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.

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: Balanceing 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

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