Faculty

Our faculty are associated with tens of participating departments and other units on the Boulder Campus

Snow Survey crew on Niwot Ridge

	Name	CU Units	Research Interests
	Lee Alston	ECON ENVS IBS	Economic History, Economic Development, Political Economy, Environmental Economics, New Institutional Economics
	Krister Andersson	PSCI ENVS	Politics of environmental governance in forestry policy reforms in developing countries and international climate change mitigation strategies
	David Armstrong	EBIO ENVS	Evolutionary zoogeography, ecology, and systematics of mammals; biogeography of peninsulas; evolution, description, analysis, and conservation of patterns in the ecosphere
	Lisa Barlow	BRAP ENVS	Global Change, Intro to Geology, Intro to Environmental Studies, Campus and the Biosphere (on-campus sustainable solutions consulting), sustainability studies
	Peter Blanken	GEOG ENVS	Biometeorology, water and carbon cycling, hydrology of high latitude wetlands and lakes.
	William Boyd	LAW ENVS	Energy law and regulation, environmental law, and climate change law and policy.
	Maxwell Boykoff	CSTPR ENVS	Environmental governance, science and policy interactions, political economics and the environment.
	Susan Buhr	CIRES ENVS	Professional development for science teachers, provision of education related to research projects.
	Sharon Collinge	EBIO ENVS	Population and community ecology, conservation biology, restoration ecology, landscape ecology, and landscape planning. Ecological consequences of habitat loss.
	Deserai Crow	JOUR ENVS	Environmental policy and the role that mass media and other factors play in policy decisions.
	Lisa Dilling	ENVS CSTPR	The use of information in decision making related to climate and, in particular, the carbon cycle.
	Samuel Fitch	PSCI ENVS	Policy sciences, policy analysis and policy processes. Research on civil-military relations and democratization in Latin America.
	Nicholas Flores	ECON ENVS IBS	Decision-making and the environment; analysis of public goods provision; valuation of environmental and public goods.
	Benjamin Hale	ENVS PHIL CVSP	Environmental ethics and policy, applied ethics, normative ethics, metaethics, ethical and environmental concerns of emerging technologies.
	Douglas Kenney	LAW ENVS	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
	Paul Komor	EI ENVS EI	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
	Jill Litt	UCHSC ENVS	Neighborhood environments and health, risk assessment, environmental justice; community-based participatory research
	Diane McKnight	CEAE ENVS INSTAAR	Limnology, aquatic ecology, reactive transport of metals and organic material in streams and rivers.
	Jana Milford	MCEN ENVS	Mathematical modeling and design of control strategies for photochemical air pollution, air pollution exposure assessment and source apportionment, wildfire behavior modeling and environmental policy
	Dale Miller	ENVS	Scientific writing
	Jason Neff	GEOL ENVS	Biogeochemistry
	Diana Nemergut	ENVS INSTAAR	Environmental microbiology, microbial diversity and evolution, microbial community interactions, biogeochemistry.
	Roger Pielke, Jr.	CIRES ENVS CSTPR	The relation of scientific information and public and private sector decision making, technology policy in the atmospheric and related sciences
	Robert Sievers	CHEM ENVS CIRES	Analytical chemistry, pharmaceutical science, aerosols, microparticles and nanoparticles, supercritical fluids, and thin film deposition
	Mark Squillace	LAW ENVS LAWS	Environmental and Natural Resources Law
	Ken Strzepek	CEAE ENVS	Water Resource planning and management, River basin planning, Modeling of agricultural, environmental, and water resources systems.
	Darin Toohey	ATOC ENVS BRAP	Kinetics, spectroscopic, and field measurements of trace species in the troposphere and lower stratosphere; design and fabrication of fast-response in situ instrumentation.
	Alan Townsend	EBIO ENVS INSTAAR	Carbon & nitrogen dynamics at regional-global scales; phosphorus controls over C & N in moist tropical systems; nutrient controls over soil carbon storage; human health effects of a changing N cycle
	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.
	Steve Vanderheiden	PSCI ENVS	Normative political theory and environmental politics
	Carol Wessman	EBIO CIRES	Research program seeks to gain insights on the understanding of feedback dynamics between ecosystem structure and function, and the influence of disturbance on trajectories of ecosystem processes
	James White	ENVS GEOL INSTAAR	Global change, paleoclimate dynamics, biogeochemistry
	Mark Williams	GEOG ENVS INSTAAR	Snow hydrology, hydrochemistry and biogeochemistry of high-elevation basins, nutrient cycling, and hydrologic pathways.
	Tom Yulsman	JOUR ENVS	Science writing, primarily about Earth systems (geology, paleontology, climate) as well as astronomy
	Michael Zimmerman	PHIL ENVS CHA CVSP CSTPR	Examining metaphysical, cultural, ethical, cognitive, political and religious dimensions of anthropogenic environmental problems



Former ENVS Faculty

	Carl Bock	EBIO ENVS	RETIRED. Conservation Biology and Ornithology, with a particular interest in the effects of fire, grazing, and landscape fragmentation in grassland ecosystems