John Adgate
jadgate@umn.edu
Department: Environmental Health
Grad program: Environmental Health
Research: Exposure science, risk assessment, and
environmental health policy; Field-based studies of children’s
and adult’s exposure to air pollutants, allergens, lead, and
pesticides.
Website: enhs.umn.edu/files/facultypages/adgate.html |
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Neil Anderson
ander044@umn.edu
department: Horticultural Science
Grad program: Applied Plant Sciences; Conservation
Biology; Plant Biological Sciences
IGERT contribution: Invasive plant evolution; prevention
of invasion
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: horticulture.cfans.umn.edu/Neil_O_Anderson.html |
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Dave Andow (Co-PI)
dandow@umn.edu
Department: Entomology
Grad program: Entomology; Ecology, Evolution and
Behavior; Conservation Biology; Sustainable Agriculture Systems
IGERT contribution: Risk analysis, resistance evolution
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/Faculty/andow/andow.htm |
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Gary Balas
balas@umn.edu
Department: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
Grad program: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics,
Control Science and Dynamical Systems
IGERT contribution: Risk Analysis
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.
Website: www.aem.umn.edu/people/faculty/bio/balas.shtml
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Roger L Becker
becke003@umn.edu
Department: Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Grad program: Applied Plant Sciences
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/Becker_Roger_L_Ph_D.html |
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Rob Blair
BlairRB@umn.edu
Department: FWCB
Grad program: Conservation Biology, Natural Resources
Sci & Mgmt, Wildlife Conservation
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.php |
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Donn Branstrator
dbranstr@d.umn.edu
Department: Biology Duluth
Grad program: Water Resources Science, Biology
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 Frelich
freli001@umn.edu
Department: Forest Resources
Grad program: Conservation Biology, Natural Resources
Sci & Mgmt, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior.
IGERT contribution: Invasive earthworms; invasive
species in forests
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: fr.cfans.umn.edu/people/facstaff/frelich/index.html |
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Susan M Galatowitsch (Co-PI)
galat001@umn.edu
Department: Horticultural Science
Grad program: Applied Plant Sci.; Conservation
Biology; Ecology, Evolution & Behavior; Water Resources Science
IGERT contribution: Restoration ecology; invasive
species biology
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 Haight
haigh003@umn.edu
Department: Forest Resources (USFS)
Grad program: Cons. Bio.; Natural Resources Sci.
& Manage
IGERT contribution: Risk analysis models
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 Heimpel
heimp001@umn.edu
Department: Entomology
Grad program: Entomology; Ecology, Evolution and
Behavior
IGERT contribution: Biological control, GEOs
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/Faculty/heimpel/heimcv.htm |
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Sarah Hobbie
shobbie@umn.edu
Department: EEB
Grad program: Conservation Biology, Ecology, Evolution
& Behavior, Natural Resources Sci & Mgmt
Research: Ecosystem ecology, carbon and nutrient
cycling, decomposition, species effects on ecosystem processes,
plant-soil interactions.
Website: www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/HobbieSarah/ |
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Frances Homans
fhomans@umn.edu
Department: Applied Economics
Grad program: Applied Economics; Cons. Bio.; Water
Res. Sci
IGERT contribution: Risk analysis economics
Research: Natural resource economics, regulation
of renewable natural resources, both in commercial and recreational
settings.
Website: www.apec.umn.edu/Frances_Homans.html |
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Terry Hurley
hurle008@umn.edu
Department: Applied Economics
Grad program: Agricultural & Applied Economics
IGERT contribution: Risk analysis economics
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/Terrance_Hurley.html |
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Bill Hutchison
hutch002@umn.edu
Department: Entomology
Grad program: Entomology
IGERT contribution: Decision analysis; insects;
biocontrol
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/Faculty/hutchison/wdhcv.htm |
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Doug Johnson
douglas_h_johnson@usgs.gov
Department: FWCB
Grad program: Cons. Bio.; Natural Resources Sci.
