Assoc Faculty

Associated faculty have many roles including being grad student advisors

Snow Survey crew on Niwot Ridge

Name	CU Units	Research Interests
William Boyd	LAW ENVS RASEI	Energy law and regulation, environmental law, and climate change law and policy.
Susan Buhr	CIRES ENVS	Professional development for science teachers, provision of education related to research projects.
Lloyd Burton	SPA ENVS	The intersection of law, culture, and the environment; especially the handling of values conflicts over natural resource and environmental health decision making in domestic and international contexts
Liam Downey	SOCY ENVS IBS	Environmental sociology, environmental inequality, race and ethnic relations, urban sociology, stratification/inequality, political sociology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Mark Hernandez	CEAE ENVS	Combining engineering with molecular biology, water and wastewater treatment systems, bioremediation, sustainable industrial "green" chemistry, biogenic acid production and biological air pollution.
Lori Hunter	SOCY ENVS IBS	Enviromental Sociology, population dynamics and environmental context, rural livelihoods and natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa, climate and migration.
Douglas Kenney	LAW ENVS RASEI	Water resources policy, law and management; reform of natural resources institutions; impacts of population growth and climate change on western US natural resources; collaborative problem-solving
Rita Klees	CEAE ENVS	Biodiversity conservation, water supply and sanitation, water resource management, and environmental policy
Paul Komor	RASEI ENVS	Renewable energy technologies and policies, and their relationship to electric utility restructuring
Carl Koval	CHEM ENVS	Removal of Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere using Electrochemically Modulated Complexation; Properties and Uses of Ionic Liquids; Non-Mechanical Pumping of Fluids
Sarah Krakoff	LAW ENVS LAWS RASEI	American Indian law and natural resources law, environmental ethics, public lands, and global warming
Stephen Lawrence	LEEDS ENVS RASEI	Commercial evaluation of sustainable energy technologies.
Patricia Limerick	HIST ENVS CAW	Environmental history, history of science in the American West, cultural perceptions of nature
J. Terrence McCabe	ANTH ENVS	Livelihood strategies and decisions relating to land use among the pastoral peoples of Eastern Africa, mostly with the Turkana of northern Kenya and the Maasai of northern Tanzania.
Jana Milford	MCEN ENVS RASEI	Mathematical modeling and design of control strategies for photochemical air pollution, air pollution exposure assessment and source apportionment, wildfire behavior modeling and environmental policy
Rebecca Morss	NCAR ENVS	Understanding and addressing meteorological, socioeconomic, and public policy aspects of weather- and climate-related information.
Dave Newport	EC ENVS	Environmental and sustainability research.
Astrid Ogilvie	INSTAAR	Environmental and climatic history, human ecology in North Atlantic and Arctic regions, syntheses of proxy climate records, historical records of sea-ice incidence, imagology of the north.
John Pitlick	GEOG ENVS	Fluvial geomorphology, surface-water hydrology, physical-biological interactions in rivers.
Andrea J. Ray	NOAA WWA ENVS	The potential use of climate information and forecasts in natural resource management, including the analysis of management decision processes
Joseph Ryan	CEAE ENVS	Aquatic chemistry, fate and transport of contaminants in natural waters, microbes in groundwater, acid mine drainage.
Mark Squillace	LAW ENVS LAWS RASEI	Environmental and Natural Resources Law
William Travis	GEOG CIRES ENVS	Interaction of environment and society, including land use and anthropogenic transformations of land cover, with a focus on the American West.
Olga Wilhelmi	NCAR ENVS	Climate, society &environment interactions; GIS in atmospheric sciences; methods for assessing societal risk, vulnerability &adaptive capacity to natural hazards &climate change.
Michael Zimmerman	PHIL ENVS CSTPR CVSP	Examining metaphysical, cultural, ethical, cognitive, political and religious dimensions of anthropogenic environmental problems