Environmental Science Program

Environmental Science Program Advisory Board

 

Chloe WallaceChloe Wallace
Environmental Science Program Administrator
Role: Academic advising, program management, communications, and recruitment

 

AbbyAbigail Langston
Geography and Geospatial Sciences representative
Specialty:
surface water hydrology, sediment transport, fluvial geomorphology, and landscape evolution modeling.

 

JesseJesse Nippert
Biology representative
Specialty: Grassland ecophysiology, grass/tree ecological dynamics, ecosystem responses to global change, stable isotope ecology

 

MattMatthew Kirk
Geology representative
Specialty:
Geomicrobiology, hydrogeology, groundwater, water quality, carbon storage, natural gas formation

 

NathanNathan Nelson
Agronomy representative & Advisory Board Chair
Specialty: Soil fertility and nutrient management

 

 

Additional contributors

Faculty Member

Unit

Specialty

Colby Moorberg

Agronomy

Root ecology and hydropedology

Ganga Hettiarachchi

Agronomy

Soil chemistry, trace metal and nutrient chemistry, contamination and remediation of soils

Pamela Kempton

Geology

Petrology and geochemistry of oceanic basalts and gabbros, lower crustal granulites, ultramafic peridotites and continental volcanism

Shawn Hutchinson

Geography and Geospatial Sciences

Environmental monitoring, grassland phenology, surface water resources, military training land sustainability, agricultural biosecurity

Walter Dodds

Biology

Freshwater ecology, water quality