February 2007 Mission
Center for Environmental Research, Education and
Outreach
Emmett P. Fiske
Crafting Collaborative Partnerships
and Educational Processes for Environmental
Stewardship
Environmental Science & Regional Planning
Program
Richard Gill
Understanding the Consequences of
Ecosystem Change
Center for Environmental Research, Education and
Outreach
John Harrison
Human Perturbation of Nutrient
Cycles and Ecosystem Response: Developing Tools to
Reconcile Economic Development and Environmental
Quality
School of Earth and Environmental Science
Brian N. Tissot
Integrating Ecology into Fishery
Management and Policy
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Timothy VanReken
Understanding the Sources of
Atmospheric Organic Aerosols
November 2005 Mission
Psychology
Jeffrey Joireman
Environmental Problems as Social
Dilemmas: Avoiding Temporal Myopia
Department of Teaching and Learning
Judith Morrison
Exposing Teachers to “Real
World” Science
Biological Systems Engineering
Pius Ndegwa
Addressing the Environmental
Concerns of Animal Agriculture
Crop and Soil Sciences
William L. Pan
Navigating the “Perfect Storm” in
Agriculture
Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory
Vikram Yadama
Engineering Opportunities for the
Forest Products Industry
May 2005 Mission
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Marc Beutel
Ecological Engineering: Balancing Human and Ecological
Values
Natural Recource Sciences
Keith Blatner
Forest Management in the Western
United States
Biological Sciences
Stephen Bollens
Aquatic Food Webs and
Environmental Change
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Candis S. Claiborn
Particulate Air Pollution:
Sources, Emissions, Transport, Fate, and
Effects
Biological Sciences
Cheryl B.
Schultz
Conservation
Strategies for At-Risk Species
Civil and Environmental
Engineering
David Yonge
Transport and Ultimate Fate of
Environmental Contaminants
February 2003 Mission
Soil Science
Markus Flury
Fate and Transport of Contaminants
in the Subsurface
Environmental Science and Regional
Planning
Richard Gill
Human Impact on Ecosystems
Environmental Engineering
Frank Loge
Health Risks Associated with
Engineered and Natural Treatment Systems
Environmental Policy
Mark Stephan
Community Involvement in
Environmental Decision-Making
Environmental Economics
Philip Wanschneider
Economic Evaluation of
Agricultural and Environmental Policies
Environmental and Natural Resources
Washington State University is nationally recognized for its environmental science and engineering research and for research focusing on the intersection between this science and the social sciences. The faculty highlighted here provide a sampling of both established and recently added research programs in these areas. Each of these faculty and their many collaborators are making important impacts in their respective areas.