Core Faculty and Staff
STEPHANIE HAMPTON– Director, Professor- School of the Environment
JULIE PADOWSKI– Clinical Assistant Professor | Phone: (509) 335-8539
JACQUELINE McCABE– Principal Assistant | Phone: (509) 335-5531
KATRINA SHELTON– Grant and Contract Manager| Phone: (509) 335-1212
STEPHANIE LABOU– Data Manager| Phone: (509) 335-4552
Executive Committee
Jan Boll, Professor- Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Watershed hydrology, Water quality, Hydrologic modeling, Integrated water resources management, Vadose zone hydrology
Email: j.boll@wsu.edu
Stephen Bollens – Professor – School of the Environment
Interests: marine and estuarine zooplankton and fish ecology, behavior, population biology, community ecology and ecosystem dynamics
Email: sbollens@vancouver.wsu.edu
Amanda Boyd– Assistant Professor, Communications
Interests: environmental and health risk communication , energy policy, indigenous health, media representations of risk
Email: amanda.boyd@wsu.edu
Jesse Brunner, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
Interests: evolutionary ecology of infectious disease, especially amphibian disease and tick-borne disease
Email: jesse.brunner@wsu.edu
Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, Associate Professor, Crop and Soil Sciences
Interests: Sustainable and Organic Agriculture: biological soil
Email: lcboggs@wsu.edu
Asaph Cousins, Associate Professor- Biological Sciences
Interests: plant energy metabolism, carbon and oxygen isotope exchange in plants
Email: acousins@wsu.edu
Yonas Demissie– Assistant Professor- Civil & Environmental Engineering
Interests: surface and subsurface hydrology
Email: y.demissie@tricity.wsu.edu
Jay Hmielowski, Assistant Professor- Communications
Interests: environmental communication, political communication
Email: jhmielowski@wsu.edu
Ani Jayakaran, Associate Professor, Extension (ANR Unit, Washington Stormwater Center)
Interests: green stormwater infrastructure, outreach, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, land use change
Email: anand.jayakaran@wsu.edu
Jolie Kaytes– Associate Professor- School of Design and Construction
Interests: landscape architecture, representations of landscape complexity, food systems, Columbia River Basin
Email: jolie@wsu.edu
James “Dick” Pratt, Professor- School of the Environment
Interests: aquatic ecosystems
Email: jrpratt@tricity.wsu.edu
Von P. Walden, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Remote sensing of the atmosphere, polar environments, climate change
Email: v.walden@wsu.edu
Francene Watson, Clinical Assistant Professor- Teaching & Learning
Interests: environmental sustainability, equity, and well-being; school and community gardens
Email: fwatson@wsu.edu
Former Executive Committee Members
Keith Blatner, Natural Resources Sciences
Emmett Fiske, Community and Rural Sociology
Markus Flury, Crop and Soil Sciences
Andy Ford, Environmental Science and Regional Planning
Howard Grimes, Plant Sciences, Biotechnology
David Gruenewald, Teaching and Learning
Heidi Jarvis, School of Music
Kristen Johnson, Animal Sciences
Jeff Joireman, Marketing
Jim Kropf, Northwest District Director, Interim Pierce County Director
Nick Lovrich, Political Science
Dave Evans, Biological Sciences
David Sprott, Carson College of Business
George Mount, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Todd Norton, Communications
William Pan, Crop and Soil Sciences
Lynda Paznokas, Teaching and Learning
David Pietz, History
Eugene Rosa, Sociology
Michael Salvador, Communications
Phil Wandschneider, Economic Sciences
Kent Keller, School of the Environment
Brian Lamb, Professor- Civil & Environmental Engineering
Babu John Mariadoss, Carson College of Business