Assoc Faculty

Associated faculty have many roles including being grad student advisors

Snow Survey crew on Niwot Ridge

Name	CU Units	Research Interests
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)
Subhrendu Gangopadhyay	ENVS	Geohydrology; Application of ground water models to solve regional scale ground water problems; Hydrogeological investigation; Contaminant transport modeling.
Michael Glantz	INSTAAR	Research interests include how climate affects society and how society affects climate, especially in how the interaction between climate anomalies and human activities affect quality of life issues.
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.
Rita Klees	CEAE ENVS	Biodiversity conservation, water supply and sanitation, water resource management, and environmental policy
Sarah Krakoff	LAW ENVS LAWS	American Indian law and natural resources law, environmental ethics, public lands, and global warming
Stephen Lawrence	LEEDS ENVS	Commercial evaluation of sustainable energy technologies.
Patricia Limerick	HIST ENVS CAW	Environmental history, history of science in the American West, cultural perceptions of nature
Russ McGoodwin	ANTH ENVS	Fishing people and cultures, the human dynamics that drive resource-management policies, and the impacts of climatic and global change.
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.
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.