& Manage
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 |
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Galin Jones
galin@stat.umn.edu
Department: Statistics
Grad program: Statistics
Research:
Website: www.stat.umn.edu/~galin/ |
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Nick Jordan
jorda020@umn.edu
Department: Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Grad program: Applied Plant Sciences; Conservation
Biology; Sustainable Agriculture Systems
IGERT contribution: Civic engagement; invasive
weed species
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/Jordan_Nicholas_R_Ph_D.html |
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Anne Kapuscinski (Co-PI)
kapus001@umn.edu
Department: FWCB
Grad program: Conservation Biology; Science, Technology
& Environmental Policy; Public Policy; Public Affairs; Dev.
Studies & Social Change; Urban & Regional Planning
IGERT contribution: Environmental risk analysis;
fish GEOs
Research: Fish conservation genetics, environmental
policy (foci on biosafety assessment of genetically engineered organisms
and impacts of aquaculture), sustainable aquaculture, Pacific salmon
rehabilitation and conservation, transdisciplinary analysis of sustainability
issues.
Website: fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/kapuscinski.php
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Jennifer Kuzma
kuzma007@umn.edu
Department: Humphrey Institute
Grad program: Science, Technology & Environmental
Policy; Public Policy; Public Affairs; Urban & Regional Planning
IGERT contribution: Science technology policy
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 Krischik
krisc001@umn.edu
Department: Entomology
Grad program: Entomology
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/Faculty/krischik/kriscv.htm |
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David Langley
langl029@umn.edu
Department: CTL
Grad program:
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.
Website: www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/about/staff/langley.html |
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Diane Larson
larso268@umn.edu
Department: EEB (USGS)
Grad program: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior,
Conservation Biology
Research: Ecological effects of alien plants in
grassland ecosystems, effects of anthropogenic disturbance on native
plant and animal communities in the northern Great Plains.
Website: www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/LarsonDiane/ |
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James J Luby
lubyx001@umn.edu
Department: Horticultural Science
Grad program: Applied Plant Sciences
IGERT contribution: Plant introduction, plant breeding
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: horticulture.cfans.umn.edu/James_J_Luby.html |
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Mary Meyer
meyer023@umn.edu
Department: Horticultural Science
Grad program: Applied Plant Sciences
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: horticulture.cfans.umn.edu/Mary_Meyer.html |
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Rebecca Montgomery
rebeccam@umn.edu
Department: Forest Resources
Grad program: Natural Resources Sci & Mgmt;
Plant Biological Sciences; Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
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.
Website: fr.cfans.umn.edu/people/facstaff/montgomery/index.html |
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Roger Moon
rdmoon@umn.edu
Department: Entomology
Grad program: Entomology, Sustainable Agriculture
System, Veterinary Medicine
IGERT contribution: Insects, invasive species biology
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/Faculty/moon/mooncv.htm |
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Kristen Nelson
nelso468@umn.edu
Department: Forest Resour; Fish, Wildlife, and
Conservation Biology
Grad program: Natural Resources Sci & Mgmt,
Conservation Biology, Development Studies & Social Change, Water
Resources Science, Wildlife Conservation
IGERT contribution: Risk analysis; Science technology
policy; Civic engagement; Conflict resolution; Decision analysis;
Deliberation
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: fr.cfans.umn.edu/people/facstaff/nelson/
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Ray Newman (PI)
newma004@umn.edu
Department: FWCB
Grad program: Conservation Biology; Ecology, Evolution
& Behavior; Water Resources Science
IGERT contribution: Aquatic impacts and control
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.php
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Karen Oberhauser
oberh001@umn.edu
Department: FWCB
Grad program: Conservation Biology; Ecology, Evolution
and Behavior; Biological Science
IGERT contribution: Nontarget GEO impacts, insects
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.php
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Gary Oehlert
gary@stat.umn.edu
Department: Statistics
Grad program: Statistics
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: www.stat.umn.edu/People/IndivFaculty/gary.spiel.html |
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Dan Philippon
danp@umn.edu
Department: English
Grad program: Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical
Communication; Studies of Science & Technology; Conservation
Biology; American Studies; English
IGERT contribution: Civic engagement, Deliberation,
Science technology policy
Research: Environmental literature, history, and
ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place; human dimensions of conservation biology
Website: english.umn.edu/faculty/philippon/danp/ |
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Steve Polasky
SPolasky@apec.umn.edu
Department: Applied Economics, EEB
Grad program: Agricultural & Applied Econ,
Conservation Biology, Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, Natural
Resources Sci & Mgmt, Water Resources Science
Research: Ecological/environmental economics,
biodiversity conservation and endangered species policy.
