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Following are University of Wyoming faculty members, listed by areas of expertise, who are willing to speak with media representatives and others about topics in their areas of study. If you would like to be included on the UW Experts List, please contact Ron Podell, Communications Specialist, at (307) 766-2353 or rpodell@uwyo.edu.

3-D Computer Environments

Emma-Jane Alexander
Shell 3-D Visualization Manager, School of Energy Resources
(307) 766-6811 or emmajane.alxander@uwyo.edu
Specialty: 3-D Visualization

Amy Banic
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
(307) 766-5485 or abanic@uwyo.edu
Specialty: 3-D Computer Environments

Accounting

Eric N. Johnson
Clara R. Toppan Professor of Accounting
(307) 766-3959 or eric.johnson@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Fraud and Forensic Investigations/Corporate Governance and Ethics

Advertising

Cindy Price-Schultz
Head, Communication and Journalism Department
(307) 766-5437 or cprice@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising

Agriculture

Cole Ehmke
Extension Specialist, UW Ag and Applied Economics
(307) 766-3782 or cehmke@uwyo.edu
Specialty: New Ventures/Local Food/Succession Planning

Steve Miller
Editor, UW Extension/Communications and Technology
(307) 766-6342 or smiller@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Agriculture

Agricultural Business Management

John Hewlett
Ranch/Farm Management Specialist, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics
(307) 766-2166 or hewlett@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Agricultural Business Management

Agricultural Economics

Mariah Ehmke
Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics
(307) 766-5373 or Mariah.Ehmke@uwyo.edu
Experimental Economics/Food Policy/Agricultural Economics

Ben Rashford
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
(307) 766-6474 or brasher@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Agricultural Economics/Environmental Economics/Natural Resource Economics

Air Quality

Robert Field
(307) 766-2180 or rfield1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Winter Ozone/Air Quality

Shane Murphy
Associate Professor, Atmospheric Science
(307) 766-6408 or smurph19@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Winter Ozone Levels/Air Quality/Black Carbons/Aerosols

American Government

McGreggor "Gregg" Cawley
Professor, Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies
(307) 766-5345 or Cawley@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Federal Land Policy/Environmental Policy/American Government

Animal Ecology

Jacob Goheen
Assistant Professor, Zoology and Physiology
(307) 766-4207 or jgoheen@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Animal Ecology

Animal Identification

Ian M. Abernethy
Lead Vertebrate Zoologist, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3035 or fisher@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Bat Biology/ Vertebrate Zoology/ Special Status Wildlife

Lusha Tronstad
Lead Invertebrate Zoologist, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3115 or tronstad@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Insect Pollinators/ Aquatic Invertebrates

Archaeology

Marcel Kornfeld
Professor, Anthropology
(307) 766-3548 or anpro1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Archaeology/Paleoindian Culture

Astronomy

Chip Kobulnicky
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
(307) 766-2982 or chipk@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Physics/Astronomy/Active Learning Classrooms

Behavioral Economics

Jason Shogren
Professor, Economics and Finance
(307) 766-5430 or jramses@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Economics/Environmental and Natural Resource Policy/Behavioral Economics

Big Game Migrations

Matt Kauffman
Director, Wyoming Migration Initiative
(307) 766-6404 or mkauffm1@uwyo.edu
Big game migrations/Predation – wolves and bears/Energy and wildlife – elk, moose, deer, pronghorn, sheep and mountain goats

Biogeography

Gary P. Beauvais
Director, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3027 or beauvais@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Rocky Mountain Wildlife/ Biogeography/ Natural History

Biological Diversity

Biosolids

Caitlin Youngquist
University of Wyoming Extension
Northwest Area Educator, Agriculture
(307) 347-3431 or cyoungqu@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Compost, Biosolids

Birds in Panama Ecosystems

Corey Tarwater
Assistant Professor of Zoology and Physiology
corey.tarwater@uwyo.edu

Campus Sustainability

Eric Krszjzaniek
Lecturer, Department of Management and Marketing
(307) 223-2913 or ekrszjza@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Sustainable Business Practices/Campus Sustainability/Public Land Consumption

