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Institute on the Environment |
Phone: (612) 626-9553 |
IONE STAFF
| ADMINISTRATION | |||
| Jonathan Foley | Director | (612) 626-9553 | |
| Lewis Gilbert | Managing Director / COO | (612) 625-0897 | |
| Chris Mayr | Chief Development Officer | (612) 624-2675 | |
| Molly Buss | Project Coordinator | (612) 626-9553 | |
| Michelle Beaman | Data & Info Systems Developer | (612) 624-6555 | |
| Molly Wangen-Becker | Student Administrative Assistant | ||
| Melody Zhang | Student Data Management Assistant | ||
| Mary Swenson | Cluster Finance Manager | (612) 625-3483 | |
| Lori Young-Williams | Human Resources Manager | (612) 626-1872 | |
| COMMUNICATIONS | |||
| Todd Reubold | Director of Communications | (612) 624-6140 | |
| Mary Hoff | Managing Editor | (612) 626-2670 | |
| Sarah Karnas | Creative Director | (612) 624-6566 | |
| Jillian Stein | Events & Development Coordinator | (612) 626-1202 | |
| BOREAS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | |||
| Kate Knuth | Program Coordinator | (612) 624-8359 | |
| Joey Reid | Teaching Assistant | (612) 624-8359 | |
ONGOING PROGRAMS
| ACARA | |||
| Fred Rose | Director | (612) 845-0297 | |
| Julian Marshall | Director | (612) 625-2397 | |
| DIALOGUE EARTH | |||
| Kent Cavender-Bares | Director | (612) 624-2450 | |
| GLOBAL LANDSCAPES INITIATIVE | |||
| Jonathan Foley | Director | (612) 626-9553 | |
| Paul West | Chief Collaboration Officer | ||
| Jamie Gerber | Program Coordinator | (612) 624-2639 | |
| Kate Brauman | Postdoctoral Research Scholar | (612) 626-9502 | |
| Emily Cassidy | Graduate Research Assistant | ||
| Emily Dombeck | Junior Scientist | (612) 626-3749 | |
| Mary Kemp | Graduate Research Assistant | ||
| Nathan Mueller | Research Assistant | (612) 626-4058 | |
| Christine O'Connell | Research Assistant | ||
| Deepak Ray | Postdoctoral Research Scholar | (612) 626-4029 | |
| INITIATIVE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT | |||
| Dick Hemmingsen | Managing Director | (612) 625-2263 | |
| Rod Larkins | Special Projects Director | (612) 624-6055 | |
| John Sheehan | Science Director | (612) 626-1143 | |
| Michelle Beaman | Grants Administrator | (612) 624-6555 | |
| Tracy Fallon | Project Coordinator | (612) 626-1203 | |
| NATURAL CAPITAL PROJECT | |||
| Steve Polasky | Project Lead | (612) 625-9213 | |
| Kent Kovacs | Research Associate | (612) 624-6260 | |
| Bonnie Keeler | Research Associate | ||
| Harriet Van Vleck | Research Associate | ||
| NORTHSTAR INITIATIVE | |||
| Tim Smith | Director | (612) 624-2648 | |
| Michelle Linhoff | Executive Director | (612) 626-3879 | |
| Holly Lahd | Graduate Research Assistant | ||
| Rylie Olson | Graduate Research Assistant | ||
| Rebecca Pickens | Graduate Research Assistant | ||
| Jennifer Schmitt | Post Doc | ||
| Samantha Steinbring | Ugrad Communications & Admin Asst. | ||
| Jennifer Theodore | Graduate Research Assistant | ||
| RIVER LIFE | |||
| Pat Nunnally | Coordinator | (612) 626-7014 | |
| Joanne Richardson | Digital Information Manager | (612) 626-1228 | |
| SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION | |||
| Beth Mercer-Taylor | Coordinator | (612) 624-9430 | |
| Barrett Colombo | Graduate Sustainability Education | ||
| Kiley Bastian | Undergraduate Research Assistant | ||
| Doreen Lorentz | Undergraduate Research Assistant | ||
| Katie Thompson | Undergraduate Research Assistant | ||
| Alice Yonke | Undergraduate Research Assistant | ||
DISCOVERY GRANTS
Boreal Forest & Community Resilience Project |
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| Peter Reich | Project Lead | (612) 624-4270 | |
| Emily Peters | Forest Ecologist | (612) 626-2120 | |
| Kris Johnson | Sustainability Science Research Fellow | (612) 626-2167 | |
Earthducation |
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| Aaron Doering | Project Lead | (612) 625-1073 | |
Global Great Lakes |
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| Robert Hecky | Project Lead | (218) 726-7379 | |
Global Health and the Environment in Africa |
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| Katey Pelican | Project Lead | (612) 625-8561 | |
Household Stove Change-Out |
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| Julian Marshall | Project Lead | (612) 625-2397 | |
Improving Urban Vegetation for Water Quality |
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| Sarah Hobbie | Project Lead | (612) 625-6269 | |
| Ben Janke | Postdoctoral Associate | ||
Islands in the Sun |
