Faculty
Faculty affiliated with the Center represent many units throughout the university, and bring vital interdisciplinary expertise to solving water problems.
- Anne C. Steinemann
- Water Center Director
- Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Professor
- School of Public Affairs
- Water resources and environmental management; drought prediction, preparedness, and mitigation; climate variability and climate change adaptation; forecasts for water and energy planning; pollutant exposures and health effects; emerging contaminants in water supplies; environmental policy, regulation, and impact assessment; public sector economics and environmental valuation; sustainability
- Jim Agee
- Professor
- Forest Resources
- Forest and fire ecology; fire effects and fire history particularly in forests of the western United States
- Marina Alberti
- Associate Professor
- Department of Urban Design and Planning
- Land use change effects on the biophysical structure and ecosystem dynamics in the Puget Sound region; measures of urban environmental performance that can be used to monitor progress and inform policy-making
- Bob Bilby
- Affiliate Professor
- Weyerhaeuser
- Nutrient and organic matter dynamics in stream ecosystems; production, trophic relationships, population dynamics, and community interaction of stream-dwelling fishes; effects of large woody debris on stream structure and function; effects of forest practices on streams and ecology of riparian systems
- Pete Bisson
- Affiliate Professor
- USDA Forest Service
- Process of fish habitat formation in streams; limiting factors of trout and salmon production; effects of land use practices on stream ecosystems; zoogeography of freshwater fishes
- Susan Bolton
- Professor
- Forest Resources
- Surface water hydrology; watershed management; land-water interactions; stream restoration, sustainable development, and ecological engineering
- Derek Booth
- Research Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Analysis of consequences of geologic processes and materials on land-use—stream channels, river systems, hillslope stability, erosion, and groundwater; measurement and prediction of sediment transport in streams; development and execution of monitoring programs; prediction of future hazards to human activity and resources as a result of ongoing urban development
- Mike Brett
- Associate Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Limnology; nutrients and nutrition in lakes; water quality; food webs
- Stephen Burges
- Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Stream temperatures
- Loveday Conquest
- Professor
- Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Statistical methods for use in forestry/fisheries management, environmental pollution problems; biological monitoring, and watershed management; teaching courses in statistical methods, design; consultant training for students in renewable resource management
- Bob Edmonds
- Professor and Associate Dean
- Forest Resources
- Forest soil microbiology; biology of forest diseases; watershed processes, stream chemistry; influence of forest management practices
- Kern Ewing
- Associate Professor
- Forest Resources
- Restoration of western U.S. ecosystem types, including freshwater wetlands, coastal wetlands, prairie, shrub-steppe, arid lands, oak woodlands, montane, and thornscrub vegetation types
- Robert Gara
- Professor
- Forest Resources
- Forest entomology; international forestry; aquatic entomology; Chilean forest insects
- Alex Horner-Devine
- Assistant Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Environmental fluid mechanics; coastal oceanography and geophysical fluid dynamics; estuaries and river plumes; sediment transport; fish passage
- Jim Karr
- Emeritus Professor
- Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Zoology
- Tropical forest ecology; aquatic ecology; watershed management; ecology of fish and invertebrates in streams; influence of human-induced disturbances on biological systems using the index of biotic integrity (IBI) as a biologically based approach to evaluate the condition of living systems
- Rick Keil
- Associate Professor
- School of Oceanography
- Application of organic geochemistry to emerging environmental issues such as climate change and pollutant distributions and sinks in marine systems
- Peter Kiffney
- Affiliate Professor
- National Marine Fisheries Service
- Abiotic and biotic controls of stream food webs in the Pacific Northwest; light regime and riparian vegetation influences on stream productivity and food web dynamics
- Dennis P. Lettenmaier
- Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Hydrologic model development and application; prediction of hydrologic impacts of climate and land use change; continental and global hydrologic modeling and prediction; seasonal to interannual hydrologic forecasting; spatially distributed hydrologic modeling, data assimilation, arctic hydrology
- Dave Montgomery
- Professor
- Earth and Space Sciences
- Director
- Quaternary Research Center
- Geomorphology of tectonically active landscapes; geomorphic processes; impacts of natural and anthropogenic disturbance; development of practical methods for minimizing land use disturbance
- Robert J. Naiman
- Professor
- College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences
- Structure and dynamics of stream ecosystems; riparian vegetation; the role of large animals in influencing ecosystem dynamics; riparian systems; interactions between salmon, brown bear, and riparian vegetation; environmental consequences of artificially changing water regimes
- Timothy Nyerges
- Professor
- Geography
- Urban sustainability modeling and collaborative decision support; GIS for risk evaluation and decision analysis; land use, transportation, and environmental applications of GIS
- Devon Peña
- Professor
- Anthropology and Chicano Studies
- Agroecology; environmental justice; environmental history; ecological politics, social movements, transborder communities, and transnationalism; complexity theory in ecosystem sciences; geographic focus includes U.S.-Mexico border region, Chiapas, the Upper Rio Grande watershed (New Mexico and Colorado), and Taiwan
- Tom Quinn
- Professor
- Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Behavior, ecology and evolution of fishes, particularly salmon and trout; salmon migration; spawning behavior; differentiation of populations in life history traits; effects of forest practices on fish populations
- Jeffrey Richey
- Professor
- Oceanography
- Aquatic and drainage basin biogeochemistry; remote sensing of land use changes on regional-scale hydrological and chemical dynamics; Amazon River basin
- Clare Ryan
- Associate Professor
- Forest Resources
- Natural resource policy and administration; environmental conflict management; water resource policy
- Tom Sibley
- Associate Professor
- Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- National Marine Fisheries Service
- Lake and stream restoration
- Charles "Si" Simenstad
- Research Professor and Coordinator, Wetland Ecosystem Team
- Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Estuarine and nearshore marine ecology; food web structure; juvenile salmon ecology and habitat; ecosystem restoration planning and assessment
- David Stensel
- Professor
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Biological nutrient removal; oxygen transfer and substrate; utilization in fixed film systems; biodegradation of toxic pollutants; biofilters for toxic gas treatment
- Kristiina Vogt
- Professor
- Forest Resources
- Ecosystem management; linking social and natural science; reserves; conservation
- Stephen West
- Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
- Forest Resources
- Vertebrate ecology and conservation, wildlife ecology
- Robert Wissmar
- Research Professor
- Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
- Disturbance regimes and recovery patterns in land-water interfaces and watersheds
- Steve Wondzell
- Research Aquatic Ecologist
- Olympia Forestry Sciences Laboratory
- Stream channel morphology; hyporheic zones in mountain stream networks; influence of hyporheic exchange flows on nitrogen cycling in small forested streams