Tag sustainability

Adrian Treves

Professor of environmental studies

Coexistence 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

Steph Tai

Professor, law school

I study the interaction between scientific research and environmental law and food safety regulation.

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

Jean-Michel Ané

Professor, Bacteriology and Agronomy

Expert on plant-microbe symbioses, nitrogen-fixation, mycorrhizae and legume genetics

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.

Anna Gade

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Expert on Islam, religion and society, Southeast Asia, environmental ethics, and global environmental studies from cultural perspectives

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

Holly Gibbs

Professor, the Department of Geography and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Holly Gibbs is an expert on tropical deforestation, with a focus on the potential for corporate promises to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

Alfred Hartemink

Professor of Soil Science

Soil scientist

Thomas Jeffries

USDA professor, microbiology

Expert on bioconversion, biorefining, advanced cellulosic biofuels, unconventional yeasts, yeast physiology, metabolic engineering and bioprocess engineering

Michael Cardiff

Associate Professor, Geoscience and Geological Engineering (CEE)

Expert in monitoring and modeling of environmental issues related to ground water, water supply, and water quality

Ann Terlaak

Associate professor, School of Business; director, Certificate in Business, Environment & Social Responsibility

Expert on sustainable business, corporate social responsibility and organizational learning

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.

Julie Dawson

Associate professor, horticulture

Expert on organic agriculture, participatory research, plant breeding, agrobiodiversity conservation

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.

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