Faculty

Name Areas of Interest Email
Adam Birr
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops, Land Use and Land Cover Change, Nutrient Management

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Kenneth Blumenfeld
Senior Climatologist, Minnesota State Climate Office, Adjunct Assistant Professor
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Anna Cates
Assistant Extension Professor

Soil Health, Soil Carbon, Soil Organic Matter Pools, Soil Aggregation, Cropping Systems

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Brent Dalzell
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Ecosystem Modeling

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Mindy Erickson
Adjunct Professor

Hydrogeology, Groundwater, Contaminants and Pollution 

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Fabian Fernandez
Professor, Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops, Nutrient Management

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Gary Feyereisen
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops

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Joshua Gamble
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Agroecology, Cropping Systems, Agronomy

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Timothy Griffis
Professor

Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions, Biogeochemistry, Biometeorology

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Jessica Gutknecht
Associate Professor

Soil Environmental Microbiology, Sustainable Ecosystems 

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Satoshi Ishii
Associate Professor

Aquatic Microbiology, Biogeochemistry, Biotechnology, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Environmental Microbiology, Soil Environmental Microbiology

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Nic Jelinski
Associate Professor

Pedology, Soil Management 

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Daniel Kaiser
Associate Professor

Crops, Nutrient Management

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Diana Karwan
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Forest Hydrology, Catchment Science, Critical Zone Science, Watershed Management

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Randy Kolka
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Land Management, Natural Ecosystems

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Yuxin Miao
Associate Professor, Associate Director of the Precision Agriculture Center

Precision Agriculture, Remote Sensing, Plant Nutrition, Sustainable Agriculture, Agroecology

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Dylan Millet
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Co-Director of Graduate Studies

Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions, Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate Change

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David Mulla
Professor, Larson Endowed Chair in Soil and Water Resources, Executive Committee Member at the National Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Climate Land Interactions for Mitigation, Adaptation, Tradeoffs and Economy (AI-CLIMATE)

Precision Agriculture, Precision Conservation, Water Quality, Watershed Management and Modeling

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Peter Neff
Assistant Professor

Ice Core Paleoclimatology, Glaciology, Climate Science, West Antarctic Climate, Science Communication

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Paulo Pagliari
Associate Professor

Crops, Nutrient Management

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Lindsay Pease
Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist in Nutrient and Water Management

Contaminant Hydrology, Water Quality, Nutrient Management

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Pamela Rice
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Environmental Chemistry

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Heidi Roop
Assistant Professor, Extension Specialist, Director, Climate Adaptation Partnership

Climate Change, Climate Impacts, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change Communication, Science-society Interactions

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Carl Rosen
Professor

Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Crops, Environmental Chemistry, Nutrient Management

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Michael Schmitt
Professor, Associate Dean of CFANS and Extension

Extension, Manure Application, Nutrient Management 

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Vasudha Sharma
Assistant Extension Professor

Irrigation Water Management, Water Quality

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Kurt Spokas
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Research Leader, USDA-ARS

Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Soil Physics

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Jeff Strock
Professor

Biogeochemistry, Contaminant Hydrology and Water Quality, Soil Physics

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Brandy Toner
Professor

Biogeochemistry, Environmental Chemistry

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Rodney Venterea
Adjunct Professor

Soil Biogeochemistry

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Brent Williams
Department Head, Professor

Air Quality, Climate Change, Atmosphere-Biosphere Exchange, Wildfires, Indoor Air Quality, Aerosol Science & Technology, Environmental Health, Public Health, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and Air Toxins

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Melissa Wilson
Associate Professor

Manure Nutrient Management & Water Quality

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Kari Wolf
Teaching Assistant Professor

Biogeochemical processes in the soil, Hydrology, Undergraduate pedagogy

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Ce Yang
Assistant Professor

Precision Agriculture, Remote Sensing, Machine Vision, Spectroscopy, Hyperspectral Imaging, Machine Learning, Big Data in Agriculture

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Kyungsoo Yoo
Professor

Biogeochemistry, Natural Ecosystems, Pedology

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