Faculty

Faculty
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Dominique Bachelet
Associate Professor (Sr Res) 		541-737-5110
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  • Dynamic Fire Modeling
  • Climate Change Impacts Modeling
  • Ecosystems Ecology
  • Science communication

CURRENT RESEARCH: Climate Science Communication

- (1) Can simulation models such as DGVMs...

John Bolte
Department Head 		541-737-6303
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Mathematical modeling and simulation coupled human/natural systems, with applications scenario analysis, agricultural systems, water supply and water use, community wildfire planning, climate adaptation, costal processes, influence network analysis and community resilience.
Frank Chaplen
Associate Professor 		541-737-1015
  • Biological Engineering
  • Metabolic Engineering

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Soil Nitrification Processes

Given that most of Earth’s terrestrial environments are being perturbed by humans, it is essential that we gain a better understanding carbon (C...

Jennifer Cohen
Office Manager 		541-737-6292
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Laureine El Khoury
Faculty Research Assistant 		541-737-4607
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- Water, Energy, and Irrigation Management.

- Improving irrigation management on large corporate farm.

- Enhancing accuracy of irrigation scheduling and maximizing water use efficiencies.
Derek Godwin
Professor 		503-510-7582
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Community engagement to solve complex water and watershed concerns, assessment of land management impacts on riparian, surface water and shallow groundwater quality, and implementation of restoration practices using a social, economic and ecological systems approach.
Stephen Good
Assistant Professor 		541-737-2118
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  • Ecohydrology
  • Modeling ecosystems structure & function
  • Isotope biogeochemistry
  • Water resource (re)distribution
  • Biogeography and biodiversity

Current Research: 

  • Global evapotranspiration partitioning:  ...
Chad Higgins
Associate Professor 		541-737-2286
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  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics with special interest in applications to atmospheric flows and hydrology
  • Measurement and modeling of fluxes through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
  • Optimum water management in agriculture
  • Spatial...
Rebecca Hochreutener
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Rachel Jones
Academic Advisor 		541-737-3759
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Gerrad Jones
Assistant Professor 		541-737-4534
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  • Environmental chemistry
  • Water quality
  • Geochemical cycling
  • Statistical and machine learning modeling
  • Geo/spatial analyses

 

CURRENT RESEARCH: 

Overall, my professional interests focus on maintaining...

Hong Liu
Professor 		541-737-6309
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  • Sustainable bioenergy production
  • Environmental biotechnology
  • Waste and wastewater treatment
  • Microbial fuel cell technology
  • Biohydrogen production

Current Research: 

  • Investigate high...
Catherine Mullins
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Ganti Murthy
Professor 		541-737-6291
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  • Cellulosic and algal biofuels and bioproducts.
  • Control of dynamic systems.
  • Systems analysis process modeling and simulation.
  • Processing of biobased feedstocks into fuels and chemicals

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John Selker
Professor 		541-737-6304
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  • Hydrologic Instrumentation
  • Vadose Zone Hydrology
  • Groundwater Hydrology
  • Stochastic Hydrology
  • Contaminant Transport

Current Research: 

Lab experiments are conducted in three facilities, including many column and...

Randy Thorp
Oper Systems-Network Analyst 		541-737-6295
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Desiree Tullos
Professor 		541-737-2038
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  • Ecohydraulics
  • River engineering and restoration
  • Systems analysis in water resources management
  • Hydrodynamic modeling

Current Research: 

  • Responses to river restoration and engineering, including dam removal,...
Chet Udell
Assistant Professor (Sr Res) 		Contact person by email
  • Wireless sensor technology and data protocols
  • Swarm sensing
  • Music Composition and Electrical Engineering
Kellie Vache
Assistant Professor (Sr Res) 		541-737-3500
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  • Watershed hydrology and modeling
  • Implications of evolving land use patterns and climate change
  • Alternative futures analyses for land use planning and sustainability
  • Geographic Information Systems and simulation of environmental processes
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Cara Walter
Senior Faculty Research Assistant I 		541-737-8612
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  • Distributed temperature sensing using fiber optics
  • Environmental sensing
  • Surface water hydrology
  • GIS