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| Sarah Hobbie | Project Lead | (612) 625-6269 | |
| Ben Janke | Postdoctoral Associate | ||
Mapping Water: Global Challenge, Local Solution |
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| Efi Foufoula-Georgiou | Project Lead | (612) 626-0369 | |
Plant Data Synthesis |
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| Peter Reich | Project Lead | (612) 624-4270 | |
Science on a Sphere |
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| Pat Hamilton | Project Lead | ||
Whole Village Project |
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| Craig Packer | Project Lead | (612) 625-5729 | |
Researchers
| Jeff Bielicki | Visiting Scholar |
Graduate and PostDoc Fellows
| Jill Baumgartner | Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow (GRELF) | |
| William Eddy | Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow | |
| Stephen Hawley | Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow (GRELF) | |
| Andrew Maxwell-Parish | GRELF Undergraduate Research Assistant | |
| Matt Johnston | Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow (GRELF) | |
| Moana McClellan | Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow | |
| Josh Quinnell | Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow | |
| Brian Robinson | Global Environmental Leadership Fellow (GELF) |
IonE Resident Fellows
2010 RESIDENT FELLOWS (June 2009 - May 2012)
| Jeannine Cavender-Bares | Ecology, Evolution & Behavior | (612) 624-6337 | |
| Aaron Doering | Curriculum & Instruction | (612) 625-1073 | |
| Efi Foufoula-Georgiou | Civil Engineering | (612) 626-0369 | |
| Patrick Hamilton | Environ. & Earth Sys. Sciences | (651) 221-4761 | |
| Jason Hill | Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering | (612) 624-2692 | |
| I. Volkan Isler | Computer Science | (612) 625-1067 | |
| Jennifer Kuzma | Science, Technology & Public Policy | (612) 625-6337 | |
| Clarence Lehman | Ecology, Evolution & Behavior | (612) 625-5734 | |
| Steven Manson | Geography | (612) 625-4577 | |
| Julian Marshall | Civil Engineering | (612) 625-2397 | |
| Mark Pedelty | Journalism & Mass Comm. | (612) 625-6383 | |
| Katey Pelican | Veterinary Population Medicine | (612) 625-8561 | |
| Stephen Polasky | Applied Economics | (612) 624-3663 | |
| Jennifer Powers | Ecology, Evolution & Behavior | (612) 625-5721 | |
| Peter Reich | Forest Ecology | (612) 624-4270 | |
| Carissa Schively Slotterback | Urban & Regional Planning | (612) 625-0640 | |
| Randy Singer | Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences | (612) 625-6271 | |
| Tim Smith | Bioproducts & Biosystems Eng. | (612) 624-6755 | |
| David Tilman | Ecology, Evolution & Behavior | (612) 625-5740 |
2011 RESIDENT FELLOWS (July 2010 - June 2013)
| Arindam Banerjee | Computer Science & Engineering | (612) 625-0041 | |
| Sherry Enzler | Forest Resources | (612) 625-2417 | |
| George Heimpel | Entomology | (612) 624-3480 | |
| Marc Hillmyer | Chemistry | (612) 625-7834 | |
| Sarah Hobbie | Ecology, Evolution & Behavior | (612) 624-6777 | |
| Tom Johnson | Large Lakes Observatory | (218) 726-8128 | |
| Nick Jordan | Agronomy & Plant Genomics | (612) 625-3754 | |
| Alexandra Klass | Law School | (612) 625-0155 | |
| Paige Novak | Civil Engineering | (612) 626-9846 | |
| C. Ford Runge | Applied Economics | (612) 625-9208 | |
| Jonathan Schilling | Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering | (612) 624-1761 | |
| George Weiblen | Plant Biology | (612) 624-3461 | |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Humphrey School of Public Affairs | (612) 626-4410 |
2012 RESIDENT FELLOWS (September 2011 - August 2014)
| Bill Arnold | Civil Engineering | (612) 625-8582 | |
| John Carmody | Ctr for Sustainable Building Research | (612) 624-1351 | |
| Meggan Craft | Veterinary Population Medicine | (612) 625-6242 | |
| James Forester | Fisheries, Wildlife and Cons Biology | (612) 626-6721 | |
| Tracy Lipke-Perry | Music, University of Minnesota, Duluth | ||
| Dylan Millet | Soil, Water and Climate | (612) 626-3259 | |
| Ruth Okediji | Law School | (612) 625-6475 | |
| Hari Osofsky | Law School | (612) 625-1038 | |
| R. Lee Penn | Chemistry | (612) 626-4680 | |
| Gurumurthy Ramachandran | Environmental Health Sciences | (612) 626-5428 | |
| Kim Robien | Epidemiology and Community Health | (612) 624-1818 | |
| Gillian Roehrig | STEM Education Center | (612) 625-0561 | |
| Martin Saar | Earth Sciences | (612) 625-7332 | |
| Shashi Shekhar | Computer Science and Engineering | (612) 624-8307 | |
| Scott St. George | Geography | (612) 625-6080 |