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Brian Aukumabhaukema@umn.edu Research: Focuses on the landscape ecology of forest insects, with special emphasis on linking patterns observed across space and through time to individual- and community-level processes. |  |
Neil Andersonander044@umn.edu Research: Germplasm enhancement—R&D of new and improved flowering herbaceous perennials and specialty annuals for commercial floriculture; Risk assessment of invasive potential—creation and testing of non-invasive ideotypes for herbaceous ornamental crops. Website: www.horticulture.umn.edu/Who_sWho/Faculty/NeilAnderson/index.htm | |
Dave Andow (Co-PI)dandow@umn.edu Research: Ecology of Orius insidiosus in corn, use of Trichogramma in biological control in sweet corn, vegetational diversity and conservation of natural enemies, biological control of purple loosestrife, conservation and recovery of Karner blue butterfly, biotechnology science policy, ecology of insect species invasions, host plant resistance in corn, resistance management of transgenic plants. Website: www.entomology.umn.edu/People/GradFaculty/Andow/index.htm |
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Gary Balasbalas@umn.edu Research: Development of theoretical tools for nonlinear robustness analysis, theoretical extensions of nonlinear control algorithms, applying these theoretical developments to real world control problems, and experimentally validating results. |
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Roger L Beckerbecke003@umn.edu Research: Weed management strategies in annual and perennial systems in disturbed and undisturbed habitats. Current projects include purple loosestrife in wetlands, Canada thistle in native prairies, common buckthorn and garlic mustard in woodlands, commercial processing sweet corn and peas, biological control of weeds, and the environmental impacts of herbicide and non-herbicide weed management systems. Website: agronomy.cfans.umn.edu/People/FacultyDirectory/BeckerRoger/index.htm |
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Rob BlairBlairRB@umn.edu Research: Ecology of human-dominated landscapes, birds as indicators of ecological integrity, conservation of native species, environmental education. Website: fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/blair/index.htm | |
Donn Branstratordbranstr@d.umn.edu Research: Limnology, ecology and evolution of zooplankton, large plankton predators in pelagic food webs. Website: www.duluth.umn.edu/biology/faculty/Branstrator_page.htm |
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Lee Frelichfreli001@umn.edu Research: The response of boreal forests in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to the big blowdown of 1999, and the subsequent prescribed fires and wildfires; European earthworm invasion in forests and the impacts on soils and plant community structure; Restoration ecology of old growth forest remnants, including effects of fragmentation, deer grazing, global warming, and invasive species; Patterns of tree height in the eastern US. Website: cfhe.cfans.umn.edu |
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Susan M Galatowitsch (Co-PI)galat001@umn.edu Research: Restoration ecology; Understanding limitations to community reassembly; improving revegetation practices; Developing approaches for pre- and post- restoration assessments; Developing invasive species removal strategies and enhancing post-removal recovery enhancing ecosystem recovery after invasive species removal; Assessing risks of introduced aquatic plants. Website: www.consbio.umn.edu/SG |
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Robert Haighthaigh003@umn.edu Research: Public policy issues involving the economics of wildlife protection, metropolitan open space protection, wildfire management, and invasive species management; Modeling of resource management problems and use simulation and optimization methods to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative policies. Website: nrs.fs.fed.us/people/Haight |
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George Heimpelheimp001@umn.edu Research: Principles and application of biological control of arthropod pests; Behavioral, population and evolutionary ecology of natural enemies. Specific research initiatives include the implications of cover-cropping for biological control, the integration of biological control with resistance management in transgenic corn, population ecological implications of biased sex ratios in coccinellid beetles, and biological control of alfalfa blotch leafminer. Website: www.entomology.umn.edu/People/GradFaculty/Heimpel/index.htm |
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Sarah Hobbieshobbie@umn.edu Research: Ecosystem ecology, carbon and nutrient cycling, decomposition, species effects on ecosystem processes, plant-soil interactions. |
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Frances Homansfhomans@umn.edu Research: Natural resource economics, regulation of renewable natural resources, both in commercial and recreational settings. Website: www.apec.umn.edu/people/FacultyDirectory/FrancesHomans/index.htm |
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Terry Hurleyhurle008@umn.edu Research: Production and risk with an emphasis on the adoption and regulation of emerging technologies, including genetically engineered herbicide tolerant crops, genetically engineered plant-incorporated-protectants, and information intensive farm management. Website: www.apec.umn.edu/people/FacultyDirectory/TerranceHurley/index.htm |
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Bill Hutchisonhutch002@umn.edu Research: Aspects of integrated pest management (IPM) that supports sustainable vegetable and fruit production in the upper midwest. Current areas of interest include the long-term assessment of transgenic, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn for European corn borer management; development and validation of sequential sampling plans; integration of reduced-risk insecticides with native parasitic wasps for management of Lepidopteran pests; invasion biology and pest risk assessment; the development of a risk-based framework for IPM. Website: www.entomology.umn.edu/People/GradFaculty/Hutchison/index.htm |
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Doug Johnsondouglas_h_johnson@usgs.gov Research: Statistics, monitoring and inventory, quantitative ecology, birds; Influence of wind generators on breeding grassland birds; Use of conservation reserve program fields by breeding birds. Website: www.npwrc.usgs.gov/staff/johnson.htm | |
