Faculty

Our world-class faculty span a broad range of academic units. Click on the links below to find out more about our academic community.

Faculty members with research areas listed below may advise EES graduate students. Prospective graduate students should contact these faculty members to inquire about available lab openings and funding opportunities.


Climate Change Institute

  • Daniel Dixon, Research Assistant Professor
    • global climatology, environmental sustainability
  • Kiley Daley, Research Assistant Professor
    • Impacts of climate change on human health

Native American Programs

  • Tony Sutton, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and Food Systems
    • Wabanaki foodways, Indigenous research methods, environmental justice, environmental communication

Department of Anthropology

  • Christine Beitl, Associate Professor of Anthropology
    • coastal and marine resources, environmental governance, human ecology
  • Samuel Hanes, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

    • cultural and historical geography, environmental anthropology, agriculture, fisheries
  • Cindy Isenhour, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Climate Change
    • environment policy, climate, commodity chains, waste
  • Darren Ranco, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American Research
    • cultural anthropology, indigenous communities, and environmental justice, climate change adaptation
  • Natalia Magnani, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
    • materiality and production, cultural, Indigenous, and environmental movements, infrastructure and climate change. Personal webpage

Department of Chemistry

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Shaleen Jain, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cooperating Professor, Climate Change Institute & School of Policy & International Affairs
    • hydroclimatology, water resources sustainability
  • Jean D. MacRae, Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering
    • nutrient and metal cycling in natural and engineered systems, including aquaculture waste, wastewater, and solid waste, energy extraction from waste
  • Reed Miller, Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Joint Affiliation with the Advanced Structures and Composites Center
    º industrial ecology, life cycle assessment, environmentally-extended input-output analysis
  •  Lauren Ross, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
    Coastal engineering, Estuarine and fjord hydrodynamics, Tides and waves, Analytical and numerical modeling of geophysical flows, Marine renewable energy

Department of Communication and Journalism

  • Bridie McGreavy, Associate Professor of Environmental Communication
    • environmental communication, communication studies, climate change communication and, resilience, sustainability science
  • Laura Rickard, Associate Professor of Risk Communication
    • risk communication, strategic communication, environmental communication, sustainability, policy

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

  • David Hiebeler, Associate Professor of Mathematics
    • spatial population ecological and epidemiological dynamics

Department of Spatial Information Science Engineering

Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology

  • Erik J. Blomberg, Professor
    • wildlife population ecology
  • Stephen M. Coghlan, Jr., Associate Professor of Freshwater Fisheries Ecology
    • conservation and management of native fishes and their supporting ecosystems
  • Lindsay Seward, Instructor
  • Sabrina Morano, Assistant Research Professor
    •  large mammal ecology and habitat relationships
  • Amber Roth, Associate Professor of Forest Wildlife Management
    •  forest wildlife management and conservation, migratory bird ecology
  • Joseph D. Zydlewski, Professor of Fisheries Science and Assistant Leader-Fisheries, Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
    • fish ecology, behavior, and physiology
  • Sydne Record, Associate Professor of Landscape Conservation
    • Population, community, and macro- ecology
  • Christina Murphy, Assistant Professor of Fisheries Science and Assistant Unit Leader-Fisheries, Maine Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
    • aquatic ecology, fish and food web dynamics, hydrological alterations

School of Biology and Ecology

  • Andrei Alyokhin, Professor of Applied Entomology
    • applied insect ecology, behavior and management
  • Seanna Annis, Professor of Mycology, Associate Extension Professor
    • applied and basic research of fungi, particularly plant-pathogenic fungi
  • Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall, Cooperating Assistant Research Professor
    º  Quaternary paleoecology, abrupt climate change, plant ecology, paleohydrology, chironomid ecology, inference models
  • Allison Gardner, Associate Professor of Arthropod Vector Biology
    • medical entomology, vector-borne disease ecology, epidemiology
  • Jacquelyn Gill,  Professor of Paleoecology and Plant Ecology
    • paleoecology, community ecology, biogeography, extinction, biotic interactions
  • Hamish Greig, Professor of Stream Ecology
    • stream ecology
  • David Hart, Professor of Biological Sciences & Director, Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions
    • stakeholder-engaged, solutions-driven, sustainability science; boundary spanning
  • Michael T. Kinnison, Professor of Evolutionary Applications
    • Contemporary evolution and eco-evolutionary dynamics, aquatic ecology and of fish biology, environmental DNA
  • Amanda Klemmer, Associate Professor of Food Web Ecology
    • cross-ecosystem food-webs, landscape ecology, aquatic ecosystems
  • Danielle Levesque, Assistant Professor of Mammalogy and Mammalian Health
    • mammalogy, ecophysiology, mammalian health
  • Joyce E. Longcore, Associate Research Professor
    • diversity, systematics and phytogeny of the Chytridiomycota
  • Brian McGill,  Professor of Biological Science
    • large scale ecology and global change
  • Katharine Ruskin, Lecturer and Undergraduate Coordinator, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
    • conservation, breeding biology, avian ecology and biogeography
  • Jasmine Saros, Professor of Paleoecology & Biological Sciences
    • paleoecology and aquatic ecology
  • Ek Han Tan, Assistant Professor of Plant Genetics
    • plant genetics and genomics, genome elimination, potato breeding, chromothripsis
  • Matthew Chatfield, Assistant Professor of Evolution & Eco-Health
    • Ecology, evolution and conservation of reptiles and amphibians
  • Yongjiang John Zhang, Associate Professor of Plant Physiology
    • Plant response to climate change, environmental stress, crop physiology, wild blueberries
  • Angela Mech, Assistant Professor of Forest Entomology
    • Understanding, monitoring, and mitigating the impacts of tree and forest pests
  • Erin Grey, Assistant Professor of Aquatic Genetics
    • Ecology, genetics, aquatic invertebrates, and biodiversity

