CORE FACULTY TEAM • JOB OPENINGS • STAFF

• James Acheson
  Professor of Anthropology and Marine Sciences
  Research Interests: Economic anthropology and the development of local level institutions to manage resources and promote economic change
• Aria Amirbahman
  Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Research Interests: Aquatic chemistry and contaminant transport
  
• Mark Anderson
  Coordinator, Ecology and Environmental Science, Senior Instructor, School of Economics, UMaine
  Research Interests: Recreation and land management; environmental values and world views
• Kate Beard-Tisdale
  Professor, Department of Spatial Information Science Engineering, UMaine
  Research Interests: Modeling; analysis and visualization of spatio-temporal phenomena
• Ron Beard, Extension Professor, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
• Kathleen Bell
  Associate Professor, School of Economics, UMaine
  Research Interests: Environmental and natural resource economics; spatial economic modeling
• Aram Calhoun
  Associate Professor of Wetlands Ecology, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, UMaine
  Research Interests: Vernal pool ecology and conservation; wetland ecology
• Charlie Colgan
  Chair, Community Planning & Development Program, Professor Public Policy, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine
  Research Interests: Regional growth and development; economic forecasting; transportation policy; policy analysis and planning
• Chris Cronan
  Professor, School of Biology & Ecology, UMaine
  Research Interests: Biogeochemistry; plant ecology; ecosystem ecology; land use planning
• John Daigle
  Associate Professor of Forest Recreation Management; Program Leader, Parks, Recreation and Tourism
  Research Interests: Human dimensions of natural resources management
  
• Frank Drummond
  Professor of Insect Ecology and Insect Pest Management
  Research Interests: Development of stage-structured simulation models to elucidate the spatial and temporal dynamics of disease epizootiology and development of economic threshold models for pest management decision making
• Catherine Elliott
  Associate Extension Professor, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
• Ivan Fernandez
  Professor, Dept. of Plant, Soil & Environmental Sciences, UMaine
  Research Interests: Forest soils; biogeochemistry
• Eric Gallandt
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Plant, Soil & Environmental Sciences, UMaine
  Research Interests: Weed ecology and management
• Susan Gardner
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Education & Human Development, UMaine
  Research Interests: Interdisciplinary research collaborations and socialization to disciplinary norms
• David Hart
  Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, Professor of Biology, UMaine
  Research Interests: Watershed science and management
• David Hiebeler
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics, UMaine
  Research Interests: Mathematical ecology; complex systems
• Stephen Hornsby
  Professor, Geography & Canadian Studies, Director, Canadian-American Center
  
• Mac Hunter
  Professor of Wildlife Ecology, Libra Professor of Conservation Biology, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, UMaine
  Research Interests: Managing ecosystems to maintain biodiversity
• Shaleen Jain
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UMaine
  Research Interests: Hydroclimatology, environmental flows, climate variability and change, hydrosystems modeling, adaptive management and decision analysis.
• Teresa Johnson
  Assistant Professor of Marine Policy, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine
  Research Interests: Marine policy, fisheries management, public participation, fishing communities.
• Richard Judd
  Col. James C. McBride Distinguished Professor of History, Dept. of History, UMaine
  Research Interests: Maine, U.S. 19th-century, labor and environmental history
• Jack Kartez
  Professor, Community Planning and Development, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, and Associate Director, USEPA Region I Environmental Finance Center.
  Research Interests: Mitigating natural and technological hazards; conservation and regional development; land use modeling and visualization; science-society relations; public policy dispute resolution.
• Bill Kuykendall
  Senior Lecturer, New Media Program, UMaine
  