Carbon Management

Kipp Coddington
Director, Carbon Management Institute
(307) 766-6731 or kcodding@uwyo.edu
Law, policy and regulation – Energy/Environment/Climate Change/Carbon Management/Carbon Capture and Storage/Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage/Carbon Dioxide Utilization

Cell Biology

David Fay
Professor, Molecular Biology
(307) 766-4961 or davidfay@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Cell Biology/Genetics/Molecular Biology

Jay Gatlin
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology
(307) 766-3498 or jgatlin@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Mitotic Spindle Assembly/Cell Biology/Quantitative Light Microscopy

Classics

Laura De Lozier
Assistant Chair, Modern and Classical Languages
Classics Section Coordinator
(307) 766-4144 or delozier@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Classics/Latin/Cinematic Reception of Greece and Rome

Clean-coal Technologies

Mark Northam
Director, School of Energy Resources
(307) 766-6858 or mnortham@uwyo.edu

Climate Change

Michael Dillon
Associate Professor, Zoology and Physiology
(307) 314-0883 or mdillon3@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Zoology/Alpine bumblebees/Climate Change/Physiology/Ecology/Insect flight biomechanics/Respiration

Jacqueline Shinker
Associate Professor, Geography
(307) 223-5437 or jshinker@uwyo.edu
Climate Change/Climate Science/Drought

Zhien Wang
Professor and Templeton Faculty Fellow, Atmospheric Science
(307) 766-5356 or zwang@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Clouds/Climate Change/LIDAR/Remote Sensing

Climate Science

Xiahong Liu
Professor, Atmospheric Science; Wyoming Excellence Chair in Climate Science
(307) 766-3255 or xliu6@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Climate Science/Aerosol and Cloud Computer Modeling and Model Development

Cold Region Hydrology

Noriaki Ohara
Assistant Professor, Civil & Architectural Engineering
(307) 766-4366 or nohara1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Cold Region Hydrology/Snowpack Evolution

Communications and Journalism

Kristen D. Landreville
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Communication and Journalism
(307) 314-9090 or klandrev@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Political Communication/Science Communication/Media

Community and Public Health Nutrition

Christine Porter
Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Health, Wyoming Excellence Chair in Community and Public Health
(307) 766-2143 or christine.porter@uwyo.edu
Community and Public Health Nutrition/Health Disparities/Food Systems, Security and Justice

Community Development

Mary Martin
Area Extension Educator, Jackson
(307)733-3087 or mmmartin@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Financial Literacy/Community Development/Facilitation

Michelle Pierce
UW Extension Community Development Educator (Northeast Area)
(307) 682-7281 or mrp10@ccgov.net
Specialty: Financial Literacy and Community Development

Compost

Caitlin Youngquist
University of Wyoming Extension
Northwest Area Educator, Agriculture
(307) 347-3431 or cyoungqu@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Compost, Biosolids

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Stefan Heinz
Professor, Mathematics
(307) 766-4203 or Heinz@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Stochastic Analysis/Turbulence Modeling/Computational Fluid Dynamics

Dimitri Mavriplis
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
(307) 766-2868 or mavripl@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Computational Fluid Dynamics (aerodynamics of commercial aircraft/business jets)

Computational Science

Alex Buerkle
Associate Professor, Botany
(307) 766-3845 or Buerkle@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Evolutionary Biology/Genetics/Computational Science/Data Science

Po Chen
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-3086 or pchen@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Geophysics/Geology/Computational Science

Computer Vision

John McInroy
Department Head/Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
(307) 766-6137 or mcinroy@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Robotics/Computer Vision

Constitutional Law

Stephen M. Feldman
Distinguished Professor of Law
(307) 766-4250 or sfeldman@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Constitutional Law

Consumer Behavior

David Sprott
Dean and Professor of Marketing
(307) 766-4194 or dsprott@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Consumer Behavior

Cybersecurity and Computer Security

Mike Borowczak
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
(307) 766-4366 and mike.borowczak@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Cybersecurity and Computer Security/Outreach – K-12 Science, Engineering and Computer Science Education

