Affiliate Faculty

Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Environmental Sensors, Small Community Treatment, Micropollutants

Associate Director of North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and Professor of Soil Physics, NDSU
Research Interests: Transport of Bioactive Chemicals in Soil-Water Systems, Soil Water Flow Measurement

Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Watershed Hydrologic Modeling, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, Wetlands

Professor, Range/NRM, NDSU
Research Interests: Rangeland Ecology, Grazing Management, Wetland Ecology and Assessment

Research Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, UND
Research Interest: Aerosol-Cloud Interaction, Precipitation Development, Weather Modification, Remote Sensing, Airborne Measurements, Statistical Analysis

Professor of Soil Science, NDSU
Research Interests: Application of industrial by-products to soils; soil salinity and sodicity; fate and transport of manure-borne hormones in swine production facilities; distribution of mercury in surface and subsurface soils

Assistant Professor of Biology, UND
Research interests: Landscape heterogeneity and climate change interactions that shape aquatic food webs using stable isotope, diet, and simulation-based approaches to link landscape-scale drivers to the fine-scale structuring of primary producer, invertebrate, and fish communities.

Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, UND
Research Interests: Emerging Contaminants; Environmental Sensing Technologies; Innovative Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies; Sustainable Water Reuse Applications; Nano-enabled and Conventional Adsorbents

Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Nutrient management, air&water quality, manure treatment, environmental control systems, GHGs, smart livestock

Professor, Advanced Materials Research Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UND
Research interests: sustainable materials, high temperature ceramics and alloys, nanotechnology, additive, and green manufacturing

Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Disaster Resilience, and Emergency Management, NDSU
Research Interests: Community-based Disaster Resilience, the Intersection of Climate Disruptions, Rural Social Systems, and Disaster, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Disaster Resilience Higher Education.

Associate Professor/Interim Director, School of Natural Resource Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Water Use, Water Quality, Wetland Ecology, Environmental Education, Effects of energy development on natural resources in North Dakota

Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, UND
Research Interest: Energy Geotechnics, Pavement Heating, Slope Stability, Computational Geomechanics, Load Reduction Methods for Buried Culverts, Gr. Improvement

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interest: Municipal Solid Waste Management, Organic Waste Management, Plastics Pollution, Landfilling, and Landfill Leachate Management

Professor, Chemical Engineering, UND
Research Interests: Biomass pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, forestry bio-refinery and renewable chemicals and fuels, green composites and materials. Other areas include: oil and gas pipeline detection modeling, metal-ion co-catalysts to improve biomass pretreatment yields, pulp and paper technology, paper recycling, and process/environmental engineering applications.
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Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU

Research Interests: Agricultural water management (irrigation, drainage, evapotranspiration, and water quality); controlled environment agriculture (hydroponics, microgreens, and high tunnels); automation and smart sensing technologies for precision agriculture; and sustainable food-energy-water systems (wastewater reuse and data center water use).

Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology, Department of Biology, UND
Research Interests: Spatiotemporal dynamics, Social-ecological systems, Recreational fisheries, Aquatic ecology, Fish ecology.

Professor, Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, NDSU
Research Interests: Research Interest: Transportation, community and food system resilience to climate change

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Environmental systems analysis, Surface and subsurface hydrology and modeling, Soil and water resources management

Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture, Disaster Resilience and Emergency Management (LADREM), NDSU

Research Interests: Sustainable planning and design; landscape performance; watershed management and stream restoration; environmental justice

Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resource Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Climate Smart Approaches in agriculture, emphasizing resilience, soil health, and data-driven conservation management.

Associate Professor, Department of Geology & Geological Engineering, UND
Research Interest: Monitoring and assessment of agricultural hydrology and water quality, developing conceptual model for nutrient transport, spatial controls on watershed and hillslope scale hydrologic responses

Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, NDSU

Professor, Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Cryptosporidium virulence factors and mechanisms of pathogenesis

Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Wetlands, Ecology, Ecotoxicology, Ecophysiology, Biogeochemistry

Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Geographic Information Systems, Groundwater Flow Modeling, Groundwater Contamination

Assistant Professor and Extension Water Engineer, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interest: Watershed Hydrology, Soil and Water Conservation, Agricultural Water Management, Water Quality, Frozen Soil Physics, Watershed Modeling

Assistant Professor, Coatings and Polymeric Materials, NDSU
Research Interests: corrosion characterization and prevention, coating design and formulation, sustainable coating solutions, bridge coatings, high temperature coatings, durable functional surfaces, and repairable/healable coatings.

Professor, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geospatial Sciences, NDSU
Research Interests: Environmental Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Economic Geology, Pedagogical Methods

Assistant Professor, Applied Ecology, School of Natural Resource Sciences, NDSU
Research Interest: Management and conservation as species face changing environments, with an emphasis on how our actions can shift outcomes of fish, wildlife, and people. Studies questions scaling from genomes to social-ecological systems and their landscapes, with an emphasis on fishes and amphibians. Current projects include impacts of restoration, invasive species, climate change, land use change, and disease ecology management.

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, NDSU
Research Interest: Development of water management practices and tools for improved crop production and natural resource management, Computer aided analysis and design

Professor of Geography, UND
Research Interests: Surface water quality; nutrients and heavy metals, fluvial and glacial geomorphology, disturbed land reclamation, GIS and remote sensing applications

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, NDSU
Research Interests: Water and Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater Reuse, Water Quality in Agriculture, De Facto Reuse, Produced Water Treatment, Photocatalytic Water Treatment, Membrane and Electrochemical Technologies, and Disinfection Byproducts

Extension Forester, School of Natural Resources, NDSU
Research Interests: Dendrochronology of ponderosa pine and bur oak, Bur oak regeneration, Riparian forest restoration

Professor, Chemistry, UND