Galin Jonesgalin@stat.umn.edu Research: Website: www.stat.umn.edu/~galin/ |
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Nick Jordanjorda020@umn.edu Research: Ecological mechanisms relevant to the development of durably effective weed management systems that support the well-being of human communities in their social, economic and environmental dimensions. Website: agronomy.cfans.umn.edu/People/FacultyDirectory/JordanNicholasR/index.htm |
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Jennifer Kuzma (Co-PI)kuzma007@umn.edu Research: Biotechnology policy, regulatory policy, risk analysis, biochemistry/molecular biology, renewable energy programs, and nanotechnology policy. Website: www.hhh.umn.edu/people/jkuzma/ |
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Vera Krischikkrisc001@umn.edu Research: Effects of biorationals on scales and nontarget biological control agents in conservatories; Effects of formulations of Beauveria on controlling elm leaf beetle on foliage and in the mulch; Evaluation of population dynamics of herbivorous insects in shade trees and forests. Website: www.entomology.umn.edu/People/GradFaculty/Krischik/index.htm |
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David Langleylangl029@umn.edu Research: Teacher education within the discipline of kinesiology, faculty development models, assessment of student learning, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and professional development across the career span. |
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Diane Larsonlarso268@umn.edu Research: Ecological effects of alien plants in grassland ecosystems, effects of anthropogenic disturbance on native plant and animal communities in the northern Great Plains. |
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James J Lubylubyx001@umn.edu Research: Develop, evaluate, and introduce fruit cultivars with horticultural, disease and pest resistance, and fruit quality characters desired by growers and consumers in Minnesota and surrounding areas. In addition to developing new plant material, cultivated and wild germplasm is evaluated for variability for traits that potentially enhance the value of fruit crops for consumers and producers. Research aims to determine the inheritance of these traits and, where appropriate, map important loci using molecular markers. Website: www.horticulture.umn.edu/Who_sWho/Faculty/JimLuby/index.htm |
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Mary Meyermeyer023@umn.edu Research: Native and ornamental grasses, especially Miscanthus, Schizachyrium, and Pennisetum; Propagation and production of grasses including cold hardiness, and sustainability of grasses for landscaping, especially in northern climates; Alternative low maintenance turfgrasses. Dr. Meyer has researched species identification and seed bank analysis of escaped populations of Miscanthus in the Middle Atlantic States in conjunction with the National Park Service. Website: www.horticulture.umn.edu/Who_sWho/Faculty/MaryMeyer/index.htm |
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Rebecca Montgomeryrebeccam@umn.edu Research: Potential for projected climate change to alter tree species composition at the southern boreal-temperate forest ecotone; the role of physiological traits in adaptive radiation, with a focus on the Hawaiian lobeliads; the relative importance of above- versus belowground competition in structuring interactions between shrubs, herbs and trees in forest understories; the impact of diverse silvicultural practices on resource availability, regeneration and diversity in red pine forests in N. Minnesota. |
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Roger Moonrdmoon@umn.edu Research: Population ecology and management of arthropods that affect domesticated animals and people. We are currently working on mosquito vectors of West Nile virus around horse stables, insect transmission of PRRS virus among pigs, chemical ecology and behavior of bed bugs, population dynamics of stable flies, and nuisance thresholds for filth flies in residential communities. Website: www.entomology.umn.edu/People/GradFaculty/Moon/index.htm |
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Kristen Nelsonnelso468@umn.edu Research: My research contributes to the growing interdisciplinary understanding of environmental change and its dynamic with human systems. Current research includes human dimensions of wildfire planning, urban ecosystems: human choices and biogeochemical cycles, multi-functional agriculture: social networks and system change as well as multi-stakeholder dialogues and environmental risk assessment. My students and previous research focus on community participation in natural resource planning and knowledge formation, conservation management and sustainable development, community forestry. Recently I have collaborated on risk assessment with researchers in Kenya, Brazil, and Vietnam. Website: www.forestry.umn.edu/People/Nelson/
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Ray Newman (PI)newma004@umn.edu Research: Aquatic ecology and trophic relations; effects of exotics; plant herbivore interactions; biological control of macrophytes including Eurasian watermilfoil. Website: fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/newman/index.htm
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Karen Oberhauseroberh001@umn.edu Research: Invertebrate conservation and ecology, with particular interest in monarch butterflies; Citizen Science and ecological monitoring; Promoting a citizenry with a high degree of scientific and environmental literacy. Website: fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/oberhauser/
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Gary Oehlertgary@stat.umn.edu Research: Applied statistics; Some of the questions on which I have worked include: How do we interpret and improve tests for mutagenic compounds? Is the ozone layer being depleted? Is acid rain on the increase? Is the greenhouse effect already at work? How accurately can we now estimate the historic acidity of lakes? Which parts of the brain are active during certain tasks? Website: http://users.stat.umn.edu/~gary/ |
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Dan Philippondanp@umn.edu Research: Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place; human dimensions of conservation biology |
