Faculty Directory

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	Aldridge, Cameron NREL (USGS) aldridge@nrel.colostate.edu website	Sage-grouse population demography; wildlife conservation and ecology; endangered species management; ornithology; prairie ecosystem ecology; ecological and statistical modelling at landscape and local scales; population dynamics
	Andelt, William FWCB billan@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Behavioral ecology of coyotes, and resolving conflicts with wildlife.
	Angeloni, Lisa Biology angeloni@lamar.colostate.edu website	Behavioral ecology; reproductive strategies; conservation biology.
	Angert, Amy Biology angert@colostate.edu website	Plant evolutionary ecology; geographic range limits;adaptation to environmental stress; spatial and temporal variation in natural selection.
	Antolin, Mike Biology (LTER) Michael.Antolin@ColoState.edu website	My laboratory group works on the effects of fragmented and patchy populations in evolution, genetics, and ecology. Currently, we study the epidemiology of plague in natural populations of Black-tailed prairie dogs and other small rodents on the short grass prairies of north-central Colorado
	Ayres, Ed NREL edayres@nrel.colostate.edu website	Plant-soil interactions, biodiversity and community composition; global change; aboveground and belowground herbivory; biogeochemistry; linking community and ecosystem ecology; forest, grassland and polar ecology.
	Baker, Bruce USGS bakerb@usgs.gov website	Beaver ecology and population dynamics, interaction of beaver and ungulate herbivory on riparian shrub communities, effects of beaver activity on riparian function, and effects of prairie dogs on plant and animal communities.
	Ballweber, Lora MIP Lora.Ballweber@Colostate.edu website	Parasite epidemiology; nematode systematics; assessment of Nematodirus battus; isolation, purification and charaterization of immunogenic antigens against gastrointestinal nematodes of cattle.
	Baron, Jill NREL (FRWS, USGS) jill@nrel.colostate.edu website	Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, integrating science into decision-making processes, and long-term dynamics of ecosystem processes.
	Bauerle, Bill HLA bauerle@colostate.edu	Ecophysiology and Stress Physiology (primarily drought and elevated temperature stress)
	Beck, George BSPM George.Beck@ColoState.edu website	Noxious weed invasion and management.
	Bestgen, Kevin LFL (FWCB) kbestgen@picea.cnr.colostate.edu website	Stream fish ecology and management.
	Binkley, Dan FRWS Dan.Binkley@colostate.edu website	Forest productivity, biogeochemical cycles, longterm dynamics of ecosystems.
	Bjostad, Louis BSPM lbjostad@lamar.colostate.edu website	Chemical interactions among insects and plants; infochemicals, including pheromones, kairomones, allomones.
	Bledsoe, Brian CEE brian.bledsoe@colostate.edu website	Stream and watershed processes - physical/biological, nonpoint source pollution, wetlands, restoration ecology, ecohydrology.
	Boone, Randall NREL (FRWS) rboone@nrel.colostate.edu website	Spatial analysis, ecosystem modeling with agent-based approaches, ecosystem sustainability, speciation.
	Bowser, Gillian FWCB (WCNR) gbowser@colostate.edu	Parks and conservation ecology; the interaction of people with parks especially in terms of natural resources; ecology and equity - how climate change impacts parks and protected areas and the disparate impacts on different communities and cultures associated with those parks
	Breck, Stewart NWRC (FWCB) Stewart.W.Breck@aphis.usda.gov	Human-wildlife conflict, carnivore ecology.
	Brown, Cynthia BSPM Cynthia.S.Brown@ColoState.edu website	Patterns of invasion; impacts of invasive species; mechanisms of invasion and community and ecosystem restoration.
	Brown, Peter RMTR (FRWS) pmb@rmtrr.org website	Dendrochronology, reconstructing multi-century changes in forest dynamics and fire and climate regimes.
