Water Faculty

Faculty Member	Emphasis Areas
Dr. Vladimir Aizen Research Professor Dept. of Geography email: aizen@uidaho.edu webpage	Alpine glaciology, alpine hydrology, alpine climatology
Dr. Richard Allen Research Professor, Water Resources Program Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering email: RAllen@kimberly.uidaho.edu webpage webpage2	Water resources systems, evapotranspiration, irrigation water management, remote sensing
Dr. Daniel Ames Asst. Professor Geographic Information Sciences Lab Idaho State University - Idaho Falls Campus email: amesdani@isu.edu webpage	Open source GIS tools, watershed modeling and probabilistic methods
Dr. Jan Boll Director Water of the West Assoc. Professor of Water Quality Engineering Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering email: jboll@uidaho.edu webpage	Water quality, environmental hydrology, watershed hydrology (GIS and modeling)
Dr. Erik Coats Asst. Professor Dept. of Civil Engineering email: ecoats@uidaho.edu webpage	Biological wastewater treatment and water reclamation
Dr. Barbara Cosens Assoc. Professor of Law College of Law email: bcosens@uidaho.edu webpage	Water law, environmental law, property law
Dr. Maxine Dakins Asst. Professor of Environmental Science Environmental Science email: medakins@if.uidaho.edu webpage	Statistical analysis of environmental data, pollution prevention, probabilistic risk assessment, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
Dr. Angelique Eaglewoman Associate Professor College of Law email: eaglewoman@uidaho.edu webpage	Tribal economic development, international indigenous issues, federal Indian law, tribal law, civil procecure
Dr. Levan Elbakidze Assistant Professor College of Agriculture & Life Sciences email: lelbakidze@uidaho.edu webpage	Invasive species, agricultural bio-security, water economics, climate change, development
Dr. Jerry Fairley Assoc. Professor of Hydrogeology Dept. of Geological Sciences email: jfairley@uidaho.edu webpage	Groundwater flow, safe isolation of nuclear waste, water resource management by the Incas, geothermal water flow in fault zones
Dr. Fritz Fiedler Assoc. Professor of Civil Engineering Dept. of Civil Engineering email: fritz@uidaho.edu webpage	Computational hydrology, water resources sustainability, educational informatics
Dr. Alex Fremier Assistant Professor Dept. of Fish & Wildlife email: afremier@uidaho.edu webpage	Riparian ecology, Ecological restoration, Landscape ecology, Plant-water interactions, Geographic information systems, River channel meander migration
Dr. Dale Goble Professor of Law College of Law email: gobled@uidaho.edu webpage	Natural resources law, environmental legal history, publics lands
Dr. Peter Goodwin Professor of Hydrology, Center for Ecohydraulics Research (CER) Dept. of Civil Engineering email: pgoodwin@uidaho.edu webpage	Aquatics ecosystem restoration and modeling physical processes in rivers, estuaries and wetlands
Dr. Chuck Harris Professor of Environmental Management, Policy, and Planning Dept. of Conservation Social Sciences email: charris@uidaho.edu webpage	Resource management, policy and planning; community development and ecosystem management
Dr. Thomas Hess Professor Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering email: tfhess@uidaho.edu webpage	Microbiological aspects of wastewater treatment, hazardous waste treatment, solid waste treatment, and water quality
Dr. Lori Higgins Assistant Professor Dept of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology email: higgins@uidaho.edu webpage	Rural communities and natural resoruce decision making
Dr. Steve Hollenhorst Professor of Protected Area Policy Dept. of Conservation Social Sciences email: stevenh@uidaho.edu webpage	Environmental policy; wilderness and protected area management; land trusts and conservation easements
Dr. Gary Johnson Professor of Hydrogeology Dept. of Geological Sciences email: johnson@if.uidaho.edu webpage	Hydrogeology, water rights, ground water modeling, aquifer testing
Dr. James "Ding" Johnson Professor Dept. of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences email: djohnson@uidaho.edu webpage	Aquatic entomology, biological control of aphids using entomophagous insects, taxonomy of green lacewings
Dr. Jodi Johson-Maynard Asst. Professor Dept. of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences email: jmaynard@uidaho.edu webpage	Soil and water quality in relation to management, biogeochemical cycling in forested & agricultural environments, and soil ecology
Dr. Katy Kavanagh Assoc. Professor of Forest Resources Dept. of Forest Resources email: katyk@uidaho.edu webpage	Silviculture, forest ecosystem processes, tree hydraulic architecture
Dr. Brian Kennedy Asst. Professor Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources email: kennedy@uidaho.edu webpage	Fish ecology, bioenergetics and community ecology of streams
Dr. John Lawrence Professor of Operations Management Dept. of Management, Marketing & Operations email: jjl@uidaho.edu webpage	Production operations management
Dr. Timothy Link Assoc. Professor of Forest Hydrology Dept. of Forest Resources email: tlink@uidaho.edu webpage	Watershed science and management, snow hydrology
Dr. Jim (Chyr Pyng) Liou Professor of Civil Engineering Dept. of Civil Engineering email: liou@uidaho.edu webpage	Fluid transients, pipeline monitoring, pipeline safety, hydraulics related to fishery and aquaculture
Dr. Jerrold Long Assoc. Professor of Law College of Law email: jlong@uidaho.edu webpage	Natural resources law, property
Dr. Bob Mahler Professor of Soil Fertility Dept. of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences email: bmahler@uidaho.edu webpage	Soil plant relationships, crop response to fertilizer placement, nutrient use efficiency
Dr. Paul McDaniel Professor of Soil Science Dept. of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences email: pmcdaniel@uidaho.edu webpage	Pedology, soil and landscape hydrology, soil-plant community relationships
Dr. Bill McLaughlin Professor of Human Environmental Sciences and Conservation Planning Dept. of Conservation Social Sciences email: billm@uidaho.edu webpage	Regional planning including parks and protected areas, nature conservation, tourism, economic development
Dr. Christine Moffitt Professor Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources email: cmoffit@uidaho.edu webpage	Interactions of cultured & wild fish; Risks and management of aquatic invasive species; Physiological responses of fish populations to increasing water temperatures; Sustainable aquaculture production
Dr. Gregory Möller Asst. Professor & Dir. of Analytical Res. Lab Dept. of Food Sci. & Toxicology email: gmoller@uidaho.edu webpage	Biogeochemical cycling
Dr. Matthew J. Morra Professor of Soil Biochemistry Soil and Land Resources Division email: mmorra@uidaho.edu webpage	Soil biochemistry and environmental organic chemistry
Dr. Darek Nalle Asst. Professor Dept. of Forest Products email: nalle@uidaho.edu webpage	Operations research, land use and management, natural resource economics and policy
Dr. Howard Neibling Assoc. Professor College of Ag & Life Sciences, UI Extension email: hneiblin@uidaho.edu webpage	Irrigation management
Dr. Jay O'Laughlin Director of Policy Analysis Group and Professor of Forest Resources Dept. of Forest Resources email: jayo@uidaho.edu webpage	Natural resources policy analysis, natural resources economics
Dr. Michael O'Rourke Assoc. Professor Dept. of Philosophy email: morourke@uidaho.edu webpage	Interdisciplinary Theory, Environmental Philosophy
Dr. James Osiensky Professor of Ground Water Hydrology Dept. of Geological Sciences email: osiensky@uidaho.edu webpage	Hydrogeologic site characterization, hydrogeologic property testing, ground water resource evaluation, hydrogeophysics
Dr. Christopher Peery Asst. Research Professor Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources email: cpeery@uidaho.edu webpage	Anadromous and resident fish ecology and behavior, migration behavior and energetics
Dr. Russell Qualls Assoc. Professor, State Climatologist Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering email: rqualls@uidaho.edu webpage	Soil and water engineering, irrigation system design, hydraulic engineering
Dr. Dennis Scarnecchia Professor of Fisheries College of Natural Resources email: scar@uidaho.edu webpage	Fish population dynamics and stock assessment, large river ecology and fisheries, fisheries management
Dr. Richard Seamon Professor College of Law email: richard@uidaho.edu webpage	Administrative Law
Dr. Robert Smith Professor College of Law email: smithbob@uidaho.edu webpage	Surface hydrology, Biogeochemistry
Dr. Adam Sowards Asst. Professor Dept. of History email: asowards@uidaho.edu webpage	American environmental history, land and water management issues in the American Southwest and Northwest
Dr. Daniel Strawn Assoc. Professor Dept. of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences email: dgstrawn@uidaho.edu webpage	Sorption and desorption kinetics and mechanisms of contaminants and nutrients in soils and soil minerals, environmental soil chemistry
Dr. R. Garth Taylor Assoc. Professor Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology email: gtaylor@uidaho.edu webpage	Water resources economics
Dr. John Tracy Director Idaho Water Resources Research Institute email: tracy@uidaho.edu webpage	Water quality engineering
Dr. Margrit von Braun Professor & Dean of the College of Gradate Studies Dept. of Chemical Engineering email: vonbraun@uidaho.edu webpage	Hazardous waste management; Risk assessment
Dr. Von Walden Assoc. Professor of Geography Dept. of Geography email: vonw@uidaho.edu webpage	Meteorology, remote sensing, climatology
Dr. Frank Wilhelm Asst. Professor of Limnology Dept. of Fish and Wildlife email: fwilhelm@uidaho.edu webpage	Limnology, lake restoration, water quality, nutrient reductions
Dr. Barbara Williams Asst. Professor Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering email: barbwill@uidaho.edu webpage	Vadose zone fluid mechanics and transport, colloid and colloid-facilitated transport, transport in redox-dominated systems
Dr. Patrick Wilson Assoc. Professor Dept. of Conservation Social Science email: pwilson@uidaho.edu webpage	Natural resource policy, environmental politics
Dr. Scott Wood Professor of Geochemistry & Dean of Science Dept. of Geological Sciences email: swood@uidaho.edu webpage	Theoretical and experimental studies of the thermodynamics, kinetics and molecular mechanisms of aqueous processes and water-rock interaction
Dr. J.D. Wulfhorst Assoc. Professor Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology email: jd@uidaho.edu webpage	Community, natural resources policy, risk perceptions
Dr. Elowyn Yager Assistant Professor of Fluvial Geomorphology Dept. of Civil Engineering, Center for Ecohydraulic Research (CER) email: eyager@uidaho.edu webpage	Fluvial geomorphology, sediment transport