The NRESS Ph.D. Program is very proud of the 70 UNH faculty members who advise, mentor and serve on numerous guidance and doctoral committees for 60 NRESS students. As seen on the menus for NRESS Faculty Affiliations, NRESS faculty represent a wide range of 23 research groups, departments, and schools, colleges and UNH outreach.
Prospective students are required to contact NRESS faculty members directly when seeking a potential advisor for mentoring and possible funding of applicant’s doctoral studies.
| Faculty | Email | Department/Research Group | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Heidi Asbjornsen heidi.asbjornsen@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Forest ecology |
| Catherine M. Ashcraft catherine.ashcraft@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Environmental policy and planning; International environmental governance; Negotiation and dispute resolution; Water resources management |
| Semra Aytur semra.aytur@unh.edu | Health Management and Policy | Relationships between policy, environment, and systems change to promote healthy behaviors and prevent chronic diseases |
| Kimberly J. Babbitt kbabbitt@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Wildlife ecology, amphibian ecology; ecology of temporary aquatic systems |
| Jennifer Brewer jennifer.brewer@unh.edu | Geography | Human-environment dynamics, political ecology, policy, natural resource co-management, collective action, fisheries, climate change |
| Analena Bruce analena.bruce@unh.edu | Agriculture, Nutrition & Food Systems | Alternative agriculture and food systems, regulatory policy and new science and technology in the food system, and sustainable intensification |
| Julie Bryce julie.bryce@unh.edu | Earth Sciences | Applications of trace element and isotope geochemistry to lithospheric, hydrologic, atmospheric and biogeochemical processes |
| Elizabeth Burakowski elizabeth.burakowski@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/Earth Systems Research Center | Snow, climate, climate modeling, citizen science, land-atmosphere interactions |
| David Burdick david.burdick@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment/Jackson Estuarine Laboratory | Ecology and restoration of coastal wetlands and their plants; Science and management of created and restored wetlands |
| Rosemarie Came rosemarie.came@unh.edu | Earth Sciences | Paleoclimatology, with a specific interest in the forcings that initiate climate changes, and the mechanisms by which climatic signals propagate globally |
| William Clyde will.clyde@unh.edu | Earth Sciences | Vertebrate paleontology, paleomagnetism, stratigraphy, paleoclimate |
| Russell Congalton russ.congalton@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Remote sensing and geographic information systems |
| Alexandra Contosta alix.contosta@unh.edu | Earth Systems Research Center | Land use-climate feedbacks; urban ecology, winter ecology; ecosystem ecology |
| Earth Sciences | Flow and deformation in the Earth's interior and the effect these processes have on changing sea level and ice sheet stability over a wide range of timescales. | |
| J. Matthew Davis matt.davis@unh.edu | Earth Sciences | Renewable energy and geothermal |
| Semme Dijkstra s.dijkstra@unh.edu | Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center | Ocean Mapping: seafloor characterization, small object detection, habitat mapping and, handling and processing of crowd sourced ocean mapping data |
| Kurk Dorsey kurk.dorsey@unh.edu | History | U.S. foreign relations, environmental history, Canada |
| Mark Ducey mark.ducey@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Forest inventory and biometrics, quantitative silviculture, and applied ecology |
| Jessica Ernakovich Jessica.Ernakovich@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Microbial ecology, arctic ecology, biogeochemistry, stable isotopes, and soil health |
| Lauren Ferguson lauren.ferguson@unh.edu | Department of Recreation Management and Policy | Coupled human natural systems, ecosystem services, soundscapes and protection of natural sound, human health and nature, human-dimensions of natural resource management |
| Michael Ferguson michael.ferguson@unh.edu | Department of Recreation Management and Policy | Human-dimensions of natural resource management, outdoor recreation behaviors and decision-making, social-ecological systems, parks and protected areas visitor use management, social-science |
| Charles French charlie.french@unh.edu | NH Extension | Civic agriculture, rural economic development, sustainable tourism development, and community entrepreneurship/innovation |
| Serita Frey serita.frey@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Microbial ecology, ecosystem ecology, global change biology |
| Jeffrey Garnas Jeff.Garnas@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Ecology and evolution of insects and pathogens in forest ecosystems; insect-fungal interactions; biological invasions; genetics |
