Faculty

Faculty
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Dominique Bachelet
Associate Professor (Sr Res) 		360-870-5782
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  • Science communication
  • Art and Science
  • Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial systems
  • Century Farms Resilience
  • Prognostic Fire Modeling
  • Ecosystems Ecology
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
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  • Biological Engineering
  • Metabolic Engineering
  • Soil Nitrification Processes
Jennifer Cohen
Office Manager 		541-737-6292
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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
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 microclimate through GEDI derived canopy water storage estimates,”...

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...
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
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 Assistant     		541-737-2041
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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
      Salini Sasidharan
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      John Selker
      University Distinguished Professor       		1-541-737-6304
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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 Assistant I       		541-737-8612
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      • Distributed temperature sensing using fiber optics
      • Environmental sensing
      • Surface water hydrology
      • GIS
      Maria Zamora Re
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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.