Crypto-Assets and Blockchain

Pawan Jain
Assistant Professor, Department of Finance
(307) 766-2548 or pjain@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Stock Markets/Crypto-assets and Blockchain/Financial Planning

Cryptocurrency

Steven C. Lupien
Adjunct Professor of Finance
(307) 222-3241 or slupien@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Blockchain/Cryptocurrency

Data Science

Timothy J. Robinson
Professor of Statistics, Director of WWAMI Medical Education Program
Statistics & WWAMI Medical Education Program
(307) 766-2497 or tjrobin@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Statistics, Data Science, Medical Education

Dinosaurs

Mark Clementz
Associate Professor, Geography and Geology
(307) 766-6048 or mclemen1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Dinosaurs/Prehistoric Mammals

Ecological Data and Maps

Mark D. Andersen
Information Systems and Service Coordinator, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3036 or mda@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Spatial Ecology/ Ecological Modeling/ Biological Databases/ GIS Analysis and Mapping

Melanie Arnett
Data Coordinator, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-2296 or arnett@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Rare and Endemic Plants/Biological Databases/GIS Analysis and Mapping

Joy Handley
Biologist, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-6652 or thuja@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Insect Pollinators/Rare and Endemic Plants

Srivenkatesh Vasiraju
Front End Developer, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3013 or svasiraj@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Biological Databases and Programming/Web-Based Data Delivery

Economics

Anne Alexander
Associate VP, Academic Affairs
(307) 766-4286 or aalex@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Economics

Robert Godby
Associate Professor, Department of Economics
Deputy Director, Center for Energy Regulation and Policy (CERP)
(307) 766-3843, (307)-399-3772 (cell), or rgodby@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Economics, Energy Economics, Macroeconomics Policy, State Fiscal Policy

Jason Shogren
Professor, Economics and Finance
(307) 766-5430 or jramses@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Economics/Environmental and Natural Resource Policy/Behavioral Economics

Economic Development

Roger Coupal
Community Development Specialist, Department Agricultural and Applied Economics Department
(307) 766-5539 or coupal@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Economic Development/Environmental Economics

Justin T. Piccorelli
Assistant Professor, School of Politics, Public Affairs and International Studies
(307) 766-2260 or jpiccore@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Policing and Video Technology, Public Administration and Economic Development

Elder Financial Exploitation

Virginia Vincinti
Professor Emeritus, Human Development and Family Sciences
(307) 766-4079 or vincenti@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Elder Financial Exploitation

Electrocatalysts

Katie Dongmei Li-Oakey
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
(307) 766-3592 or d1i1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Nanocatalysts, Electrocatalysts and Membranes for Gas and Liquid Separations

Endangered and Rare Species

Bonnie Heidel
Lead Botanist, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3020 or bheidel@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Rare and Endemic Plants/ Rocky Mountain Flora/ Biological Diversity/ Biogeography

Energy Economics

Charles Mason
H.A. True Chair in Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics, Department of Economics
(307) 766-5336 or bambuzlr@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Energy Economics

Enterprise Risk Management

William Wiseman (Tim)
Chief Risk Officer
(307) 766-6787 or wwiseman@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Risk Management/Strategic Risk Management/Enterprise Risk Management

Ethics

Bradley Rettler
Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies
(307) 766-6514 or brettler@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Philosophy/Ethics

Environmental Economics

Roger Coupal
Community Development Specialist, Department Agricultural and Applied Economics Department
(307) 766-5539 or coupal@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Economic Development/Environmental Economics

Jason Shogren
Professor, Economics and Finance
(307) 766-5430 or jramses@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Economics/Environmental and Natural Resource Policy

Environmental Engineering

Michael Urynowicz
Director, Center for Biogenic Natural Gas Research
Professor, Environmental Engineering
(307) 766-4398 or MUrynowi@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Environmental Remediation/Biogenic Natural Gas

Environmental Mineralology

Mengqiang “Mike” Zhu
Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
307)766-5523 or mzhu6@uwyo.edu
Specialty: phosphorous cycling in natural ecosystems, environmental mineralogy, and soil contamination