	Burke, Indy University of Wyoming (FRWS) iburke@uwyo.edu website
	Burnham, Ken FWCB kenb@lamar.colostate.edu website	Statistical inference, population sampling.
	Calisher, Charlie MIP calisher@cybersafe.net website	Evolution of arboviruses and other viruses; ecology, epidemiology, and epizoology of viruses; virus classification and taxonomy; development of rapid methods for arbovirus isolation and identification.
	Carr, Natasha USGS (FRWS) carrn@usgs.gov website	Avian ecology, fire ecology, wetland dynamics, prairie dog ecosystems.
	Chong, Geneva NREL (FRWS, USGS) geneva_chong@usgs.gov website	I use a landscape ecology approach to understand systems' reactions to disturbances (e.g., management actions; land-use; the presence or absence of natural disturbance regimes such as fire.)
	Clark, Larry USDA (FWCB) Larry.Clark@aphis.usda.gov	Animal damage control, sensory biology, chemical ecology, wildlife diseases, wildlife epidemiology, West Nile virus, avian influenza.
	Clements, Will FWCB willc@cnr.colostate.edu website	Aquatic ecotoxicology, community responses to contaminants, fate & effects of heavy metals in streams, ecological risk assessment.
	Conant, Rich NREL (FRWS, SoGES) conant@nrel.colostate.edu website	Soil carbon dynamics and the impacts of land use management/change on soil carbon, primarily in grasslands and agroecosystems.
	Coop, Jonathan USFS-RMRS jcoop@fs.fed.us	Ecology and conservation of plant communities; montane and subalpine grasslands, treeline ecotones, tree seedling ecophysiology, and landscape change.
	Cooper, David FRWS davidc@cnr.colostate.edu	Wetland ecosystem studies, wetland vegetation ecology, wetland restoration and creation, wetland hydrology.
	Cotrufo, Francesca NREL (SCS) francesca.cotrufo@colostate.edu	Plant-soil atmosphere C and N dynamics as affected by global changes; terrestrial ecosystems stable isotope ecology
	Coughenour, Michael NREL (FRWS) mikec@nrel.colostate.edu website	Pastoral and grazing ecosystems, spatial ecosystems modeling, GIS & remote sensing,responses of ecosystems to climate & CO2, coupled ecosystem & atmospheric models; savanna ecology, Africa, National Parks in Rocky Mtn. region.
	Crooks, Kevin FWCB kcrooks@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Conservation biology; wildlife ecology and behavior; carnivore ecology
	Denning, Scott Atmospheric Science denning@atmos.colostate.edu website	Atmosphere-biosphere interactions; global carbon cycle; use of atmospheric data to interpret and constrain understanding of ecosystem processes; spatial scaling of ecosystem process understanding using numerical simulations and atmospheric constraints.
	Detling, Jim Biology (NREL) James.Detling@ColoState.edu website not taking new students	Plant-herbivore interactions, grassland ecology, global change effects, physiological plant ecology.
	Doherty, Paul FWCB Paul.Doherty@Colostate.edu website	Population and community ecology
	Elder, Kelly Geosciences kelder@fs.fed.us website	Snow hydrology, snowmelt modeling, snow avalanches, surface hydrology, glaciology, geomorphology.
	Fassnacht, Steven FRWS (Geosciences) srf@cnr.colostate.edu website	Snow Hydrology; hydrological processes; snow-ecology interactions; hydrological modeling
	Fausch, Kurt FWCB kurtf@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Ecology and management of streams, fish, and food webs.
	Fernandez-Gimenez, Maria FRWS gimenez@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Rangeland ecology & management; community-based natural resource management; monitoring & adaptive management; pastoral development
	Fisher, Chris Anthropology ctfisher@lamar.colostate.edu website	Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory, regional analysis, prehispanic agriculture, land-use, landscape archaeology, geoarchaeology intensification and resilience.
