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
Email: ione@umn.edu
Find us: map & directions

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

STAFF

ADMINISTRATION
Jonathan Foley email Director 612-626-3749
Lewis Gilbert email Managing Director / COO 612-625-0897
April Snyder email Associate Administrator 612-626-1216
Molly Buss email Project Coordinator 612-626-9553
Mary Swenson email Cluster Finance Manager 612-625-3483
Lori Young-Williams email Human Resources Manager 612-626-1872
Jake Grafenstein email Undergrad Service Desk Technician  
Molly Wangen-Becker email Undergrad Administrative Assistant  
COMMUNICATIONS
Todd Reubold email Director of Communications 612-624-6140
David Doody email Associate Editor/Writer 612-626-1211
Mary Hoff email Managing Editor 612-626-2670
Sarah Karnas email Creative Director 612-624-6566
Dan Kunitz email Digital Content & IT Professional 612-625-3516
Lauren Werner-Foley email Communications Assistant  
TBD   Graphic Design Intern  

PROGRAM CONTACTS

ACARA
Fred Rose email Director 612-845-0297
Julian Marshall email Director 612-625-2397
Brian Bell email Program Coordinator  
BOREAS LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Kate Knuth email Director 612-624-8359
Joey Reid email Graduate Assistant 612-624-8359
GLOBAL LANDSCAPES INITIATIVE
Jonathan Foley email Director 612-626-9553
Paul West email Chief Collaboration Officer  
Jamie Gerber email Program Coordinator 612-624-2639
Julia Benavides email Graduate Research Assistant  
Kate Brauman email Postdoctoral Research Scholar 612-626-9502
Kimberly Carlson email Postdoctoral Research Scholar 612-624-2450
Emily Cassidy email Graduate Research Assistant 612-626-5891
Emily Dombeck email Junior Scientist 612-626-3749
Peder Engstrom email Undergrad Research Assistant  
Peter Hawthorne email Postdoctoral Research Scholar  
Matt Johnston email Postdoctoral Research Scholar  
Graham MacDonald email Postdoctoral Research Scholar  
Nathan Mueller email Research Assistant 612-626-4058
Christine O'Connell email Research Assistant  
Deepak Ray email Postdoctoral Research Scholar 612-626-4029
Shipeng Sun email Postdoctoral Research Scholar  
INITIATIVE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY & THE ENVIRONMENT
Dick Hemmingsen email Managing Director 612-625-2263
John Sheehan email Science Director 303-921-8514
NATURAL CAPITAL PROJECT
Steve Polasky email Project Lead 612-625-9213
Bonnie Keeler email Research Associate  
Harriet Van Vleck email Research Associate  
NORTHSTAR INITIATIVE
Tim Smith email Director 612-624-2648
Michelle Linhoff email Executive Director 612-626-3879
Matt Kilpo email Undergraduate Research Assistant  
Mo Li email    
Rylie Pelton email Graduate Research Assistant  
Rebecca Pickens email Graduate Research Assistant  
Jennifer Schmitt email Postdoctoral Research Fellow 612-626-3637
Jennifer Theodore email Graduate Research Assistant  
Maria Clara Veira Martin email Undergraduate Research Assistant  
RIVER LIFE
Pat Nunnally email Coordinator 612-626-7014
Joanne Richardson email Digital Information Manager 612-626-1228
SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION
Beth Mercer-Taylor email Coordinator 612-624-9430
Barrett Colombo email Graduate Sustainability Ed. 612-626-2167
Kiley Bastian email Undergrad Research Assistant  
Dominique Boczek email Undergrad Student Assistant  
Madeline Giefer email Undergrad Student Assistant  
Lauren McCarthy email Sustainability Minor Adviser 612-626-5602
Sima Sajjadiani email Graduate Assistant  

FELLOWS & RESEARCHERS

Jill Baumgartner email Postdoctoral Researcher Global Renewable Energy Leadership Fellow
Brett Bayles email Postdoctoral Research Fellow Healthy Landscapes, Healthy People
Jeff Bielicki email Visiting Scholar Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Aaron Doering email Project Lead Earthducation
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou email Project Lead Mapping Water
Pat Hamilton email Project Lead Science on a Sphere
Robert Hecky email Project Lead Global Great Lakes
Bridget Henning email Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Plant Biology
Sarah Hobbie email Project Lead Improving Urban Vegetation for Water Quality
Ben Janke email Postdoctoral Associate Improving Urban Vegetation for Water Quality
Suhyun Jung email Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Applied Economics
Julian Marshall email Project Lead Household Stove Change-Out
Moana McClellan email Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Plant Biology
Craig Packer email Project Lead Whole Village Project
Katey Pelican email Project Lead Global Health & the Environment in Africa
Emily Peters email Forest Ecologist Boreal Forest & Community Resilience
Peter Reich email Project Lead Boreal Forest / Plant Data Synthesis
Brian Robinson email Postdoctoral Researcher Global Environmental Leadership Fellow
Peter Snyder email Project Co-Lead Islands in the Sun
Amanda Stemig email Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Chemistry
Tracy Twine email Project Co-Lead Islands in the Sun

RESIDENT FELLOWS

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