Environmental Policy

McGreggor "Gregg" Cawley
Professor, Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies
(307) 766-5345 or Cawley@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Federal Land Policy/Environmental Policy/American Government

European Politics

Stephanie Anderson
Professor, School of Politics, Public Affairs, & International Studies
(307) 766-3132 or redhead@uwyo.edu
Specialty: European Politics

Evaluation

Laura Feldman
Senior Research Scientist, Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center; Manager, Center for Justice Research
(307) 309-1914 or lfeldman@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Evaluation

Evolutionary Biology

Alex Buerkle
Associate Professor, Botany
(307) 766-3845 or Buerkle@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Evolutionary Biology/Genetics/Computational Science/Data Science

Exercise

Enette Larson-Meyer
Professor, Human Nutrition, and Director, Nutrition and Exercise Laboratory
(307) 766-4378 or enette@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Nutrition/Exercise

Exoplanets

Hannah Jang-Condell
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
(307) 766-3680 or hjangcon@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Exoplanets

Experimental Economics

Mariah Ehmke
Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics
(307) 766-5373 or Mariah.Ehmke@uwyo.edu
Experimental Economics/Food Policy/Agricultural Economics

Federal Land Policy

McGreggor "Gregg" Cawley
Professor, Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies
(307) 766-5345 or Cawley@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Federal Land Policy/Environmental Policy/American Government

Financial Literacy

Cole Ehmke
Extension Specialist, UW Ag and Applied Economics
(307) 766-3782 or cehmke@uwyo.edu
Specialty: New Ventures/Local Food/Succession Planning

Mary Martin
Area Extension Educator, Jackson
(307)733-3087 or mmmartin@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Financial Literacy/Community Development/Facilitation

Michelle Pierce
UW Extension Community Development Educator (Northeast Area)
(307) 682-7281 or mrp10@ccgov.net
Specialty: Financial Literacy and Community Development

Food Policy

Mariah Ehmke
Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics
(307) 766-5373 or Mariah.Ehmke@uwyo.edu
Experimental Economics/Food Policy/Agricultural Economics

Food Preservation

Shelley Balls
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 885-3132 or sheap@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Nutrition/Food Safety/Food Preservation

Vicki Hayman
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 746-3531 or vhayman@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Nutrition/Food Preparation/Food Safety

Denise Smith
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 334-3534 or desmith@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Nutrition/Food Preparation/Food Safety

Food Safety

Shelley Balls
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 885-3132 or sheap@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Nutrition/Food Safety/Food Preservation

Vicki Hayman
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 746-3531 or vhayman@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Nutrition/Food Preparation/Food Safety

Denise Smith
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 334-3534 or desmith@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Nutrition/Food Preparation/Food Safety

Food Systems, Security and Justice

Fraud Detection

Eric Johnson
Director, Accounting Graduate Program, Clara R. Toppan Professor of Accounting
307-766-3959 or eric.johnson@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Fraud Detection

Geology

Po Chen
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-3086 or pchen@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Geophysics/Geology/Computational Science

Brandon McElroy
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-3601 or bmcelroy@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Rivers and Deltas/Geomorphology/Sedimentology

Cliff Riebe
Assistant Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-3965 or criebe@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Geology/Geophysics/Geomorphology/Salmon Spawning

Glacier Hydrology

Neil Humphrey
Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-2728 or neil@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Glacier Hydrology/Icesheet Dynamics/Geomorphology and Landscape Evolution/Numerical simulation of the Cryosphere

Glaciology

Sarah Conrad
EPSCoR Deputy Director
(307) 766-2295 or skonrad@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Glaciology

Groundwater Hydrology

Ye Zhang
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-2981 or yzhang9@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Groundwater hydrology/Subsurface characterization and reservoir modeling/Geological carbon sequestration

Habitat Ecology

Anna Chalfoun
Assistant Professor, Zoology and Physiology
(307) 766-6966 or achalfou@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Habitat Ecology/Wildlife Ecology

Health Disparities

Healthy Food Consumption

Elizabeth Minton
Associate Professor of Marketing
(307) 766-3616 or eminton@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Marketing, Religion’s Influence on Consumption, Healthy Food Consumption

History of Wyoming and the American West

Phil Roberts
Professor of History
(307) 766-5311 or philr@uwyo.edu
Specialty: History of Wyoming and the American West/American Legal History/Wyoming Legal History/History of Oil

Hydrology

Scott Miller
Department Head and Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
(307) 766-4274 or snmiller@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Hydrology/Watersheds

David Williams
Professor, Botany
(307) 766-4387 or dgw@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Plant ecology/Hydrology/Stable Isotope Analysis

Immigration Law

Suzan Pritchett
Assistant Professor, College of Law
Director, International Human Rights Clinic
(307) 766-3556 or spritch1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Immigration Law

Intellectual Property Law

Melissa Alexander
Professor of Law
(307) 766-2289 or melissa.alexander@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Medical Ethics/Public Health Law/Intellectual Property Law

Journalism

Cindy Price-Schultz
Head, Communication and Journalism Department
(307) 766-5437 or cprice@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising

Labor Law

Michael C. Duff
Centennial Distinguished Professor of Law
(307) 766-5319 or mduff1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Labor Law/Workers’ Compensation Law/Administrative Law/Personal Injury Law

Land Reclamation

Peter D. Stahl
Director, Wyoming Reclamation and Restoration Center
Professor of Soil Ecology, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
(307) 766-2179 or uncleM@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Land Reclamation/Ecosystem Restoration and Soil Science

Leadership

Shawn McClean
Assistant Professor, Management and Marketing
(307) 766-4244 or smcclea1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Leadership/Work-Life Issues

Macroeconomics Policy

Manangement

Chase Thiel
Daniels Funds Professor of Business Ethics, Associate Professor, Management
208-866-6829 or cthiel1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Management

Marketing

Elizabeth Minton
Associate Professor of Marketing
(307) 766-3616 or eminton@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Marketing, Religion’s Influence on Consumption, Healthy Food Consumption

Marketing and Sales

Molly Burchett
Assistant Professor of Marketing
(606) 226-1083 or molly.burchett@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Marketing and Sales

Mathematics Education

Richard Kitchen
Professor of Mathematics and Wyoming Excellence in Higher Education Endowed Chair in Mathematics Education
(307) 766-6377 or rkitchen@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Achievement Gaps in Secondary Education (Mathematics Education)/Mathematics Education Curriculum and Instruction/equity, Access and Diversity in U.S. Public Schools

Meat Judging

Sierra Jepson
Cowboy Branded Meats Coordinator & Meat Judging Coach, Animal Science
(307) 766-3100 or sjepsen2@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Meat Judging

Medical Education

Medical Ethics

Melissa Alexander
Professor of Law
(307) 766-2289 or melissa.alexander@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Medical Ethics/Public Health Law/Intellectual Property Law

Membranes for Gas and Liquid Separations

Mexico

Mary Katherine Scott
Visiting Assistant Professor, Honors College
Adjunct Lecturer, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources
(307) 766-4110 or mkscott@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Tourism, Mexico

Microbiology

Mark Gomelsky
Professor, Molecular Biology
(307) 766-3522 or gomelsky@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Microbiology, Synthetic Biology

Microfluidic Processes

John Oakey
Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
(307) 766-2518 or joakey@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Microfluidic processes and applications/tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

Molecular Biology

David Fay
Professor, Molecular Biology
(307) 766-4961 or davidfay@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Cell Biology/Genetics/Molecular Biology

Museum Ethics

Marianne Eileen Wardle
Director, UW Art Museum
(307) 766-6620 or marianne.wardle@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Museums, Museum Ethics, Museum Studies

Museum Studies

Marianne Eileen Wardle
Director, UW Art Museum
(307) 766-6620 or marianne.wardle@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Museums, Museum Ethics, Museum Studies

Museums

Marianne Eileen Wardle
Director, UW Art Museum
(307) 766-6620 or marianne.wardle@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Museums, Museum Ethics, Museum Studies

Nanocatalysts

Natural Resource Economics

David Aaland
Associate Professor of Economics
(307) 766-4931 or aadland@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Natural Resource Economics

Charles “Chuck” Mason
H.A. Dave True Jr. Chair in Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics
(307) 766-5336 or bambuzlr@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Oil and Gas/Topics related to natural resource economics

Natural Resource Law

Tara Righetti
SER Assistant Professor of Law
Department of Law and School of Energy Resources
(307) 766-2087 or trighett@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Oil and Gas Law/Public Lands Law/Subsurface Property Law (Pore Space)

Nutrition

Shelley Balls
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 885-3132 or sheap@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Nutrition/Food Safety/Food Preservation

Vicki Hayman
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 746-3531 or vhayman@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Nutrition/Food Preparation/Food Safety

Enette Larson-Meyer
Professor, Human Nutrition, and Director, Nutrition and Exercise Laboratory
(307) 766-4378 or enette@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Nutrition/Exercise

Denise Smith
Nutrition and Food Safety Educator, UW Extension
(307) 334-3534 or desmith@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Nutrition/Food Preparation/Food Safety

Ocean Seafloor

Michael Cheadle
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-3206 or Cheadle@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Ocean seafloor crust

Oil and Gas

Charles “Chuck” Mason
H.A. Dave True Jr. Chair in Petroleum and Natural Gas Economics
(307) 766-5336 or bambuzlr@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Oil and Gas/Topics related to natural resource economics

Mohammad Piri
Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering/Excellence Chair in HE Petroleum
(307) 766-3954 or mpiri@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Porous Media/Oil and Gas

Paleoindian Culture

Marcel Kornfeld
Professor, Anthropology
(307) 766-3548 or anpro1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Archaeology/Paleoindian Culture

Phosphorus Cycling

Philosophy

Bradley Rettler
Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies
(307) 766-6514 or brettler@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Philosophy/Ethics

Physics

Chip Kobulnicky
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
(307) 766-2982 or chipk@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Physics/Astronomy/Active Learning Classrooms

Plant Ecology

George P. Jones
Vegetation Ecologist, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3009 or gpjones@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Wyoming Plant Communities and Vegetation/ Wetlands/ Sagebrush

Daniel Tekiela
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences
(307) 766-3113 or drtekiela@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Plant Ecology/Weeds

David Williams
Professor, Botany
(307) 766-4387 or dgw@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Plant ecology/Hydrology/Stable Isotope Analysis

Plant Identification

Greg Brown
Professor, Botany
(307) 766-4106 or Gkbrown@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Plant Identification

Joy Handley
Biologist, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-6652 or thuja@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Insect Pollinators/Rare and Endemic Plants

Policing and Video Technology

Polling

Brian Harnisch
Senior Research Scientist, Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center (WYSAC)
(307) 766-6103 or harnisch@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Survey Research/Polling

Porous Media

Mohammad Piri
Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering/Excellence Chair in HE Petroleum
(307) 766-3954 or mpiri@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Porous Media/Oil and Gas

Prehistoric Mammals

Mark Clementz
Associate Professor, Geography and Geology
(307) 766-6048 or mclemen1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Dinosaurs/Prehistoric Mammals

Programming

Patrick O’Toole
Applications Developer
Wyoming Natural Diversity Database
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
(307) 766-3018 or P.OToole@uwyoedu
Specialty: Programming/Software Development

Public Administration and Economic Development

Public Health Law

Melissa Alexander
Professor of Law
(307) 766-2289 or melissa.alexander@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Medical Ethics/Public Health Law/Intellectual Property Law

Public Lands

John Tanaka
Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Associate Director, Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station
(307) 766-5130 or jtanaka@uwyo.edu
Rangelands/Public Lands/Rangeland Sustainability

Public Land Consumption

Eric Krszjzaniek
Lecturer, Department of Management and Marketing
(307) 223-2913 or ekrszjza@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Sustainable Business Practices/Campus Sustainability/Public Land Consumption

Public Relations

Cindy Price-Schultz
Head, Communication and Journalism Department
(307) 766-5437 or cprice@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising

Rangelands

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Jeff Beck
Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science & Management
(307) 766-6683 or jlbeck@uwyo.edu
Sage grouse/Wild ungulates/Wild horses/Sagebrush community ecology/Rangeland ecology and management

Rangeland Sustainablity

Religion's Influence on Consumption

Elizabeth Minton
Associate Professor of Marketing
(307) 766-3616 or eminton@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Marketing, Religion’s Influence on Consumption, Healthy Food Consumption

Remote Sensing

Zhien Wang
Professor and Templeton Faculty Fellow, Atmospheric Science
(307) 766-5356 or zwang@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Clouds/Climate Change/LIDAR/Remote Sensing

Restoration Ecology

Kristina Hufford
Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
(307) 766-5587 or khufford@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Ecological Restoration

Risk Management

William Wiseman (Tim)
Chief Risk Officer
(307) 766-6787 or wwiseman@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Risk Management/Strategic Risk Management/Enterprise Risk Management

Robotics

Jeff Clune
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
(307) 766-5190 or jclune@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Robotics/Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

John McInroy
Department Head/Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
(307) 766-6137 or mcinroy@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Robotics/Computer Vision

Science Communication and Art-Science Integration

Bethann Garramon Merkle
Associate Academic Professional Research Scientist, Wyoming Migration Initiative and Department of Zoology and Physiology
(307) 766-6495 or bmerkle@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Science Communication and Art-Science Integration/Science Communication Skills and Capacity Building

Science Communication Skills and Capacity Building

Science Education

Ana Houseal
Associate Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
Science and Mathematics Teaching Center
(307) 766-4925 or ahouseal@uwyo.edu

Science, Engineering and Computer Science Education (K-12 Outreach)

Andrea Burrows
Associate Professor, Science Education
(307) 766-5011 and A ndrea.Burrows@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Outreach - K-12 Science, Engineering, and Computer Science Education/K-20 STEM Education and Computer Science Education

Science Teacher Professional Development

Martha Inouye
Research Scientist, Asst.
Science and Mathematics Teaching Center
(307) 766-4925 or minouye@uwyo.edu

Secondary English Education

Todd Reynolds
Assistant Professor, Secondary English Education, Program Coordinator, Post-Baccalaureate Graduate Certificate Program
(303) 710-1448 or treynol6@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Secondary English Education

Snowpack Evolution

Noriaki Ohara
Assistant Professor, Civil & Architectural Engineering
(307) 766-4366 or nohara1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Cold Region Hydrology/Snowpack Evolution

Social Media and Its Impact on Mental Health

Joe Russo
Adjunct Professor, School of Teacher Education, College of Education
(307) 766-3682 or jrusso1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Social Media and its Impact on Mental Health

Soil Contamination

Stable Isotopes

Craig Cook
Stable Isotope Facility Director
Ecosystem Science and Management
(307) 766-6349 or ccook21@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Stable Isotopes

David Williams
Professor, Botany
(307) 766-4387 or dgw@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Plant ecology/Hydrology/Stable Isotope Analysis

State Fiscal Policy

Statistics

STEM Education and Computer Science Education (K-20)

Strategic Risk Management

William Wiseman (Tim)
Chief Risk Officer
(307) 766-6787 or wwiseman@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Risk Management/Strategic Risk Management/Enterprise Risk Management

Substance Abuse Prevention

Rodney Wambeam
Senior Research Scientist, Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center
(307) 760-8728 or Rodney@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Substance Abuse Prevention

Survey Research

Brian Harnisch
Senior Research Scientist, Wyoming Survey and Analysis Center (WYSAC)
(307) 766-6103 or harnisch@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Survey Research/Polling

Sustainable Business Practices

Eric Krszjzaniek
Lecturer, Department of Management and Marketing
(307) 223-2913 or ekrszjza@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Sustainable Business Practices/Campus Sustainability/Public Land Consumption

Synthetic Biology

Mark Gomelsky
Professor, Molecular Biology
(307) 766-3522 or gomelsky@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Microbiology, Synthetic Biology

