Water@PSU Faculty Directory

Anthropology

Shelby Anderson

Research interests: Human eco-dynamics, ceramic and other food preparation technologies, applied archaeology, and archaeology of the Arctic, Subarctic and Pacific Northwest

Biology

Brad Buckley

Research interests: Physiological responses of marine species to elevated temperature and other stressors.

Jason Podrabsky

Research interests: Functional genomics and epigenetic regulation of fish development in response to the environment. Temperature adaptation, osmoregulation, acid-base regulation, life history evolution, developmental ecology, evolutionary developmental biology

Anne Thompson

Research interests: Microbiology of the oceans and freshwater systems

Center for Lakes and Reservoirs

Ashley Newcomb

Research interests: Aquatic ecology and water quality, especially focused on trophic interactions, invasion ecology, ecosystem restoration and conservation, disturbance regimes, and chemical ecology

Jacob Rose

Research interests:  Invasive aquatic botany and ecology, geospatial data management and analysis–especially as they relate to early detection and rapid response

Arick “Kit” Rouhe

Research interests: Local environmental issues and lakes in Portland and PNW

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Peyman Abbaszadeh

Research interests: Hydrologic science/water resources system analysis and computational modeling 

Chris Berger

Research interests: Water quality and hydrodynamic modeling of lakes, estuaries, and rivers

Annette Dietz

Research interests: Water resources, sustainability, international development, and multi-disciplinary problem solving

Samantha Hartzell

Research interests: Modeling the impact of vegetation on water, carbon, and energy fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere

David Jay

Research interests: Tidal analysis and modeling

Gwynn Johnson

Research interests: Contaminant transport and fate, fluid flow, soils, and groundwater remediation

Jim Pankow

Research interests: Atmospheric chemistry, aerosol chemistry, analytical chemistry, and environmental chemistry

Scott Wells

Research interests: Modeling of environmental fluid mechanics: surface water quality and hydrodynamics and solid-liquid separation processes

Zhonglong Zhang

Research interests: Riverine and reservoir water quality modeling development, watershed and environmental contamination, and environmental impact assessment projects

Economics

Sahan Dissanayake

Research interests: Intersection of land use, ecosystem services, and conservation

Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Burnett

Research interests: RF, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design, wireless sensor mote miniaturization, field-deployable sensor systems

Environmental Science and Management

Daniel Bedell

Research interests: Community based macroinvertebrate biomonitoring, stream restoration

Cat de Rivera

Research interests: Anthropogenic changes in habitat connectivity; impacts and management of aquatic introduced species; salt marsh restoration, and the influence of global climate change on these

Patrick Edwards

Research interests: Macroinvertebrate indicators of stream sediment and the effect of ecological restoration on aquatic communities

Kelly Gleason

Research interests: Interactions of water, climate, and ecosystems in a changing climate, particularly how forest fire disturbances alter snow hydrology and downstream water resource availability

Elise Granek

Research interests: Contaminant concentrations in and effects on marine organisms and ecosystems; collaborative research and outreach focused on the transition zone between land and sea; marine conservation and management

Melissa Haeffner

Research interests: Water access, environmental justice, and concepts of fairness and equity

Paola López-Duarte

Research interests: Behavior and ecology of invertebrates and fish, especially the factors controlling larval dispersal from and recruitment to adult habitats

Jennifer Morse

Research interests: Movement of carbon and nutrients and the production of greenhouse gases, in natural and human-modified ecosystems, including wetlands, streams, forests, agriculture, and urban ecosystems

Max Nielsen-Pincus

Research interests: Community responses to wildfire risks, management of watersheds that provide drinking water, and land use change in regions experiencing growth and development

Yangdong Pan

Research interests: Freshwater ecology and conservation - specifically algal assemblages to assess ecological risk in freshwater ecosystems including lakes, wetlands and rivers

Geography

Alida Cantor

Research interests: Water policy and governance in California and the U.S. West

Heejun Chang

Research interests: Climate change impacts on water resources, land cover change and water quality, urban water demand, and water-related ecosystem services

Andrés Holz

Research interests: Disturbance and forest ecology (fire, drought, volcanisms), and land use and climate change and variability impacts on forests

Martin LaFrenz

Research interests: Fluvial geomorphology and soils, urban stream phenomena, the legacy effects of human land use on critical zone processes, community-based watershed monitoring, and mobile GIS

Paul Loikith

Research interests: Regional climate and climate change, climate and weather extremes, and climate model analysis

Geology

John Bershaw

Research interests: Paleoclimate, stable isotope geochemistry and the hydrologic cycle, stratigraphy, and basin analysis

Adam Booth

Research interests: Quantitative geomorphology: landslides, LiDAR, landscape evolution modeling, inverse problems, numerical modeling, remote sensing.

Jon Fink

Research interests: Emerging technology to monitor urban water use, and the integration of these tools with other 'smart city' application

Andrew Fountain (Emeritus)

Research interests: Evaluating the glacier change in the American West how much water they contribute to high alpine hydrology, ecosystems, and to global sea level

Frank Granshaw

Research interests: Glacial geology and remote sensing 

Jill Marshall

Research interests: Mechanics of climatic, lithologic, biotic, and abiotic controls on landscapes and critical zone processes

Robert (Ben) Perkins

Research interests: Water and sediment geochemistry, with a focus on mineral-water reactions, paleo-environmental reconstructions, and groundwater characterization and sourcing

Ashley Streig 

Research interests: Neotectonics, paleoseismology, structural geology and tectonic geomorphology

Institute for Natural Resources

Gabriel Campbell

Research interests: All things plants, especially aquatic and wetland species, rare and invasive species, and native plant horticulture.

Eleanor Gaines

Research interests: Collaborates with state, federal and private partners to gather and share information on the distribution and status of Oregon’s biodiversity

Kyla Zaret

Research interests: Social-ecological systems; critical physical geography. The effects of changing climate and fire regimes on forest-peatland ecotones and associated transitions in local livelihoods in western Patagonia. Wetland inventory and mapping, and wetland water level monitoring in the Pacific Northwest.

OHSU/PSU Public Health

Richard Johnson

Research interests: Forecasting of water quality in rivers to protect drinking water sources, development of diagnostic tools for groundwater restoration, and vulnerability of groundwater sources of drinking water

Joseph Needoba

Research interests: Chemical and biological sensors deployed in the environment to characterize water quality and its determinants, with a focus on linkages between human activities, ecological processes, and human health

Tawyna Peterson

Research interests: Biological oceanography, ecology and physiology of phytoplankton, harmful algal blooms, and ocean observatories

Paul Tratnyek

Research interests: Environmental chemistry, especially the fate, effects and remediation of contaminants

University Honors College

Olyssa Starry

Research interests: Ecoroofs as model systems for understanding how design and management decisions affect the ecological, social, and political functions of urban open spaces

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Updated: June 25, 2024