Tag sustainability
Adrian Treves
Professor of environmental studies
Expert on coexistence and conflicts between people and wildlife worldwide, especially wolves, bears, and big cats. Constitutional and public trust protections for the environment.
Timothy Van Deelen
Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Expert in conservation and management of large mammals and mammal communities in the Great Lakes region (e.g., deer, wolves and black bears).
Tracey Holloway
Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
Expert on air pollution, energy and environment, air quality and public health, and science careers
Stanley Temple
Professor emeritus, forest and wildlife ecology, environmental studies
Expert on birds, wildlife, endangered species, wildlife conservation, biodiversity, conservation biology, ecology and Aldo Leopold
Tom Eggert
Emeritus, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies; Founder, Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council
Expert on sustainability, corporate responsibility and socially responsible investing. Also UN Sustainable Development goals, sustainability reporting and microfinance.
Calvin DeWitt
Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Expert on land stewardship, purchased development rights, local government environmental policy, wetland ecology, environmental stewardship, faith-based stewardship
Douglas Reindl
Professor, engineering professional development, mechanical engineering; director, Industrial Refrigeration Consortium
Expert in industrial refrigeration systems and building heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
James LaGro Jr.
Professor, urban and regional planning, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Expert on urban planning and design, land use policy, and sustainably built environments
Gregory DeCroix
Associate professor, business, operations and information management
Expert on supply chain management, sustainability/environmental issues in business
David Hart
Senior Scientst, UW Sea Grant Institute
Expert on geospatial technologies, coastal management, and urban and regional planning
Volker Radeloff
Associate professor, forest and wildlife ecology
Expert on conservation biology, threats to biodiversity by land use and especially housing development, wildland fire
Giri Venkataramanan
Professor, electrical and computer engineering
Expert on electric power applications in homes, business, industry and transportation with specific interest in improving sustainable energy use
Daniel Noguera
Professor, civil and environmental engineering
Expert in biological wastewater treatment, activated sludge, nutrient removal, energy recovery from waste, next generation biofuels.
Mark Finster
Associate professor, business, engineering
Expert on sustainable organizational strategy, design and multifunctional multi-objective improvement of complex systems, as well as services and health care
Amanda Gevens
Associate Prof.; Extension Vegetable Pathologist; Plant Path. Assoc. Chair; plant pathology
Expert on potato and vegetable disease identification, characterization, and management; hop diseases; production and post-harvest/storage diseases; oomycete pathogens; biopesticides
Richard Shaten
Emeritus - Nelson Institute
Expert on the economic and environmental impact of energy systems
Troy Runge
Associate professor, biological systems engineering
Expert on biomass composition impact on thermochemical processing systems
Cathy Middlecamp
Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
I have expertise in environmental chemistry and in the teaching & learning of real-world science issues, including those connecting to sustainability and radioactive substances.
Hiroshi Maeda
Assistant professor, botany
Plant biochemistry and physiology, amino acid biosynthesis in plants
Ankur Desai
Professor, atmospheric and oceanic sciences; faculty affiliate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Expert on climate change, carbon cycling in forest, lake and wetland ecosystems, global land-atmosphere interaction and micrometeorology
Thomas Jeffries
USDA professor, microbiology
Expert on bioconversion, biorefining, advanced cellulosic biofuels, unconventional yeasts, yeast physiology, metabolic engineering and bioprocess engineering
Angela Pakes, P.E., LEED AP
Assistant Director for New Technology Directions at the Grainger Institute for Engineering
Expert on Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Cost Analysis, LEED green building design, construction, beneficial use of recycled materials, environmental remediation and brownfields.
Marty Gustafson
Program director, Engineering Professional Development
Develop and manage new online distance degree programs for the College of Engineering
Ann Terlaak
Associate professor, School of Business; director, Certificate in Business, Environment & Social Responsibility
Expert on sustainable business, corporate social responsibility and organizational learning
Eric Sundquist
Managing director, State Smart Transportation Initiative (Center on Wisconsin Strategy)
Expert on transportation policy focused on sustainability, contemporary solutions, and social equity.
James Hurley
Professor, civil and environmental engineering; director, UW Sea Grant; director, UW Water Resources Institute
Expert on mercury contamination in the environment, particularly in the Great Lakes, northern Wisconsin lakes and the Everglades.
Lori DiPrete Brown
Associate director, Global Health Institute, Director, 4W Initiative, Distinguised Faculty Associate, SOHE
Global health expert focusing on women, children and highly vulnerable populations. Works to improve quality of health and social services from a human rights perspective.
Satya Rhodes-Conway
Senior associate, COWS; Managing director, Mayors Innovation Project
I work with local government to implement innovative policy that promotes the high road of sustainability, equity and democracy.
Lydia Zepeda
Professor emerita, consumer science
Expert on sustainable consumption, organic and local foods, CSA, farmers' markets, mobile markets,time use, food labels, family farm labor,labor policy
Ive Hermans
Professor, chemistry; chemical and biological engineering
Expert on sustainable chemistry and catalysis engineering
Jennifer Gaddis
Assistant Professor, Civil Society & Community Studies
Expert on school lunch workers, history of the U.S. National School Lunch Program, farm-to-school programs, and food work as a form of care work.
Joshua Calhoun
Associate professor, English; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Culture, History, and Environment
Expert on Shakespeare, the history of papermaking, and the environmental history of books
Daniel Wright
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
I am a hydrologist and water resources engineer, specializing in flood hazards and mitigation strategies in both urban areas and larger watersheds
Sumudu Atapattu
Director, Research Centers, UW Law School
Expert on link between environmental issues and human rights, climate change, international environmental law, sustainable development, environmental justice
Carolyn Kallenborn
Associate Professor Design Studies
Artist specializing in installations, textiles, film and socially conscious design. Works in collaboration with artisans from Oaxaca, Mexico.
Thea Whitman
Assistant Professor, Soil Science
Expert in soil microbial ecology, soil carbon cycling, and climate change
Alex Wiedenhoeft
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Botany
Specialist in the anatomy and function of wood, forensic wood science, and forensic botany
Lisa Rand
A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities
Expert on the past and present of space technology and space junk, history of gender and technology, planetary analogs
Adena Rissman
Associate professor of the human dimensions of ecosystem management, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Expert on the social and policy aspects of natural resources management and conservation, including land protection, forestry, wildlife habitat, water quality