	Flather, Curtis USFS-RMRS (FWCB) cflather@fs.fed.us website	Landscape ecology, spatial analysis, macroecology, influence of land use change on population and community dynamics, indicators of ecosystem stress.
	Florant, Greg Biology Gregory.Florant@ColoState.edu website	Physiological ecology, animal adaptation to environments, regulation of food intake and body mass, hibernation.
	Friedman, Jonathan USGS (Geosciences) friedmanj@usgs.gov website	Fluvial geomorphology and riparian plant ecology; invasive plants, phenology, and climate change.
	Funk, Chris Biology Chris.Funk@colostate.edu website	Speciation and the evolution of reproductive isolation; the effects of landscape structure on genetic variation and evolutionary trajectories; conservation of amphibians and other threatened vertebrates.
	Galvin, Kathy Anthropology (NREL) kathy@nrel.colostate.edu website	Human ecology, human adaptability, human dimensions of global environmental change, arid and semiarid ecosystems, pastoralism, household economics, diet and nutrition, Africa, Central Asia.
	Gao, Wei NREL (SCS) wgao@uvb.nrel.colostate.edu website	Atmospheric/vegetation canopy radiation transfer modeling, UV (ultraviolet) radiation, UV radiation and other climate stress factors influences on plants, satellite remote sensing, impact of climate change and regional climate modeling/ecosystem modeling.
	Ghalambor, Cameron Biology Cameron.Ghalambor@ColoState.edu website	Evolutionary ecology
	Graff, Gregory ARE gregory.graff@colostate.edu website	The economics of innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture, where the positive and negative ecological impacts of new technologies can be a major driver and/or a major constraint
	Ham, Jay SCS jay.ham@colostate.edu website	Environmental physics and micrometeorology; long-term CO2 and H2O flux monitoring by eddy covariance; global climate change and field-scale carbon budgets; instrumentation development; soil-plant-water relations; and effects of animal feeding operations on air and water quality
	Hanan, Niall NREL (FRWS) niall.hanan@colostate.edu website	Ecosystem and community ecology of savannas and drylands in Africa and globally; vegetation, carbon, water and biogeochemical dynamics; land surface-atmosphere interactions with emphasis on savannas, climate change and land use; systems modeling and remote sensing.
	Hobbs, Tom NREL (FRWS) nthobbs@nrel.colostate.edu website	Nutritional ecology of herbivores, impacts of development on wildlife habitat, land-use and climate change.
	Holtzer, Thomas BSPM Thomas.Holtzer@ColoState.edu website	Population dynamics, behavior, and biological control of insects; Integrated Pest Management (IPM); ecology and management of invasive species; sustainable agriculture; and management of dryland cropping systems.
	Hufbauer, Ruth BSPM hufbauer@lamar.colostate.edu website	Ecology and genetics of invasions, plant-insect interactions and biological control, ecological and population genetics.
	Hunter, Don USFWS Don_Hunter@fws.gov	Large cat ecology, especially mountain lion and snow leopard; biodiversity conservation in central Asia; technology applications to resource management.
	Huyvaert, Kate FWCB kate.huyvaert@colostate.edu website	Wildlife disease ecology; application of field and laboratory techniques to questions in population biology, behavioral ecology, and wildlife conservation, particularly with tropical seabirds.
	Jacobi, William BSPM william.jacobi@colostate.edu website	Forest pathology, shade tree susceptibility to cankers & other fungal diseases, interactions of soils, meterological, and site factors.
	Johnson, Brett FWCB brett@cnr.colostate.edu website	Trophic interactions in aquatic ecosystems, limnology and water quality, fisheries management, bioenergetics, population dynamics.
