ECS FACULTY
F. Adnan Akyuz, Ph.D.
University of Missouri-Columbia, 1994
Research Interests: Applied Climatology and Microclimatology/Climate Based Agriculture
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Allan C. Ashworth, Ph.D. (Allan.Ashworth@ndsu.edu)
University of Birmingham, 1969
Research Interests: Quaternary Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology
Peter Bergholz, Ph.D. (peter.bergholz@ndsu.edu)
Michigan State University, 2007
Research interests: Ecology of infectious diseases, environmental modeling, food safety, landscape genomics of microbes, microbial ecology
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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.
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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
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William J. Bleier, Ph.D. (William.Bleier@ndsu.edu)
Texas Tech University, 1975
Research Interests: Vertebrate Management, Habitat Management, Geographic Information Systems
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Malcolm G. Butler, Ph.D. (Malcolm.Butler@ndsu.edu)
Universityof Michigan, 1980
Research Interests: Aquatic Invertebrate Biology, Limnology, Wetland Ecology
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Patrick M. Carr, Ph.D. (pcarr@ndsuext.nodak.edu)
Montana State University, 1989
Research Interests: Sustainable Agriculture, Cropping Systems
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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
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Amitava Chatterjee, Ph.D. (Amitava.Chatterjee@ndsu.edu)
University of Wyoming, 2007
Research Interests: Greenhouse gas Emissions and Climate Change, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Natural Resource Management, Agricultural Soil Fertility
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Xuefeng (Michael) Chu, Ph.D. (xuefeng.chu@ndsu.edu)
University of California, 2002
Research Interests: Watershed hydrologic and enviromental modeling, overland flow and infiltration, and integrated modeling
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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
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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
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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
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Davis Cope, Ph.D. (Davis.Cope@ndsu.edu)
Vanderbilt University, 1980
Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Methods, Applied Mathematics
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Dennis Cooley, Ph.D.(Dennis.Cooley@ndsu.edu)
University of Rochester, 1995
Research Interests:Ethics of Science
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David B. Danbom, Ph.D. (David.Danbom@ndsu.edu)
Stanford University, 1974
Research Interests: Agriculture and Rural Life, Recent U.S., Progressive Period
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Shawn DeKeyser, Ph.D. (Edward.Dekeyser@ndsu.edu)
North Dakota State University, 2000 Research Interests: wetland assessment and ecology, riparian assessment and management, wetland and prairie restoration, invasive species management, fire ecology, and herbarium management.
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Anne Denton, Ph.D. (Anne.Denton@ndsu.edu)
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 1996
Research Interests: Data Mining of Diverse Data especially Scientific Data, Bioinformatics
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Thomas M. DeSutter, Ph.D. (Thomas.DeSutter@ndsu.edu)
Kansas State University, 2004
Research Interest: Trace Gas Fluxes, Inorganic Soil Chemistry, Soil Environmental Conditions
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Ned A. Dochtermann, Ph.D. (Ned.Dochtermann@ndsu.edu)
University of Nevada, Reno, 2009
Research Interests: Population dynamics, implications of phenotypic and genetic variation, ecological and evolutionary modeling
Theodore L. Esslinger, Ph.D.
Duke University, 1974
Research Interests: Lichenology, Taxonomy, Chemosystematics, Floristics of Lichens, Emphasis on the Alectoriacea, Parmeliaceae and Physciacae
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Amy Ganguli, Ph.D. (Amy.Ganguli@ndsu.edu)
Oklahoma State University, 2005
Research Interests: Invasive Plant Species Ecology and Management, Restoration of Native Ecosystem Structure and Function, Disturbance Ecology (physical and biological domains of fire), Ecosystem Management, Plant Community Ecology
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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.
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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
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Kendra Greenlee, Ph.D. (kendra.greenlee@ndsu.edu)
Arizona State University-Tempe, 2004
Research interests: Environmental and respiratory physiology of insects; insect immunology.
Timothy Greives, Ph.D. (Timothy.Greives@ndsu.edu)
Indiana University, 2009
Research Interests: Physiological ecology, life-history transitions, reproductive-immune trade-offs
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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
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Jason Harmon, Ph.D. (jason.harmon@ndsu.edu)
University of Minnesota, 2003
Research Interests: Environmental change; ecosystem services; population and community ecology
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Marion O. Harris, Ph.D. (Marion.Harris@ndsu.edu)
Michigan State University, 1986
Research Interests: Insect-Pest Management, Host-Plant Relationships
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Mark Harvey, Ph.D. (Mark.Harvey@ndsu.edu)
University of Wyoming, 1986
Research Interests: American West, Environmental History, Public History
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Harlene Hatterman-Valenti, Ph.D.(h.hatterman.valenti@ndsu.edu)
Iowa state University , 1993
Research Interests: High-Value Crop Production
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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
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David Hopkins, Ph.D.(David.Hopkins@ndsu.edu)
North Dakota State University, 1997
Research Interests: Soil Formation and Chemistry
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Tom Isern, Ph.D.(isern@plainsfolk.com)
Oklahoma State University, 1977
Research Interests: History of Agriculture, History of Great Plains
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Donna Jacob, Ph.D. (Donna.Jacob@ndsu.edu)
University College, Dublin, 2004
Research Interests: Wetland ecology, biogeochemistry, ecophysiology and ecotoxicology
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Xinhua Jia, Ph.D. (xinhua.jia@ndsu.edu)
University of Arizona
Research Interests: Evapotranspiration, Subsurface drainage and Water quality
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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
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Eakalak Khan, Ph.D.(Eakalak.Khan@ndsu.edu)
UCLA, 1997
Research Interests: water and wastewater treatment, site remediation, fate and transport of contaminants, and environmental biotechnology.
