Faculty & Advisors

ESPM Student Advisors: Sheryl Bolstad (sbolstad@umn.edu), Lauren McCarthy (lfmccart@umn.edu)
ESPM Major Coordinator: Dr. Joe Knight
CFANS Director of Student Services: Bill Ganzlin (bganzlin@umn.edu)

ESPM Faculty

• Arnold, Todd, Ecology and management of wetland-dependent wildlife, with emphasis on waterfowl.
• Ballen, Karen, Soil environmental microbiology
• Bell, Jay, Soil science and GIS.
• Blair, Robert, Effect of land use on birds and butterflies.
• Blinn, Charles R., Management, economics, marketing, and harvesting.
• Bolstad, Paul V., GIS in natural resource analysis, forest ecology and spatial
• Carlson, Stephan P., Youth development, park and recreation resources.
• Current, Dean, Resource analysis, international forestry.
• Cuthbert, Francesca, Conservation and biology of bird populations: waterbirds, shorebirds, endangered populations.
• Davenport, Mae, Human dimensions of natural resources and recreational management.
• Ek, Alan R., Resource inventory and monitoring design, modeling forest dynamics and resource analysis.
• Ferrington, Len, Aquatic entomology.
• Fleischmann, Forrest, Environmental and natural resource policy
• Griffis, Timothy, Climatology and biometeorology.
• Gupta, Satish, Soil and water conservation.
• Gutknecht, Jessica, Soil microbiology ecology
• Halbach, Thomas, Solid water management.
• Hill, Jason D., Bioproducts and biosystems engineering.
• Huelman, Patrick, Residential energy and building systems.
• Ishi, Satoshi, Aquatic Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Soil Environmental Microbiology
• Jelinski, Nic, Pedology
• Johnson, Gary R., Urban and community forestry.
• Jordan, Nicholas R., Application of plant population ecology to agricultural problems.
• Karwan, Diana L., Forest hydrology and watershed management
• Kilgore, Michael A., Natural resources economics and policy.
• Knight, Joe, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis.
• Millet, Dylan B., Chemical composition of the atmosphere.
• Montgomery, Rebecca A., Forest ecology, ecophysiology, tropical ecology.
• Mulla, David, Soil and water conservation, sustainable agriculture practices.
• Nater, Ed, Soil science, land use change.
• Nelson, Kristen, Environmental sociology, conflict management, and participatory planning and policy.
• Newman, Ray, Aquatic ecology and fisheries management.
• Perry, James, Science-policy linkage in natural resource management and applied aquatic ecology.
• Ramaswamy, Shri, Transport in porous media, process engineering and product development, bio-based polymers.
• Schilling, Jonathan, Biodeterioration and biodegradation.
• Schneider, Ingrid E., Recreation resource management.
• Seavey, Robert, Wood chemistry and home energy efficiency.
• Severtson, Steve, Surface and colloid science.
• Sheaffer, Craig, Alfalfa and forage management; sustainable cropping systems.
• Simons, Andrew, Fish biology and aquatic species conservation.
• Smith, J. David, Mammal conservation and community-based conservation.
• Smith, Tim, Green products, marketing, and corporate environmental management.
• Snyder, Peter, Climate science, interactions between atmosphere and biosphere.
• Toner, Brandy, Environmental geochemistry, metals in the biosphere.
• Twine, Tracy, Biosphere-atmosphere interactions, climate change, land cover.
• Wilson, Bruce, Quantity and quality of surface waters, agricultural watersheds.
• Yoo, Kyungsoo, Carbon cycle and weathering