Core Faculty and Staff
JAN BOLL– Director, Professor- Civil and Environmental Engineering
JULIE PADOWSKI– Clinical Assistant Professor | Phone: (509) 335-8539
JACQUELINE McCABE– Principal Assistant | Phone: (509) 335-5531
MATTHEW BROUSIL– Data Manager| Phone: (509) 335-4552
Executive Committee
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, Faculty, 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, Faculty, Crop and Soil Sciences
Interests: Sustainable and Organic Agriculture: biological soil
Email: lcboggs@wsu.edu
Yonas Demissie– Faculty- Civil & Environmental Engineering
Interests: surface and subsurface hydrology
Email: y.demissie@tricity.wsu.edu
Ani Jayakaran, Faculty, Extension (ANR Unit, Washington Stormwater Center)
Interests: green stormwater infrastructure, outreach, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, land use change
Email: anand.jayakaran@wsu.edu
Jolie Kaytes– Faculty- School of Design and Construction
Interests: landscape architecture, representations of landscape complexity, food systems, Columbia River Basin
Email: jolie@wsu.edu
Kevan Moffett – Faculty – School of the Environment
Interests: heterogeneous, non-linear, and dynamic coupling of physical and biological flow and transport pathways in the hydrological cycle – particularly the physics of shallow groundwater, soil water, and surface water movement and how plant water uptake facilitates this movement or ‘gets in the way’.
Email: kevon.moffett@wsu.edu
Von P. Walden, Faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Interests: Remote sensing of the atmosphere, polar environments, climate change
Email: v.walden@wsu.edu
Francene Watson, Faculty- Teaching & Learning
Interests: environmental sustainability, equity, and well-being; school and community gardens
Email: fwatson@wsu.edu
Former Executive Committee Members
Steve Bollens, School of Environment
Asaph Cousins, Faculty, Biological Sciences
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