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F. Adnan Akyuz, Ph.D.

University of Missouri-Columbia, 1994

Research Interests: Applied Climatology and Microclimatology/Climate Based Agricultural


Allan C. Ashworth, Ph.D. (Allan.Ashworth@ndsu.edu)

University of Birmingham, 1969

Research Interests: Quaternary Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology


Achintya Bezbaruah, Ph.D (A.Bezbaruah@ndsu.edu)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2002

Research Interests: Nanomaterials for Pollution Control, Recalcitrant and micro pollutants, Contaminant fate and transport, Small community water and wastewater treatment, Environmental sensors, Environmental management


Chris F. Biga, Ph.D.(Chris.Biga@ndsu.edu)

Washington State University, 2006

Research Interests: Environmental sociology and sociological social psychology


Peggy Biga, Ph.D.(Peggy.Biga@ndsu.edu)

University of Idaho, 2003.

Research interests: Comparative Growth and Nutritional Physiology


Mario E. Biondini, Ph.D. (Mario.Biondini@ndsu.edu)

Colorado State University, 1984

Research Interests: Study and Analysis of Ecosystems, Use of Multivariate Statistical Techniques in the Study of Ecosystems, Modeling of Ecological Systems, Landscape Ecology, Plant-Soil Relationships


William J. Bleier, Ph.D. (William.Bleier@ndsu.edu)

Texas Tech University, 1975

Research Interests: Vertebrate Management, Habitat Management, Geographic Information Systems


Malcolm G. Butler, Ph.D. (Malcolm.Butler@ndsu.edu)

Universityof Michigan, 1980

Research Interests: Aquatic Invertebrate Biology, Limnology, Wetland Ecology


Patrick M. Carr, Ph.D. (pcarr@ndsuext.nodak.edu)

Montana State University, 1989

Research Interests: Sustainable Agriculture, Cropping Systems


Frank X.M. Casey, Ph.D. (francis.casey@ndsu.edu)

Iowa State University, 2000

Research Interests: Field and Laboratory Studies of Water Flow and Chemical Transport Processes


Larry Cihacek, Ph.D. (Larry.Cihacek@ndsu.edu)

Iowa State University, 1979

Research Interests: Carbon Sequestration in Soils, Soil Physical Properties, Soil Management for Waste Disposal


Gary K. Clambey, Ph.D. (Gary.Clambey@ndsu.edu)

Iowa State University, 1975

Research Interests: Ecology and Biogeography, Environmental Analysis and Planning, Structure Function Relations in the Midwestern Ecosystems


Mark E. Clark, Ph.D. (M.E.Clark@ndsu.edu)

University of Tennessee, 1996

Research Interests: Population Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Fish and Wildlife Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Spatial Modeling, Species Interactions


Davis Cope, Ph.D. (Davis.Cope@ndsu.edu)

Vanderbilt University, 1980

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Methods, Applied Mathematics


Dennis Cooley, Ph.D.(Dennis.Cooley@ndsu.eduley@ndsu.edu)

University of Rochester, 1995

Research Interests:Ethics of Science
David B. Danbom, Ph.D. (David.Danbom@ndsu.edu)

Stanford University, 1974

Research Interests: Agriculture and Rural Life, Recent U.S., Progressive Period


Thomas M. DeSutter, Ph.D. (Thomas.DeSutter@ndsu.edu)

Kansas State University, 2004

Research Interest: Trace Gas Fluxes, Inorganic Soil Chemistry, Soil Environmental Conditions


Theodore L. Esslinger, Ph.D.

Duke University, 1974

Research Interests: Lichenology, Taxonomy, Chemosystematics, Floristics of Lichens, Emphasis on the Alectoriacea, Parmeliaceae and Physciacae


Erin Gillam, Ph.D. (Erin.Gillam@ndsu.edu)

University of Tennessee, 2007

Research Interests: Behavioral ecology of bats, ecological and evolutionary basis of behavior in all animal groups, behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary factors influence the structure of animal communication signals and wildlife ecology and conservation.


Gary A. Goreham, Ph.D. (Gary.Goreham@ndsu.edu)

South Dakota State University, 1985

Research Interests: Rural Sociology, Community, Family Research Methods, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Agriculture


James W. Grier, Ph.D. (James.Grier@ndsu.edu)

Cornell University, 1975

Research Interests: Animal Behavior and Ecology, Animal Population Dynamics, Applied Biostatistics, Philosophy of Research


Jason Harmon, Ph.D. (jason.harmon@ndsu.edu)

University of Minnesota, 2003

Research Interests: Environmental change; ecosystem services; population and community ecology


Marion O. Harris, Ph.D. (Marion.Harris@ndsu.edu)

Michigan State University, 1986

Research Interests: Insect-Pest Management, Host-Plant Relationships


Mark Harvey, Ph.D. (Mark.Harvey@ndsu.edu)

University of Wyoming, 1986

Research Interests: American West, Environmental History, Public History


Harlene Hatterman-Valenti, Ph.D.(h.hatterman.valenti@ndsu.edu)

Iowa state University , 1993

Research Interests: High-Value Crop Production


Robert R. Hearne, Ph.D.(Robert.Hearne@ndsu.edu)

University of Minnesota , 1995

Research Interests:Economic Analysis of Emerging Environmental and Resource Issues in the Northern Great Plains


David Hopkins, Ph.D.(David.Hopkins@ndsu.edu)

North Dakota State University, 1997

Research Interests: Soil Formation and Chemistry


Tom Isern, Ph.D.(isern@plainsfolk.com)

