Great Basin CESU Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Faculty Expertise and Facilities Directory

University of , Reno 2 Utah State University 5 Boise State University 6 Brigham Young University 7 DRI Faculty 9 Great Basin College 10 State University 10 University of 13 University of Nevada, Las Vegas 19 University of Utah 21 White Mountain Research Station 22

University of Nevada, Reno Facilities 23 Brigham Young University Facilities 24 University of Nevada, Las Vegas Facilities 25 White Mountain Research Station Facilities 26 University of Nevada, Reno Art Scott Bassett Simon Paulson Wally Miller Peter Weisberg Assistant Professor Research Professor Professor Associate Professor Faculty Peter Goin Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-1434, Geological Sciences, MS 172, (775) 784- NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-4072, wilymalr@ NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-4583, Foundation Professor [email protected] 1104, [email protected] cabnr.unr.edu [email protected] Animal Biotechnology Art, MS 224, (775) 784-4994, pgoin@unr. Environmental planning, GIS, conservation Environmental and low-temperature Biogeochemical cycling and soils Landscape ecology; disturbance ecology; biology and integrative modeling geochemistry, especially of natural invasive plants; ecological modeling; GIS edu Robert Nowak waters; biogeochemical processes; stable and remote sensing applications Dale Holcombe Photography and videography Franco Biondi Professor isotope geochemistry; geochemical and Nevada Seismology Laboratory Professor Associate Professor NRES, MS 370, (775) 784-1656, nowak@ Biology stable isotope analytical techniques; (775) 784-1314, Fax: (775) 784-1375, Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-6921, cabnr.unr.edu Graham Kent management and operation of the [email protected] [email protected] Plant physiological ecology Professor; Director of Seismology Nevada Stable Isotope Laboratory Focus on evaluating the effects of maternal Matthew Forister Climate-forest interactions, surface Laboratory Jerry Qualls nutrition on ewe and lamb performance Assistant Professor landscape processes, quantitative methods Scott Tyler NV Seismology Lab, MS 174, (775) 784- Associate Professor by developing dam feeding strategies that Biology, MS 314, (775) 784-6770, and dendrochronology Professor 4977, [email protected] NRES, MS 370, (775) 327-5014, qualls@ would enhance neonatal lamb survivability [email protected] Doug Boyle Geological Sciences, MS 172, (775) 784- Seismic reflection techniques, unr.edu Specialization, speciation, insect ecology Associate Professor 6250, [email protected] seismic instrumentation (OBSIP), 3-D Barry Perryman Biogeochemistry, formation of soil and phylogeography Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-6995, Hydrology and environmental fluid visualization, mid-Ocean ridge dynamics, Associate Professor organic matter by microbial and [email protected] dynamics rifted continental margins, Walker Lane (775) 784-1265, Fax: (775) 784-1375, Dennis Murphy chemical transformations, and microbial Surface water hydrology; snow hydrology; tectonics, Lake Tahoe geology/climate/ [email protected] Research Professor Natural Resources and mineralization of humic substances Monitoring protocols of prescribed Biology, MS 314, (775) 784-1303, integrated modeling hydrology Jill Heaton Environmental Sciences Laurel Saito fire effects on birds and small mammal [email protected] John Louie Assistant Professor Associate Professor communities Ecology, evolution and conservation Professor Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-8056, NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-1921, lsaito@ biology Sudeep Chandra NV Seismology Lab, MS 174, (775) 784- Tamzen Stringham [email protected] cabnr.unr.edu Associate Professor 4219, [email protected] Associate Professor Mary Peacock GIS, ecology, spatial modeling and Aquatic ecosystem and reservoir NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-6221, sudeep@ Geophysics, seismology, resource (775) 784-6755, Fax: (775) 784-1375, Associate Professor herpetology management; ecosystem, hydrodynamic cabnr.unr.edu exploration and development, seismic [email protected] Biology, MS 314, (775) 784-1958, and water resources modeling; Scott Mensing Restoration and conservation of aquatic reflection, geophysical imaging and Riparian and range ecology, restoration [email protected] interdisciplinary modeling; international Professor ecosystems inversion, tomography, modeling, and management Population viability and conservation issues in water resources genetics Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-6346, Michael Collopy scientific visualization, earthquake David Thain [email protected] Professor/Asst. Vice President for Jim Sedinger hazards and zonation, parcel mapping, Assistant Professor Richard Tracy Biogeography, quaternary studies and Research Professor ReMi, tectonics (775) 784-1377, Fax: (775) 784-1375, Professor geographic information systems NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-6556, NRES/VPR; MS 436, (775) 784-8060, Ken Smith [email protected] Biology, MS 315, (775) 784-1925, dtracy@ [email protected] Paul Starrs [email protected] Research Associate Professor State extension veterinarian biodiversity.unr.edu Study of life-histories, population biology Habitat use, management and NV Seismology Lab, MS 174, (775) 784- Autecology, desert biology, paleoecology, and nutritional ecology of avian species, Esmail D. Zanjani Professor conservation of sensitive and 4218, [email protected] and conservation biology particularly waterfowl. Application of Professor and Chair Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-6930, endangered birds particularly raptors; Seismotectonics and Seismicity of such knowledge to the management of (775) 784-7737, Fax: (775) 784-1375, Steve Vanderwall [email protected] foraging ecology of predatory birds; the Nevada and Eastern California; avian populations, including waterfowl [email protected] Professor Dendrochronology, environmental role of science in natural resource seismic network systems and data Human stem cell biology, in utero stem cell Biology, MS 314, (775) 784-6583, sv@unr. monitoring, Great Basin climatology and management Kelley Stewart communications; earthquake Sequences transplantation, in utero gene therapy edu water resources Mae Gustin Assistant Professor in Nevada: 2008 Mw 5.0 Mogul West- Evolutionary ecology, community ecology, NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-4314, kstewart@ Reno; Mw 6.0 Wells, Nevada Anthropology Jeff Underwood Professor animal behavior, plant-animal interactions cabnr.unr.edu Associate Professor/State Climatologist NRES, MS 370, (775) 784-4203, mgustin@ involving seed dispersal by seed-caching Population ecology of large mammals, Resource Economics Louis Forline Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-6999, jeffu@ cabnr.unr.edu birds and mammals and effects of density dependence on Anthropology, MS 096, (775) 682-7840, unr.edu Geochemistry, environmental chemistry population growth, movement patterns, George Fernandez [email protected] Civil and Environmental Engineering Synoptic climatology, mountain-valley and biogeochemical interactions of habitat selection, and both inter- and Chief Statistical Consultant Cultural anthropologist with research climates and hydrometeorology contaminants in the environment intraspecific competition. Center Research Design & Analysis, SBF interests in indigenous peoples and Amy Childress Dale Johnson 100F Geology Sherman Swanson environments of Brazil Professor Professor (775) 784-4206, [email protected] Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS Associate Professor; Cooperative Donald Hardesty NRES, MS 370, (775) 784-4511, dwj@ Data mining applications, modeling in 258, (775) 784-6942, [email protected] Greg Arehart Extension State Specialist Professor cabnr.unr.edu biological and physical sciences, applied Solar ponds for brine reduction and Professor NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-4314, Anthropology, MS 096, (775) 682-7524, Biogeochemical cycling and soils statistical analysis and SAS programming energy recovery, membrane bioreactor Geological Sciences, MS 172, (775) 784- [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Leger technology, and membrane processes. 6470, [email protected] Rangeland vegetation management; Thomas Harris Archaeologist with research interests Application of isotope geochemistry Assistant Professor creeks and communities; Nevada Youth Professor in historical period peoples and Edward Kolodziej to geological problems with a focus on NRES, MS 370, (775) 784-7582, eleger@ Range Camp Department of Resource Economics environments of the Western United States Assistant Professor fluid migration processes and fluid-rock cabnr.unr.edu (204), CABNR/UNR, Reno, NV 89557 Civil and Environmental Engineering, MS Mark Walker Gary Haynes interaction in the crust as well as the Population biology of plants, how (775) 784-1681, [email protected] 258, (775) 682-5553, [email protected] Associate Professor; Cooperative Professor timing and duration of hydrothermal genetic variation affects the distribution Regional economics, impact modeling, Contaminant occurrence, fate and Extension State Specialist Anthropology, MS 096, (775) 682-7692, activity and abundance of species, and plant- rural development, and operations transport; non-point source of NRES, MS 370, (775) 327-1938, mwalker@ [email protected] animal interactions. research analysis contaminants; endocrine disruption and Bob Karlan cabnr.unr.edu Archaeologist with research interests in Marjorie Matocq water quality Professor Non-point source management for Kimberly Rollins early peoples and environments of North Geological Sciences, MS 172, (775) 784- Associate Professor public drinking water protection; Associate Professor America and Africa Geography 1770, [email protected] NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-4621, microbial contaminants in water; and Department of Resource Economics

G. Richard Scott Potential field and seismic reflection [email protected] risk assessment and modeling for water (204), CABNR/UNR, Reno, NV 89557 EXPERTISE Associate Professor / Chair Thomas Albright techniques applied to tectonics and Evolutionary genetics, phylogeography, supply protection (775) 784-1677, [email protected] Anthropology, MS 096, (775) 682-7630, Assistant Professor geothermal exploration; Paleo/rock hybrid zones and mating systems Natural resource economics, policy Roger Walker [email protected] Geography, MS 154, (775) 784-6673, Magnetism; 3-D visualization; Walker analysis, wildlife and society, Glenn Miller Professor Physical anthropologist with research [email protected] Lane/Lake Tahoe Tectonics; paleoclimate/ environmental valuation, resource Professor NRES, MS 186, (775) 784-4039, walker@ interests in bioarcheaology of the Western Conservation biogeography, paleoceanography and paleoseismology conservation and management NRES, MS 199, (775) 784-4108, gcmiller@ cabnr.unr.edu

EXPERTISE United States and the ecoclimatology, landscape ecology and in Puget Sound, Lake Tahoe, and Gulf of unr.edu Forest management; forest health and Scott Shonkwiler remote sensing California; sediment and magnetic mineral Alternative fuels; environmental photo- wildland fire in forest ecosystems of Professor, Chair diagenesis chemistry of organic compounds, the Lake Tahoe Basin and eastern Sierra Department of Resource Economics focusing on pesticides on soil surfaces Nevada; forest restoration on mined (204), CABNR/UNR, Reno, NV 89557 lands of the eastern Sierra Nevada (775) 784-1341, [email protected]

