People

Faculty

As an interdisciplinary program, QERM draws its faculty from several different academic units on campus. The faculty shares a common interest in the application of quantitative techniques in the analysis and solution of resource management and conservation problems.

Core QERM Faculty

Christopher Anderson	Associate Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Policy and management, fishery economics
James Anderson	Research Professor, Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Fish passage, cognitive science, biodemography, mathematical ecology
Trevor Branch	Assistant Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Marine mammals, population dynamics, marine fisheries, policy and management
Samuel Clark	Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology	Demography, quantitative methodology, microcomputing, Africa
Loveday Conquest	Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Statistical methods, habitat/watershed assessment, invironmental pollution monitoring
Timothy Essington	Associate Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Marine fish ecology and biology, food web interactions, marine fisheries-estuarine/coastal
E. David Ford	Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	Analysis of structure and function of foliage canopies, ecological systems simulation models, methods for assessing ecological models
Vincent Gallucci	Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Stock assessment, sharks, artisinal fisheries, fisheries management
Steven Goodreau	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology	Human social networks, HIV, sexual identify and behavior, human/pathogen co-evolution, population genetics, infectious disease epidemiology
Daniel Grunbaum	Associate Professor, School of Oceanography	Relationships between short-term, small-scale processes, and their long-term, large-scale population level effects, such as population fluxes and distributions
Peter Guttorp	Professor, Dept. of Statistics	Stochastic models scientific applications in hydrology, atmospheric science, geophysics, environmental science and hematology
Ray Hilborn	Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Ecosystem modeling, salmon ecology, policy and management, stock assessment, Bayesian analysis
John Horne	Research Associate Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Aquatic ecology, fisheries acoustics, scale-dependent spatial variance
Mark Kot	Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Mathematics	Mathematical biology
Joshua Lawler	Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	Landscape ecology, conservation biology
Vladimir Minin	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics	Phylogenetic reconstruction, model selection and diagnostics, viral evolution
Andre Punt	Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Biomathematics, multispecies modeling, population dynamics, stock assessment
Jennifer Ruesink	Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology	Ecosystem engineering, biological invasions, and disturbance-recovery trajectories in estuaries
John Skalski	Professor, Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Population estimation, environmental sampling, effects assessment
E. Ashley Steel	Affiliate Assistant Professor,School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Sandor Toth	Assistant Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	Natural resource informatics

Affiliated QERM Faculty

Susan Bolton	Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	Surface water hydrology, watershed management, water quality
Alison C. Cullen	Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs	Environmental policy, environmental health risk assessment, decision analysis, information and uncertainty analysis
Thomas Daniel	Professor, Dept. of Biology	Neurons and neuronal networks
Joseph Felsenstein	Professor, Genome Sciences	Evolution, estimating parameters
Francis Greulich	Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	Management science and biometry applied to land management
Tom Leschine	Professor, School of Marine Affairs	Environmental impact assessment, marine pollution management, ocean policy studies
Donald Percival	Principal Mathematician, Applied Physics Lab Affiliate Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics	Time series analysis, signal processing, statistics of atomic clocks, wavelets
Paul Sampson	Research Professor, Dept. of Statistics	Spatial statistics and environmetrics, morphometrics, applied multivariate analysis, statistical consulting
Eric Turnblom	Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	Forest growth and yield modeling, sampling and inventory, biometrics

Emeritus Faculty

James Agee	Professor Emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
B. Bruce Bare	Professor Emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	Forest management and economics, forest valuation, timber taxation, timber and timberland appraisal, management science, planning, forest policy, decision support systems
Gardner Brown	Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Economics
Bob Francis	Professor Emeritus, Schol of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Fisheries management, marine ecosystem dynamics, fisheries oceanography, climate change
Gerard Schreuder	Professor Emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Judy Zeh	Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics