Name

Research Interest

Cameron Aldridge

In general, I am interested in wildlife conservation and ecology.  A focus is on shrub-steppe ecosystem ecology and the effects of energy developments on wildlife populations and habitats.  I am interested in population demography, endangered species management, ornithology, mammalogy, invasive species management, wildlife-habitat ecology, and biological conservation.  Almost all of my work involves aspects of ecological and statistical modeling at landscape and local scales. 

William Andelt

Behavioral ecology of coyotes, and resolving conflicts with wildlife.

Lisa Angeloni

Behavioral ecology; reproductive strategies; conservation biology.

Amy Angert

Plant evolutionary ecology; geographic range limits;adaptation to environmental stress; spatial and temporal variation in natural selection.

Michael Antolin

Population genetics and ecology infectious disease, especially plague in prairie dogs; metapopulation dynamics; host use in parasitic Hymenoptera.

Edward Ayres

Bruce Baker

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.

Lora Ballweber

Parasite epidemiology; nematode systematics; assessment of Nematodirus battus; isolation, purification and charaterization of immunogenic antigens against gastrointestinal nematodes of cattle.

Jill Baron

Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, integrating science into decision-making processes, and long-term dynamics of ecosystem processes.

William Bauerle

Ecophysiology and Stress Physiology (primarily drought and elevated temperature stress)

George Beck

Noxious weed invasion and management.

Stream fish ecology and management.

Dan Binkley

Forest productivity, biogeochemical cycles, longterm dynamics of ecosystems.

Louis Bjostad

Chemical interactions among insects and plants; infochemicals, including pheromones, kairomones, allomones.

Brian Bledsoe

Stream and watershed processes - physical/biological nonpoint source pollution, wetlands, restoration ecology, ecohydrology.

Randall Boone

Spatial analysis, ecosystem modeling with agent-based approaches, ecosystem sustainability, speciation.

Terence Boyle

Ecological risk analysis and long term monitoring.

Stewart Breck

Human-wildlife conflict, carnivore ecology.

Cynthia Brown

Patterns of invasion; impacts of invasive species; mechanisms of invasion and community and ecosystem restoration.

Peter Brown

Dendrochronology, reconstructing multi-century changes in forest dynamics and fire and climate regimes.

Ingrid Burke

Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, pedagogical techniques.

Kenneth Burnham

Statistical inference, population sampling.

Charles Calisher

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.

Geneva Chong

I am interested in designing and implementing research that uses 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.)

Larry Clark

Animal damage control, sensory biology, chemical ecology, wildlife diseases, wildlife epidemiology, West Nile virus, avian influenza.

William Clements

Aquatic ecotoxicology, community responses to contaminants, fate & effects of heavy metals in streams, ecological risk assessment.

Richard Conant

Soil carbon dynamics and the impacts of land use management/change on soil carbon, primarily in grasslands and agroecosystem

Jonathan Coop

Ecology and conservation of plant communities; montane and subalpine grasslands, treeline ecotones, tree seedling ecophysiology, and landscape change.

David Cooper

Wetland ecosystem studies, wetland vegetation ecology, wetland restoration & creation, wetland hydrology.

Michael Coughenour

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.

Kevin Crooks

Ecology, behavioral ecology, conservation biology.

Scott Denning

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.

James Detling

Plant-herbivore interactions, grassland ecology, global change effects, physiological plant ecology.

Paul Doherty

Population and community ecology.

Marlis Douglas

Large-scale patterns of biological diversity within the context of natural resource conservation.

Michael Douglas

Evolutionary and conservation biology, quantitative and molecular ecology, phylogenetic systematics

Kelly Elder

Snow hydrology, snowmelt modeling, snow avalanches, surface hydrology, glaciology, geomorphology.

Kurt Fausch

Ecology and management of streams, fish, and food webs.

Maria Fernandez-Gimenez

Rangeland ecology & management; community-based natural resource management; monitoring & adaptive management; pastoral development

Chris Fisher

Mesoamerican archaeology and ethnohistory, regional analysis, prehispanic agriculture, land-use, landscape archaeology, geoarchaeology intensification and resilience.

Curtis Flather

Landscape ecology, spatial analysis, macroecology, influence of land use change on population and community dynamics, indicators of ecosystem stress.

Gregory Florant

Physiological ecology, animal adaptation to environments, regulation of food intake and body mass, hibernation.

Jonathan Friedman

Fluvial geomorphology and plant ecology; interaction between riparian vegetation and fluvial processes.

Kathleen Galvin

Human ecology, human adaptability, human dimensions of global environmental change, arid and semiarid ecosystems, pastoralism, household economics, diet and nutrition, Africa, Central Asia.

Wei Gao

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.

Cameron Ghalambor

Evolutionary ecology.

Niall Hanan

Ecosystem ecology and land surface-atmosphere interactions, with emphasis on savanna and grasslands; ecosystem complexity and interactions of leaves, plants and canopies with the physical, chemical and biotic environment.

Thompson Hobbs

Nutritional ecology of herbivores, impacts of development on wildlife habitat, land-use and climate change.

Thomas Holtzer

Physiological ecology, quantitative ecology, population dynamics, landscape ecology, sustainable agriculture, integrated pest management, and mechanisms of crop yield reduction from insect feeding

Ruth Hufbauer

Ecology and genetics of invasions, plant-insect interactions and biological control, ecological and population genetics.

Don Hunter

Large cat ecology, especially mountain lion and snow leopard; biodiversity conservation in central Asia; technology applications to resource management.

Kate Huyvaert

Wildlife disease ecology; application of field and laboratory techniques to questions in population biology, behavioral ecology, and wildlife conservation, particularly with tropical seabirds.

William Jacobi

Forest pathology, shade tree susceptibility to cankers & other fungal diseases, interactions of soils, meterological, and site factors.

Brett Johnson

Trophic interactions in aquatic ecosystems, limnology and water quality, fisheries management, bioenergetics, population dynamics.

Linda Joyce

Climate change impacts on forests, ecosystem health, ecosystem modeling, indicators of ecosystem sustainability

Stephanie Kampf

Physical hydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, hydrologic modeling, watershed management

Merrill Kaufmann

Historical forest ecology, fire history, ecosystem management, restoration.

Eugene Kelly

Pedology, biogeochemistry, forest and range soils.

Donald Klein

Environmental microbiology, plant soil microbe interactions, metals and microbes

Julia Klein

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.

Alan Knapp

Plant ecology, physiological ecology, grasslands, global
change, plants and herbivores, ecosystem and community ecology.

Richard Knight

Wildlife ecology, conservation biology.

Boris Kondratieff

Pest insect ecology, neotropical insect systematics and geographic variation, forensic entomology.

Natasha Kotliar

Avian ecology, fire ecology, wetland dynamics, prairie dog ecosystems.

Jason LaBelle

I am an archaeologist interested in human-environmental relationships, specifically durinig periods of climatic change such as the terminal Pleistocene.

Melinda Laituri

Environmental equity, resource management, indigenous knowledge, risk, hazards, GIS.

Virus and host factors controlling the species specificity of influenza A virus.

William Lauenroth

Role of individual plants in ecosystem dynamics of grasslands and shrublands, simulation modeling.

Michael Lefsky

Remote sensing of vegetation structure and function

Glen Liston

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.

John Loomis

Non market valuation, environmental economics

Lee MacDonald

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.

Ann Magennis

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.

Michael Manfredo

Application of social sciences to natural resource issues with emphasis on theory building and improving the application of social science to decision-making.

Patrick Martin

Landscape ecology, exotic plant invasions, forest dynamics and modeling.

John McKay

The ecology and genetics of local adaptation.

Paul Meiman

Invasive plant ecology and management, plant community dynamics, ecology and mangement of riparian systems, plant herbivore interations, exurban development.

Michael Miller

Ecology and management of infectious & parasitic diseases of free-ranging wildlife populations.

Janice Moore

Ecology and evolution of parasites; parasite-induced behavioral alterations.

Chester Moore

Ecology of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases; alien and invasive disease vectors.

John Moore

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.

Erin Muths

Amphibian decline and conservation, small mammal ecology and general herpetology.

Fish physiological ecology; aquaculture

Dhruba Naug

Behavioral ecology and dynamics of social groups, cognitive ecology of individuals, social insects.

Barry Noon

Population ecology of terrestrial vertebrates; conservation planning for threatened and endangered species; environmental monitoring; the interface between science and land-use policy.

Andrew Norton

Ecology and evolution of pests (including arthropods, weeds and pathogens) and their natural enemies, including pest management systems.

Stephen Ogle

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.

Dennis Ojima

Global change studies on biochemical and ecosystems dynamics.

William Parton

Ecological modeling, atmosphere-biosphere interactions.