2 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 3 Applied econometrics and statistics, well water quality, nonpoint source water Angela O’Callaghan Loretta Singletary Ann Laudati John A. Bissonette microeconomics, models of producer and pollution, small acreage management Southern Area Central/Northeast Area Resource conflicts, human environment Landscape ecology, wildlife management consumer behavior, resource valuation, and invasive weed species education and 2345 Red Rock Street, Suite 100, 504 South Main Street interactions Michael R. Conover regional economic activity and rural management in collaboration with natural Las Vegas, NV 89146 Yerington, NV 89447 Zhao Ma Wildlife damage management, animal business patterns resources agencies. Carson Valley Water (702) 257-5581 (775) 463-6541 Natural resources and environmental behavior Quality Education Program, Living On The [email protected] [email protected] policy University of Nevada Cooperative Land: Stewardship for Small Acreages, Areas of expertise are in horticulture, Areas of interest are natural resource Patricia C. Cramer Extension Specialists Tahoe Basin Weed Coordinating Group, plant science and desert gardening. Her dispute management, water issues, Christopher Monz Transportation ecology, wildlife Truckee Tributaries Watershed Protection program focuses on the development of public issues education methods, youth Recreation ecology, outdoor recreation, connectivity, carnivore and ungulate Buddy Borden Planning, Water Quality Education community gardens, teaching horticulture development, and assessing impacts of and wilderness management movement in the prisons and the Master Gardener collaborative processes. 4-H Program Southern Area Staci Emm Peg Petrzelka Richard C. Etchberger program. Annual Pruning Seminar/Healthy Impact Assessment, Calming the Waters, 2345 Red Rock St., Suite 100, Central/Northeast Area Environmental and rural sociology Wildlife-habitat relationships Tree Seminar, Beginning Desert Gardening, Economics of Invasive Weed Control, Las Vegas, NV 89146 314 5th Street, PO Box 810, Coffee with Friends, Fundamentals of Managing Natural Resource Disputes, Robert H. Schmidt Shandra Nicole Frey (702) 222-3130, [email protected] Hawthorne, NV 89415 Horticulture, Gardening Class, Horticulture Water Quality Management and Precision Wildlife Policy and Human Dimensions, Human-Wildlife Conflicts Areas of research and teaching interests (775) 945-3444, [email protected] Outreach Classes, Master Gardeners, Patio Agriculture, Walker River Basin Advisory Wildlife Damage Management are community economic development Mineral County Extension Educator. Eric M. Gese Farming, Teaching through Mass Media Program, Water Wise Demonstration processes, applied economic development She develops programs in community Steven R. Simms Predator behavior and ecology Arboretum analysis and economic fiscal impact development, natural resources and youth Pam Powell Cultural archaeology modeling. Community analysis and David N. Koons development to facilitate the sustainability Central/Northeast Area JoAnne Skelly Joseph Tainter Animal population ecology, wildlife economic development, target impact of rural communities. 4-H, Project Magic, 111 Sheckler Road, Fallon, NV 89406 Western Area analysis Social conflict in environmental issues, ecology Community Economic Development, (775) 423-5121 2621 Northgate Lane, Suite 15, Carson City, human responses to climate change and Terry A. Messmer John Cobourn Agriculture Sustainability, Indian [email protected] NV 89706 environmental degradation Western Area Reservation Programs Areas of interest are working with youth in (775) 887-2252 Wildlife extension, wetlands programs such as literacy, technology and [email protected] Plants, Forest, Rangeland and Insect/ 865 Tahoe Blvd., Suite 110, Steve Lewis Robert H. Schmidt life-skills. She oversees the Fallon arsenic Natural resource management expertise Incline Village, NV 89452 Western Area Disease Ecology Wildlife damage management, wildlife study, funded by EPA. She is the Extension is in landscape design for wildlife defense. (775) 832-4150, [email protected] 1329 Waterloo Lane, policy Educator for Churchill County. EPA Arsenic She works in urban horticulture, integrated Founded the Lake Tahoe Environmental Gardnerville, NV 89410 Peter Adler Study Follow-Up Survey, Health Effects of pest management, sustainable landscape Michael L. Wolfe Education Coalition to increase (775) 782-9960, [email protected] Plant community ecology and dynamics Inorganic Arsenic in Drinking Water, Soils design and landscape maintenance. Wildlife ecology and management collaboration between water quality Works in the fields of natural resources, Education in the Classroom, Well-Water Carson City Community Garden, Carson Barbara J. Bentz outreach education agencies. He works community development, sustainable Julie Young Analysis, Youth Development Grants River Coalition, Carson River Watershed Disturbance ecology, forest insects with natural resource managers to agriculture and youth development. Predator ecology and behavior Education program, Galena Firescape integrate watershed management in As an Extension Educator in Douglas Marlene Rebori Christopher A. Call Aquatic Ecology, Fisheries Biology Garden, Junior Master Gardeners, Living Lake Tahoe and the Carson River. Carson County, he addresses critical needs/ Western Area Vegetation manipulation, restoration with Fire, Urban Horticulture Education, Michelle A. Baker River Watershed Education Program, issues with training and assessment. 5305 Mill Street, Reno, NV 89520 ecology Youth Development Grants Stream ecology and biogeochemistry Carson Valley Water Quality Education Carson Valley Water Quality Education (775) 784-4848 Program, Flash Flooding and Community James H. Cane Nicholaas Bouwes Program, Compost You Combustibles, [email protected] Ed Smith Pollination ecology, especially of Alert System, Lake Tahoe Environmental Leadership Douglas County, Sage Grouse Works with community groups and Western Area Fish habitat Education Coalition, Partners in restoration forbs Conservation, Water Quality Education, organizations in the area of facilitation, 1329 Waterloo Lane, Gardnerville, NV Phaedra E. Budy Conservation, Western Nevada Flood Western Nevada Flood Education Program group process, community planning and 89410 Edward W. “Ted” Evans Aquatic food webs, fisheries management Education Program problem solving, leadership development (775) 782-9960, [email protected] Insect ecology, biological control, invasion Kent McAdoo and public policy education. Engaged Works with property owners, fire ecology Todd A. Crowl Rod Davis Central/Northeast Area Leadership, Fire Safe Highlands, Leadership departments, and land management River ecology, conservation biology Central/Northeast Area 701 Walnut Street, Elko, NV 89801 Michael J. Jenkins Douglas County, Living with Fire agencies on vegetation management 815 North Second Street, (775) 738-7291, [email protected] Disturbance ecology, fire ecology Ronald W. Goede practices to reduce Nevada’s wildfire Battle Mountain, NV 89820 Areas of interest include rangeland M.L. Robinson Diseases of fish (775) 635-5565, [email protected] threat. His areas of interest are natural Douglas A. Johnson revegetation, wildlife habitat Southern Area Charles P. Hawkins Primary work as the Extension Education resources and resource management Plant ecophysiology, range grasses enhancement, collaborative/holistic land 2345 Red Rock Street, Suite 100, Stream ecology, watershed restoration issues. Compost Your Combustibles, Fire for Lander County is in the areas of management, alternative ranch incomes, Las Vegas, NV 89146 Bradley R. Kropp Safe Highlands, Livestock Grazing for Karin M. Kettenring community development, natural proper functioning condition of riparian (702) 257-5529, [email protected] Pathogenic and symbiotic plant fungi Vegetation Management, Living with Fire, Wetland ecology: plants and restoration resources, horticulture and youth areas and native seed production/ Expertise includes water conservation, Nevada Fire Safe Council, Wildfire Fuels Michael R. Kuhns development. Community Beautification, collection. Nevada Youth Range Camp, palms and integrated pest management. Chris Luecke Management/Post Fire Rehabilitation Forestry extension, urban forestry economic development, invasive Rangeland Management Education for He works in grant procurement, education Aquatic ecology, fisheries management weeds, urban horticulture, wildfire fuels Native American Producers in Nevada, program development and applied James N. Long Brett B. Roper management/post fire rehabilitation Restoring Rangeland Health, Sustainable research. Desert Bioscape, Desert Green, Forest ecology, silviculture Stream Ecology and Habitat Relationships Jay Davison Biodiversity/Multiple Use of Rangelands, Environmentally Friendly Pest Control, Utah State University Faculty Ronald J. Ryel Central/Northeast Area Resource Conflict Resolution, Invasive Integrated Pest Management and Training, Plant physiological ecology, ecohydrology Wayne A. Wurstbaugh 111 Sheckler Road, Fallon, NV 89406 Weed Management Master Gardener Prison training, Water Our Social Sciences Limnology, fish ecology Eugene W. Schupp (775) 423-5121, [email protected] Chances Forest and Range Management Bob Morris Plant population ecology, restoration Major interests are livestock grazing as Southern Area Brad Schultz Mark W. Brunson ecology, reproductive ecology of rare plant Roger E. Banner an environmental management tool, 2345 Red Rock Street, Suite 100, Central/Northeast Area Natural Resource sociology and policy species Range extension, grazing management evaluating low water use, high-value Las Vegas, NV 89146 1085 Fairgrounds Road Steven W. Burr F.E. “Fee” Busby alternative crops suitable for producers, (702) 257-5509, [email protected] Winnemucca, NV 89445 Terry L. Sharik Recreation resources, tourism Range management, natural resource invasive weed control, and forage Interests are woody plant nutrition, wood- (775) 623-6307, [email protected] Forest regeneration, ecology production/harvest strategies. Alternative policy boring insect control and pheromone Collaborates with state agencies and Steven E. Daniels Kari E. Veblen crops, domestic water quality, invasive EXPERTISE use, turfgrass weed control, turfgrass individual producers on natural resource/ Rural development, natural resources Rangeland ecology, grazing ecology L. Wayne Coppock weed management, livestock grazing and woody plant water use, irrigation land management issues. His interests policy Rangeland production systems for vegetation management, rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Management conservation strategies, and salinity effects include grazing, pasture and habitat Joanna L. Endter-Wada Charles W. Gay, Jr. management for Native American on turf and ornamentals. Biosolids for management, noxious and invasive producers in Nevada, wildfire fuels Cultural anthropology, Natural Resource Range extension, international range the Green Industry, Don’t Bag It™, Golf weeds, rangeland restoration and forage/ policy, Water management & planning Karen H. Beard management management/post fire rehabilitation Course Monitoring, Interior Plants and field crops. Agricultural Production, 4-H Animal community ecology, conservation EXPERTISE Sue Donaldson Cut Flowers, Irrigation Management, and Ecology Days, Nevada Youth Range Douglas B. Jackson-Smith biology James N. Long Landscape Irrigation Water Quality, Camp, Rangeland Resources, Reproductive Environmental and rural sociology Forest ecology, silviculture Western Area Brent D. Bibles Landscape Retrofit, Teaching through Mass Management of Beef Cows, Urban 5305 Mill Street, Reno, NV 89520 Richard S. Krannich Wildlife ecology Juan J. Villalba (775) 784-4848, [email protected] Media Horticulture Natural resource sociology, policy Livestock foraging behavior Provides information about domestic

4 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 5 Hydrology/Watershed Management boisestate.edu Biology lizards. Effects of pathogens on host Shawn Benner Keith Crandall State and local government, public energetics and populations Assoc. Professor Professor Patrick Belmont personnel issues, urban politics, American Science-Nursing Building 208-426-3629, 208-426-4061, sbenner@ 801-422-3495, keith_crandall@byu. Watershed hydrology, sediment dynamics, Stephen Novak government 1910 University Dr. boisestate.edu edu geomorphology, morphodynamics Assoc. Professor Boise, ID 83725-1515 Biogeochemistry, aqueous geochemistry, Physiological ecology Leslie Alm 208-426-3548, 208-426-4267, snovak@ Jiming Jin ecohydrology, hydrogeology Professor Jesse Barber boisestate.edu Richard Gill Hydro-meteorological modeling 208-426-4094, 208-426-4370, lalm@ Assistant Professor Ecological genetics and ecological impact Jim McNamara Assoc. Prof. Nancy O. Mesner boisestate.edu 208-426-3202, 208-426-1040, jessebarber@ of introduced species (cheatgrass and Professor 801-422-3856, [email protected] Watershed/water quality interactions Environmental policy boisestate.edu medusahead rye). Molecular ecology and 208-426-1354, 208-426-4061, jmcnamar@ Plant and ecosystem ecology Biomechanical and behavioral aspects David Tarboton phylogeography boisestate.edu Elizabeth Aldrich of predator/prey systems including Jerald Johnson Hydrology Hydrology, Geomorphology Assistant Professor echolocation of bats and their insect prey Ian Robertson Assoc. Prof. Joseph M. Wheaton 208-426-2512, 208-426-4370, Assistant Professor Paul Michaels 801-422-4502, jerry.johnson@byu. Marc Bechard Fluvial geomorphology and ecohydraulics [email protected] 208-426-2394, 208-426-4267, iroberts@ Professor edu Energy policy and greenhouse gas markets Professor boisestate.edu 208-426-1929, 208-426-4061, Ecology, conservation biology 208-426-3530, 208-426-4267, mbechard@ Pollination biology of rare plants; host [email protected] Other Leigh Johnson Political Science/SSPA boisestate.edu choice and mass attack by bark beetles Application of geophysics to problems in Professor Raptor biology and ecology: habitat civil engineering, soil dynamics (inelastic Frederick A. Baker Public Affairs and Arts West Building Marcelo Serpe 801-422-5241, leigh_johnson@byu. requirements and use, breeding behavior, wave equations) and fluid flow in soils Forest pathology, computer applications 2100 University Drive Assoc. Professor edu telemetry, migration (diffusion and convection), parallel Boise, ID 83725-1935 208-426-3687, 208-426-4267, mserpe@ Botany, plant systematics Janis L. Boettinger computation, mathematical models to James Belthoff boisestate.edu Soil classification and interpretation, soil represent soils, software development C. Riley Nelson Professor Impact of microbiotic crusts on mapping, plant-soil relationships Freemuth John Professor 208-426-4033, 208-426-1040, jbeltho@ germination of native and introduced Mark Schmitz Professor 801-422-1345, [email protected] Thomas C. Edwards, Jr. boisestate.edu plant species, plant biochemistry and Assoc. Professor 208-426-3931, 208-426-4370, jfreemu@ Freshwater ecology, entomology Spatial ecology, bioregional planning Population biology, behavior, and boisestate.edu physiology 208-426-5907, 208-426-4061, conservation of birds; ecology and [email protected] Steven Peck Robert R. Gillies Environmental policy and public James Smith physiology of dispersal and migration Isotope geochemistry and geochronology Assoc. Prof. Climatology, remote sensing administration Professor in owls; effects of habitat changes on applied to petrology, tectonics, sratigraphy 801-422-4145, [email protected] 208-426-3551, 208-426-4267, jfsmith@ Karen Mock Susan Mason shrubsteppe passerines and paleoclimate Invasive species modeling Conservation genetics Assoc. Professor boisestate.edu Marie-Anne de Graaff Russell Rader 208-426-2658, 208-426-4370, Conservation genetics, plant molecular Walter Snyder R. Douglas Ramsey Assistant Professor Assoc. Prof. [email protected] systematics, integration of molecular and Professor Remote sensing, geographic information 208-426-1256, 208-426-1040, marie- 801-422-9159, [email protected] Planning and urban politics morphological data in cladistic analyses, 208-426-5905, 208-426-4061, wsnyder@ systems, landscape ecology, spatial [email protected] speciation boisestate.edu Aquatic ecology analysis Brian Wampler Plant/soil interactions in terrestrial Stratigraphy, sedimentology, tectonics Beverly Roeder Assoc. Professor ecosystems Geosciences H. Charles Romesburg Professor 208-426-2650, 208-426-4370, bwampler@ David Wilkins Natural resource philosophy, statistics Alfred Dufty Department of Geosciences 801-422-6873, beverly_roeder@byu. boisestate.edu Assoc. Professor Associate Dean/Professor 1910 University Dr. edu John C. Schmidt Comparative politics 208-426-2390, 208-426-4061, dwilkins@ Fluvial geomorphology, water policy 208-426-3263, 208-426-2789, adufty@ Boise, ID 83725-1535 boisestate.edu Veterinary science, animal physiology boisestate.edu History/SSPA Jen Pierce Arid lands geomorphology, Duke Rogers Richard E. Toth Behavioral field endocrinology; avian Assoc. Professor dendrogeomorphology, Professor Bioregional planning Albertsons Library biology; brood parasitism; ecological and 208-426-5380, 208-426-4061, jenpierce@ dendrochronology, fire history, and climate 801-422-5898, [email protected] 1st Floor, Rm 192 physiological responses of animals to Helga Van Miegroet boisestate.edu change Mammalian systematics 1910 University Dr. environmental perturbation; stable isotope Forest soils, biogeochemistry Quaternary geomorphology, Holocene Boise, ID 83725-1925 analysis of feathers Dennis Shiozawa fire history and climate change, recent fire Brigham Young University Faculty Professor Todd Shallat Kevin Feris history and climate change, feedbacks 801-422-4972, dennis_shiozawa@byu. Boise State University Faculty Professor Assistant Professor among hydrologic, biologic and geologic Anthropology edu 208-426-3701, 208-426-4058, tshalla@ 208-426-5498, 208-426-4267, kevinferis@ systems Freshwater ecology Anthropology boisestate.edu boisestate.edu Alejandro Flores History and politics Microbial community ecology; Joel Janetski Jack Sites Assistant Professor Hemingway Western Studies Center bioremediation studies; biogeochemistry Professor Professor Lisa Brady 208-426-2903, 208-426-4061, lejoflores@ 1910 University Dr. 801-422-6111, [email protected] 801-422-2279, [email protected] Assoc. Professor Jennifer Forbey boisestate.edu Boise, ID 83725-1950 Great Basin hunter-gatherers, small-scale Herpetology 208-426-4309, 208-426-4058, lisabrady@ Assistant Professor Data assimilation, ecohydrology, farmers Mark Plew boisestate.edu 208-426-4426, 208-426-1040, hydrological modeling, hydrometeorology, Biology Clinton Whipple Professor North American and global environmental [email protected] remote sensing, geomorphology Asst. Prof. 208-426-3444, 208-426-4329 history “PharmEcology” – plant herbivore Byron Adams 801-422-9293, [email protected] Matthew Kohn [email protected] interactions and natural product drug Assoc. Prof. Plant genetics Energy Policy Institute Professor Archaeology of the Plain discovery 801-422-3132, [email protected] 208-426-2757, 208-426-4061, mattkohn@ Parasites, ecosystem functioning, food web Michael Whiting Chris Hill 1910 University Dr. Peter Koetsier boisestate.edu Professor Assoc. Professor Boise, ID 83725-1014 Assoc. Professor Metamorphic/tectonic evolution of Duane Atwood 801-422-5651, michael_whiting@byu. 208-426-2625, 208-426-4329, Asst. Curator of Herbarium David Solan 208-426-3817, 208-426-4267, pkoet@ mountain ranges, stable isotopes of edu [email protected] 801-422-4955, duane_atwood@byu. Assistant Professor boisestate.edu vertebrate fossils for paleoclimate Entomology, systematics Changes in physical landscapes and Ice edu 208-426-4845, 208-426-1830, davidsolan@ Aquatic ecology; impacts of human- and paleoecology, geochemistry of