School of Earth and Climate Sciences

  • Amanda Olsen, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
  • Andy Reeve, Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
    • groundwater geochemistry, hydrology, wetlands, modeling
  • Sean Smith, Associate Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences
    • Watershed and Fluvial Geomorphology, Land-Sea Connections, Watershed Sustainability Solutions

School of Economics

  • Kathleen Bell, Professor
    • environmental and resource economics, environmental policy, land-use change, climate change, community resilience, social-ecological systems
  • Travis Blackmer, Lecturer
  • Keith Evans, Associate Professor
    º  Coastal and marine resources, marine policy, environmental and resource economics
  • Sharon Klein, Associate Professor
    • Renewable Energy, Sustainable Energy Economics & Policy, Environmental Impacts of Energy, Thermal Energy Storage, Energy Poverty, Multi-Criteria Decision Making
  • Caroline Noblet, Associate Professor
  • Jonathan Rubin, Professor
    • energy and environmental policy, light-duty transportation, greenhouse gas emissions and alternative fuels
  • Sharon Tisher, Lecturer, School of Economics and Honors College
    • Climate change law and policy, Constitutional takings law,  pesticides and other toxic chemicals regulation
  • Timothy Waring, Associate Professor of Socio-Ecological Modelling
    • sustainability, cooperation, culture, evolution
  • Jonathan Malacarne, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
    • Agricultural economics, development economics, risk, and rural resilience

School of Food and Agriculture

  • Eric Gallandt, Professor of Weed Ecology and Management
    • sustainable agriculture, weed ecology and management
  • Jianjun (Jay) Hao, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology
    • Plant disease epidemiology, microbiomes associated with soil health and disease management, screen potato germplasm for tolerance and resistance to seed borne and soilborne diseases, signaling molecules in Phytophthora erythroseptic, Mediating pathogen biology, biological control, fungicide resistance
  • Sue Ishaq, Associate Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
    • Host-associated microbiology, gut microbiology, animal microbiomes
  • Pauline Kamath, Associate Professor of Animal Health
    • One Health, disease ecology and evolution, wildlife conservation, molecular ecology, genomics
  • Bryan Peterson, Associate Professor of Environmental Horticulture
    • ornamental horticulture
  • Rachel E. Schattman, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Agriculture
    • Climate change, sustainable agriculture, agroecology, behavior change, crop production, transdisciplinary research, participatory action research.
  • Qing Jin, Assistant Professor of Food Science
    • Food and bio-processing, techno-economic analysis, sustainable food packaging
  • Mario Andrade, Assistant Professor of Potato Breeding and Genetics
    • Plant breeding, Potato breeding, quantitative genetics.

School of Forest Resources

  • John Daigle,  Professor of Forest Recreation Management
    • forest recreation management
  • Adam Daigneault, Associate Professor of Forest, Conservation, and Recreation Policy
    • Climate change impacts and implications; catchment-level sedimentation mitigation; sustainable energy pathways
  • Sandra De Urioste-Stone, Professor Nature-based Tourism
    • nature-based tourism
  • Shawn Fraver, Associate Professor of Forest Ecosystems
    • forest ecosystems
  • Laura Kenefic, Faculty Associate; Research Forester and Team Leader, U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station,
    • forest ecology and management
  • Jessica Leahy, Professor of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
    • human dimensions of natural resources
  • William Livingston, Professor, School of Forest Resources
    º forest pathology
  • Amber Roth, Associate Professor of Forest Wildlife Management
    º forest wildlife management and conservation, migratory bird ecology
  • Parinaz Rahimzadeh-Bajgiran, Associate Professor of Remote Sensing of Natural Resources
    º  Geo-spatial analysis, remote sensing, forest health and interdisciplinary applications

Coordinated Operating Research Entities

  • Emma Perry, Electron Microscopy Laboratory Manager
    • electron microscopy, taxonomy and biology of tardigrades aka waterbears

School of Marine Sciences

  • Damian Brady, Professor of Marine Sciences, Assistant Director of Research, Maine Sea Grant
    • biogeochemistry, environmental oceanography
  • Kristina Cammen, Associate Professor of Marine Science
    • molecular ecology, ecological genomics, ocean health
  • Yong Chen, Professor of Fisheries Science
    • fisheries science, fisheries ecology, stock assessment, and fisheries management
  • William Ellis, Associate Director of the School of Marine Sciences and Associate Professor of Oceanography
  • Teresa Johnson,  Professor of Marine Policy
    • human ecology, marine policy, fisheries and aquaculture
  • Heather Leslie,  Associate Professor, Darling Marine Center
    • ecology, policy, and management of coastal marine systems
  • Joshua Stoll, Associate Professor of Marine Policy
    • ocean governance, fisheries and aquaculture policy, seafood systems
  • Gayle Zydlewski, Professor of Marine Sciences and Director, Maine Sea Grant College Program
    • oceanography, fish ecology
  • Gail Schwieterman, Assistant Professor of Marine Sciences
    • marine physiology, fish cardiorespiratory systems, and responses to environmental stress