	Joyce, Linda USFS-RMRS (FRWS) ljoyce@fs.fed.us website	Climate change impacts on forests, ecosystem health, ecosystem modeling, indicators of ecosystem sustainability
	Kalkhan, Mohammed NREL mohammed@nrel.colostate.edu website	Biometrics, spatial statistics, sampling methods and designs; geospatial information science; ecological-environmental forecasting; invasive species forecasting systems; landscape ecology; fire ecology, fuel variability, burn severity, modeling, mapping; wetlands, depressional wetlands assessments; landuse, landcover change
	Kampf, Stephanie FRWS skampf@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Physical hydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, hydrologic modeling, watershed management
	Kanatous, Shane Biology shane.kanatous@colostate.edu website	Oxygen metabolism; especially on the control and regulation of skeletal and cardiac muscle adaptations to extreme environmental conditions such as hypoxia
	Kaufmann, Merrill USFS-RMRS mkaufmann@fs.fed.us website	Historical forest ecology, fire history, ecosystem management, restoration.
	Kelly, Gene SCS eugene.kelly@colostate.edu website	Pedology, biogeochemistry, forest and range soils.
	Khosla, Raj SCS raj.khosla@colostate.edu website	Precision agriculture: management of spatially variable Agro-Ecosystems
	Klein, Julia FRWS jklein@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	My research examines how grassland and alpine ecosystems are responding to global changes and human activities, including climate warming, extreme weather events, and changing grazing management practices.
	Klein, Donald MIP Donald.Klein@colostate.edu website	Environmental microbiology, plant soil microbe interactions, metals and microbes
	Knapp, Alan Biology Alan.Knapp@ColoState.edu website	Plant ecology, physiological ecology, grasslands, global change, plants and herbivores, ecosystem and community ecology.
	Knight, Richard FWCB knight@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Wildlife ecology, conservation biology.
	Kondratieff, Boris BSPM bkondrat@ceres.agsci.colostate.edu website	Pest insect ecology, neotropical insect systematics and geographic variation, forensic entomology.
	LaBelle, Jason Anthropology Jason.LaBelle@ColoState.edu website	I am an archaeologist interested in human-environmental relationships, specifically during periods of climatic change such as the terminal Pleistocene.
	Laituri, Melinda FRWS mell@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Environmental equity, resource management, indigenous knowledge, risk, hazards, GIS.
	Landolt, Gabriele Clinical Sciences gabriele.landolt@colostate.edu	Virus and host factors controlling the species specificity of influenza A virus.
	Lauenroth, William University of Wyoming (FRWS) wlauenro@uwyo.edu website	Plant community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and ecohydrology
	Lefsky, Michael FRWS lefsky@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Remote sensing of vegetation structure and function
	Liston, Glen Atmospheric Science liston@cira.colostate.edu website	My professional focus has been the research and parameterization of land-surface hydrology, vegetation, and boundary layer processes for local- regional- and global-scale land-atmosphere interaction models operating at climate, and shorter, time scales.
	Loomis, John ARE john.loomis@colostate.edu website	Non market valuation, environmental economics
	MacDonald, Lee FRWS leemac@cnr.colostate.edu website	Effects of changes in land use on runoff, erosion, and downstream aquatic resources, with special emphasis on wildfires, forest management, roads, and urbanization; cumulative watershed effects; monitoring; hillslope and wetland hydrology.
	Magennis, Ann Anthropology Ann.Magennis@ColoState.edu website	Human ecology and human adaptability in contemporary and past human populations. Speifically, my interests are in human coping strategies and responses to disease, diet, and nutritional stress, most recently to include East African pastoralists.
	Manfredo, Mike HDNR manfredo@cnr.colostate.edu website	Application of social sciences to natural resource issues with emphasis on theory building and improving the application of social science to decision-making.
	Martin, Patrick HLA patrick.martin@colostate.edu website	The ecology and dynamics of landscapes: tropical montane forests, exotic plant invasions, and climate change–combining field data with spatially-explicit models and remote sensing in the study of forests dynamics
	McKay, John BSPM jkmckay@colostate.edu website	The ecology and genetics of local adaptation.
	Meiman, Paul FRWS pmeiman@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Invasive plant ecology and management, plant community dynamics, ecology and mangement of riparian systems, plant herbivore interations, exurban development.
	Miller, Mike CDW (Clinical Sciences) mike.miller@state.co.us	Ecology and management of infectious & parasitic diseases of free-ranging wildlife populations.
	Moore, Chet MIP Chester.Moore@ColoState.edu website	Ecology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases; alien and invasive disease vectors.
	Moore, Janice Biology Janice.Moore@ColoState.edu website	Ecology and evolution of parasites; parasite-induced behavioral alterations.
	Moore, John NREL (FRWS, LTER) jcmoore@nrel.colostate.edu website	My research interests have taken two directions - theoretical and applied ecology, and education and outreach. As an ecologist my research has focused on the analysis of complex systems, with an emphasis on the biological and biogeochemical interactions in soils.
	Mueller, Rachel Biology rachel.mueller@colostate.edu website	Phylogenetic systematics, evolutionary biology, vertebrates, comparative methods, genomics.
	Muths, Erin FWCB muthse@usgs.gov website	Amphibian decline and conservation, small mammal ecology and general herpetology.
	Myrick, Chris FWCB chris.myrick@colostate.edu website	Fish physiological ecology; aquaculture
	Naug, Dhruba Biology (BSPM) dhruba@lamar.colostate.edu website	Behavioral ecology and dynamics of social groups, cognitive ecology of individuals, social insects.
	Noon, Barry FWCB brnoon@cnr.colostate.edu website	Population ecology of terrestrial vertebrates; conservation planning for threatened and endangered species; environmental monitoring; the interface between science and land-use policy.
	Norton, Andrew BSPM Andrew.Norton@ColoState.edu website	Ecology and evolution of pests (including arthropods, weeds and pathogens) and their natural enemies, including pest management systems.
	Ode, Paul SCS Paul.Ode@ColoState.edu website	Plant-insect interactions, especially multi-trophic interactions involving plant chemistry, insect herivores, and natural enemies.
	Ogle, Stephen NREL (SCS) ogle@nrel.colostate.edu	In general, I am interested in understanding and quantifying the drivers of global change in terrestrial ecosystems, providing a deeper appreciation of the inter-relationships among those drivers and the consequences for key environmental processes.
	Ojima, Dennis NREL (FRWS) dennis.ojima@colostate.edu website	Global change studies on biochemical and ecosystems dynamics.
	Parton, Bill NREL (FRWS) billp@nrel.colostate.edu website	Ecological modeling, atmosphere-biosphere interactions.
	Paschke, Mark FRWS Mark.Paschke@colostate.edu website	Ecology and restoration of disturbed ecosystems, soil ecology, biology of Frankia and actinorhizal plants, plant-microbe interactions.
	Paustian, Keith NREL (SCS) keithp@nrel.colostate.edu website	Soil ecology and ecosystem biogeochemistry, particularly as it relates to management effects on soil processes governing organic matter and nutrient dynamics.
	Pejchar, Liba FWCB liba.pejchar@colostate.edu website	Conservation Biology, Restoration Ecology, Avian Ecology
	Perry, Laura USGS lperry@lamar.colostate.edu website	Riparian ecosystems; exotic plant invasions; restoration ecology; plant community ecology; climate change
	Pickering, Kathy Anthropology Kathleen.Pickering@ColoState.edu website	I am interested in Indigenous peoples and natural resource management issues, including collaborative co-management, interactions with national parks, and access to and management of subsistence resources.
	Pilon-Smits, Elizabeth Biology epsmits@lamar.colostate.edu website	Ecological aspects of plant selenium hyperaccumulation, phytoremediation, plant nutrition.
	Poff, LeRoy Biology poff@lamar.colostate.edu website	Aquatic community ecology, community responses to environmental alteration and climate change in streams and rivers.