Age animals in the Great Plains and Rocky Plant systematics Civil & Environmental Engineering EXPERTISE boisestate.edu caused alterations on aquatic ecosystems, metamorphic minerals and fossils Mountains trophic structure of temporary streams and Energy policy, energy and management Warren Barrash Mark Belk Public Policy & Administration/SSPA issues springs; movement and migration of fish Professor Brett Borup Research Professor Assoc. Prof. College of Social Science and Public Affairs James Munger 208-426-1229, 208-426-3888, wbarrash@ 801-422-4154, [email protected] Public Affairs and Arts West Building 801-422-6311, [email protected] Professor & Dept. Chair boisestate.edu Population ecology 2100 University Drive David Eberle Water reuse, water quality 208-426-1567 208-426-3560, 208-426-4888, jmunger@ Hydrogeology; applications of geophysics Rex Cates EXPERTISE Boise, ID 83725-1935 Environmental economist; valuation of boisestate.edu to hydrogeology; parameter measurement Professor Rollin Hotchkiss Stephanie Witt natural resources; utility rate structures; Population ecology of rare species: methods and modeling; heterogeneity and 801-422-4281, [email protected] Professor/Assoc.Chair Professor local government financing; development Columbia spotted frogs, southern Idaho geostatistics; contaminant transport and Ecology, plant systematics 801-422-6234, [email protected] 208-426-3667, 208-426-4370, switt@ impact fees ground squirrels, Mohave black-collared tracer testing Stream flow, erosion, sediment transport

6 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 7 Norman Jones John McBride Loreen Allphin Bruce Roundy management David Rhode Professor Professor/ Dept. Asst. Chair Assoc. Prof. Professor (775) 673-7310, [email protected] Susan Edwards 801-422-0159, [email protected] 801-422-5219, john_mcbride@byu. 801-422-5603, loreen_woolstenhulme@ 801-422-8137, bruce_roundy@byu. Prehistory, archaeobotany, paleoecology in (702) 862-5421, [email protected] Ground water modeling and edu byu.edu edu Western North America Archaeological and historical research in contamination Geophysics, seismology Botany, ecology, plant reproductive biology Range ecology, restoration ecology Western U.S. Don Sabol A. Woodruff Miller Tom Morris Val Anderson Tom Smith (775) 673-7619, [email protected] Lynn Fenstermaker Professor Professor Professor Assoc. Prof. Remote sensing, geology (702) 862-5412, [email protected] 801-422-6331, [email protected] 801-422-3761, thomas_morris@byu. 801-422-3527, val_anderson@byu. 801-422-2151, [email protected] Ecological remote sensing Saxon Sharpe Hydrology edu edu Bears, mountain sheep (775) 674-7006, [email protected] Clastic sedimentology, petroleum geology Rangeland restoration, plant response Chris Fritsen Jim Nelson Sam St. Clair Quaternary paleoecology, interaction (775) 673-7487, [email protected] Professor Stephen Nelson Hal Black Asst. Prof. between biotic systems and climate Systems microbial ecology 801-422-7632, [email protected] Professor Professor 801-422-5725, [email protected] Henry Sun Hydrology and watershed modeling 801-422-8688, stephen_nelson@byu. 801-422-4553, [email protected] Plant physiology, aspen, Joseph G. Grzymski (702) 862-5337, [email protected] edu Mammalogy (775) 673-7478, [email protected] Mikel Stevens Microbial ecology, microbiology Geography Stable isotope geochemistry Bioinformatics Gary Booth Assoc. Prof. Paul Verburg Scott Ritter Professor 801-422-4032, mikel_stevens@byu. William Hartwell Matthew Bekker (775) 673-7425, [email protected] Professor/Dept. Chair 801-422-2458, [email protected] edu (702) 862-5419, [email protected] Assoc. Prof. Soil ecology, chemistry Hunter-gatherer adaptation in southern 801-422-1961, matthew_bekker@byu. 801-422-4239, [email protected] Entomology Plant genetics Conodont biostratigraphy, carbonate Great Basin, southern Great Plain, and Stephen Zitzer edu Craig Coleman Richard Terry sedimentology Pampas of Argentina (702) 862-5436, [email protected] Landscape ecology, natural disturbance Assoc. Prof. Professor Plant ecology 801-422-5145, craig_coleman@byu. 801-422-2283, [email protected] Richard Jasoni Jeffrey Durrant History Division of Hydrologic Sciences (775) 673-7472, [email protected] 801-422-4116, [email protected] edu Environmental science, soil microbiology Plant genetics Plant/ecosystem ecology, Kumud Acharya Public lands Jay Buckley Bruce Webb evapotranspiration in Great Basin (702) 862-5371, [email protected] Asst. Prof. Bradley Geary Senior Scientist Perry Hardin Aquatic Ecology 801-422-5327, [email protected] Robert Jones 801-422-6062, [email protected] Asst. Prof. 801-422-2147, [email protected] American West, Native America (702) 862-5322, [email protected] William H. Albright Remote sensing, environ. monitoring 801-422-2369, [email protected] Plant and soil analysis Lithic technology and spatial analysis of (775) 673-7314, [email protected] Brian Cannon Plant pathology Mark Jackson sites in the Great Basin, dating of early corn Soil physics Assoc. Prof. Bryan Hopkins 801-422-9753, [email protected] DRI Faculty in the Southwest 801-422-5211, [email protected] Markus Berli Remote sensing Assoc. Prof. Modern/rural America 801-422-2185, [email protected] Christopher Kratt (702) 862-5452, [email protected] Ryan Jensen Division of Earth and Ecosystem (775) 673-7483, [email protected] Soil physics, soil mechanics Jessie Embry Air & water quality, soil Assoc. Prof. Sciences Remote sensing, geothermal resource Adjunct Faculty Eric Jellen Rosemary W.H. Carroll 801-422-5386, [email protected] assessment in the Great Basin 801-422-4048, jessie_embry@byu. Professor (775) 673-7416, [email protected] Remote sensing, GIS, fire ecology Kenneth Adams edu 801-422-7279, [email protected] Nicholas Lancaster Hydrology Ruth Kerry Charles Redd Center, western US (775) 673-7345, [email protected] (775) 673-7304, [email protected] Plant genetics Jeannette B. Chapman Assoc. Lecturer Geomorphology/landscape dynamics Aeolian processes, desert sand Jenny Pulsipher (702) 862-5459, [email protected] 801-422-3851, [email protected] Greg Jolley 801-422-3286, jenny_pulsipher@byu. Jay Arnone Giles Marion Hydrogeology Geostatistics, soil Asst. Teaching Professor edu (775) 673-7445, [email protected] (775) 673-7349, [email protected] 801-422-6872, [email protected] Dong Chen J. Matthew Shumway Native American Plant physiological ecology Ecological modeling, thermodynamics Landscape design and construction (702) 862-5541, [email protected] 801-422-2707, [email protected] M.L. Bean Museum Colleen Beck Eric McDonald Hydrological modeling Land use changes in mountain west Von Jolley Larry St. Clair (702) 862-5323, [email protected] (775) 673-7302, [email protected] Geological Sciences Professor Li Chen Professor Anthropological and archaeological Soil science, , 801-422-2491, [email protected] (702) 862-5349, [email protected] Eric Christiansen 801-422-6211, [email protected] research geomorphology, landscape dynamics, Plant-soil relations Hydrological modeling Professor Botany, lichenology Glenn Berger desert terrain analysis, quaternary science Randy Larsen 801-422-2113 Micro & Molecular Biology (775) 673-7568, [email protected] Clay A. Cooper Asst. Prof. Kenneth McGwire [email protected] Application of physical methods to (775) 673-7372, [email protected] Paul Evans 801-422-2322, [email protected] (775) 673-7324, [email protected] Igneous petrology geological problems, geochronology, Hydrology 801-422-3259, [email protected] Ornithology Remote sensing, geographical information Michael Dorais Fish & aquatic insect phylogenetics paleoenvironments systems, geographical epidemiology- Gayle L. Dana Jeff Maughan Professor Hantavirus (775) 674-7538, [email protected] Joel Griffitts James T. Brock 801-422-1347, michael_dorais@byu. Assoc. Prof. Hydrogeology Asst. Prof. (775) 673-7407, [email protected] Timothy Minor edu 801-422-8698, jeff_maughan@byu. 801-422-7997, [email protected] Aquatic ecosystem ecology (775) 673-7477, [email protected] David L. Decker Igneous petrology edu Nitrogen fixation Plant genetics Paul Buck Remote sensing, geographic information (775) 673-7353, [email protected] Ronald Harris systems Geochemistry, hydrogeology Brent Nielsen (702) 862-5424, [email protected] Professor Brock McMillan Professor/Dept. Chair Prehistory archaeology Duane P. Moser Ronald L. Hershey 801-422-9264, [email protected] Assoc. Prof. 801-422-1102, brent_nielsen@byu. (702) 862-5534, [email protected] (775) 673-7469, [email protected] Structural tectonics 801-422-1228, brock_mcmillan@byu. Thomas Bullard edu edu (775) 673-7420, [email protected] Microbial ecology Hydrogeology Jeffrey Keith Plant molecular biology Mammalogy, pop. & community ecology Geomorphology and quaternary geology David Mouat Alan Heyvaert Professor of arid, semiarid and tropical regions (775) 673-7402, [email protected] (775) 673-7322, [email protected] 801-422-4331, [email protected] Plant and Wildlife Sciences Steven Petersen Aquatic Ecology, surface water quality Desertification, landscape dynamics, arid EXPERTISE Economic geology and chemistry Asst. Prof. Mary Cablk Zachary Aanderud 801-422-4885, steven_petersen@byu. (775) 673-7371, [email protected] lands geoecology and remote sensing, Alex Lutz Bart Kowallis Asst. Prof. edu Remote sensing, wildlife ecology, alternative futures (775) 673-7418, [email protected] Professor 801-422-4220, zachary_aanderud@byu. Wildlife habitat, fire ecology geospatial modeling Alison Murray Groundwater hydrology 801-422-2467, [email protected] edu (775) 673-7361, [email protected] Geochronology Todd Robinson Todd G. Caldwell Bradley F. Lyles Soil carbon cycling Assoc. Prof. (775) 673-7368, [email protected] Molecular microbial ecology (775) 673-7347, [email protected] EXPERTISE Alan Mayo Phil Allen 801-422-6172, todd_robinson@byu. Soil science Lonnie Pippin Geochemistry Professor Professor edu (702) 862-5428, [email protected] 801-422-2338, [email protected] Harold Drollinger Joseph R. McConnell 801-422-2421, [email protected] Camelids, small ruminants Prehistory, paleoecology in the American Hydrology (702) 862-5319, [email protected] (775) 673-7348, [email protected] Landscape horticulture and restoration, Archaeological research, cultural resource Southwest and Great Basin Hydrology seed physiology