Website: www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/PolaskyStephen/ |
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Dave Ragsdale
ragsd001@umn.edu
Department: Entomology
Grad program: Entomology
IGERT contribution: Invasive species biology, Insects
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.
Website: www.entomology.umn.edu/Faculty/ragsdale/ragscv.htm |
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Peter Reich
preich@umn.edu
Department:
Forest Resources
Grad program: Conservation Biology, Natural Resources
Sci & Mgmt, Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Plant Biological
Sciences
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: fr.cfans.umn.edu/people/facstaff/reich/index.html |
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Carl Richards
Richards.Carl@epamail.epa.gov
Department: Biology Duluth, USEPA
Grad program: Water Resources Science; Conservation
Biology; Biological Science
Research: Aquatic ecology, stream ecology, public
education and outreach
Website: www.duluth.umn.edu/ibs/Faculty/Richards.htm |
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Valerie Ruhe
ruhex001@umn.edu
Department: CTL
Grad program:
Research: Designing research and evaluation studies,
writing surveys, applying evaluation theory in diverse contexts,
and interpreting research findings. My projects include the Archibald
BUSH grant, where I help facilitate and evaluate new strategies
to enhance student engagement in large classes, and the SMART Commons,
an individualized consulting service for learners in at-risk courses.
Website: www1.umn.edu/ohr/teachlearn/about/staff/ruhe.html |
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Mike Sadowsky
sadowsky@umn.edu
Department: Soil, Water and Climate
Grad program: Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer
Biology; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Engineering; Soil Science
IGERT contribution: Microbial ecology, GEOs, invasive
microbes
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.
Website: www.micab.umn.edu/faculty/Sadowsky.html |
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Rachel Schurman
schurman@umn.edu
Department: Sociology
Grad program: Sociology
Research: Sociology of food and agriculture, social
movements, political sociology, international political economy,
environmental sociology, Latin America.
Website: www.soc.umn.edu/faculty/schurman.html |
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Ruth Shaw
rshaw@superb.ecology.umn.edu
Department: EEB
Grad program: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Evolutionary genetics
IGERT contribution: Invasive plant evolution, Nontarget GEO impacts
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.
Website: www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/ShawRuth/
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Alan Smith
smith022@umn.edu
Department: Horticultural Science
Grad program: Applied Plant Sciences, Plant Biological
Sciences
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/Alan_Smith.html |
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Peter Sorensen
soren003@umn.edu
Department: FWCB
Grad program: Conservation Biology; Neuroscience;
Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
IGERT contribution: Aquatic invasive control
Research: Physiology and behavior of fish; olfaction;
fish reproductive biology; pheromones; control of exotics; fish
migration; aquatic chemical ecology
Website: fwcb.cfans.umn.edu/personnel/faculty/sorensen.php |
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Deb Swackhamer
dswack@umn.edu
Department: Environmental Health
Grad program: Public Heath, Water Resources Science
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.
Website: enhs.umn.edu/files/facultypages/swackhamer.html |
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David Tilman
tilman@umn.edu
Department: EEB
Grad program: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior;
Conservation Biology; Microbial Biology
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.
Website: www.cbs.umn.edu/eeb/faculty/TilmanDavid/ |
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Rob Venette
venet001@umn.edu
Department: Entomology (USFS)
Grad program: Entomology; Biological Science
IGERT contribution: Invasion biology, risk assessment,
biocontrol
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.entomology.umn.edu/faculty/venette/vencv.htm |
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Sanford Weisberg
sandy@stat.umn.edu
Department: Statistics
Grad program: Statistics
Research: Graphics, regression, diagnostics, data
analysis.
Website: www.stat.umn.edu/~sandy/ |
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Don Wyse
wysex001@umn.edu
Department: Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Grad program: Sustainable Agriculture Systems,
Development Studies & Social Change and Applied Plant Sciences
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/Wyse_Donald_L_Ph_D.html |
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George Weiblen
gweiblen@umn.edu
Department: Plant Biology
Grad program: Ecology, Evolution & Behavior,
Entomology, Plant Biological Sciences
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/plantbio/faculty/WeiblenGeorge/ |
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