	Qian, Yaling HLA yaling.qian@colostate.edu website	My primary research focus is in the areas of turfgrass management and stress physiology. Evaluate turfgrasses for their ability to tolerate environmental stresses; determine the morphological and physiological mechanism controlling turfgrass response.
	Ramirez, Jorge CEE ramirez@engr.colostate.edu website	Hydrology, hydrometerology and water resources.
	Reardon, Ken CBE reardon@engr.colostate.edu	Environmental biotechnology with emphasis on microbial ecology
	Reich, Robin FRWS robin@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Application of spatial statistics to natural and environmental resource problems.
	Reynolds, Richard USFS-RMRS (Biology, FWCB) rreynolds@fs.fed.us website	Animal ecology, food webs, forest ecosystem function, restoration and management.
	Rhoades, Chuck USFS-RMRS (FRWS) crhoades@fs.fed.us website	Biogeochemistry of subalpine watersheds, evaluating nutrient cycling linkages between upland, riparian, and aquatic ecosystems. Interested in the role of riparian soils and vegetation in regulating nitrogen and carbon retention and loss from forest water.
	Rocca, Monique FRWS rocca@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Fire Ecology and Management, Plant Community Ecology, Landscape Ecology
	Romme, Bill FRWS romme@warnercnr.colostate.edu website	Fire effects on communities & ecosystems, fire history, landscape dynamics, vegetation patterns.
	Root, Jeff NWRC (FWCB, MIP) jeff.root@aphis.usda website	Wildlife disease ecology, epidemiology, mammalogy, and population ecology.
	Ryan, Michael USFS-RMRS (FRWS) mgryan@fs.fed.us website	Terrestrial carbon cycle, ecophysiology, ecosystem modeling, ecosystem carbon-nutrient interactions.
	Sanderson, John The Nature Conservancy (Biology, FRWS) jsanderson@tnc.org	The role of hydrology in the conservation of freshwater species and ecosystems, freshwater conservation planning, wetland ecology, and evapotranspiration.
	Sanford, William Geosciences bills@cnr.colostate.edu website	Groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured porous media, investigated with noble gas, stable and radiogenic isotopes.
	Savidge, Julie FWCB jsavidge@cnr.colostate.edu website	Impacts and management of exotic species; conservation biology; wildlife ecology
	Schimel, Dave NCAR (FRWS) schimel@ucar.edu website	Ecosystem ecology, global biogeochemical cycles.
	Schoettle, Anna USFS-RMRS (FRWS) aschoettle@fs.fed.us website	Plant ecophysiology, treeline, conifer architecture, carbon allocation, white pine ecology (limber, bristlecone and whitebark pines), tree establishment after fire.
	Schweiger, Billy NPS (FRWS) Billy_Schweiger@nps.gov website	Development of rigorous, ecologically and statistically relevant long term monitoring and assessment approaches for protected areas like national Development of rigorous, ecologically and statistically relevant long term monitoring and assessment approaches for protected areas like national Development of rigorous, ecologically and statistically relevant long term monitoring and assessment approaches for protected areas like national parks.
	Scott, Mike USGS (FRWS) scottm@usgs.gov website	Biology and ecology of cottonwood and other western riparian species. I am also involved in efforts to develop a predictive understanding of how western riparian vegetation responds to human-induced changes in stream and groundwater hydrology, and related channel processes.
	Seidl, Andrew ARE andrew.seidl@colostate.edu website	Economics of land use planning and ag land/open space preservation, agricultural and environmental policy analysis, natural resource based economic development, tourism and Latin America.
	Sibold, Jason Anthropology jason.sibold@colostate.edu website	I am a geographer with research interests centered on understanding natural and anthropogenic drivers of forest eocsystem dynamics and change, with the goal of aiding forest ecosystem management, restoration and conservation. More specifically, I am interested in the influences of physical landscapes, biological characteristics, climate variability, and human land-use history on spatiotemporal patterns of fire and insect outbreaks and resulting forest landscape.
