Research

Faculty Research

QERM Core Faculty

James Anderson Research Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Research and computer models for management of Columbia River fisheries; Studying mortality processes of juvenile salmon.
Susan Bolton Professor, Forest Resources	Surface water hydrology; Watershed management; Water quality
Loveday Conquest Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Development of statistical methods for data analysis, sampling/field design, and general methodology to address problems in environmental monitoring and natural resource management.
E. David Ford Professor, Forest Resources	Analysis of the structure and function of foliage canopies; The development of simulation models of ecological systems, and the development of methods for assessing ecological models.
Vincent Gallucci Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Conservation, management, and population dynamics of elasmobranchs, especially sharks; interest in the dynamics of benthic populations, primarily macrofauna such as bivalves and crustacea.
Tilmann Gneiting Professor, Statistics	Self-similarity: Roadblock or breakthrough? Integration and visualization of multi-source information for mesoscale meteorology: Statistical and cognitive approaches to visualizing uncertainty.
Steven Goodreau Assistant Professor, Anthropology	Human social networks, HIV, sexual identity and behavior, human/pathogen co-evolution, population genetics, infectious disease epidemiology
Daniel Grunbaum Associate Professor, Oceanography	Lab and field experiments with mathematical theory to answer fundamental questions about how marine ecosystems function. