Staff Directory

Institute on the Environment 
325 Learning & Environmental Sciences
1954 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone: (612) 626-9553
Fax: (612) 626-5555 
E-mail:  ione@umn.edu
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IONE STAFF

ADMINISTRATION
Jonathan Foley e-mail Director (612) 626-9553
Lewis Gilbert e-mail Managing Director / COO (612) 625-0897
Chris Mayr e-mail Chief Development Officer (612) 624-2675
Molly Buss e-mail Project Coordinator (612) 626-9553
Michelle Beaman e-mail Data & Info Systems Developer (612) 624-6555
Molly Wangen-Becker e-mail Student Administrative Assistant  
Melody Zhang e-mail Student Data Management Assistant  
Mary Swenson e-mail Cluster Finance Manager (612) 625-3483
Lori Young-Williams e-mail Human Resources Manager (612) 626-1872
COMMUNICATIONS
Todd Reubold e-mail Director of Communications (612) 624-6140
Mary Hoff e-mail Managing Editor (612) 626-2670
Sarah Karnas e-mail Creative Director (612) 624-6566
Jillian Stein e-mail Events & Development Coordinator (612) 626-1202
BOREAS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Kate Knuth e-mail Program Coordinator (612) 624-8359
Joey Reid e-mail Teaching Assistant (612) 624-8359

ONGOING PROGRAMS

ACARA
Fred Rose e-mail Director (612) 845-0297
Julian Marshall e-mail Director (612) 625-2397
DIALOGUE EARTH
Kent Cavender-Bares e-mail Director (612) 624-2450
GLOBAL LANDSCAPES INITIATIVE
Jonathan Foley e-mail Director (612) 626-9553
Paul West e-mail Chief Collaboration Officer  
Jamie Gerber e-mail Program Coordinator (612) 624-2639
Kate Brauman e-mail Postdoctoral Research Scholar (612) 626-9502
Emily Cassidy e-mail Graduate Research Assistant  
Emily Dombeck e-mail Junior Scientist (612) 626-3749
Mary Kemp e-mail Graduate Research Assistant  
Nathan Mueller e-mail Research Assistant (612) 626-4058
Christine O'Connell e-mail Research Assistant  
Deepak Ray e-mail Postdoctoral Research Scholar (612) 626-4029
INITIATIVE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT
Dick Hemmingsen e-mail Managing Director (612) 625-2263
Rod Larkins e-mail Special Projects Director (612) 624-6055
John Sheehan e-mail Science Director (612) 626-1143
Michelle Beaman e-mail Grants Administrator (612) 624-6555
Tracy Fallon e-mail Project Coordinator (612) 626-1203
NATURAL CAPITAL PROJECT
Steve Polasky e-mail Project Lead (612) 625-9213
Kent Kovacs e-mail Research Associate (612) 624-6260
Bonnie Keeler e-mail Research Associate  
Harriet Van Vleck e-mail Research Associate  
NORTHSTAR INITIATIVE
Tim Smith e-mail Director (612) 624-2648
Michelle Linhoff e-mail Executive Director (612) 626-3879
Holly Lahd e-mail Graduate Research Assistant  
Rylie Olson e-mail Graduate Research Assistant  
Rebecca Pickens e-mail Graduate Research Assistant  
Jennifer Schmitt e-mail Post Doc  
Samantha Steinbring e-mail Ugrad Communications & Admin Asst.  
Jennifer Theodore e-mail Graduate Research Assistant  
RIVER LIFE
Pat Nunnally e-mail Coordinator (612) 626-7014
Joanne Richardson e-mail Digital Information Manager (612) 626-1228
SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Beth Mercer-Taylor e-mail Coordinator (612) 624-9430
Barrett Colombo e-mail Graduate Sustainability Education  
Kiley Bastian e-mail Undergraduate Research Assistant  
Doreen Lorentz e-mail Undergraduate Research Assistant  
Katie Thompson e-mail Undergraduate Research Assistant  
Alice Yonke e-mail Undergraduate Research Assistant  
       

DISCOVERY GRANTS

Boreal Forest & Community Resilience Project
Peter Reich e-mail Project Lead (612) 624-4270
Emily Peters e-mail Forest Ecologist (612) 626-2120
Kris Johnson e-mail Sustainability Science Research Fellow (612) 626-2167

Earthducation
Aaron Doering e-mail Project Lead (612) 625-1073

Global Great Lakes
Robert Hecky e-mail Project Lead (218) 726-7379

Global Health and the Environment in Africa
Katey Pelican e-mail Project Lead (612) 625-8561

Household Stove Change-Out
Julian Marshall e-mail Project Lead (612) 625-2397

Improving Urban Vegetation for Water Quality
Sarah Hobbie e-mail Project Lead (612) 625-6269
Ben Janke e-mail Postdoctoral Associate  