	Simmons, Mark Biology psimmons@lamar.colostate.edu website	Systematic botany
	Skagen, Susan USGS (FWCB) skagens@usgs.gov website	Western North America landbird and shorebird migration systems; climate change and agricultural impacts on interior prairies and wetlands and their associated avifauna.
	Snodgrass, Jeffrey Anthropology Jeffrey.Snodgrass@ColoState.edu website	I am most interested to understand how culture-specific relations to natural environments facilitate or compromise human health and well-being. In India, I am currently working to understand how deforestation and loss of access to forest spaces and resources - for example, through the establishment of wildlife preserves - impact indigenous systems of health and healing. In addition, I research the religious and political dimensions of indigenous peoples' resource use. I employ cognitive anthropological and political ecological approaches in much of my work.
	Steingraeber, David Biology David.Steingraeber@ColoState.edu website	Ecological plant morphology
	Steltzer, Heidi Fort Lewis College (FRWS) steltzer@nrel.colostate.edu website	I am interested in characterizing the effects of global environmental changes on vegetation and the consequent effects of changes in vegetation on biogeochemical cycles and the ecosystem services that plants provide for human well-being. In particular, I'm interested in changes to the cycling and availability of carbon, nitrogen, and water in western U.S. and Arctic ecosystems.
	Stohlgren, Tom NREL (FRWS, USGS) toms@nrel.colostate.edu website	Invasion ecology, ecological forecasting, study design, scaling
	Stromberger, Mary SCS mary.stromberger@colostate.edu website	I am interested in the response of soil microbial structural and functional diversity to environmental perturbations and changes in land use management.
	Swift, David NREL (FRWS) davesw@nrel.colostate.edu website	Systems ecology, animal ecology and nutrition, human ecology, simulation modeling.
	Theobald, Dave HDNR david.theobald@colostate.edu website	Landscape ecology, conservation biology, land use changes, GIS, conservation planning.
	Vercauteren, Kurt NWRC kurt.c.vercauteren@aphis.usda.gov website	Wildlife damage management, ungulate disease management, interface between wildlife and domestic animals.
	Vivanco, Jorge HLA j.vivanco@colostate.edu website	Metabolism and biochemistry of biologically active compounds produced in plant roots, and the uses of plants for nutrition, pharmaceutical and agrochemical applications.
	von Fischer, Joe Biology Joe.von_Fischer@ColoState.edu website	Microbial ecology; terrestrial biogeochemistry; ecosystems ecology; plant-soil microbe interactions; greenhouse gases; climate change; stable isotopes; climate-biology interactions; paleoclimate
	Wall, Diana Biology (NREL, SoGES) diana@nrel.colostate.edu website	Soil nematode biodiversity, soil ecology, and ecosystem functioning, cold desert ecology Antartica.
	Wallenstein, Matt NREL (FRWS) mawallen@nrel.colostate.edu website	I am primarily interested in the role of microbial communities in soil process response to global change. My research combines biogeochemistry, microbial ecology, and soil ecology.
	Ward, Sarah SCS sarah.ward@colostate.edu website	Population genetics and biology of weedy and invasive plants.
	Webb, Colleen Biology (Mathematics) ctwebb@lamar.colostate.edu website	Theoretical evolutionary ecology, disease ecology and trait-based approaches in ecology.
	White, Gary FWCB gwhite@cnr.colostate.edu website Retired; no longer accepting new students	Analysis of population data, estimation of population parameters, quantitative ecology.
	Wilson, Ken FWCB kenneth.wilson@colostate.edu website	Wildlife ecology and conservation biology, especially related to impacts of human activities on wildlife, population ecology especially of small mammals, and understanding patterns of species richness and our ability to predict species distributions across the landscape.
	Wohl, Ellen Geosciences ellenw@cnr.colostate.edu website	Fluvial geomorphology