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
	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.
	Maxwell Boykoff	CSTPR ENVS ICE CaPs	Environmental governance, science and policy interactions, political economy and the environment.
	Sharon Collinge	EBIO ENVS	Population and community ecology, conservation biology, restoration ecology, landscape ecology, and landscape planning. Ecological consequences of habitat loss.
	Deserai Crow	ENVS CSTPR CEJ	Environmental policy and the role that mass media and other factors play in policy decisions.
	Lisa Dilling	ENVS CSTPR RASEI	The use of information in decision making related to climate and, in particular, the carbon cycle.
	Dan Doak	ENVS	The ecology and management of rare species and habitats, biodiversity protection and management, population and community ecology, and the effects of climate change on ecological systems.
	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.
	Bruce Goldstein	ENVD ENVS	Long-term, Large-scale Social-ecological Planning, Collaborative Negotiation and Governance
	Benjamin Hale	ENVS PHIL CVSP	Environmental ethics and policy, applied ethics, normative ethics, metaethics, ethical and environmental concerns of emerging technologies.
	Jonathan Hughes	ECON ENVS	The consequences of adoption of environmental policies in energy markets, climate change policy, gasoline, electricity and renewable energy markets.
	Jill Litt	CSPH 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.
	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
	Paul Sutter	HIST	U.S. history, environmental history, history of soils and soil erosion.
	Darin Toohey	ATOC ENVS BRAP RASEI	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
	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 RASEI	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



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
	Russ McGoodwin	ANTH ENVS	RETIRED. Fishing people and cultures, the human dynamics that drive resource-management policies, and the impacts of climatic and global change.