Theater

Kevin Inouye
Assistant Professor of Acting, Movement and Stage Combat
University of Wyoming Theatre & Dance
307-766-2433 or kinouye@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Theatrical Firearms Instructor, Stage Combat Instructor, Acting/Stunts for Film/TV

Tourism

Mary Katherine Scott
Visiting Assistant Professor, Honors College
Adjunct Lecturer, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources
(307) 766-4110 or mkscott@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Tourism, Mexico

Urban Forestry

Donna Hoffman
Assistant Extension Educator for Horticulture
University of Wyoming Extension of Natrona County
Agricultural Resource & Learning Center
(307) 235-9400, ext. 31 or dhoffman@natronacounty-wy.gov
Specialty: Urban Forestry/Volunteer Engagement/Xeriscape

Volcanoes

Ken Sims
Professor, Geology and Geophysics
(307) 766-3386 or ksims7@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Volcanoes

Volunteer Engagement

Sarah Torbert
State 4-H Development Specialist, UW Extension
(307) 766-5170 or storbert@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Youth Development/Volunteer Engagement

Water Resource Economics

Kristi Hansen
Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics
(307) 766-3598 or kristi.hansen@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Water Resource Economics

Watersheds

Scott Miller
Department Head and Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
(307) 766-4274 or snmiller@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Hydrology/Watersheds

Fabian Nippgen
Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
(307) 766-5012 or fnippgen@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Watersheds

Ginger Paige
Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
(307) 766-2200 or gpaige@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Watersheds

Water Treatment

Jonathan Brant
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering
Director, Center of Excellence in Produced Water Management
(307) 766-5446 or jbrant1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Water Treatment

Weather Modification

Terry Deshler
Professor, Atmospheric Science (retired)
Deshler@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Atmospheric aerosol/Stratospheric ozone/Cloud physics/ Weather modification

Bart Geerts
Professor, Atmospheric Science
(307) 766-2261 or geerts@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Thunderstorms/Radar/Precipitation/Weather Modification

Weeds

Daniel Tekiela
Assistant Professor, Plant Sciences
(307) 766-3113 or drtekiela@uwyo.edu
Specialties: Plant Ecology/Weeds

Wildlife Ecology

Anna Chalfoun
Assistant Professor, Zoology and Physiology
(307) 766-6966 or achalfou@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Habitat Ecology/Wildlife Ecology

Jeff Beck
Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science & Management
(307) 766-6683 or jlbeck@uwyo.edu
Sage grouse/Wild ungulates/Wild horses/Sagebrush community ecology/Rangeland ecology and management

Zachary Wallace
Biometrician, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, Office of Research and Economic Development
(307) 766-3042 or zwallac2@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Raptor Ecology/ Ecological Modeling/ Species Distribution Modeling/ Aerial Wildlife Survey

Wildlife Habitat Ecology

Jeff Beck
Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science & Management
(307) 766-6683 or jlbeck@uwyo.edu
Sage grouse/Wild ungulates/Wild horses/Sagebrush community ecology/Rangeland ecology and management

Wind Resources

Jonathan Naughton
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
(307) 766-6284 and Naughton@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Wind turbines/Wind farms/Wind resource/Wind turbine aerodynamics/Integration of wind

Wind Turbines

Jonathan Naughton
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
(307) 766-6284 and Naughton@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Wind turbines/Wind farms/Wind resource/Wind turbine aerodynamics/Integration of wind

Winter Ozone

Robert Field
(307) 766-2180 or rfield1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Winter Ozone/Air Quality

Winter Ozone Levels

Shane Murphy
Associate Professor, Atmospheric Science
(307) 766-6408 or smurph19@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Winter Ozone Levels/Air Quality/Black Carbons/Aerosols

Work-Life Issues

Shawn McClean
Assistant Professor, Management and Marketing
(307) 766-4244 or smcclea1@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Leadership/Work-Life Issues

Xeriscape

Youth Development

Sarah Torbert
State 4-H Development Specialist, UW Extension
(307) 766-5170 or storbert@uwyo.edu
Specialty: Youth Development/Volunteer Engagement