Oklahoma State University, 1977

Research Interests: History of Agriculture, History of Great Plains


Donna Jacob, Ph.D. (Donna.Jacob@ndsu.edu)

University College, Dublin, 2004

Research Interests: Wetland ecology, biogeochemistry, ecophysiology and ecotoxicology


Xinhua Jia, Ph.D. (xinhua.jia@ndsu.edu)

University of Arizona

Research Interests: Evapotranspiration, Subsurface drainage and Water qualit


Dinesh Katti, Ph.D. (Dinesh.Katti@ndsu.edu)

University of Arizona, 1991

Research Interests: Geotechnical Engineering, Constitutive Modeling of Geologic Materials, Expansive Soils, Multiscale Modeling, Steered Molecular Dynamics, Computational Mechanics, Nanocomposite, and Bio-nanocomposites. Computational Biophysics


Eakalak Khan, Ph.D.(Eakalak.Khan@ndsu.edu)

UCLA, 1997

Research Interests: Water Quality, Biological Process Development for Water and Wastewater Treatment, Storm water and Non-Point Source Pollution Control


Don Kirby, Ph.D. (Donald.Kirby@ndsu.edu)

Texas A & M, 1980

Research Interests: Grazing Ecology, Restoration Ecology


David Lambert, Ph.D.

Oregon State University, 1985

Research Interests: Natural Resources Economics


F. Larry Leistritz, Ph.D.

University of Nebraska, 1970

Research Interests: Economic Development, Resource Economics


Kenneth E. Lepper, Ph.D. (Ken.Lepper@ndsu.edu)

Oklahoma State University, 2001

Research Interests: Quaternary Geology and Age Dating


Wei Lin, Ph.D. (Wei.Lin@ndsu.edu)

SUNY at Buffalo, 1992

Research Interests: Water and Wastewater Treatment, Hazardous Waste Management


John McEvoy, Ph.D

University of Ulster Northern Ireland, 2002

Research Interests:Cryptosporidium Virulence Factors and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

George M. Linz, Ph.D. (adjunct)

North Dakota State University, 1982

Research Interests: Avian Ecology


Mark Meister, Ph.D. (Mark.Meister@ndsu.edu)

University of Nebraska, 1997

Research Interests: Rhetorical and Critical Theory, Environmental Communication


Bakr Mourad Aly Ahmed, Ph.D.

Virginia Tech., 2001

Research Interests: Sustainability Indicators and Implementation, Carrying Capacity Measurements, Coastal Development, Built Environment and Natural Resources Conservation


Peter Oduor, Ph.D.(Peter.Oduor@ndsu.edu)

University of Missouri - Rolla, 2004

Research Interests: Geographic Information Systems, Groundwater Flow Modeling, Groundwater Contamination


Marinus Otte, Ph.D. (Marinus.Otte@ndsu.edu)

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1991

Research Interests: Wetland ecology, Biogeochemistry, Ecophysiology and Ecotoxicology


Laura F. Overstreet, Ph.D.

North Carolina State University, 2005

Research Interests: Soil Conservation and Management,Soil Biology, Reduced Tillage Systems, Sugarbeet Production


G. Padmanabhan, Ph.D. (g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu)

Purdue University, 1980

Research Interests: Hydrology, Water Resources, Hydraulic Engineering


Birgit Pruess, Ph.D. (Birgit.Pruess@ndsu.edu)

Ruhr- Universitat Bochum, Germany, 1991

Research Interest: Microbial Physiology and Gene Regulation


Wendy L. Reed, Ph.D. (Wendy.Reed@ndsu.edu)

Iowa State University, 2000

Research Interests: Physiological Ecology, Wetland and Bird Ecology, Environmental Endocrinology


David A. Rider, Ph.D. (David.Rider@ndsu.edu) david.rider@ndsu.nodak.edu

Louisiana State University, 1988

Research Interests: Insect Systematics, Biodiversity


David C. Roberts, Ph.D. (david.c.Roberts@ndsu.edu)

Oklahoma State University, 2009

Research Interests: Evaluation and design of economically efficient tools and ploicies for pollution control, economic valuation of environmental and ecological
attributes through revealed and stated preference methods, valuation of
environmental risk, and low-impact and precision agriculture


Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, Ph.D. (bernhardt.saini-eidukat@ndsu.edu)

University of Minnesota, 1991

Research Interests: Environmental Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Economic Geology


Donald P. Schwert, Ph.D. (donald.schwert@ndsu.edu)

University of Waterloo, 1978

Research Interests: Quaternary Paleoecology, Analysis of Fossil Insects


Dean D. Steele, Ph.D. (dean.steele@ndsu.edu)

University of Minnesota, 1991

Research Interests: Irrigation and Environmental Engineering


Craig A. Stockwell, Ph.D. (Craig.Stockwell@ndsu.edu)

University of Nevada, 1995

Research Interests: Conservation Biology, Evolutionary Ecology of Native Fishes, Human-Wildlife Interactions


Steve E. Travers, Ph.D.(Steven.Travers@ndsu.edu)

University of California, 1998

Research Interests: Plant Evolutionary Ecology


Brian D. Wisenden, Ph.D. (Adjunct) (wisenden@mnstate.edu)

University of Western Ontario, 1993

Research interests: Behavioral ecology of fishes, chemical ecology of predator-prey interactions, parental care and mating systems


George Youngs, Ph.D. (George.Youngs@ndsu.edu)

University of Iowa, 1981

Research Interests: Perceived Ethics of Genetically Modified Organisms, Sustainable Agriculture

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