8 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 9 David S. McGraw Environmental engineering Peter Bagley Natural resources policy and law Robert W. Rose investigate forest history, and application (775) 673-7382. [email protected] (775) 753-2229, [email protected] Professor of tree-ring techniques to the growth- Alan W. Gertler Jim Johnson Numerical modeling Botany [email protected] increments of long-lived marine and (775) 674-7061, [email protected] Professor and Associate Dean of Extension Forest regeneration; nursery management freshwater animal species Wallace A. McKay Physical chemistry [email protected] (775) 673-7384, [email protected] Silviculture, forest soils and forest ecology John Sessions John C. Bliss John A. Gillies Oregon State University Faculty Hydrogeology University Distinguished Professor, Professor; Assoc. Dept. Head; Starker Chair (775) 674-7035, [email protected] Loren D. Kellogg Strachan Chair of Forest Operations in Private and Family Forestry Todd Michael Mihevc Physical geography Professor Forest Engineering, Resources and Management [email protected] (775) 673-7435, [email protected] [email protected] Mark Green Management [email protected] Private forest policy; forest-based rural Hydrogeology Harvesting young stands; mechanized (775) 674-7118, [email protected] Wood transportation; optimal bucking development; natural resources sociology harvesting; alternative silvicultural systems Julianne J. Miller Air pollution and meteorology practices; timber harvest scheduling; Darius M. Adams Barbara J. Bond (702) 862-5483, [email protected] Chal Landgren timber supply; scheduling of silviculture Anna ‘Gannet’ Hallar Professor Emeritus Professor Water resource management Professor, Extension, Columbia and practices; use of synthetic rope in cable (970) 819-2842, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Washington Counties logging Rishi Parashar Climate change and air pollution Forest economics; modeling and analysis Forest tree physiology Pesticide application; forest business and (775) 673-7496, [email protected] of forest products markets; econometrics; David Shaw Kent Hoekman finance; Christmas trees; reforestation Paul S. Doescher Grounwater/contaminant transport forest policy Assistant Professor, Forest Health Extension (775) 674-7065, [email protected] Professor [email protected] modeling Douglas A. Maguire Specialist Air pollution Paul W. Adams Restoration of native plant communities; Associate Professor, Hayes Professor of [email protected] Gregory M. Pohll Professor; Forest Watershed Extension fire ecology; ecological and physiological Michael L. Kaplan Silviculture Forest disease and pests (775) 674-7523, [email protected] Specialist, [email protected] dynamics of plant species (775) 674-7051, [email protected] Director, Center for Intensive Planted-forest Hydrology Effects of timber harvesting and forest Arne Skaugset Meteorology Silviculture (CIPS) Lisa M. Ganio roads on erosion, riparian areas, and water Associate Professor Karl F. Pohlmann [email protected] Associate Professor Darko Koracin quality and quantity; forest watershed [email protected] (702) 862-5485, [email protected] Silviculture; forest biometrics [email protected] (775) 674-7091, [email protected] management methods and planning Director of Watershed Research Hydrogeology, groundwater, regional flow, Statistics; biometrics; study design Physics Thomas Maness stochastic modeling John Bailey Cooperative David L. Mitchell Associate Professor Professor and Department Head Failure mechanisms; management of Mark E. Harmon Charles E. Russell (775) 674-7039, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] landslide-prone forested terrain; forest Professor; Richardson Chair in Forest (702) 862-5486, [email protected] Cloud physics Silviculture, Fuels and Fire Management, Forest management and policy road drainage; riparian-area management; Science, [email protected] Hydrogeology and Adaptive Ecosystem Management dynamics of storm precipitation Forest ecology Hans Moosmuller Claire A. Montgomery Donald W. Sada (775) 674-7063, [email protected] Max Bennett Professor Steven Tesch K. Norman Johnson (775) 673-7359, [email protected] Physics Associate Professor; Extension Agent, [email protected] Professor; Executive Associate Dean Professor Biology Jackson and Josephine Counties Natural resource and forest economics; [email protected] [email protected] Daniel Obrist Rina Schumer [email protected] bioeconomic modeling Forest engineering-silviculture Forest planning; harvest scheduling; public (775) 674-7008, [email protected] (775) 673-7414, [email protected] Silviculture; forest health; integrated interactions; ecology and management of land forest policy Air pollution, mercury transport Jeffrey J. McDonnell Groundwater hydrology management for forest health; fire hazard University Distinguished Professor; interior mixed-conifer forests David E. Hibbs Kelly T. Redmond reduction David S. Shafer Richardson Chair in Forest Operations & Jeffrey Wimer Professor (775) 674-7011, [email protected] (702) 862-5564, [email protected] Kevin Boston Watershed Sciences Senior Instructor; Manager, Student [email protected] Climatology Geosciences Associate Professor [email protected] Logging Program Community ecology; silviculture Watershed science; hillslope hydrology; John C. Sagebiel [email protected] [email protected] Glen T. Howe Richard B. Susfalk isotope tracing; runoff processes; (775) 674-7064, [email protected] Forest transportation planning, forest road Educating next generation of forestry Associate Professor (775) 673-7453, [email protected] hydrological modeling Agricultural and environmental chemistry design and management systems and professionals, helping them to understand [email protected] Soil chemistry, watershed hydrology supply chain management for the primary logging mechanics, logging safety, unit David B. Simeral Glen Murphy Forest genetics; gene conservation; tree Kendrick C. Taylor, Jr. forest industry design and layout through a hands-on (775) 674-7132, [email protected] Stewart Professor in Forest Engineering improvement (775) 673-7375, [email protected] [email protected] approach Meteorology, physical geography Steve Bowers Edward C. Jensen Geophysics Production analysis; log scanning; Associate Professor, Extension Forester, Michael Wing Professor of Forest Biology & NR Education; Richard J. Tropp value recovery; harvest scheduling and James M. Thomas Lane County Associate Professor Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs (Interim); (775) 674-7094, [email protected] management; facilities planning; supply (775) 673-7305, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth P. Ritchey Distinguished Professor Physics chain management Hydrology, hydrogeology Outreach education in forest engineering GIS; remote sensing; precision [email protected] Xialiang Wang measurement technology and application; Julian Zhu Stephen Fitzgerald Bob Parker Natural resources education; forest ecology (775) 674-7177, [email protected] Extension Forester, Baker County forestry visibility analysis, aquatic habitat; (702) 862-5416, [email protected] Professor; Extension Agent, Deschutes, Olga Krankina Aerosol physics Outreach education in forest engineering large woody debris; spatial statistics Groundwater modeling Jefferson, Crook, and Grant Counties Associate Professor, Sr. Research Division of Atmospheric Sciences Eric Wilcox [email protected] Marvin R. Pyles Forest Ecosystems and Society [email protected] (775) 673-7686, [email protected] Silviculture; density management; fire Matthew P. Bailey Knudson Professor of Forestry Forest management; forest ecology; Climate modeling ecology; uneven-age management (775) 677-3210, [email protected] [email protected] H. Jo Albers woody detritus; carbon cycling; Russian Atomic Physics Barbara Zielinska Rick Fletcher Slope failure mechanisms; road drainage; Professor forestry; non-timber forest products stream hydraulics and hydrology [email protected] (775) 674-7066, [email protected] Professor (Extension); Associate Director, Beverly Law Timothy J. Brown Applied economics, resource management Organic chemistry Sustainable Forestry Partnership John Punches Professor (775) 674-7090, [email protected] decisions public-private land conservation; Forest management; marketing; Douglas County Extension Office [email protected] Climatology spatial and rural welfare aspects of Christmas tree production; urban tree [email protected] Ecophysiology; ecosystem processes, Great Basin College Faculty (international and domestic) biodiversity Lung-Wen ‘Antony’ Chen care; agroforestry; volunteer program Tree growth processes and wood quality climate change (775) 674-7028, [email protected] management conservation Tracy Shane A. Scott Reed Kreg Lindberg Air quality Matt Betts (775) 753-2344, [email protected] Temesgen Hailemariam Professor & Dean of Extension Services Associate Professor, Cascades Campus EXPERTISE Assistant Professor Judith Chen Chow Range and resource management as Associate Professor [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (775) 674-7050, [email protected] related to agriculture [email protected] Dimensions of sustainability; forest Visitor price-responsiveness and economic Influences of landscape structure on Air pollution Forest biometrics and measurement development opportunities; policy impact of nature/eco tourism; inter-visitor Doug Hogan demography of animal populations, alternatives to stimulate stewardship of conflict in natural areas; economic and Johann P. Engelbrecht (775) 623-1809, [email protected] David W. Hann trophic cascades change, landscape private and family forests; educational social impacts of tourism generally (775) 674-7027, johann.engelbrecht@dri. Owyhee Desert ecosystem Professor change EXPERTISE needs of natural resource managers edu Forest modeling Dan Luoma Mark Ports and landowners; application of new Bryan Black Geology Assistant Professor (775) 753-2120, [email protected] Geoffrey Huntington technologies, program evaluation Assistant Professor [email protected] Vicken R. Etyemezian Land snails, small mammals Senior Instructor [email protected] Plant community and mycorrhizal ecology (702) 862-5569, [email protected] [email protected] Tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) to

10 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 11 Brenda McComb David P. Turner Guillermo Giannico W. Douglas Robinson Amy Peters Animal Production Professor and Department Head, Forest Associate Professor Associate Professor; Team Leader, Stream Associate Professor Extension, forage, pasture, small ruminants Ecosystems and Society [email protected] Assessment and Restoration Module, [email protected] (Coos County), amy.peters@oregonstate. Richard A. Battaglia [email protected] Biogeochemistry Watershed Stewardship Education Program Avian ecology; wildlife ecology, edu Professor Forest and wildlife ecology [email protected] particularly relating to songbirds and their Peter Schreder (208) 885-6348, [email protected] Fisheries and Wildlife Fish ecology and behavior; extension and conservation Anita Morzillo Extension, range and livestock (Lake Sustainable small acreage livestock outreach education production systems Assistant Professor, Senior Research Scott Baker Philippe Rossignol County) [email protected] Associate Director, Marine Mammal Stanley Gregory Professor [email protected] Anthropology Landscape ecology, wildlife ecology human Professor [email protected] Institute, Hatfield Marine Science Center John Williams dimensions [email protected] Modeling of complex communities; public [email protected] Extension, range and livestock (Wallowa Stream ecology health, entomology and parasitology Rodney Frey Mark Needham Conservation genetics of marine mammals County), [email protected] Associate professor Assistant Professor Michael Banks Bill Hanshumaker David B. Sampson (208) 885-6268, [email protected] [email protected] Marine Fisheries Geneticist, Hatfield Marine Instructor, Hatfield Marine Science Center Professor, Hatfield Marine Science Center American Indian cultures, especially Human dimensions of natural resources, Science Center [email protected] [email protected] University of Idaho Faculty Plateau and northern plains regions; recreation, tourism and wildlife [email protected] Informal science education; marine Modeling fishery systems content emphasis on oral traditions, mammals; marine resource management; Klaus Puettmann Marine fisheries genetics Dana Sanchez Agricultural Economics & Policy religious expressions, ecological systems deep sea geology; coastal hazards and social organizations Professor George Boehlert Assistant Professor and Extension Wildlife A. A. (Jim) Araji [email protected] Professor and Director, Hatfield Marine Scott Heppell Specialist Aquaculture Agricultural economist; professor Silviculture; forest ecology Science Center Assistant Professor, Senior Research Mammal habitat and population ecology Fish physiology, with an emphasis on the (208) 885-8986, [email protected] Ronald J. Reuter [email protected] Carl B. Schreck reproductive biology of fish Evaluation of public and private Gary Fornshell Associate Professor of Natural Resources, Fisheries oceanography Professor, Leader Cooperative Fishery investments in research and evolving Extension aquaculture educator; extension Cascades Campus Selina Heppell Research Unit, USGS-BRD James Bowman technology; technological change and professor [email protected] Associate Professor [email protected] Assistant Professor technology transfer; foreign trade and (208) 734-9590, [email protected] Soilscapes; pedology; wetland soils; [email protected] Environmental physiology of fish and [email protected] agricultural development, biological waste Aquaculture; water quality; aquaculture landscape ecology; distance-education Population ecology; marine fisheries genetics Warmwater aquaculture; food fish management waste management ecology; conservation biology; life history William J. Ripple production; semi-intensive pond culture Brian Sidlauskas evolution Larry D. Makus Ronald W. Hardy Professor systems; aquaculture research and Assistant Professor Agricultural economist; professor Director, Hagerman Culture Experiment [email protected] extension; international aquaculture Markus Horning [email protected] (208) 885-6037, [email protected] Station; professor Trophic cascades, wildlife habitat analysis, development, research and extension Assistant Professor, Marine Mammal Systematics of fishes; zoogeography of Grain and livestock marketing; marketing (208) 837-9096, [email protected] landscape ecology, biodiversity, and aspen, Institute, Hatfield Marine Science Center northwest fishes; endangered species Frank Burris non-traditional agricultural products Aquaculture; fish nutrition and elk, wolf ecology, and trophic cascades [email protected] recovery; early life history ecology of fishes Associate Professor, Extension Agent James R. Nelson biochemistry; environmental impacts of Pinniped ecology and physiology Randall S. Rosenberger [email protected] Gilbert Sylvia Professor aquaculture; alternative protein ingredients Associate Professor Water quality Robert M. Hughes Superintendent, Marine Branch, Hatfield (208) 885-7635, [email protected] for fish feeds [email protected] Sam Chan Professor of Fisheries Senior Research Marine Science Center Rural economic development; economics Madison (Matt) Powell Recreation economics; environmental and Research Assistant, Watershed health agent [email protected] [email protected] of community services; natural resource Research assistant professor resource economics Regional aquatic ecology; assessment policy; UI sustainable agriculture programs [email protected] David Wooster (208) 837-9096, [email protected] of ecological patterns and integrity; fish Bo Shelby Invasive aquatic organisms Assistant Professor, Hermiston Ag. Research Neil R. Rimbey Applied population genetics; chromosomal assemblage ecology Professor Center, [email protected] Extension range economist; extension evolution; commercial aquaculture; Sandra Debano cytogenetics; molecular systematics; [email protected] Assistant Professor Philip Kaufmann Aquatic entomology, stream ecology professor Sociology of natural resources; crowding Associate Professor (208) 459-6356, [email protected] aquaculture, conservation biology; fisheries [email protected] Rangeland, Ecology and Management science; ichthyology; population genetics; and carrying capacity; resource allocation; Riparian ecology; terrestrial invertebrates [email protected] Range land economics; forage economics norms and standards for resource conservation aquaculture; captive breeding Pat Kennedy R. Garth Taylor management; stream flows and resource Bruce Dugger Michael M. Borman Professor Regional extension economist; assistant Kenneth D. Cain values Associate Professor and Mace Professor of Professor, Extension, range ecology and Associate Professor; Associate Director, Watchable Wildlife [email protected] restoration extension professor Bruce A. Shindler Ecology of avian populations and (208) 885-7533, [email protected] Aquaculture Research Institute Ecology, conservation, and management [email protected] (208) 885-7608, [email protected] Professor - Senior Research of waterbirds, particularly waterfowl, and communities in managed landscapes Economics of Idaho regions and [email protected] Douglas E. Johnson communities; public land and natural Fish immunology; fish diseases; salmonid their wetland habitats Christopher Langdon Social values of natural resources and Professor, range ecology and restoration resource issues aquaculture; aquaculture vaccine Professor, Hatfield Marine Science Center wildland management Katie Dugger [email protected] development; fish health management Associate Professor Research [email protected] Alfalfa & Forages Ricardo Mata-Gonzalez Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Viviane Simon-Brown [email protected] Aquaculture of marine mollusks and fish Asst. Professor, range ecology and plant Professor; Coordinator: The Sustainable Avian population ecology, particularly larvae Glenn E. Shewmaker Living Project at OSU; Extension physiology the estimation of survival rates and Judith Li Extension forage specialist; associate Peter Goodwin [email protected] [email protected] reproductive success as a key element Assistant Professor professor De Vlieg presidential professor Human dimensions of natural resources in the conservation and management of [email protected] Larry L. Larson (208) 736-3608, [email protected] (208) 364-6164, [email protected] sustainability: education, public species and their ecosystems Stream ecologist; aquatic invertebrates Professor, range ecology and restoration Alfalfa management; forage management, Environmental restoration; physical engagement, and collaboration (Ag Program EOU), [email protected] quality and utilization; pasture and grazing processes in streams, wetlands and Dan Edge Doug Markle Steven H. Strauss management; environmental benefits of estuaries Department Head Professor Ryan Limb Professor forage crops [email protected] [email protected] Asst. Professor, range ecology and Arboriculture & Urban Forestry [email protected] Population dynamics and habitat ecology Systematics of fishes; zoogeography of restoration (Ag Program EOU) Forest genetics; biotechnology Analytical Science of mammals [email protected] John Lloyd

northwest fishes; endangered species EXPERTISE Jo Tynon Clint Epps recovery; early life history ecology of fishes Timothy Deboodt Gregory Möller Assistant professor Assistant Professor (208) 885-5477, [email protected] Assistant Professor Bruce Mate Extension, range and livestock (Crook Associate professor, analytical sciences lab [email protected] Tree selection, planting, maintenance [email protected] Professor, Hatfield Marine Science Center County), [email protected] technical director Qualitative and quantitative inquiry (pruning, fertilization), climbing and pest Landscape and genetic ecology of [email protected] (208) 885-6057, [email protected] into natural resource-based recreation Gary Delaney management mammals Marine mammals: distribution, feeding Technologies to detect toxic contaminants and tourism issues; sociology of leisure Extension, range, livestock, 4-H (Grant EXPERTISE behavior, diving physiology, conservation. in food; heavy metal environmental and outdoor recreation; recreation Jesse Ford County), [email protected] Architecture Particularly, satellite monitored radio contamination; hazardous waste planning and management; wilderness Associate Professor tracking studies of endangered whale Dustin Johnson management; environmental impacts; management; crime and violence on public [email protected] Rula Z. Awwad-Rafferty species and dolphins to determine critical Extension, range and livestock (Harney environmental laws and regulations recreation lands Ecosystems ecology; paleoecology Associate professor; interior design habitat. County), [email protected] dealing with chemicals in the environment

