Our people

Aquatic entomology, river ecology, mercury transport in freshwater food webs and the landscape ecology of watersheds, higher education analytics.

Limnology, Ecosystem Ecology, Water Quality

Remote Sensing, Vegetation Mapping, Climatology and Meteorology

Microbial ecology, Aquatic microbiology, Biogeochemistry

Paleoclimatology, biogeography, freshwater environments

Geographic Information System and Science, Spatial Simulation Modeling, Land use and land cover change, Network Analysis, and Cartography.

Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Food and Agriculture, The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture, Online Pedagogy

My primary areas of research are social-psychological outcomes of nature-based recreation including how we come to know and get connected to places, technology and the outdoors, and the scholarship of teaching & learning.

Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIScience

Mathematical Ecology and Differential Equations

scholarship of teaching and learning, service learning, forest ecology, dragonfly and damselfly ecology, forest and riparian socio-ecological systems, conservation biology

Environmental and analytical chemistry

Aquatic toxicology, fish ecology

Host-parasite interactions, life-history evolution, disease ecology, invasive species dynamics, mathematical biology

I direct graduate student projects in plant ecology, invasive species, ecological restoration, and habitat fragmentation. I primarily work in local floodplain forest and sand prairie habitats.