| Stuart Grandy stuart.grandy@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Soil fertility and biogeochemistry |
| Danielle Grogan danielle.grogan@unh.edu | Earth Systems Research Center | Agriculture, climate change, climate change - impacts, human dimensions of climate change, hydrology, sustainability, sustainable agriculture |
| Iago Hale iago.hale@unh.edu | Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Systems | Development of plant genetic resources for sustainable food systems; agronomic and horticultural breeding, genetics, and genomics; agricultural system diversification |
| John Halstead john.halstead@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Solid waste management, local agriculture, social capital, nonmarket valuation, environmental economics |
| Lawrence Hamilton lawrence.hamilton@unh.edu | Sociology | Statistics, survey research, the Arctic |
| Erik Hobbie erik.hobbie@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/Earth Systems Research Center | Mycorrhizal fungi, isotopes, carbon and nitrogen cycling |
| Meghan Howey meghan.howey@unh.edu | Anthropology | Archaeology: anthropocene, landscape, geospatial modeling, cultural heritage and sustainability, North America |
| Jennifer Jacobs jennifer.jacobs@unh.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Surface water hydrology and land-surface water and energy dynamics |
| Joel Johnson joel.johnson@unh.edu | Earth Sciences | Marine geology, sedimentology, and structural geology/tectonics |
| Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center | Nautical cartography, maritime limits delimitation, computational cartography, data generalization and visualization | |
| Adrienne Kovach adrienne.kovach@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Molecular ecology, population biology, adaptation, conservation genetics and genomics of vertebrates |
| Jo Laird jo.laird@unh.edu | Earth Sciences | Metamorphic petrology |
| Richard Lammers richard.lammers@unh.edu | Earth Systems Research Center | Hydrological cycle and human influences |
| Joseph Licciardi joe.licciardi@unh.edu | Earth Sciences | Glacial geology, volcanology, and paleoclimatology |
| Anne Lightbody anne.lightbody@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/Civil and Environmental Engineering | Flow and transport within surface water systems, including rivers, streams, lakes, fresh-water wetlands, and salt-water marshes |
| Anthony Lyons anthony.lyons@ccom.unh.edu | Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center | Underwater acoustics and acoustical oceanography |
| Mary Martin mary.martin@unh.edu | Earth Systems Research Center | Environmental Sensors, data visualization, and information management |
| Larry Mayer Larry.Mayer@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/ CCOM/JHC | Ocean mapping |
| William McDowell bill.mcdowell@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Land use and water quality, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemical cycles |
| Michael Merenda michael.merenda@unh.edu | Management | Strategic management, entrepreneurship, international business and SME competitiveness |
| Center for Acoustics Research & Education | Patterns and trends in ocean soundscapes, animal behavior and communication, and the environmental effects of anthropogenic activities. | |
| Weiwei Mo weiwei.mo@unh.edu | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Sustainable and resilient urban infrastructure, complex systems modeling, life cycle assessment, industrial ecology |
| Rem Moll Remington.Moll@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Wildlife ecology, spatial ecology, urban ecology, community ecology, quantitative ecology |
| Gregg Moore gregg.moore@unh.edu | Biological Sciences/Jackson Estuarine Laboratory | Coastal wetland restoration ecology, conservation and land management |
| Civil and Environmental Engineering | Fate of emerging contaminants (PPCPs, PFAS) in the environment; Bioremediation of contaminated environments; Environmental microbiology of water and wastewaters; -Omics tools applied to engineered systems |
| Scott Ollinger scott.ollinger@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment/Earth Systems Research Center | Forest ecosystems, climate change, carbon and nitrogen cycling, ecosystem-climate feedbacks, remote sensing, modeling |
| Michael Palace michael.palace@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/Earth Systems Research Center | Tropical forest ecology and structure |
| Marek Petrik Marek.Petrik@unh.edu | Computer Science | Data-driven decision making and reinforcement learning with limited data sets, risk aversion, and Bayesian models of uncertainty, with applications in natural resource management, agriculture, and space physics |
| James Pringle jpringle@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/OPAL | Physical oceanography |
| Robert Robertson rob.robertson@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Human dimensions in natural resources management, sustainable tourism development |
