop production fields and managed landscapes; recycling of municipal and industrial wastes as soil amendments; composting and compost utilization.
Courses Taught:
None at this time; Guest lecturer in Soil 3416 (Nutrients in the Environment) and Hort 3070 (Organic Production) |
Anthony (Tony) Runkel
Chief Geologist, Minnesota Geological Survey and Adjunct Professor Department of Geology and Geophysics, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-627-4780 Ext: 222
E-mail: runke001@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/RUNKEL.html
Research Interests:
Groundwater, with emphasis on flow through macropores in bedrock; stratigraphic control on macropore development; quantification of hydraulic properties; borehole geophysics with applications to groundwater research.
Courses Taught:
Geochronology; Assorted freshman-level geology courses on irregular basis |
Martin O. Saar
Assistant Professor and Gibson Chair of Hydrogeology and Geofluids Department of Geology and Geophysics, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-7332
E-mail: saar@umn.edu
Web sites: http://talc.geo.umn.edu/orgs/geofluids/people_saar_home.html; http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/SAAR.html ; http://www.geo.umn.edu/orgs/camp/hydrocamp
Research Interests:
Numerical modeling of (hydro)geological/geophysical fluid mechanical processes. Some field and laboratory work to collect data and/or to test simulations and/or to obtain (water/rock) samples. Also, laboratory experiments with water or corn syrup (or other analog fluids): Specific interests include: hydrogeology, physics of groundwater flow, multiphase and multicomponent fluid flow (e.g., water, steam, oil, contaminants, heat, etc.), surface-groundwater interactions, fluid mechanics, numerical modeling of fluid flow, Lattice-Boltzmann simulations, field pump tests and aquifer property determinations, percolation theory, fluid (including bubbly suspension) rheology, aquifer poroelasticity (including fluid-induced seismicity), volcanology, magma/lava flow dynamics, volcanic eruption dynamics, volcano hydrology, and geothermal energy resource modeling and evaluation.
Courses Taught:
GEO 1001: Earth and Its Environments; GEO 3202: Geodynamics-II: The Fluid Earth; GEO: 4010/8980 Coupled Heat and Fluid Flow in the Earth's Crust; GEO: 4971 Hydrogeology Summer Field Course; GEO 5701: General Hydrogeology |
Michael J. Sadowsky
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate; Director, BioTechnology Institute; and Department of Microbiology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-2706
E-mail: sadowsky@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Michael_Sadowsky.html
Research Interests:
Determining sources of fecal pollutants in Minnesota watersheds; biochemistry, genetics, and ecology of microorganisms degrading Atrazine and other s-triazine-containing compounds; biodegradation and bioremediation of recalcitrant haloorganic herbicide compounds. Molecular plant-microbe interactions.
Courses Taught:
Microbial Ecology; Biotechnology; Microbiology |
Gary R. Sands
Associate Professor and Extension Engineer-Water Resources, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering
Phone: 612-625-4756
E-mail: grsands@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.bbe.umn.edu/sands.html
Research Interests:
Water management and water quality, with an emphasis on agricultural systems |
Ingrid E. Schneider
Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources, Director, Tourism Center, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-2250
Email: ingridss@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.tourism.umn.edu/about/staff/schneider.html
Research Interests:
Social impacts of watershed development, recreation, tourism
Courses Taught:
Landscape level planning for recreation, Analysis of outdoor recreation behavior, Nature-based tourism |
Mark W. Seeley
Professor/Extension Climatologist, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-4724
E-mail: seele002@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Mark_Seeley.html
Research Interests:
Climatology and meteorology with emphasis on agricultural applications; measurement systems and network density requirements; climatic indices for use of agrichemicals; remote sensing.
Courses Taught:
Issues in the Environment |
Matt F. Simcik
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-626-6269
E-mail: msimcik@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.sph.umn.edu/faculty/faculty.asp?x5=msimcik
Research Interests:
Atmospheric behavior and deposition of organic pollutants to aquatic systems; gas-particle partitioning, atmospheric deposition, air-water and air-terrestrial exchange, source apportionment, and phototoxicity.
