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Dominique Bachelet
Research Associate 		Contact person by email
  • Science communication
  • Art and Science
  • Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial systems
  • Century Farms Resilience
  • Prognostic Fire Modeling
  • Ecosystems Ecology
Rajasree Bharathan Radhamma
Postdoctoral Scholar 		Contact person by email

John Bolte
Professor 		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;
  • Coastal processes; and
  • Influence...
Frank Chaplen
Professor 		541-737-1015
  • Biological Engineering
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • Soil Nitrification Processes
Jennifer Cohen
Administrative Assistant To 		541-737-6292
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Khrystal is standing outside Khrystal Condon
Head Academic Advisor 		541-737-4078
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Aravinth Ekamparam
Postdoctoral Scholar 		Contact person by email

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
  • Implementation of restoration practices using a social, economic and ecological systems approach...
Stephen Good
Associate Professor 		541-737-2118
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  • Ecohydrology
  • Remote sensing
  • Isotope biogeochemistry
  • Hydrologic tracers
  • Biogeography and biodiversity.

Major Research Projects: 

2021-2024: “Coupling ecosystem structure to habitat...

Margaret Graham
Faculty Research Assistant 		Contact person by email

Marja Haagsma
Postdoctoral Scholar 		Contact person by email

Hydrology
Chad Higgins
Associate Professor 		541-737-2286
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  • Agrivoltaics
  • Optimum water management in agriculture
  • Environmental Fluid Mechanics with special interest in applications to atmospheric flows and hydrology
  • Measurement and modeling of fluxes through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum...
Suraj Jena
Postdoctoral Scholar 		Contact person by email

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
Sumant Kumar
Postdoctoral Scholar 		Contact person by email

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
    Catherine Mullins
    Administrative Program Assist     		541-737-2041
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    Berit Nelsen
    Postdoctoral Scholar     		Contact person by email

    Berit's current work focuses on assessing the influence and effects of drought and heat on agricultural production in the State of Oregon.
    Salini Sasidharan
    Assistant Professor     		541-737-6710
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    • Groundwater Quantity and Quality Management

    • Groundwater Monitoring Well, Groundwater Recharge, Managed Aquifer Recharge, Drywell, ASR/ASTR, Subsurface Characterization 

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    John Selker
    Univ Distinguished Professor     		541-737-6304
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    • Hydrologic Instrumentation;
    • Vadose Zone Hydrology;
    • Groundwater Hydrology;
    • Stochastic Hydrology; and
    • Contaminant Transport.
    Gurpreet Singh
    Faculty Research Assistant     		Contact person by email

    Instrumentation and Testing manager for the OPEnS Lab

    • Electronic Equipment Design for Environmental Sensing
    • 3-D Printing
    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
    • Sustainable flood management
    • Sediment management in reservoirs
    • Control of Harmful Algal...
    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 Asst I     		541-737-8612
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    • Distributed temperature sensing using fiber optics
    • Environmental sensing
    • Surface water hydrology
    • GIS
    Luguang Wang
    Research Associate

    Wastewater treatment; machine learning; bioelectrosynthesis, biochemistry, and  biohydrogen
    Dr. Adam Ward Adam Ward
    Department Head     		Contact person by email
    • Environmental science
    • Hydrology
    • Watershed management
    • Civil engineering
    • Water quality
    Maria Zamora Re
    Assistant Professor     		541-737-8206
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    Best management practices (BMPs) and precision agriculture (e.g. use of soil moisture sensors and real-time data) for irrigation scheduling in agriculture production.