12 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 13 program coordinator Biological Sciences Environmental biotechnology; research psychology of interpretation and tourism Steve Porter management, forest ecosystem (208) 885-6832, [email protected] involving use of gene chips (DNA experience, guiding and guide training, Associate professor management Environment and behavior interaction; microarrays); microbial diversity in the interpretation training and interpretive (208) 885-7974, [email protected] John Byers Fish & Wildlife Resources factors affecting quality of life in the built Professor Earth’s deep subsurface; use of microbes planning, natural resource communication, Civil engineering; environmental environment; resettlement of cultural (208) 885-6256, [email protected] to clean up environmental pollution; nature-based tourism and eco-tourism, engineering; environmental quality; water Brian Kennedy groups; adaptive reuse applications and Pronghorn and other hoofed mammals; bioremediation of soil and ground water; parks and protected area management quality management Assistant professor community building; sense of place: place biology of behavior; mating systems; technology transfer Tammi Laninga Sunil Sharma (208) 885-5171, [email protected] attachment and identity sexual selection; evolution; creationism; Robert R. Tripepi Assistant Professor Professor Fisheries ecology; population dynamics; evolution controversy Bruce Haglund Professor; horticulturalist (208)885-7996 (208) 885-6403, [email protected] bioenergetics, aquatic systems and Professor Joseph Cloud (208) 885-6635, [email protected] Community-based collaborative planning, Earthquake, foundation and geotechnical communities (208) 885-6781, [email protected] Professor Tissue culture procedures of herbaceous federal land management planning engineering; soil mechanics; landslides; Cort Anderson Energy efficient buildings, environmental (208) 885-6388, [email protected] and woody plants with an emphasis on processes, sustainable land use planning. slope failure; earth dams Research assistant professor, manager technologies, sustainable architecture; Developmental biology; cryobiology; propagating native species Laninga has a joint appointment within Environmental Organic Chemistry (208) 885-8914, [email protected] solar buildings, daylighting, green fish reproduction and development; CSS and the UI Bioregional Planning and Chemical Engineering Molecular evolution; molecular architecture sperm cryopreservation; salmon gene Community Design program. Mathew Morra systematics; phylogenetics banks, freezing salmon/trout sperm; Daniel Mullin Brad Eldredge Ecohydraulics Professor transplantation of salmonid embryonic Kerri Vierling Assistant professor Assistant professor (208) 885-6315, [email protected] cells Associate professor (208) 885-5059, [email protected] (208) 535-7954, [email protected] Klaus Jorde Pesticides, soil enzymes, bioremediation, (208) 885-5378, [email protected] Sustainable design; adaptive reuse; Rolf Ingermann Chemical engineering; fluidization; Professor natural pesticides, mustard allelochemistry Habitat selection; avian diversity; impacts construction technology; history of Associate professor hazardous and radioactive waste (208) 364-6194, [email protected] of fire and salvage logging on woodpecker architecture and music (208) 885-7749, [email protected] management; particle size analysis; Aquatic habitat modeling; hydraulic Environmental Science reproduction; keystone species Vertebrate physiology; cellular and combustion, waste management modeling; conceptual and numerical Bioinformatics approaches; avian ecology; fire ecology; biochemical aspects of environmental model development; reservoir operations, Margrit von Braun conservation biology and reproductive physiology of lower Chemistry hydrologic alteration and ecosystem Dean; professor James A. Foster vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, fish) responses; hydropower systems; low (208) 885-6243, [email protected] Professor; adjunct professor; director IBEST/ Fisheries Frank Cheng impact hydropower; hydraulic structures Hazardous waste management; effect of INBRE bioinformatics core James Nagler Associate Professor toxic materials on health and environment; Barrie Robison (208) 885-7062, [email protected] Associate professor (208) 885-6387, [email protected] Sandra Lee Pinel risk assessment Assistant professor Computational biology, evolutionary (208) 885-4382, [email protected] Electrochemistry; antioxidants; Assistant Professor (208) 885-7137, [email protected] studies; multiple sequence alignment; Fish reproductive physiology; hormonal environmental remediation; (208) 885-7911 Environmental Soil Chemistry Genomics, evolutionary biology, fisheries microbial diversity analysis; evolutionary regulation of gonadal development; environmental analyses; batteries; fuel Local and regional land use planning, biology computation effects of “environmental estrogens” on fish cells; corrosion indigenous and community culture Daniel G. Strawn reproduction in planning theory and methods; Assistant professor Christine Moffit Biological & Agricultural Engineering Ray von Wandruszka cultural landscapes, multi-jurisdictional (208) 885-2713, [email protected] Professor; assistant leader Jack Sullivan Professor governance; limits to participatory Kinetics and mechanisms of contaminant (208) 885-7047, [email protected] Thomas F. Hess Associate professor (208) 885-6827, [email protected] and collaborative planning; conflict and nutrient sorption and desorption Host-parasite interactions; disease Associate professor; environmental (208) 885-9049, [email protected] The chemistry of humic materials; management; community economic in soils and soil minerals; fundamental interactions of cultured and wild fish; engineer Mammalian molecular systematics and detergent chemistry; environmental development; epistemologies in reaction processes that inorganic chemicals biology, health and management of (208) 885-7461, [email protected] theoretical systematics; evolution and clean-up planning cultural resource management; undergo in the soil and environment anadromous fish in hatcheries and the Biological and chemical treatment of systematics of rodents; biogeographical Rick Fletcher ethnographic research methods, social wild; aquaculture chemical efficacy and agricultural, municipal and industrial work in Mexico and Central America Associate professor impact and contextualized case study Evolution registration wastes; composting and related Holly Wichman (208) 885-2746, [email protected] research chemical/biological processes; biological Dennis Scarnecchia Professor Chemistry; chemical reaction dynamics; Scott Nuismer and chemical methods to remediate Economics Professor (208) 885-7805, [email protected] lasers to measure chemical concentration, Associate professor contaminated soils and waters (208) 885-5981, [email protected] Molecular and general genetics; evolution reaction rates and energy flows; fast (208) 885-4096, [email protected] Jon R. Miller Salmon and trout research; Paddlefish of viruses; transposons; applied evolution chemical reactions, specifically explosives; Interactions, coevolution, biodiversity, Biological Pest Control Professor and sturgeon research; fish population atmospheric reaction and the greenhouse geographic distributions of interacting Biology (208) 885-7506, [email protected] dynamics; large river ecology and fisheries; effect species Nilsa A. Bosque-Perez Environmental and regional economics; fisheries management Associate professor, entomologist Olle Pellmyr Eva Top Computing water resource issues; economic impact Frank Wilhelm (208) 885-7544, [email protected] Associate professor Associate professor analysis; regional economic forecasts Assistant Professor Host plant resistance to insect pests; (208) 885-6807, [email protected] (208) 885-5015, [email protected] Robert Heckendorn R. Ashley Lyman (208)885-7218 insect-host plant interactions; integration Co-evolution, plant-animal interactions, Horizontal gene transfer and bacterial Assistant professor Associate professor Lake restoration and management, ecology of host plant resistance and biocontrol; pollination biology; moth biology evolution; bacterial adaptation to (208) 885-7076, [email protected] of aquatic macroinvertebrates insect vectors of plant viruses; insect pests (208) 885-7145, [email protected] pollutants and antibiotics; evolution of Evolution; using evolutionary computer of wheat Biotechnology Microeconomics, econometrics; applied transferable broad-host-range plasmids models to solve real-world problems; welfare economics; development Forest Pathology Wesley Chun computer analysis of DNA and protein Michael Cantrell Allan Caplan economics; electricity pricing and Associate professor, plant pathologist sequences; supercomputers; distributed Associate professor George Newcombe Associate professor regulation; water pricing; demand analysis, (208) 885-5708, [email protected] computing; computer models of tumor (208) 885-2665, [email protected] Associate professor (208) 885-9441, [email protected] advertising/marketing Biological control of fungal and bacterial growth; advanced teleconferencing Mammals (208) 885-5289, [email protected] Biotechnology; genetic transformation diseases of crops; bioactive metabolites Engineering Forest and plant symbiosis, genetics of of cereal crops; physiological response to Cooperative Extension produced by bacteria Conservation Social Sciences resistance in host-parasite interactions, heavy metals; drought-related stresses in Howard S. Peavy mycology, endophytic fungi, plant disease Guy R. Knudsen plants; environmental stress; plant genetic Troy Hall Professor; chair Gordon C. Keetch diagnostics Professor; microbial ecologist engineering and plant transformation EXPERTISE Professor (208) 885-6602, [email protected] Extension professor (208) 885-7933, [email protected] Don L. Crawford (208) 885-9455, [email protected] Water and wastewater treatment; (208) 253-4279, [email protected] Forest Products Microbial control of plant pathogens and Professor; director of Environmental Wilderness management and planning; management of natural water systems Natural resources and livestock/4-H insect pests; epidemiology and predictive Science Institute communication and persuasion; research Armando McDonald modeling James H. Mulligan Fire Management (208) 885-6001, [email protected] methods; public understanding of science Associate professor Professor emeritus (208) 885-9454, [email protected] Joseph P. McCaffrey Genetic engineering of bacteria; microbial Sam Ham EXPERTISE (208) 885-6805, [email protected] Professor; entomologist genetics; environmental microbiology Penelope Morgan Wood chemistry and composites Professor Civil engineering-hydraulics, hydrology; (208) 885-7548, [email protected] Professor Ronald L. Crawford (208)885-7911 hydraulics of natural streams; sediment Steven Shook Insect pest management (208) 885-7507, [email protected] Distinguished professor; director Communications theory and human transport; flood litigation Landscape ecology, natural resources Associate professor (208) 885-6580, [email protected] behavior in parks and tourism settings, ecology/ conservation, fire ecology/ (208) 885-6802, [email protected]

14 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 15 Forest products business management Christopher C. Schnepf floods; Idaho earthquakes; Borah eakP (208) 377-2107, [email protected] grains; grasshopper and Mormon cricket applied geo-spatial information systems to Professor earthquakes; geological hazards Gardening, xeriscaping management on rangeland regional landscapes, particularly regional Thomas Gorman (208) 446-1680, [email protected] planning; land information technology Professor John S. Oldlow Marc J. Klowden Non-industrial private forestry; forest Human Dimensions of Resources geomatics; land informatics (208) 885-7402, [email protected] Professor; department head Entomologist; professor ecology; forestry education; special forest Natural resources (208) 885-6192, [email protected] (208) 885-7546, [email protected] products; silviculture Charles (Chuck) Harris Law Continental tectonics; earthquakes and How insects control their behavior; Forest Resources Professor Randy Brooks deformations in western North American (208) 885-6314, [email protected] mosquito biology; insect hormones and Barbara Cosens Extension professor and area-extension and central Mediterranean area Economic and social impacts of natural their role in reproduction Associate professor Kathleen Kavanagh forester for Northern Idaho Maynard M. Miller resource and environmental management; Mark Schwarzlaender (208) 885-6298, [email protected] Professor (208) 476-4434, [email protected] Professor emeritus natural resources policy analysis, natural Assistant professor Water law, Native American water (208) 885-2552, [email protected] Non-industrial private forestry; forest (208) 885-6382, [email protected] resource recreation (208) 885-9319, [email protected] resources, intergovernmental water Silviculture, fire ecology, forest ecology, soils; forest health; water quality; pest Changing global climate; global change/ Biological weed control, insect-plant agreements, mediation of water disputes forest management, water management; forestry and natural global warming; UI’s arctic and glacier Hydro-engineering interactions resources education Stephen Cook exploration program in Alaska; Juneau Library Sanford Eigenbrode Associate professor Ron Mahoney Icefield Research Program; the Mount Richard G. Allen Chemical ecologist; associate professor (208) 885-2722, [email protected] Extension forester; extension professor Everest story-men under stress Water resources engineer; professor Lily Wai (208) 885-2972, [email protected] Forest entomology (208) 885-6356, [email protected] (208) 423-6601, [email protected]. Professor; head Geosciences edu Chemical ecology of insect and plant (208) 885-6344, [email protected] Timothy Link Non-industrial private forestry; forest Water resources, water management, interactions; natural plant defenses; insect Government information, geospatial and Associate Professor ecology; forest health; hardwood John Welhan evapotranspiration; remote sensing, ecology; insect/plant evolution; insect statistical data, federal depository library (208) 885-9465, [email protected] silviculture; reforestation Full research geologist irrigation water requirements; surface behavior program, geographical information system Forest hydrology Yvonne Barkley (208) 282-4254, [email protected] water-ground water interactions; irrigation Thomas M. Mowry (GIS) Associate extension forester Forestry Hydrogeology; ground water; aqueous hydrology; hydraulic simulation, water Research entomologist; associate professor (208) 885-7718, [email protected] Maria Anna Jankowska isotope geochemistry; geostatistics; aquifer quality, water conservation (208) 722-6701 x 21, [email protected] Forest management and ecology, forest Professor; reference research librarian modeling; ground water vulnerability Interactions among insects, plant Gary Machlis health, nursery management, and (208) 885-6631, [email protected] Professor pathogens and plants; insecticide Internet resources; economics wildland/urban interface fire Grains Barbara Williams (208)885-7952 [email protected] resistance monitoring in Colorado potato of information; effectiveness of Assistant Professor Social ecology Geography beetles and green peach aphids; factors information; globalization of information; Charles L. Peterson (208) 885-9436, [email protected] affecting aphid transmission of plant environmental information sources Fran Wagner Biological and agricultural engineer; Groundwater fluid mechanics and Gundars Rudzitis viruses; evaluation of transgenic potatoes Professor professor transport, colloid and bacteria transport in for disease resistance Livestock (208) 885-6700, [email protected] Professor (208) 885-7906, [email protected] groundwater, redox-dominated soil-water Timber supply and primary wood products (208) 885-6613, [email protected] Land Management Spatially variable crop management; systems, water and waste water treatment Scott Jensen manufacturing; value of small-diameter Human geography, American West; conservation tillage operations, and reclamation/remediation Assistant extension professor; extension timber from Ecosystem Management of environmental and public lands policy; engineering Steve Hollenhorst educator USDA Forest Service lands; Idaho’s timber migration and regional development; Baltic Groundwater Resources Professor (208) 896-4104, [email protected] harvest by land ownership type countries Insect Control (208) 885-7911, [email protected] Livestock and range Jerry Fairley Jo Ellen Force Karen Humes Public land policy; wilderness, park and Assistant professor Juan Manuel Alvarez Professor, (208) 885-7311, joellen@uidaho. Associate professor protected area policy and management; Natural Resources (208) 885-9259, [email protected] Assistant Professor edu (208) 885-6506, [email protected] land trusts and conservation easements Computational groundwater modeling, (208) 397-4181 ext. 11, jalvarez@uidaho. Forest policy; integrated natural resources Remote sensing, hydrology; water and Jay O’Laughlin flow in fractured rock, geothermal systems, edu Landscapes planning; public involvement energy balance modeling; soil moisture Professor; director of Policy Analysis Group measurement and mapping; GIS interactions between geothermal systems, Biological control of insects and mites in (208) 885-5776; [email protected] John Marshall faults, and other geologic structures, other potatoes and small grains; integrated pest Alex Fremier Karl Chang Natural resources policy; Endangered Professor strongly-heat driven groundwater systems management in potatoes and small grains Assistant Professor Species Act; public land policy; forest (208) 885-6995, [email protected] Professor (e.g. nuclear waste disposal) (208)885-6405, [email protected] (208) 885-6240, [email protected] Insects economics; forest and range water quality Physiological ecology of trees; global Riparian habitats, floodplain and riverine policy; sustainable forest management climate change and vegetational effects; Taiwan; geographic information systems; History systems, and hydrological processes mistletoe and other parasite plants cartography, mapmaking Edward J. Bechinski Stephen Bunting Piotr Jankowski Adam M. Sowards Extension integrated pest management Landscape Architecture Professor Lauren Fins Assistant professor coordinator; professor of entomology (208) 885-7103, [email protected] Professor Professor (208) 885-7704, [email protected] (208) 885-5972, [email protected] Barbara Andersen Community and landscape ecology (208) 885-7920, [email protected] (208) 885-6452, [email protected] Geographic information systems, U.S. West; environmental Identification, biology and management Assistant Professor Forest genetics; tree improvement of insect pests of agricultural field crops, Nematodes spatial decision support systems; public Horticulture (208) 885-9821, [email protected] Paul Gessler participation in spatial decision making urban landscapes, homes and backyard Urban theory and planning, sustainable Professor gardens; beneficial insects; alternatives to site design, landscape ecology Saad L. Hafez (208) 885-2595, [email protected] Von P. Walden Robert Wilson pesticides Extension crop nematology specialist; Gary Austin Remote sensing; geographic information Assistant professor Assistant extension professor; extension extension professor James B. Johnson Associate professor systems (GIS); environmental modeling; (208) 885-5058, [email protected] educator (208) 722-6701 ext. 237 shafez@uidaho. Entomologist; professor (208) 885-7117, [email protected] forest soils; ecological modeling Polar meteorology and climatology, (208) 263-8511, [email protected] edu remote sensing of atmospheric properties Nursery and greenhouse production, (208) 885-7452, [email protected] Landscape architecture - design; irrigation Nematode identification and disease Anthony Davis over (temperature, humidity, sustainable small acreage farming, plant Insect taxonomy; insect biology; biological design, grading and drainage; 3-D diagnosis; biological and chemical control Assistant Professor clouds), instrumentation for measuring problem diagnosis, Master Gardener control of insect pests computer models; construction detailing of nematodes in potatoes, sugar beets, (208)885-7211 atmospheric properties Program James D. Barbour of exterior elements; design for Alzheimer’s alfalfa, dry beans, grapes and orchards; Native plant regeneration; silviculture disease patients; landscape restoration nematode-plant interactions; nematode Stephen L. Love Entomologist; assistant professor EXPERTISE Geology problems in Bolivia, Brazil, Egypt, Germany Alistari Smith Research horticulturist; professor (208) 722-6701 ext. 24, jbarbour@uidaho. Stephen R. Drown and Spain Assistant Professor (208) 397-4181, [email protected] edu Professor; chair (208)885-1029, [email protected] Judith Totman Parrish Insect pests of hops; plant resistance (208) 885-7448, [email protected] Dean Extension programming in community Outdoor Recreation Fire science, ecohydrology, remote sensing, horticulture; urban landscapes and to insects; plant/insect interactions; Design theory; sustainable site design; smoke management, and air quality (208) 885-6195, [email protected] integrated pest management drawing; arboreta and botanic garden Pre-quaternary and paleoclimatology vegetable gardening; water conserving Michael Beiser