• Jessica Leahy
  Assistant Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, School of Forest Resources
  Research Interests: Social capital and trust; family forestland owners; public attitudes toward forest resources
• Robert Lilieholm
  E.L. Giddings Associate Professor of Forest Policy, School of Forest Resources, UMaine
  Research Interests: Natural resources policy and economics; alternative futures modeling; rural economic development
• Laura Lindenfeld
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication & Journalism and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, UMaine
  Research Interests: Community engagement; environmental communication; public participation, media studies, food studies
• Cynthia Loftin
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology, Assistant Leader-Wildlife, Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
  Research Interests: Wetlands, landscape, and systems ecology, GIS applications
• Jean MacRae
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering
  Research Interests: Metal and nutrient cycling in the environment, microbial processes for waste treatment and resource recovery, and biodegradation and bioavailability
• Kirk Maasch
  Professor of Earth Sciences and Quarternary and Climate Studies
  Research Interests: Paleoclimate dynamics models
  
• Shannon McCoy
  Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UMaine.
  Research Interests:Ssocial psychological study of the self; social identity; and social stigma
• Caroline Noblet
  Lecturer/Research Associate, School of Economics
  Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Regional and Community Economic Development
• Stephen Norton
  Professor of Earth Sciences, Climate Change Institute
  Research Interests: Interaction of water and geologic materials, including precipitation chemistry, soil and groundwater, and fresh surface waters
• David Owen
  Associate Professor, University of Maine School of Law
  Research Interests: Environmental law; ecosystem restoration; climate change
• Firooza Pavri
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, University of Southern Maine
  Research Interests: Environmental change, landscape analysis, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems
• Howard Patterson
  Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, UMaine
  Research Interests: Fluorescence spectroscopy
• Terry Porter
  Assistant Professor of Management, Maine Business School, UMaine
  Research Interests: Strategic processes; business and sustainability; complexity theory and sustainability; organizational and personal identity processes in management
• Darren Ranco
  Associate Professor, Anthropology and Director, Native American Research, UMaine
  Research Interests: Comparative environmental risk; environmental
  justice; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; research ethics
• Andrew Reeve
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, UMaine
  Research Interests: influence of ground-water flow and solute transport in peatland systems; simulating peat accumulation in peatland systems; applying borehole geophysics to characterize bedrock aquifer properties
• Steven Sader
  Professor, School of Forest Resources
  Research Interests: Remote sensing of forest environments
• Jasmine Saros
  Associate Professor, School of Biology & Ecology and Climate Change Institute, UMaine
  Research Interests: Paleolimnology; phytoplankton ecology
• Michael Scott
  New Media Program
• Linda Silka
  Director, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, UMaine; Professor, School of Economics
  Research Interests: Community-university research partnerships on environmental, economic development, and environmental health issues
• Kevin Simon
  Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, School of Biology & Ecology, UMaine
  Research Interests: Ecology of streams & groundwater ecosystems
• Esperanza Stancioff
  Extension Educator, Maine Cooperative Extension & Sea Grant
  Interests: Design and implementation of educational programs in Ecosystem Health
• Nathan Stormer
  Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication & Journalism, UMaine
  Research Interests: Rhetoric of science; rhetorical theory; cultural theory; feminist studies
• Mario Teisl
  Professor, School of Economics, UMaine
  Research Interests: Environmental valuation; communication and policy
• Peter Vaux
  Research Associate Professor, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research, UMaine
  Research Interests: Aquatic ecology; landscape influences on aquatic systems; web-based data access and information syntheses
• Aaron Weiskittel
  Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources, UMaine
  Research Interests: Forest biometrics and modeling
• Jeremy Wilson
  Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources
  Research Interests: Silviculture/ecosystem management
• Jim Wilson
  Professor, School of Marine Resources, UMaine
  Research Interests: Fisheries sciences; marine policy
• Mike Worboys
  Professor and Chair, Dept. of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, UMaine
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• Gayle Zydlewski
  Research Assistant Professor, School of Marine Sciences, UMaine
  Research Interests: Environmental oceanography, fisheries sciences, biological oceanography, sustainable development of ocean energy

STAFF

• John Peckenham
  Assistant Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research; Director, Maine Water Resources Research Institute
• Ruth Hallsworth
  Strategic Program Manager, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research
• Kim Raymond
  Communications & Outreach Coordinator, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental & Watershed Research

I believe that our greatest asset is the extraordinary collaborative spirit that has developed among these talented, passionate, and dedicated researchers.

David Hart
Project Leader