| Shannon Rogers Shannon.Rogers@unh.edu | NH Extension | Describing and quantifying how people use and value nature |
| Rebecca J. Rowe rebecca.rowe@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Vertebrate community ecology, landscape ecology, impacts of land use and climate change, ecosystem sustainability, historical ecology |
| Thomas Safford tom.safford@unh.edu | Sociology/ International Affairs | Analyzing inter-organizational relationships and understanding the roles different public and private sector organizations play in environmental management |
| Earth Sciences/OPAL | Characterize distributions of carbon dioxide, air-sea carbon exchange, acidification and productivity in riverine-influenced coastal regions, developing methods for understanding community productivity dynamics and plume detection using satellite ocean color data | |
| Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Systems/NH Extension | Sustainable agriculture, vegetable and small fruit production, plant breeding and genetics, plant disease resistance and pathogen interactions, plant pathology and disease management | |
| Richard G. Smith richard.smith@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Agroecology, sustainable agricultural systems, weed ecology and management, functional role of biological diversity in agroecosystems, plant invasions, community ecology |
| Jeannie Sowers Jeannie.Sowers@unh.edu | Political Science/ International Affairs | Comparative environmental politics, environment and politics in the Middle East and North Africa, climate and resource politics, war and the environment |
| Michael Swack michael.swack@unh.edu | Economics/Carsey School of Public Policy | Development finance, community development, economic development and microfinance |
| Douglas Vandemark doug.vandemark@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/OPAL | Air-sea interaction and ocean remote sensing |
| Ruth Varner ruth.varner@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/Earth Systems Research Center | Long-term measurements of methane and carbon dioxide exchange in Arctic, temperate, tropical and human managed ecosystems |
| Larry Ward larry.ward@unh.edu | Earth Sciences/ CCOM/JHC | Coastal geology, sedimentation |
| Easton White easton.white@unh.edu | Biological Sciences | Applied Mathematics, Fish and Fisheries, Marine Biology, Marine Resources Conservation, Quantitative methods, Science/Technology/Engineering/Math (STEM) Education, Seafood, and Time Series Analysis |
| Fiona Wilson fiona.wilson@unh.edu | Sustainability Institute | Corporate sustainability, business models designed for social and environmental impact, social entrepreneurship |
| Wilfred Wollheim wil.wollheim@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Watershed nutrient and carbon dynamics, aquatic ecosystems, controls of water quality, watershed and ecosystem modeling |
| Adam Wymore adam.wymore@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment | Aquatic ecosystems, watershed biogeochemistry, carbon and nitrogen cycling, water quality |
| Jingfeng Xiao j.xiao@unh.edu | Earth Systems Research Center | Terrestrial carbon cycle, remote sensing, ecological modeling, disturbances, vegetation dynamics, land cover/land use change, and human-environment interactions |
| Affiliate Faculty/ Email | Department | Research Interests |
| Shadi Atallah shadi.atallah@unh.edu | UNH Natural Resources and the Environment/University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign | Bioeconomics; Ecosystem services; Environmental and resource economics; Sustainable agricultural and food systems |
| John Campbell jlcampbell@fs.fed.us | USDA Forest Service | Biogeochemical cycling, water quality, forest ecosystems |
| Kevin Dodds kdodds@fs.fed.us | USDA Forest Service | Forest entomology, forest health, insect ecology, forest disturbance |
| Richard Hallett rhallett@fs.fed.us | USDA Forest Service | Urban forest ecology and management, remote sensing, forest health, working across the rural to urban continuum |
| David Hollinger david.hollinger@unh.edu | USDA Forest Service | Forest-atmosphere interactions, global policy change |
| John G.W. Kelley john.kelley@unh.edu | Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center | Meteorology, numerical weather, Great Lakes and coastal ocean modeling, GIS, visualization |
| Dovev Levine Dovev.Levine@unh.edu | UNH Natural Resources and the Environment/Sustainability Institute | Sustainability, climate change, higher education, diversity |
| Paul Kirshen Paul.Kirshen@umb.edu | School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston | Water resources engineering and management, climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning |
| Rakesh Minocha rakesh.minocha@unh.edu | USDA Forest Service | Acid rain, stress physiology, biochemical stress indicators, forest health |
| Isabel Munck imunck@fs.fed.us | USDA Forest Service | Forest pathology, forest health, forest ecology, forest management |
| Barrett Rock (Professor Emeritus) barry.rock@unh.edu | Natural Resources and the Environment/ESRC |