EXPERTISE design David Tanck landscapes; utilization of native plants in Larry E. Sandvol Coordinator Roy Breckenridge Assistant Professor home landscapes; turfgrass management Direct extension entomologist; extension Toru Otawa (208)885-6810, [email protected] Director, full research geologist (208)885-7033 [email protected] professor Associate professor Outdoor adventure recreation; risk (208) 885-7991, [email protected] Susan M. Bell Plant systematics and evolution focuses Extension professor (208) 397-4181, [email protected] (208) 885-7729, [email protected] management; expedition planning; Channeled scabland; Lake Missoula Insect pest management in potatoes and Sustainable landscape architecture;

16 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 17 personal growth through outdoor Ronald Robberecht Stephen C. Cooke Kevin Laughlin Fate and transport of contaminants Edward O. Garton experience; wilderness medicine and first Professor Agricultural economist; associate professor Extension educator for sustainable in fractured rock; ground water Professor aid; mountain search and rescue; avalanche (208) 885-7404, [email protected] (208) 885-7170, [email protected] agriculture and youth development/4-H characterization and modeling (208) 885-7426, [email protected] safety; instructor of kayaking, rafting, Rocky Physiological plant ecology Rural and agricultural development; public (208) 377-2107, [email protected] Howard Neibling Dynamics and management of bird Mountain climbing (ecophysiology); guided independent finance; provision of public services Sustainable agriculture, small Extension water management engineer; and mammal populations; population learning (use of information technology in acreage management, environmental associate extension professor estimation; modeling and simulation of Pesticides science education); scientific visualization Soils management, pollution prevention, (208) 736-3631, [email protected] population processes and modeling (integration of ecological environmental education, technology Surface, sprinkler and drip irrigation system J. Michael Scott Ronda E. Hirnyck processes, molecule to globe) Brad Brown transfer, farmers market design and management; water use by Professor; scientist; U.S. Geological Survey Pesticide program coordinator Extension crop management specialist; crops; impacts of irrigation management Larry J. Smith Leader (208) 364-4046, [email protected] Recreation & Tourism associate extension professor on surface and sub-surface water quality; Professor; extension educator; certified (208) 885-6960, [email protected] Pesticide use/handling and environmental (208) 722-6701 ext. 216, [email protected] irrigation management with limited water; professional agronomist Animal ecology; ornithology; reserve impacts; pesticides and food safety; laws James R. Fazio Plant and soil testing for determining canal seepage losses; energy conservation and regulations concerning pesticides; Professor; Conservation Social Sciences nitrogen fertilizer requirement; variety (208) 799-3096, [email protected] identification selection & design; bird registration of “minor use” pesticides (208) 885-7209, [email protected] testing; cultural practices necessary for Cropping systems and rotations involving Weeds ecology and management; habitat Urban and community forestry; wheat and barley small grains, peas, lentils and rapeseed/ relationships of birds; translocation Will K. Meeks environmental communications canola; pest control in small grains, peas, Tim Prather strategies for birds and mammals; recovery Minor use pesticide development specialist Jason W. Ellsworth lentils and rapeseed/canola Associate professor of threatened and endangered species; (208) 736-3630, [email protected] Nick Sanyal Extension soil fertility specialist (208) 885-9246, [email protected] Hawaiian forest birds Pesticide residue field research Assistant professor (208) 736-3611, [email protected] Mir-M Seyedbagheri Biology of invasive plants, prediction of (208) 885-7528, [email protected] Precision Agriculture methodology, Extension educator; extension professor Janet Rachlow invasive species occurrence Philosophy Resource recreation and tourism; human/ including remote sensing, in-field sensors (208) 587-2136 ext. 509, elmore@uidaho. Associate Professor social aspects of hunting and fishing; and site-specific management edu Charles Cheyney (208) 885-9328, [email protected] Douglas Lind survey research methods, especially as Sustainable agriculture, composting, humic Extension educator, interim Wildlife ecology and management; Markus Tuller Professor; chair applied to outdoor recreation and natural acid and nitrogen mineralization, soil and superintendent, associate extension conservation of fragmented populations, Assistant professor (208) 885-5761, [email protected] resource tourism soil fertility, water quality and the impact of professor behavioral ecology of mammals, ungulate (208) 885-7219, [email protected] Philosophy of law; comparative irrigation management, applied research in (208) 756-2749, [email protected] biology Sam Ham Soil physics soil fertility, irrigation and water quality in jurisprudence; logic and legal reasoning; Biological control of leafy spurge Kerry Reese Professor, Communication Psychology Paul McDaniel alfalfa, potatoes, sugar beets Wittgenstein; pragmatism; environmental Department Head; Professor philosophy (208) 885-7911, [email protected] Soil scientist; professor Environmental communication and (208) 885-7012, [email protected] Paul E. Patterson (208) 885-6435, [email protected] Don W. Morishita Michael P. Nelson education; public education media and Volcanic ash and Pacific Northwest soils; Extension agricultural economist; Upland game bird ecology and Professor; extension specialist Assistant professor methods on environmental topics soil formation; soil hydrology; National extension professor management; avian habitat relationships; (208) 736-3616, [email protected] (208) 885-6284, [email protected] Cooperative Soil Survey Program (208) 529-8376, [email protected] waterfowl; wetland ecology William J. McLaughlin Economics of traditional and alternative Integrated weed management in sugar Environmental ethics; American Indian Lisette Waits Professor Robert L. Mahler crop management systems and beets, barley and wheat; herbicide uses environmental thought; wilderness Professor; Dept. of Fish and Wildlife (208) 885-6659, [email protected] Extension soil specialist; extension technology, alternative water systems and properties; non-chemical weed philosophy; hunting ethics; philosophy Resources Co-Director Public involvement and conflict resolution; professor Trout Industry management; weed biology; weed of conservation and ecology; the work of (208) 885-7823, [email protected] Aldo Leopold; Ancient Greek philosophy; social science research methods; Idaho (208) 885-7025, [email protected] identification tourism industry; using tourism as a way Water quality; soil fertility; soil-plant John C. Foltz Conservation biology; conservation religion and nature Donald C. Thill to diversify rural economies; eco-tourism relationships; fertilizer placement Interim Associate Dean; Director of genetics; molecular ecology; molecular Weed scientist; professor marketing; river recreation management; Agricultural Programs systematics Political Science (208) 885-6214, [email protected] nature conservation issues U.S. and abroad Statistics (208) 885-6446, [email protected] Trout marketing Herbicide-resistant weeds and crops; University of Nevada, Las Vegas Patrick Wilson Research Administration integrated weed management in small Associate professor Chris Williams Veterinary Science Faculty Associate professor grain cereal production systems; managing (208) 885-7717, [email protected] weeds in wheat, barley, peas, lentils, canola Species conservation politics, water Rick Schumaker (208) 885-2802, [email protected] NSF EPSCoR project administrator Mathematical and applied statistics; Alton C. S. Ward and Kentucky bluegrass; control of wild and public lands management policy, Immunobiologist/microbiologist; professor oats; herbicide mode of action; weed Public Lands Institute comparative public policy (208) 885-5742, [email protected] statistical analysis of genetic data Research project administration, science (208) 454-8657, [email protected] biology Diagnostic veterinary microbiology; Allison Brody Range Management and engineering grant proposal writing Statistics and Mathematical Biology Pamela J.S. Hutchinson diseases of wild and domestic ruminants, (702) 895-5097, [email protected] and review Weed scientist; assistant professor including bighorn sheep and bison; Environmental education strategy program Stephen Krone (208) 397-4181 ext.109, phutch@uidaho. Karen Launchbaugh association of Pasteurellaceae organisms manager Rivers and Hydrology Associate professor edu Professor with disease; DNA fingerprinting of (208) 885-6317, [email protected] Weed biology and control in potato Jennell Miller (208) 885-4394, [email protected] bacteria John Buffington Mathematical biology, applications in cropping systems, herbicide/biopesticide (702) 895-5429, [email protected] Range livestock management; weed Waste Management management; range ecology; poisonous Assistant professor population genetics, microbial ecology, environmental fate, herbicide resistance Science and research strategy program plants; grazing after fire (208) 364-4082, [email protected] spatial ecology Robert M. Ohlensehlen management, cover-crop systems for weed manager Fluvial geomorphology and river Rangeland Ecology and Management Extension educator; extension professor; control in potato cropping systems Daniel Chase mechanics; watershed processes and Sustainable Agriculture Professional Animal Scientist Wilderness Management (702) 895-5149, [email protected] Kelly Crane interactions between physical and (208) 734-8855, [email protected] Edwin E. Krumpe Interagency volunteer program manager Assistant Professor biological systems in mountain basins; Cinda E. Williams Livestock waste systems and facility design, Professor (208)736-3600, [email protected] effects of wood debris on fluvial processes; Extension Support Scientist waste and nutrient management Elizabeth Barrie Ecological implications of grazing and mechanics of sediment motion and (208) 885-7499, [email protected] (208) 885-7428, [email protected] (702) 895-5837, [email protected] sustainable livestock production on bedload transport; sediment sampling General information about sustainable Ron E. Sheffield Wilderness management; wild and scenic Take Pride in America program manager rangelands agriculture; USDA-Sustainable Agriculture Extension waste management engineer; river management; park management Rural Communities Research and Education program; assistant extension professor in state and national parks and forests; George Phillips Beth Newingham EXPERTISE professional development programs in (208) 736-3625, [email protected] tourism decision making; monitoring (702) 895-4836, [email protected] Assistant Professor J.D. Wulfhorst sustainable agriculture Odor quantification and control practices human impacts Cultural site stewardship program manager (208)885-6538, [email protected] Assistant Professor; director of the Social for agricultural and industrial sources; Wildlife Processes that affect restoration of natural Jeffrey C. Stark Margaret (Peg) Rees Science Research Unit manure and waste treatment technologies; ecosystems Plant Science Division chair Brian Dennis (702) 895-3890, [email protected] (208) 885-7645, [email protected] animal mortality management and (208) 397-4181, [email protected] Professor Vice Provost, Educational Outreach Lee Vierling Natural resource management; Native disposal

EXPERTISE Potato and small grain irrigation and (208) 885-7423, [email protected] Daphne Sewing Assistant Professor Americans; rangelands Water Management, Quality, & Res. nutrient management; nutrient cycling Statistical ecology; biometrics (biological (208) 885-5743, [email protected] (702) 895-5098, [email protected] in crop rotations; water and fertilizer use Allan Wylie stats); mathematical modeling; theoretical Remote sensing; spatial ecology; Rural Development, Rural Sociology Forever Earth/Discover Mojave Outdoor efficiency; site-specific crop management Research scientist ecology World program manager biogeochemistry; global change; (208) 282-7913, [email protected] interdisciplinary science education