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Steve PolaskySPolasky@umn.edu Research: Ecological/environmental economics, biodiversity conservation and endangered species policy. |
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Dave Ragsdaledragsdale@tamu.edu Research: Integrated pest management of invasive arthropods, with a particular focus on aphids and aphids as vectors of plant pathogens. I also study the use of insect herbivores to control invasive perennial plants such as purple loosestrife, leafy spurge, garlic mustard and common buckthorn in a classical biological control approach to weed control. |
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Peter Reichpreich@umn.edu Research: Impacts of global environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems; Effects of climate change, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, other air pollutants, land use/management, fire and biotic invasion on health, biodiversity, and sustainability of forest and grassland ecosystems both in Minnesota and globally. Website: www.forestry.umn.edu/People/Reich/ |
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Carl RichardsRichards.Carl@epamail.epa.gov Research: Aquatic ecology, stream ecology, public education and outreach |
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Mike Sadowskysadowsky@umn.edu Research: Identification and examination of bacterial genes involved in the early periods of legume-microbe symbioses. Specifically, Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium genes that play a prominent role in host/microbe recognition and in the establishment of symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing nodules specific B. japonicum strains. Use of recombinant DNA methodologies to construct novel biodegradation pathways that will allow recombinant bacteria to aerobically degrade recalcitrant, halogenated, environmental pollutants. |
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Eric Seabloomseabloom@umn.edu Research: Drivers and impacts of invasions in a wide range of systems including coastal dunes, prairie wetlands, and annual grasslands; Role of viral pathogens in mediating species invasions |  |
Ruth Shawrshaw@superb.ecology.umn.edu Research: Evolutionary quantitative genetics; Plant population biology; Effects of spontaneous mutation on phenology, morphology and fitness in Arabidopsis thaliana; Evolutionary consequences of severe and abrupt fragmentation of prairie plant populations of Echinacea angustifolia; Genetic basis of variation in response to elevated CO2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. |
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Alan Smithsmith022@umn.edu Research: Physiology and molecular genetics of flower and pollen development; Production of transgenic tomato and Arabidopsis with altered expression of the flower-specific genes; Strategies for the control of reproduction and fertility of plants and to manipulate growth and size of plants. Website: horticulture.cfans.umn.edu/Who_sWho/Faculty/AlanSmith/ |
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Susan Solarzsola0005@umn.edu Background: Agriciulture policy, environmental policy, aquatic invasive plants, plant-insect interactions, invasive species policy, invasives in agriculture |
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Peter Sorensensoren003@umn.edu Research: Physiology and behavior of fish; olfaction; fish reproductive biology; pheromones; control of exotics; fish migration; aquatic chemical ecology |
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Deb Swackhamerdswack@umn.edu Research: Chemical and biological processes that control the fate of toxic organic contaminants in the aquatic environment, particularly bioaccumulation of persistent compounds in fish in the Great Lakes; Processes that control exposure to environmental estrogenic compounds; Development of contaminant indicators of ecosystem health. |
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David Tilmantilman@umn.edu Research: Ecological effects of human domination of the earth, including effects on ecosystem services of value to society; The ecological mechanisms controlling speciation, community assembly, species invasions and the evolution and maintenance of biodiversity; Population ecology and theory of community dynamics and biodiversity; Role of resource competition; Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; Effects of habitat destruction. |
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Rob Venettevenet001@umn.edu Research: Invasion biology and population ecology of exotic species; Statistical methods to quantify risks associated with pink bollworm on cotton; Geographic information systems to monitor and predict spread of alfalfa blotch leafminer on alfalfa; Monitoring strategies to detect small populations of Bt-resistant European corn borer in transgenic Bt corn; Modeling pest population dynamics; Risk assessment approaches for exotic plant-parasitic nematodes; Soil processes that contribute to sustainable agriculture. Website: www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/Venette | 
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Paul VenturelliResearch: Management of invasive fish | |
Sanford Weisbergsandy@stat.umn.edu Research: Graphics, regression, diagnostics, data analysis. Website: www.stat.umn.edu/~sandy/ |
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Don Wysewysex001@umn.edu Research: Perennial weed management in agronomic crops, with special emphasis on perennial grass and legume seed production; Influence of tillage on perennial weed development and management; Perennial weed ecology and biology; Mechanism of bud dormancy in perennial weeds; Biological management of weeds; Integrated weed management. Website: agronomy.cfans.umn.edu/People/FacultyDirectory/WyseDonaldL/index.htm |
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George Weiblengweiblen@umn.edu Research: Plant and insect systematics, population genetics, molecular phylogenetics, ecology and coevolution. Coevolution between figs, their pollinating wasps and parasites is a particular focus of research. Other interests include Cannabis genetics, phylogenetic theory, floristics, and biodiversity conservation. Website: www.cbs.umn.edu/node/1876 |
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