IonE 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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STAFF | PROGRAM CONTACTS | FELLOWS & RESEARCHERS | RESIDENT FELLOWS | ASSOCIATE FELLOWS

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
April Snyder e-mail Associate Administrator (612) 626-1216
Molly Buss e-mail Project Coordinator (612) 626-9553
Michelle Beaman e-mail Data & Info Systems Developer (612) 624-6555
Mary Swenson e-mail Cluster Finance Manager (612) 625-3483
Lori Young-Williams e-mail Human Resources Manager (612) 626-1872
Molly Wangen-Becker e-mail Ugrad Admin Assistant  
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 Coord (612) 626-1202
BOREAS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Kate Knuth e-mail Program Coordinator (612) 624-8359
Joey Reid e-mail Teaching Assistant (612) 624-8359

 

PROGRAM CONTACTS

ACARA
Fred Rose e-mail Director (612) 845-0297
Julian Marshall e-mail Director (612) 625-2397
Brian Bell e-mail Program Coordinator  
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
Peder Engstrom e-mail Ugrad Research Assistant  
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
Jon Luke Robertson e-mail General Office Assistant  
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  
Georgia Rubenstein e-mail Graduate Research Assistant  
Jennifer Schmitt e-mail Postdoctoral Research Fellow  
Samantha Steinbring e-mail Ugrad Comm/Admin Assistant  
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 Ed.  
Kiley Bastian e-mail Ugrad Research Assistant  
Doreen Lorentz e-mail Ugrad Research Assistant  
Katie Thompson e-mail Ugrad Research Assistant  
Alice Yonke e-mail Ugrad Research Assistant  

 

FELLOWS & RESEARCHERS

Jill Baumgartner e-mail Postdoctoral Researcher Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow
Jeff Bielicki e-mail Visiting Scholar Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Aaron Doering e-mail Project Lead Earthducation
William Eddy e-mail Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou e-mail Project Lead Mapping Water
Pat Hamilton e-mail Project Lead Science on a Sphere
Stephen Hawley e-mail Postdoctoral Researcher Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow
Robert Hecky e-mail Project Lead Global Great Lakes
Sarah Hobbie e-mail Project Lead Improving Urban Vegetation for Water Quality
Ben Janke e-mail Postdoctoral Associate Improving Urban Vegetation for Water Quality
Matt Johnston e-mail Postdoctoral Researcher Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow
Julian Marshall e-mail Project Lead Household Stove Change-Out
Andrew Maxwell-Parish e-mail Ugrad Research Assistant College of Science & Engineering
Moana McClellan e-mail Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Plant Biology
Craig Packer e-mail Project Lead Whole Village Project
Katey Pelican e-mail Project Lead Global Health & the Environment in Africa
Emily Peters e-mail Forest Ecologist Boreal Forest & Community Resilience
Josh Quinnell e-mail Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Mechanical Engineering
Peter Reich e-mail Project Lead Boreal Forest / Plant Data Synthesis
Brian Robinson e-mail Postdoctoral Researcher Global Environmental Leadership Fellow
Franziska Schrodt e-mail Postdoctoral Associate Plant Data Synthesis
Peter Snyder e-mail Project Co-Lead Islands in the Sun
Tracy Twine e-mail Project Co-Lead Islands in the Sun

 

RESIDENT FELLOWS

Bill Arnold e-mail   Civil Engineering
Arindam Banerjee e-mail   Computer Science & Engineering
John Carmody e-mail   Ctr for Sustainable Building Research
Jeannine Cavender-Bares e-mail   Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Meggan Craft e-mail   Veterinary Population Medicine
Aaron Doering e-mail   Curriculum & Instruction
Sherry Enzler e-mail   Forest Resources
James Forester e-mail   Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou e-mail   Civil Engineering
Patrick Hamilton e-mail   Environ. & Earth Sys. Sciences
George Heimpel e-mail   Entomology
Jason Hill e-mail   Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering
Marc Hillmyer e-mail   Chemistry
Sarah Hobbie e-mail   Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
I. Volkan Isler e-mail   Computer Science
Tom Johnson e-mail   Large Lakes Observatory
Nick Jordan e-mail   Agronomy & Plant Genomics
Alexandra Klass e-mail   Law School
Jennifer Kuzma e-mail   Science, Technology & Public Policy
Clarence Lehman e-mail   Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Tracy Lipke-Perry e-mail   Music, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Steven Manson e-mail   Geography
Julian Marshall e-mail   Civil Engineering
Dylan Millet e-mail   Soil, Water and Climate
Paige Novak e-mail   Civil Engineering
Ruth Okediji e-mail   Law School
Hari Osofsky e-mail   Law School
Mark Pedelty e-mail   Journalism & Mass Comm.
Katey Pelican e-mail   Veterinary Population Medicine
R. Lee Penn e-mail   Chemistry
Stephen Polasky e-mail   Applied Economics
Jennifer Powers e-mail   Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
Gurumurthy Ramachandran e-mail   Environmental Health Sciences
Peter Reich e-mail   Forest Ecology
C. Ford Runge e-mail   Applied Economics
Kim Robien e-mail   Epidemiology and Community Health
Gillian Roehrig e-mail   STEM Education Center
Martin Saar e-mail   Earth Sciences
Jonathan Schilling e-mail   Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering
Shashi Shekhar e-mail   Computer Science and Engineering
Carissa Schively Slotterback e-mail   Urban & Regional Planning
Randy Singer e-mail   Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences
Tim Smith e-mail   Bioproducts & Biosystems Eng.
Scott St. George e-mail   Geography
David Tilman e-mail   Ecology, Evolution & Behavior
George Weiblen e-mail   Plant Biology
Elizabeth Wilson e-mail   Humphrey School of Public Affairs