18 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 19 David Wong Endocrinology, animal behavior Lawrence Walker Economic geology, geochemistry Bernard Zygelman Keith Bartholomew (702) 895-2446, [email protected] (702) 895-3196, [email protected] (702) 895-1321, Bernard.zygelman@unlv. City & Metropolitan Planning Allen Gibbs Gene Smith Limnology Plant ecology edu (801) 585-8944; [email protected] (702) 895-3203, [email protected] (702) 895-3971, [email protected] Atomic and molecular theory Scenario planning and legal analysis Environmental & Public Affairs Evolutionary physiology Helen Wing Igneous petrology, volcanoes (702) 895-5382, [email protected] Dr. Terry Spell David Bowling Brian Hedlund Department of Civil & Environmental Microbiology (702) 895-1171, [email protected] Biology Scott Abella (702) 895-0809, [email protected] Engineering Geochronology, volcanology (801) 581-2130; [email protected] (702) 895-5163, [email protected] Microbiology Robert Winokur Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry Restoration Ecology (702) 895-3552, [email protected] Wanda Taylor Jef Jaeger Sajjad Ahmad Vertebrate morphology Department Chair Richard B. Brown Shama Perveen (702) 895-2463, [email protected] (702) 895-5456, [email protected] (702) 895-4615, [email protected] Engineering (702) 895-1914, [email protected] Wildlife biology Department of Geoscience Water resources planning and Environmental sciences Structural geology management (801) 585-7498; [email protected] David Lee Solid-State Water Sensors Michael Wells Helen Neill (702) 895-5751, [email protected] Brenda Buck David Ashley Department Chair Andrea Brunelle (702) 895-4892, [email protected] Biomechanics of animal locomotion (702) 895-1694, [email protected] (702) 895-4040, [email protected] Environmental economics Soils, environmental geology (702) 895-0828, [email protected] Construction project planning Geography Megan Litster Tectonics, structural geology (801) 585-5729; andrea.brunelle@geog. William Smith (702) 895-5487, [email protected] Pamela Burnley Jacimaria Batista utah.edu Zhongbo Yu (702) 895-4439, [email protected] Biological sciences education (702) 895-5460, [email protected] (702) 895-1585, [email protected] Paleoecological reconstructions (fire, GIS High pressure rock deformation, mineral (702) 895-2447, [email protected] Environmental reclamation and Susan Meacham vegetation, beetles, climate) from physics, metamorphic petrology, Hydrogeology, hydrology wastewater treatment Krystayna Starve (702) 895-4388, [email protected] sediments geoscience education Department of Physics (702) 895-4833, [email protected] Nutrition science Nader Ghafoori Sarah Bush Public participation in environmental Jean Cline Changfeng Chen (702) 895-2531, [email protected] Laurel Raftery Biology decision (702) 895-1091, [email protected] (702) 895-4230, [email protected] Reinforced concrete structures (702) 895-3390, [email protected] (801) 633-8629; [email protected] Harry Reid Center Economic geology, geochemistry Condensed matter theory Developmental biology Moses Karakouzian Evolutionary ecology of host-parasite John Klicka Andrew Hanson Andrew Cornelius (702) 895-0959, [email protected] interactions, ecological patterns and James Raymond (702) 895-2749, [email protected] (702) 895-1092, [email protected] (702) 895-1727, [email protected] Geotechnical engineering evolutionary processes that (702) 895-3268, [email protected] Ornithology group Sedimentologist High pressure condensed matter influence parasite biodiversity Biochemistry, physics Mohamed Kaseko Craig Palmer Elisabeth (Libby) Hausrath John Farley (702) 895-1360, [email protected] Dale Clayton Kurt Regner (702) 895-1797, [email protected] (702) 895-1134, Elisabeth.hausrath@unlv. (702) 895-3084, [email protected] Transportation systems analysis Biology (702) 895-1071, [email protected] Environmental studies, GIS edu Transmutation research, science and math (801) 581-6482; [email protected] Biology Samaan Ladkany Soil-forming processes, water-rock education Avian biology, host-parasite co-evolution Jim Pollard (702) 895-5348, [email protected] Carl Reiber interaction, chemical weathering, mars (702) 895-5883, [email protected] Victor Kwong Finite element analysis Philip Dennison (702) 895-3390, [email protected] geochemistry Aquatic ecologist (702) 895-1700, [email protected] Geography Physiology Barbara Luke Ganqing Jiang Atomic processes in plasmas (801) 585-1805; [email protected] Kathleen Lauckner (702) 895-1568, [email protected] Brett Riddle (702) 895-2708, [email protected] Remote sensing of vegetation, wildfire (702) 895-1423, kathleen.lauckner@unlv. Stephen Lepp Geotechnical engineering (702) 895-3133, [email protected] Sedimentology, stratigraphy (702) 895-4455, [email protected] Philip Emmi edu Edward Neumann Biogeography, ecology Atomic and molecular astrophysics City & Metropolitan Planning Environmental training Gabriel Judkins Department Chair Eduardo Robleto (702) 895-4302, [email protected] (801) 581-4255; [email protected] Haroon Stephen Kentaro Nagamine (702) 895-3701, [email protected] (702) 895-2496, [email protected] Human-environmental interactions, Complexity theory with natural and built (702) 895-2623, [email protected] (702) 895-3485, [email protected] Human factors in transportation Microbial ecology environmental degradation, remote environment applications GIS/remote sensing Cosmology sensing Alexander Paz Javier Rodriguez George F. Hepner Diane Winslow Tao Pang (702) 895-0571, [email protected] (702) 895-1554, [email protected] Dave Kreamer Geography (702) 895-2687, [email protected] (702) 895-4454, [email protected] Transportation systems analysis Systematics, biogeography (702) 895-3553, [email protected] (801) 581-6021; george.hepner@geog. Archeology Condensed matter theory Hydrogeology Aly Said utah.edu Martin Schiller Department of History Michael Pravica (702) 895-2722, [email protected] Land capability analysis, GIS, satellite (702) 895-5461, [email protected] Matthew Lachniet (702) 895-1723, [email protected] Seismic behavior and design of reinforced remote sensing Bioinformatics, neurobiology (702) 895-4388, matthew.lachniet@unlv. Condensed matter concrete structures Andrew Kirk edu John Horel Paul Schulte Daniel Proga Tel (702) 895-3544, [email protected] Quaternary paleoclimatology Hualiang (Harry) Teng Atmospheric Sciences Environmental history, public history (702) 895-3300, [email protected] (702) 895-3507, [email protected] (702) 895-4940, [email protected] (801) 581-7091; [email protected] Plant biology Rodney Metcalf Theoretical astrophysics Transportation planning and demand Mountain weather and climate David Wrobel (702) 895-4442, [email protected] Jeffery Shen George Rhee analysis Tel (702) 895-0810, [email protected] Igneous and metamorphic petrology, James Ehleringer (702) 895-4704, [email protected] (702) 895-4453, [email protected] US history geochemistry Ying Tian Biology Bioinformatics, molecular biology Extragalactic astronomy (702) 895-4917, [email protected] (801) 581-7623; [email protected] School of Life Sciences Sean Mulcahy Stanley Smith James Selser Design and behavior of reinforced Physiological ecology of plants, ecosystem (702) 895-3250, [email protected] (702) 895-5980, [email protected] (702) 895-3847, [email protected] concrete structures biology, desert ecology Andrew Andres Structural geology, metamorphic petrology Ecology, physiology Static and dynamic light scattering from School of Law Nan Ellin (702) 895-1778, [email protected] Mike Nicholl Lloyd Stark macromolecular systems City & Metropolitan Planning Cell biology, molecular genetics (702) 895-4616, [email protected] (702) 895-3119, [email protected] David Shelton [email protected] Vadose zone hydrology, environmental Bret Birdsong Dennis Bazylinski Botany (702) 895-3564, [email protected] (702) 895-2460, [email protected] Integrative Approaches to Ecosystems (702) 895-2053, [email protected] Scott Nowicki and Urban Systems, Creative Placemaking, Peter Starkweather Nonlinear optics Environmental law Magnetosome biomineralization (702) 895-1239, [email protected] Relationship between Urban Design and EXPERTISE (702) 895-2263, peter.starkweather@unlv. Diane Pyper Smith Ecosystems Studies, Urban Revitalization, Stephen De Belle Planetary geology, geomorphology edu (702) 895-3755, [email protected] University of Utah Faculty Integrating Nature into the City (702) 895-1091, [email protected] Aquatic ecology Margaret (Peg) Rees Stellar photometry and spectroscopy Genetics, neurobiology (702) 895-3890, [email protected] Reid Ewing Daniel Thompson Lon Spight Frederick R. Adler City & Metropolitan Planning Dale Devitte Sedimentology, stratigraphy (702) 895-3269, [email protected] (702) 895-0961, [email protected] Biology and Mathematics (801) 581-8255; [email protected] (702) 895-4699, [email protected] EXPERTISE Population biology Steve Rowland Cosmology (801) 581-6848; (801) 585-6202; adler@ Transportation, land-use, and public health Soil and water science (702) 895-3625, [email protected] math.utah.edu Frank Van Breukelen Bing Zhagn analysis Michelle Elekonich Paleontology, fossils Theoretical ecology and Mathematical (702) 895-3944, frank.vanbreukelen@unlv. (702) 895-4050, [email protected] Rick Forster (702) 895-0440, michelle.elekonich@unlv. Epidemiology edu Adam Simon High energy astrophysics Geography edu Environmental and organismic biology (702) 895-2916, [email protected]

20 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 21 (801) 581-3611; [email protected] and Lake-Effect Precipitation, Numerical University of Nevada, Reno Facilities bark beetles, weather and climate, geomorphology and Snow and ice studies, remote sensing Weather Prediction, Weather Analysis and archaeology. Forecasting Randall B. Irmis ƒƒ Gund Range Research Ranch – A gift to the University of ƒ Geology & Geophysics; Utah Museum of Stephen Tatum Nevada in 1973 of a 10,600-acre commercial cattle ranch, ƒ Nevada Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network – Natural History English and Environmental Humawwww. the Gund Ranch is a perfect setting for research relevant NBRIN is a multi-institutional network that interconnects (801) 585-0561; [email protected] nities Master’s Program. to Nevada’s livestock producers. The ranch, located in a group of “open” technology, training, and faculty Paleontologist with interests in vertebrate (801) 557-9715; [email protected] development cores. Its goal is to improve research fossils, paleoenvironment, sedimentology, Environmental writing about the American Austin, Nevada, has grazing rights on adjoining lands and stratigraphy West and Southwest, especially the Great managed by the Bureau of Land Management, providing productivity, grantsmanship, and institutional Basin and ; literary and development by fostering the establishment of a Paul W. Jewell an ideal laboratory for research into how commercial cultural interdisciplinary ecocriticism. Geology and Geophysics livestock production interacts with wildlife management pipeline of biomedical students and researchers for (801) 581-6636; [email protected] Li Yin on private-public rangelands. Nevada universities and private enterprises. Surface water hydrology; landform City & Metropolitan Planning ƒ dynamics and characterization; LiDAR and (801) 581-8255; [email protected] ƒƒ Main Station Field Lab – The Main Station Farm, a major ƒ University Center for Economic Development (UCED) – photogrammetric interpretations Geo-spatial analysis focusing on urban research and teaching facility for the University of The University Center for Economic Development (UCED) development/natural environmental Terry Marasco Nevada, Reno, is one of the last open green spaces in was established in response to the growing need within interactions Communications Coordinator - Natural Reno. The property has more than 1,000 acres of prime the state for economic development research, technical Resources Project Management farmland. Acquired and developed in 1956, the farm assistance and educational services. The UCED’s (775) 293-0189; tmarasconrm@natural- White Mountain Research is home to herds of cattle and pigs as well as a flock of primary objective is fostering economic development resource-mgt.com; www.natural-resource- Station Faculty mgt.com sheep from the Rafter 7 Ranch. The farm showcases throughout Nevada by making the extensive resources of the University available to organizations and areas Dan McCool cutting-edge science in the areas of animal genetics, Jeff G Holmquist Political Science stem-cell research, melanoma therapies and even water that can benefit from job and income creation and job University of California (801) 476-2088; [email protected]. retention efforts. (760) 387-1909, [email protected] quality, as the farm is bordered by the Truckee River and edu Ecology of communities ranging from Steamboat Creek. Water policy, public lands policy, American ƒƒ Nevada Genomics Center – The Nevada Genomics Center microhabitat to landscape level, and Indian policy (NGC) was established in 2000 with NSF EPSCoR funding, invertebrates in alpine meadows, streams, ƒƒ Newlands Research Center – Originally written into Arthur C. Nelson desert playas, and marine systems; the 1902 Newlands Reclamation Law, the Newlands to provide genomics services for the state of Nevada and City & Metropolitan Planning disturbance ecology; development of Research Center is part of Churchill County’s Irrigation a national clientele. (801) 581-8253; [email protected] monitoring systems using invertebrate taxa District and is being planned to be used by the Great Development projections; land and ƒƒ Biological Resources Research Center (BRRC) – The John Wehausen economic impact analysis Basin Plant Materials Center, run by the USDA’s Natural Biological Resources Research Center (BRRC) was Associate Research Scientist Resources Conservation Service, with 25 of its acres James O’Connell University of California, San Diego established in 1992 to conduct scientific research and Anthropology [email protected] dedicated to research by the Nevada Agricultural planning efforts necessary to preserve the distinct biotic (801) 581-3933; [email protected] Ecology and evolution of Bighorn Sheep, Experiment Station. The facility will be used to generate diversity of Nevada while simultaneously providing Archaeology and ecology of arid lands including demographic studies, molecular plant materials such as native seed, and land users will for economic viability and other needs of its citizens. hunter-gatherers; Great Basin, Colorado genetics, and conservation ecology benefit from the crop as native seed can be used for land Plateau The BRRC is part of the Department of Biology at the Angela Jayko rehabilitation and restoration after fires. University and supports educational programs for Eric Rickart United States Geological Survey Utah Museum of Natural History [email protected] ƒƒ Rafter 7 Ranch – The Rafter 7 Ranch consists of 3,200 students, professionals and the community. (801) 585-7759; [email protected] Surface geology of the Owens Valley and private and 150,000 public acres – which includes ƒƒ Academy for the Environment – The Academy for Ecology, biogeography, systematics, and SW Great Basin, emphasizing ancient eight miles of the East Walker River. It is owned by conservation of mammals lakebeds and landscape evolution the Environment is an interdisciplinary institute at the Reno-based E.L. Weigand Foundation. In addition the University of Nevada, Reno, whose mission is to John Smiley Rebecca Rowe to contributing the use of the land, the foundation Utah Museum of Natural History Associate Director develop, enhance and coordinate environmental (801) 585-7759; [email protected] [email protected] has donated more than $1 million to sheep breeding teaching, research and service. The objectives of the Community ecology, landscape ecology Insect ecology; biology of willow-insect research over the last 14 years. This program has Academy include the development of interdisciplinary and conservation of small mammals communities in the Eastern Sierra produced the finest flock of purebred Merino rams and undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Patrick A. Shea Daniel Pritchett ewes in North America. environmental studies, and raising the environmental Biology GIS data manager awareness on-campus, statewide, and regionally by (801) 582-0926 or (801) 671-9902 c; pas@ [email protected] ƒƒ Valley Road Field Laboratory – With 27 acres designated patrickashea.com Geographic Information Systems resources for research and education, the Valley Road Field promoting broad based environmentally-related Microbial populations associated with Big and data clearinghouse for the Eastern Laboratory houses the University Equestrian Center as research and education. Basin Sagebrush and Tall Sagebrush. Sierra and Western Great Basin region well as four state-of-the-art research facilities, including ƒƒ Nevada Intermountain Regional Research Facility – Sarthok Sircar the Nevada Genomics Center, five greenhouses, an This analytical facility consist of 2 main laboratory Mathematics Agricultural Research Services botanical tissue culturing (850) 345-6161; [email protected] components: 1) Terrestrial Ecology Laboratory; and 2) Math-biology, Modeling mucus secretion, facility, and a fully-equipped maintenance engineering Aquatic Ecology Laboratory. The combined facility will Cystic Fibrosis, Acto-myosin gel dynamics, shop. significantly advance our ability to meet the needs of EXPERTISE Math modeling in complex fluids, our constituencies through research on regionally and Numerical analysis, scientific computing. ƒƒ Whittell Forest and Wildlife Area – The Whittell Forest and Wildlife Area is a research and teaching facility of locally significant ecosystems, particularly on issues D. Kip Solomon related to the conservation and restoration of soil and Geology and Geophysics the Nevada System of Higher Education. The property (801) 581-7231; [email protected] (about 2700 acres) is located in the Carson Range on aquatic ecosystems. Specialty: Groundwater dating and use of EXPERTISE the east slope of the Sierra Nevada ≈ 30 km south of ƒƒ Wetlands Ecology Laboratory – Knowledge is enhanced environmental tracers in hydrology Reno, Nevada. It is 5 km west of Washoe Lake and 4 km by integrating the study of soil ecology (including such Jim Steenburgh northeast of Lake Tahoe. Research has focused on plant- aspects as soil physics, surface water, waste disposal and Atmospheric Sciences animal interactions, studies of vegetation decomposition (801) 581-8727; [email protected] contaminant transport) with aquatic ecology (including Mountain Weather and Climate, Orographic and nutrient cycling, pheromone production by pine the effects of environmental change on species,