Islands in the Sun
Sarah Hobbie e-mail Project Lead (612) 625-6269
Ben Janke e-mail Postdoctoral Associate  

Mapping Water: Global Challenge, Local Solution
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou e-mail Project Lead (612) 626-0369

Plant Data Synthesis
Peter Reich e-mail Project Lead (612) 624-4270

Science on a Sphere
Pat Hamilton e-mail Project Lead  

Whole Village Project
Craig Packer e-mail Project Lead (612) 625-5729

Researchers

Jeff Bielicki e-mail Visiting Scholar

Graduate and PostDoc Fellows

Jill Baumgartner e-mail Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow (GRELF)
William Eddy e-mail Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow
Stephen Hawley e-mail Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow (GRELF)
Andrew Maxwell-Parish e-mail GRELF Undergraduate Research Assistant
Matt Johnston e-mail Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow (GRELF)
Moana McClellan e-mail Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow
Josh Quinnell e-mail Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow
Brian Robinson e-mail Global Environmental Leadership Fellow (GELF)

IonE Resident Fellows

2010 RESIDENT FELLOWS (June 2009 - May 2012)

Jeannine Cavender-Bares e-mail Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (612) 624-6337
Aaron Doering e-mail Curriculum & Instruction (612) 625-1073
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou e-mail Civil Engineering (612) 626-0369
Patrick Hamilton e-mail Environ. & Earth Sys. Sciences (651) 221-4761
Jason Hill e-mail Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering (612) 624-2692
I. Volkan Isler e-mail Computer Science (612) 625-1067
Jennifer Kuzma e-mail Science, Technology & Public Policy (612) 625-6337
Clarence Lehman e-mail Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (612) 625-5734
Steven Manson e-mail Geography (612) 625-4577
Julian Marshall e-mail Civil Engineering (612) 625-2397
Mark Pedelty e-mail Journalism & Mass Comm. (612) 625-6383
Katey Pelican e-mail Veterinary Population Medicine (612) 625-8561
Stephen Polasky e-mail Applied Economics (612) 624-3663
Jennifer Powers e-mail Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (612) 625-5721
Peter Reich e-mail Forest Ecology (612) 624-4270
Carissa Schively Slotterback e-mail Urban & Regional Planning (612) 625-0640
Randy Singer e-mail Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences (612) 625-6271
Tim Smith e-mail Bioproducts & Biosystems Eng. (612) 624-6755
David Tilman e-mail Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (612) 625-5740

 

2011 RESIDENT FELLOWS (July 2010 - June 2013)

Arindam Banerjee e-mail Computer Science & Engineering (612) 625-0041
Sherry Enzler e-mail Forest Resources (612) 625-2417
George Heimpel e-mail Entomology (612) 624-3480
Marc Hillmyer e-mail Chemistry (612) 625-7834
Sarah Hobbie e-mail Ecology, Evolution & Behavior (612) 624-6777
Tom Johnson e-mail Large Lakes Observatory (218) 726-8128
Nick Jordan e-mail Agronomy & Plant Genomics (612) 625-3754
Alexandra Klass e-mail Law School (612) 625-0155
Paige Novak e-mail Civil Engineering (612) 626-9846
C. Ford Runge e-mail Applied Economics (612) 625-9208
Jonathan Schilling e-mail Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering (612) 624-1761
George Weiblen e-mail Plant Biology (612) 624-3461
Elizabeth Wilson e-mail Humphrey School of Public Affairs (612) 626-4410

 

2012 RESIDENT FELLOWS (September 2011 - August 2014)

Bill Arnold e-mail Civil Engineering (612) 625-8582
John Carmody e-mail Ctr for Sustainable Building Research (612) 624-1351
Meggan Craft e-mail Veterinary Population Medicine (612) 625-6242
James Forester e-mail Fisheries, Wildlife and Cons Biology (612) 626-6721
Tracy Lipke-Perry e-mail Music, University of Minnesota, Duluth  
Dylan Millet e-mail Soil, Water and Climate (612) 626-3259
Ruth Okediji e-mail Law School (612) 625-6475
Hari Osofsky e-mail Law School (612) 625-1038
R. Lee Penn e-mail Chemistry (612) 626-4680
Gurumurthy Ramachandran e-mail Environmental Health Sciences (612) 626-5428
Kim Robien e-mail Epidemiology and Community Health (612) 624-1818
Gillian Roehrig e-mail STEM Education Center (612) 625-0561
Martin Saar e-mail Earth Sciences (612) 625-7332
Shashi Shekhar e-mail Computer Science and Engineering (612) 624-8307
Scott St. George e-mail Geography (612) 625-6080