Ecosystem Science and Management Faculty and Research

Research interests: Isotope ratio mass spectrometry, including method development, quality control and quality assurance, and teaching.

Research interests: Spatial and temporal patterns of selection in plant populations using techniques in field ecology, molecular genetics and bioinformatics, adaptation of plant populations to local environments, and the implications of local adaptation for the restoration of native plant communities.

Research interests: Measurement and modeling of watershed-to-landscape scale processes, use of GIS in process-based spatially distributed hydrologic modeling, fluvial geomorphology, development of landscape metrics for land cover change and habitat evaluation, Spatial Analysis of Watershed and Landscape Systems Group.

Research interests: Watershed and rangeland hydrology, measurement and modeling hydrologic processes, watershed and landuse management decision tools, effects of fire on rangeland hydrologic and erosion processes, characterization of soil hydraulic properties, soil moisture measurement, ecological site characterization and monitoring.

Research interests: Rangeland plant identification, poisonous plants and toxins, and ecological applications for wildland management

Research interests: Rangeland sustainability, including ecological functioning of rangelands, economic values and decision-making, rangeland-dependent communities and families, Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable.

Research interests: Nutrition and management problems and questions concerning livestock operations, feeding and management program development with 4-H, information dissemination.

Research interests: Water flow, heat transport, and solute transport in the soil, linkages with the atmosphere, the surrounding terrain, and the deeper sub-surface (e.g. the groundwater), modeling the soil-water-plant-atmosphere system, both at the field scale and at the catchment scale.

Research interests: Nutrient cycling in natural, disturbed, and agricultural settings from the perspective of landscape and soil organic matter dynamics, interactions among landscapes, plant communities, and land use affect resiliency and degradation-recovery processes as applied to on-the-ground ecological restoration and sustainable management.

Research interests: Symbiotic associations between plants and soil microorganisms including applications in mineland reclamation, wildland ecology and intensive agriculture, interactions and biocycling of metals by soil biota, below ground parameters that impact revegetation and restoration of disturbed lands, climate change impacts on soils and soil biota at high elevations.

Research interests: Biology and ecology of main arthropod pests of Wyoming, including rangeland, horticultural, forest, urban, and crop pests, methods of integrated pest management (IPM) in Western High Plains, remote sensing and geographic information sciences (GIS) applications in insect ecology and pest management, and more.

Research interests: Rangeland grasshopper ecology and management, black grass bug ecology and management, stable isotopes to determine mosquito source habitat, development of Reduced Area Agent Treatments strategies for the control of grasshopper outbreaks.