Courses Taught: Air Pollution (PubH 5197) |
Peter Sorensen
Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-4997
E-mail: soren003@umn.edu
Web site: http://fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/sorensen.php
Research Interests:
Physiology and behavior of fish; olfaction; fish reproductive biology; pheromones; control of exotics; fish migration; aquatic chemical ecology.
Courses Taught:
FW 4401 Introduction to Fish Physiology and Behavior; FW 8461 Advanced Topics in Fish Physiology; FW 8462 Advanced Topics in Fish |
Fotis Sotiropoulos
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Director, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis
Phone: 612-624-2022
E-mail: fotis@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/sotiropo/
Research Interests:
Computational fluid dynamics with applications to environmental hydraulics, stream restoration, renewable energy systems, aquatic swimming, and cardiovascular flows
Courses Taught:
Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Computational Fluid Mechanics Turbulence |
Susan Stafford
Professor, Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-1234
E-mail: stafford@umn.edu
Research Interests:
Statistics and research information management; institutional dynamics. |
Heinz Stefan
Professor and J. L. Record Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-2810
E-mail: stefa001@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/stefan/
Research Interests:
Environmental hydraulics; water quality modeling; lake and reservoir hydrodynamics; hydraulic structures.
Courses Taught:
Fluid Mechanics; Hydraulic Structures; Modeling of Aquatic Environments I. Introduction; Modeling of Aquatic Environments II. Stratified Lakes and Reservoirs |
Steven Sternberg
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-6165
E-mail: ssternbe@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~ssternbe/
Research Interests:
Contaminant transport in heterogeneous porous media, bioremoval of heavy metals from aquatic systems.
Courses Taught:
Fluid Mechanics; Unit Operations Laboratory; Material Science and Engineering; Air Pollution Control. |
Robert Sterner
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-5700
E-mail: stern007@tc.umn.edu
Web sites:
http://www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/SternerRobert/
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~stern007/
Biological-chemical interactions, plankton ecology, eutrophication, herbivory.
Courses Taught:
Plankton Ecology; Ecology: Theory and Concepts |
Jason Stockwell
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Duluth; and Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Great Lakes Science Center-Lake Superior Biological Station
Phone: 715-682-6163
E-mail: jstockwell@usgs.gov
Web Site:
http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/
Research Interests:
Great Lakes fisheries, population dynamics, trophic interactions, restoration ecology, survey design |
Jeffrey Strock
Associate Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate; SW Research and Outreach Center, Lamberton, Minnesota.
Phone: 507-752-7372
E-mail: stroc001@umn.edu
Web Site:
http://www.swac.umn.edu/Jeff_Strock.html
Research Interests:
Management, conservation, and fate of nitrogen in terrestrial and aquatic agricultural ecosystems |
Sangwon Suh
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, St. Paul
Phone: 612-624-5307
E-mail: sangwon@umn.edu
Web Site: http://www.bbe.umn.edu/suh.html
Research Interests:
Coupled anthropogenic-natural hydrological cycle; Sustainable use of water and water use planing; intra and inter firm water resources recycling
Courses Taught:
ESPM 3602/5602 Environmental Regulatory Compliance; ESPM 3603/5603 Environmental Life Cycle Analysis; ESPM 3606/5606 Minimizing industrial emissions |
Deborah L. Swackhamer
Interim Director of the Institute on the Environment; Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Minneapolis; Co-Director, Water Resources Center, St. Paul
Phone: 612-626-0435 or 612-624-9282
E-mail: dswack@tc.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.sph.umn.edu/faculty/faculty.asp?x5=dswack
Research Interests:
Fate and transport of hydrophobic organic contaminants; fate of pesticides; bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs; source and effects of endocrine disruptors; environmental analytical chemistry.
Courses Taught:
Environmental Chemistry; Exposure to Environmental Hazards |
Edward Swain
Assistant Professor in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, and Research Scientist, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Saint Paul.