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F. Larry Leistritz, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska, 1970
Research Interests: Economic Development, Resource Economics
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Kenneth E. Lepper, Ph.D. (Ken.Lepper@ndsu.edu)
Oklahoma State University, 2001
Research Interests: Quaternary Geology and Age Dating
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Adam R. Lewis, Ph.D. (Adam.R.Lewis.1@ndsu.edu)
Boston University, 2005
Research Interests: Long-term Climate Evolution, Antarctic Climate Evolution, and Glacial Geology
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Wei Lin, Ph.D. (Wei.Lin@ndsu.edu)
SUNY at Buffalo, 1992
Research Interests: Water and Wastewater Treatment, Hazardous Waste Management
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University of Georgia (www.uga.edu), 2003
Research Interests: Watershed assessment and management, Environmental systems analysis and modeling, and Environmental statistics
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George M. Linz, Ph.D. (adjunct)
North Dakota State University, 1982
Research Interests: Avian Ecology
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John McEvoy, Ph.D
University of Ulster Northern Ireland, 2002
Research Interests:Cryptosporidium Virulence Factors and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis
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Mark Meister, Ph.D. (Mark.Meister@ndsu.edu)
University of Nebraska, 1997
Research Interests: Rhetorical and Critical Theory, Environmental Communication
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Jennifer Momsen, PhD. (Jennifer.Momsen@ndsu.edu)
Rutgers University, 2007
Research Interests: Ecology Education and Ecological Literacy.
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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
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Jack Norland, Ph.D.
North Dakota State University, 2008
Research interests: Restoration Ecology, Remote Sensing of Grasslands, Grassland Ecology, Managing Natural Resources for Resiliency
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Peter Oduor, Ph.D.(Peter.Oduor@ndsu.edu)
University of Missouri - Rolla, 2004
Research Interests: Geographic Information Systems, Groundwater Flow Modeling, Groundwater Contamination
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Marinus Otte, Ph.D. (Marinus.Otte@ndsu.edu)
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 1991
Research Interests: Wetland ecology, Biogeochemistry, Ecophysiology and Ecotoxicology
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G. Padmanabhan, Ph.D. (g.padmanabhan@ndsu.edu)
Purdue University, 1980
Research Interests: Hydrology, Water Resources, Hydraulic Engineering
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Birgit Pruess, Ph.D. (Birgit.Pruess@ndsu.edu)
Ruhr- Universitat Bochum, Germany, 1991
Research Interest: Microbial Physiology and Gene Regulation
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Scott W. Pryor, Ph.D. (scott.pryor@ndsu.edu)
Cornell University
Research Interests: Renewable energy and biobased products
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Wendy L. Reed, Ph.D. (Wendy.Reed@ndsu.edu)
Iowa State University, 2000
Research Interests: Physiological Ecology, Wetland and Bird Ecology, Environmental Endocrinology
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David A. Rider, Ph.D. (David.Rider@ndsu.edu)
Louisiana State University, 1988
Research Interests: Insect Systematics, Biodiversity
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David Ripplinger, Ph.D. (David.Ripplinger@ndsu.edu)
North Dakota State University, 2012
Research Interests: Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, Environmental Economics, Production Economics
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
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Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, Ph.D. (bernhardt.saini-eidukat@ndsu.edu)
University of Minnesota, 1991
Research Interests: Environmental Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Economic Geology
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Donald P. Schwert, Ph.D. (donald.schwert@ndsu.edu)
University of Waterloo, 1978
Research Interests: Quaternary Paleoecology, Analysis of Fossil Insects
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Rahman Shafiqur, Ph.D. (S.Rahman@ndsu.edu)
Research Interests: Livestock waste management, anaerobic co-digestion of manure and agricultural wastes, air quality, water quality, and technologies for mitigating air pollution and greenhouse gases emissions from livestock production facilities.
Halis Simsek, Ph.D. (halis.simsek@ndsu.edu)
North Dakota State University, 2012
Research Interests: Bioenvironmental engineering, water and wastewater treatment, animal and agricultural waste management.
Dean D. Steele, Ph.D. (dean.steele@ndsu.edu)
University of Minnesota, 1991
Research Interests: Irrigation and Environmental Engineering
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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
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Steve E. Travers, Ph.D.(Steven.Travers@ndsu.edu)
University of California, 1998
Research Interests: Plant Evolutionary Ecology
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Dennis Wiesenborn, Ph.D. (Dennis.Wiesenborn@ndsu.edu)
Rice University, 1989
Research Interests: Process engineering, Sustainable or “green” processing, and Products from renewable resources
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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
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George Youngs, Ph.D. (George.Youngs@ndsu.edu)
University of Iowa, 1981
Research Interests: Perceived Ethics of Genetically Modified Organisms, Sustainable Agriculture
