Environmental and Energy Policy Graduate Faculty

The following faculty members are either core or affiliated members of the Environmental and Energy Policy Graduate program. Core faculty members typically serve as primary advisors to our MS and PhD students while affiliated faculty members can serve on our MS thesis or PhD dissertation committees.

Core Faculty

The historical interaction between technological change, uses of the environment, and systems of governance.; The political ecology of energy.
Woody bioenergy; Climate change; Natural resource policy; Water resource policy; Bioenergy policy
Environmental history; Watershed change; Ecological history; Fisheries history; Mining history
Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Sustainability science; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity and Conservation; International Trade; Information Theory
Transboundary Water Governance; Water Security; Political and Cultural Geography; Environmental Governance; Nature-Society
History of Technology; Environmental History; Architectural History; Industrial Archeology
Energy Policy; Ecological Economics; Emissions Trading
Canadian Energy and Environmental Issues; Climate Change Adaptation; Oil Sands Development; Forest Policy; Canadian history
Rural Sociology; Population and Environment; Environmental Sociology; Community Engaged Scholarship; Internal Migration; GIS and spatial analysis

Affiliated Faculty

Combustion and dynamics of single particles; Combustion and pyrolysis
Metal markets; Sustainability of mining; Social decision-making about resource use
Supply chain management and modeling; Infrastructure integration and management; Business and cost feasibility in implementing environmentally sustainable management practices, including alternative energy technologies; Benchmarking and performance measurement; Lean practices in service operations
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (especially Phenomenology); Ancient Philosophy; Ethics; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind; Philosophy of Science and Technology
Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Contaminant Transport in Groundwater Vadose Zones; Mathematical Optimization of Groundwater Remediation Systems: Multi-Objective and Uncertainty Problems; Surfactant-Enhanced Dissolution of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids in Subsurface Systems; Groundwater Flow in a Fault Zone in the Vicinity of Desert Hot Springs, California; Simulation of Saltwater Intrusion in the Guaymas Valley, Sonora, Mexico California
Photovoltaic Materials and Electronic Device Physics of Solar Photovoltaic Cells: Gallium nitride (GaN) and indium gallium nitride (InGaN), Hydrogenated amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon (a-Si:H, nc-Si:H); Applied Sustainability and Green Engineering: Solar energy, Sustainable development
Metal, Energy, and Commodity Price Cycles; Business and Commodity Cycles; Energy Economics; Implementation of Alternative Energy; Natural Resource Industries and the Environment