Phone: 651-296-7800
E-mail: swain006@umn.edu
Research Interests:
I am interested in how air pollutants can affect water quality. I mainly work on mercury, but also study acid rain, climate change, and materials carried by wind-blown dust such as phosphorus. As a state-employed researcher, I am involved in the development of policy and regulations concerning these air-borne pollutants. I also have developed a state-wide citizen monitoring program to build a database of ice cover dates on lakes, as a measure of climate change. |
John Swenson
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-6844
E-mail: jswenso2@d.umn.edu
Research Interests:
Mathematical modeling of sediment transport; landscape evolution; mass and heat transfer in porous media.
Courses Taught:
Physical Hydrogeology, Basin Analysis and Stratigraphy, Well Hydraulics, Regional Geomorphology |
Michael Sydor
Professor, Department of Physics, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-7205
E-mail: msydor@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jhiller/msydor.html
Research Interests:
Remote sensing of coastal zone waters; optical properties of suspended particulate; numerical modeling of mass transport and heat budget; hydrodynamics.
Courses Taught:
Environmental Physics: Hydrodynamics |
Steven J. Taff
Associate Professor/Extension Economist, Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-3103
E-mail: sjtaff@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.apec.umn.edu/faculty/sjtaff/
Research Interests:
Economics of water resources; agricultural and natural resource policy analysis; land economics. |
Harvey Thorleifson
Departmental Director, Minnesota Geological Survey, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-627-4780 Ext: 224
E-mail: thorleif@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.geo.umn.edu/people/profs/THORLEIFSON.html
Research Interests:
Regional analysis of groundwater systems, geological history of lakes, digital and 3D mapping systems. |
Brandy M. Toner
Assistant
Professor, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone:
612-624-1362
E-mail: toner@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~toner/
Research Interests:
Surface chemistry; mineralogy; aquatic chemistry; low-temperature geochemistry; soil chemistry; metal speciation; environmental microbiology; deep-sea Fe- and C-cycling; X-ray absorption spectroscopy and microscopy
Courses Taught:
SOIL4611 Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy |
Rodney T. Venterea
Soil Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor, USDA-ARS and Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-624-7842
E-mail: venterea@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=31831
Research Interests:
Measurement, modeling, and mitigation of N losses and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. |
Vaughan R Voller
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis.
Phone: 612-625-0764
E-mail: volle001@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.ce.umn.edu/people/faculty/voller/
Research Interests:
Numerical modeling of earth surface processes; stream restoration; modeling of fate and transport; numerical methods for moving boundary problems
Courses Taught:
Computational Methods; Fluid Mechanics. |
Bruce C. Vondracek
Minnesota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit and Adjunct Professor, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
Phone: 612-624-8748
E-mail: bvondrac@umn.edu
Web site:
http://fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/vondracek.php
Research Interests:
Interactions between land use, water quality, and aquatic organisms; predator-prey interactions; aquatic food web interactions.
Courses Taught:
Fish Habitats and Restoration; How to Excel in Graduate School
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Josef Werne
Associate Professor, Large Lakes Observatory, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-7639
E-mail: jwerne@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/llo/people/werne.html
Research Interests:
Applications of organic and isotopic biogeochemistry to paleoenvironmental studies, organic sulfur formation, organic matter remineralization, and isotopic fractionation mechanisms.
Courses Taught: Intro Chem, Chemical Limnology, Organic/Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemistry |
Bruce N. Wilson
Professor, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-6770
E-mail: wilson@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.bbe.umn.edu/wilson.html
Research Interests:
Hydrologic/water quality modeling of disturbed and agricultural watersheds; parameter uncertainty in mathematical models.
Courses Taught:
Watershed Engineering; Hydrology and Water Quality; Hydrologic Modeling of Small Watersheds |
Naomi Zeitouni
Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics, St. Paul.
Phone: 612-625-1941
E-mail: zeito001@umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.apec.umn.edu/staff/nzeitoun/
Research Interests:
Optimal extraction of water bodies, quantity and quality management, transboundary water management.
Courses Taught: (irregularly)
Environmental and Resource Economics; Microeconomics; Economic Aspects of Environmental Management |
Tongxin Zhu
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Duluth.
Phone: 218-726-8480
E-mail: tzhu@d.umn.edu
Web site:
http://www.d.umn.edu/geog/main/faculty_tongxinzhu.php
Research Interests:
Physical geography; hydrology; geomorphology; computer modeling; GIS. |
