Faculty

Global change & physiological ecology of trees and plants; dryland ecohydroogy; forest responses to drought, fire & global change

Disturbance ecology (impacts, interactions, and recovery) in forest ecosystems; Drought effects on forest demography (regeneration, growth, and mortality); Methods: field surveys, tree rings, remote sensing, and spatial analysis

Riverine sciences; fisheries sciences;
Remote sensing; Traditional Ecological Knowledge in fisheries

Ecology, physiology, and larval biology of marine invertebrates; teaching innovations & pedagogy

Human dimensions of wildfire

Aquatic ecology of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and fish in marine, estuarine, & freshwater ecosystems

Native American Food Systems; Indigenous Knowledge; Tribal Environmental Policy

Geophysics and Geodynamics; Lithospheric creation and deformation; Plate tectonics/mantle convection

Fluvial geomorphology; energy flow in food webs; resilience in water resource systems; microplastics in fish; riverine ecology

eDNA; detection of rare species using environmental DNA; climate change, connectivity & landscape ecology of amphibian populations; conservation genetics & wildlife ecology

National and transboundary hydropolitics and sustainable water governance; political ecology; political economy; sustainable development; policy and institutional change; science-policy-practice nexus

Geochemistry: fluids in the crust; element mobility; metamorphic and magmatic processes; microanalysis of minerals.

Global change & watershed biogeochemistry; global nutrient transport and effects; greenhouse gas emissions from reservoirs & lakes

Environmental hydrodynamics & physics of natural water flows, mixing, & sediment transport in lakes, estuaries & the coastal ocean

How wildlife cope with anthropogenic environmental changes & urbanization. Physiological, behavioral, and morphological phenotypic modifications to urban environments & the adaptive developmental mechanism of maternal effects. How urban-specific environmental pressures influence wildlife populations to create relevant conservation initiatives for city planners.

Sustainable Forest Management Systems; silviculture, forest ecology, ecosystem services, environmental values

Green Stormwater Infrastructure & Ecological Engineering

landscape evolution, sediment transport in glacial systems, geochronology, thermochronology

System dynamics modeling; collaborative modeling: finding sustainable, consensus-based solutions to environmental problems

Climate interactions in the biosphere & pedosphere; carbon stabilization in soil & biogeochemical effects of winds on the earth’s surface

Structural evolution of contractional & extensional mountain belts; field geology, geochronology, stratigraphy, thermochronology, & structural geology

Quantitative wildlife ecology; wildlife habitat relationships / resource selection; behavioral & population ecology; threatened & endangered species conservation

Toxic impacts of urban runoff & complex chemical mixtures on aquatic organisms; green infrastructure & aquatic toxicity in animals

Global environmental change in terrestrial ecosystems; remote sensing of ecosystem dynamics; forest insects & wildfire impacts

Planetary science & geoscience education

Urban ecohydrology; intertidal ecohydrology & ecogeomorphology; post-wildfire ecohydrology

Agroecology & sustainable food systems; agricultural & food policy; environmental sociology

water resources management & drinking water system resiliency; Washington water policy

Geoscience education & economic geology; STEM & geoscience student learning

animal behavior, communication, human activity on wildlife

Note: applicants must have bird banding experience in order to apply

Earth systems science, paleoclimate, stable isotope biogeochemistry, sedimentology

Nutritional requirements of bears; hibernation physiology; interactions between bears and people

Aquatic ecology & water quality in agricultural watersheds; nitrogen & phosphorus cycling

Aquatic ecology & biological oceanography; community ecology of plankton; interdisciplinary studies in aquatic & political science & science education

Environmental Geology, Global climate change, earth’s history and evolution

biology; endangered species; wildlife, wetland, and Palouse Prairie ecology

Foraging behavior; vertebrate nutrition and diet selection; herbivory; wildlife habitat ecology and management

Climate change and extreme events (e.g., storms, drought, fire); climate impacts on agriculture, air quality, water & natural resources; climate impacts on vulnerable communities

Conservation science & policy, remote sensing of ecosystem dynamics, spatial analysis to inform connectivity conservation, climate adaptation

Forest & environmental history; environmental governance; tribal forest management; landscape ecology; coupled human & natural systems

Environmental Policy and Law, Hazardous Waste Management,
Environmental Assessment

Carnivore ecology & conservation; landscape & spatial ecology of wildlife; impacts of land use, connectivity & climate change on distribution dynamics

Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry and Geochronology

Introductory Geology, Oceanography, Earth History and Evolution, Global Campus

Education strategies to improve scientific literacy in environmental & natural resources; collaborative public environmental policy

Community ecology; plant-insect
interactions; invasion ecology;
restoration ecology; and
wildlife ecology