22 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 23 biodiversity and community structure). This facility is and groundwater. ƒƒ Museum of Art – This 100,000 square foot museum often ƒƒ Animal Care Facility used to perform meso-scale analysis and experiments via houses displays of western United States art and culture. ƒƒ Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology – The Nevada ƒƒ Regional Natural History Collections an artificial wetlands that links to the terrestrial system Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) is a research ƒƒ Earth Science Museum – This educational museum is ƒƒ Electron Microanalysis & Imaging Laboratory which can help replicate how water, soil, and wildlife and public service unit of the University of Nevada housed on the BYU campus and provides information on ƒ interact. ƒ Nevada Isotope Geochronology Laboratory and is the state geological survey. NBMG scientists geology, minerals, and prehistorical life in the region. ƒƒ Soils Analyses Laboratory ƒ conduct research and publish reports on mineral ƒ Nevada Stable Isotope Laboratory – This laboratory ƒƒ Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Lemuel resources, engineering geology, environmental geology, ƒƒ Las Vegas Isotope Science Laboratory (LVIS) is located in the Department of Geological Sciences H. Redd, Jr. Chair in Western History – The Center’s hydrogeology, and geologic mapping. ƒƒ XRF/XRD Laboratory and Engineering and is used to perform stable isotope programs actively fund and promote research and analyses (C, H, O, N and S). Our facilities currently ƒƒ Nevada Seismological Laboratory – The Nevada publication of western United States history. ƒƒ Physics Facilities house two Micromass Isoprime stable isotope ratio Seismological Laboratory is a research division within ƒƒ UNLV Genomics Facility mass spectrometers and associated preparation the College of Science at the University of Nevada, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Facilities ƒƒ Ecophysiological Research Facility devices (elemental analyzer, carbonate/water device, Reno. The Laboratory has overall responsibility for interfaced gas chromatograph). In addition, we have two ƒƒ Elevated CO2 Desert Environment Facility instrumental studies of earthquakes in the Nevada Public Lands Institute operational isotope extraction lines in the lab (a BrF5 ƒƒ Wesley E. Niles Herbarium region. The laboratory operates a statewide network The Public Lands Institute’s academic and administrative line for silicate-oxygen, and a general purpose line for of seismographic stations and investigates the faculty and staff provide academic knowledge along with ƒƒ Marjorie Barrick Museum carbonates, waters, etc.) We have recently constructed sizes, frequencies of occurrence, and distribution of research expertise and real-world experience in the specialty ƒƒ Departmental Green House a CO2-laser extraction line for silicate-oxygen analyses, earthquakes in the region, and other problems related to areas of environmental education and interpretation, research and we are currently testing the operation of this line. ƒƒ Science and Engineering Building seismic risk in Nevada. and support services, geographic information systems/ The lab can perform a variety of isotope analyses on a database management, volunteer and event management, and Department of Geosciences wide range of sample types. Customers are encouraged Brigham Young University Facilities community outreach and marketing. The Public Lands Institute to contact Simon Poulson concerning their specific utilizes many innovative facilities to bring the importance of The Department of Geosciences has several laboratories and analytical requirements before submitting samples for ƒƒ Monte L. Bean Life Sciences Museum – 11 full or part- conservation and respect for public lands to the populace of affiliated centers, most of which are located on campus in analysis. time curators working with natural history collections southern Nevada and beyond. the Lilly Fong building. Lilly Fong also houses the Nevada valued at over $35 million, including many Great Isotope Geochronology Laboratory, pedology laboratory, rock ƒƒ GIS Teaching Facility – An instructional facility for GIS Core Laboratories, Facilities and Resources: Basin specimens. Access to hundreds of thousands of preparation laboratory, x-ray diffraction/x-ray fluorescence and spatial analysis in ecology for purposes of ecological ƒƒ Management of a 70-foot houseboat and research barge laboratory, departmental offices, faculty and staff offices specimens is provided to scientists and students. Faculty modeling at the landscape scale are available in several named Forever Earth, to conduct research and education and some graduate student offices. Adjacent to the Lilly on staff at the museum and in the College of Biology at the Lake Mead national Recreation Area colleges on campus. Graduating students with such skills Fong Building is the Technology building, which houses the and Agriculture oversee publication of the BYU-funded are in high demand within the employment sector and ƒƒ Supercomputer Laboratory and Secure Database and department’s Electron Microanalysis and Imaging Laboratory Western North American Naturalist, formerly The Great (EMIL – which houses a JEOL electron microprobe and scanning this component provides an invaluable instructional tool. Server Basin Naturalist, which continues to be an important electron microscope), paleoclimate/stable isotope laboratory, ƒƒ Knowledge of Local Community Leaders & Government ƒƒ Watershed Hydrologic Modeling – Promotes outlet for scientific information in the region. Contacts sedimentology laboratory, departmental computer lab, graduate interdisciplinary hydrologic modeling applications student offices and classrooms. The department’s Hydrology ƒƒ Lytle Ranch Preserve – Over 600 acres managed by the ƒƒ Knowledge and Access to the University Community to assess ecosystem impacts, including the effects of Research Group has a wide variety of equipment that is museum and located in the Mojave– watershed adaptive management strategies on water ƒƒ Cultural Site Monitoring available for hydrogeology field activities, including field water transition zone of southwestern Utah, provides excellent chemistry analysis, well monitoring, groundwater sampling, quality and food web energy transfer. ƒƒ Recreation Management ecological research and student learning opportunities measurement of unsaturated zone properties, spring and ƒƒ USDA Agricultural Research Service and Forest Service ƒƒ Event Planning and Management streamflow measurements, and surface and borehole geophysics. ƒƒ Spanish Fork Farm – Research on ecology and seed Research Laboratories – Research scientists with ARS ƒƒ Undergraduate and Graduate Internships The Department of Geoscience also has access to the labs and production of Great Basin native plants. facilities in the Science and Engineering Building. In addition, and the FS have long served as collaborative scientists ƒƒ Program Integration with University Curriculum and Adjunct faculty within the University’s Department ƒƒ US Forest Service Shrub Sciences Laboratory- Located the Department of Geoscience is a member of a research School of Life Sciences consortium along with Northern Arizona University, University of Natural Resources and Environmental Science. Their on the BYU campus with strong collaborative of Nevada, Reno and the U.S. Geological Survey at Flagstaff. This active participation has expanded and enhanced our research among Forest Service and BYU scientists and The School of Life Sciences has organized its human expertise arrangement allows UNLV students and faculty to use equipment involvement of many BYU undergraduate and graduate into innovative research groups that conduct research teaching and research programs. at these institutions. students. unique to Nevada’s environment. These research groups are: ƒƒ Proteomics Facility – The mass spectrometry facility Arid Land Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Bioinformatics, Other facilities available for graduate use: was established in 1992 and is a core facility designed ƒƒ DNA Sequencing Center – Run by a full-time Ph.D. Biomathematics, Global Climate Change, Microbiology, Plant ƒƒ atomic absorption spectrophotometer to assist researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno. molecular biologist and a support staff of four part-time Stress Physiology, Systematics and Biogeography. Research is Recent NIH and NSF funding have enabled us to set up a students, the Center processed 150,000 samples last conducted throughout the Department’s Research Facilities and ƒƒ mineral separation facilities state of the art high throughput proteomics center. We year for 25 faculty members involved in all aspects of the school has well-equipped laboratories to support faculty ƒƒ fluid inclusion heating and freezing stage currently have an ABI 4700 MALDI-TOF and a Finnigan taxonomy, systematics, and ecology. and graduate student research. These facilities are enhanced through access to a number of specialized scientific resources. ƒƒ stereo-zoom transfer scope LCQ Deca XP electrospray MS whose primary role is ƒƒ University Microscopy Laboratory – Serves faculty, Investigators from the Nevada System of Higher Education’s ƒƒ electronics laboratory protein identification and protein structure elucidation. graduate, and undergraduate students from across Desert Research Institute also contribute to the graduate ƒƒ XXL: XRD and XRF lab The facility also has a Genomic Solution Proprep campus with the latest equipment in scanning and program. EXPERTISE digestion robot. In addition, the University’s Protein transmission electron microscopy. ƒƒ Geophysics laboratory (UNLV College of Engineering) Core Facility provides protein sequencing and peptide Core Laboratories, Facilities and Resources: ƒƒ Mass Spectrometry Facility – Has H, C and O isotope, as synthesis services, and performs separation of proteins ƒƒ Nevada Desert FACE and Mojave Global Change Facility, Department of Physics well as elemental analysis capabilities used by physical for proteomic analysis by 2-D gel electrophoresis. ƒƒ Biological Imaging Confocal Microscopy Facility The Department of Physics utilizes several facilities, laboratories and biological scientists. and specialized shop environments to conduct research EXPERTISE ƒƒ Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy – Geothermal ƒƒ Stress Genomics Core Use Facility ƒƒ Museum of People and Cultures – This museum houses and experiments on the UNLV campus. The department also exploration through the Great Basin Center has focused ƒ prehistoric and ethnographic artifacts from all over the ƒ Nevada Genomics Center and DNA Sequencing Facility has access to the labs and facilities in the new Science and on predictive GIS modeling, remote sensing, shallow world, but with special emphasis on the eastern Great ƒƒ Nevada Center for Biological Imaging Engineering Building that supports its teaching and research temperature surveys, and field examination of structure Basin. ƒƒ Ecophysiological Research Facility interests.

24 | Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit | http://environment.unr.edu/gbcesu 25 Core Laboratories, Facilities and Resources: ƒƒ Greenhouse ƒƒ Atomic Hydrogen Beam Facility ƒƒ Las Vegas Isotope Science Laboratory ƒƒ Optical Coating Thin Film Facility ƒƒ Machine Shop ƒƒ Tau Cluster ƒƒ Nanotechnology Clean Room ƒƒ Material Preparation and Synthesis Facility ƒƒ National Supercomputer Center for Energy and the Environment ƒƒ Pulsed Tunable Dye Laser Facility ƒƒ Nevada Isotope Geochronology Core Laboratory ƒƒ Student Electronic Shop ƒƒ Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Laboratory ƒƒ Ion Beam Facility ƒƒ X-Ray Diffraction Single Crystal Structure Laboratory ƒƒ Ion Trap Facility ƒƒ H2 Cluster ƒƒ XRF/XRD Earth Materials ƒƒ Physical Properties Measurement System ƒƒ Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy Facility White Mountain Research Station Facilities ƒƒ Professional Glass Shop ƒƒ General: 5 locations: Owens Valley Lab (OVL; 4000’ ƒƒ Professional Electronic Shop elevation), Crooked Creek (10,200’), Barcroft Station (12,500’), Barcroft Observatory (13000’) and White ƒƒ Raman Scattering Facility for High Pressure Research Mountain Summit (14,250’) ƒƒ Reflection Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry Facility ƒƒ OVL Manis lab (2 rooms) General purpose lab space with ƒƒ Ruby Fluorimeter Facility for High Pressure Research microscopes ƒƒ Dynamic Laser Light Scattering Facility ƒƒ OVL Animal care rooms (E and W) sized for small animal cages ƒƒ Professional Machine Shop ƒƒ OVL Computer lab, GIS facility and Data clearinghouse ƒƒ High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy Facility node ƒƒ Student Machine Shop ƒƒ OVL Library, herbarium and map collection ƒƒ 16-inch Photometric Telescope ƒƒ OVL Climate-controlled greenhouse (1800 s.f.) ƒƒ Diamond Anvil Cell/X-ray Diffraction Facility for High ƒƒ OVL/USGS lab and office – Angela Jayko Pressure Research ƒƒ OVL Molecular biology PCR and sequencing lab – John ƒƒ Cosmology Computing Cluster Great Basin CESU Wehausen Host Institution: University of Nevada, Reno Department of Civil and Environmental ƒƒ OVL minus-70 degree freezer 202 Ross Hall/MS 436 Engineering ƒƒ OVL/USGS rock sectioning saws (3) University of Nevada, Reno The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ƒƒ OVL/USGS vibracore coring device for soft sediment Reno, NV 89557-0436 cores conducts its research and activities in numerous facilities and (775) 784-8262 laboratories such as the Thomas T. Beam Engineering Complex, ƒƒ OVL/CNPS native plant propagation facility (775) 784-8261 (Fax) a modern, state-of-the-art facility of some 101,000 square feet ƒƒ Crooked Creek lab rooms (3) and the new Science and Engineering Building. In addition to Construction Management and Structural Engineering, ƒƒ Crooked Creek undeveloped lab space the Department houses the Engineering Geophysics and ƒƒ Barcroft Pace Lab – three general purpose lab rooms + Environmental Engineering Laboratories, the Water Resources dry lab room Laboratory and the Transportation Research Center. ƒƒ Barcroft small animal care facility – 3 rooms Science and Engineering Building (205,779 gross square feet, ƒƒ Barcroft large animal care facility – 3 rooms + outdoor LEED certified building) pens The new Science and Engineering Building (SEB) is a state- ƒƒ Barcroft Astrophysics Lab I quonset hut of-the-art facility that creates a world-class environment for ƒƒ Barcroft Astrophysics Lab II quonset hut interdisciplinary research and education. The building supports ƒƒ Barcroft Observatory dome innovative research approaches that are conceived and developed through collaboration among faculty in the sciences, ƒƒ Summit Hut (powered by solar panels and/or gasoline engineering, health sciences, and other units on campus. With generator) its flexible laboratory space and integrated research areas, the building will offer faculty and students expanded opportunity to participate in highly sophisticated research using some of the most technologically advanced equipment available. Core Laboratories, Facilities and Resources: ƒƒ Imaging and Electron Microanalysis Suite ƒƒ Environmental Soil Analysis Laboratory EXPERTISE ƒƒ Genomics Core Facility ƒƒ GIS & Remote Sensing Core Laboratory ƒƒ Graphics & Visualization Laboratory

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