Mark Paschke

Ecology and restoration of disturbed ecosystems, soil ecology, biology of Frankia and actinorhizal plants, plant-microbe interactions.

Keith Paustian

Soil ecology and ecosystem biogeochemistry, particularly as it relates to management effects on soil processes governing organic matter and nutrient dynamics.

Laura Perry

My current research is focused on the roles of allelopathy and soil microbes in plant invasions. My work on allelopathy is aimed at quantifying the production of putative allelochemicals by invasive plants to assess the potential importance of allelopath as a mechanism of invasion.

Kathy Pickering

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.

Elizabeth Pilon-Smits

Ecological aspects of plant selenium hyperaccumulation, phytoremediation, plant nutrition.

LeRoy Poff

Aquatic community ecology, community responses to environmental alteration and climate change in streams and rivers.

Yaling Qian

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.

Jorge Ramirez

Hydrology, hydrometerology and water resources.

Brent Reeves

Mycorrihizae, population biology, ecology, cytology.

Robin Reich

Application of spatial statistics to natural and environmental resource problems.

Richard Reynolds

Animal ecology, food webs, forest ecosystem function, restoration and management.

Chuck Rhoades

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.

William Romme

Fire effects on communities & ecosystems, fire history, landscape dynamics, vegetation patterns.

Jeff Root

Wildlife disease ecology, epidemiology, mammalogy, and population ecology.

Michael Ryan

Terrestrial carbon cycle, ecophysiology, ecosystem modeling, ecosystem carbon-nutrient interactions.

John Sanderson

The role of hydrology in the conservation of freshwater species and ecosystems, freshwater conservation planning, wetland ecology, and evapotranspiration.

William Sanford

Groundwater flow and solute transport in fractured porous media, investigated with noble gas, stable and radiogenic isotopes.

Julie Savidge

Conservation biology, ecology and management of birds.

Dave Schimel

Ecosystem ecology, global biogeochemical cycles.

Anna Schoettle

Plant ecophysiology, treeline, conifer architecture, carbon allocation, white pine ecology (limber, bristlecone and whitebark pines), tree establishment after fire.

Michael Scott

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.

Andrew Seidl

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.

Johan Six

Soil organic matter and aggregate dynamics in agricultural, grassland and forest ecosystems. The relationship between biota, soil structure and soil organic matter is of particular interest to me in the context of C-sequestration in soils.

Susan Skagen

Agricultural impacts on prairie wetlands and migratory shorebirds; population demography of grassland birds; Western landbird migration systems; shorebird population monitoring.

John Stednick

Land use and water quality, biogeochemistry.

David Steingraeber

Ecological plant morphology.

Thomas Stohlgren

Plant ecology, patterns of plant diversity, sampling design & inventory techniques, forest ecotones, long-term monitering, landscape ecology, global change.

Mary Stromberger

I am interested in the response of soil microbial structural and functional diversity to environmental perturbations and changes in land use management.

David Swift

Systems ecology, animal ecology and nutrition, human ecology, simulation modeling.

Dave Theobald

Land use change and effects on biodiversity.

Lawrence Todd

Cultural ecology and archaeology of hunter-gatherers, Paleoindian/Paleolithic studies, human paleoecology, faunal analysis and vertebrate taphonomy, archaeological formation processes analysis/geoarchaeology, method and theory.

Joe Trlica

Primary productivity as affected by stressors, carbon budgets in terrestrial ecosystems, ecosystem restoration, riparian ecology, water use efficiency.

Kurt VerCauteren

Interests: wildlife damage management, ungulate disease management, interface between wildlife and domestic animals.

Jorge Vivanco

Metabolism and biochemistry of biologically active compounds produced in plant roots, and the uses of plants for nutrition, pharmaceutical and agrochemical applications.

Joseph von Fischer

Ecosystems ecology, biogeochemistry, stable isotopes, greenhouse gases, climate change, microbial ecology, paleoclimates.

Diana Wall

Soil nematode biodiversity, soil ecology, and ecosystem functioning, cold desert ecology Antartica.

George Wallace

Management of wildlands, protected area land use planning, ecosystem management.

Matthew Wallenstein

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.

Colleen Webb

Theoretical evolutionary ecology, resiliency, genomics, and
modeling.

Gary White

Now retired - no longer accepting new students. Analysis of population data, estimation of population parameters, quantitative ecology.

Kenneth Wilson

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. 

Ellen Wohl

Fluvial geomorphology.

Bruce Wunder

Physiological ecology, mammalogy.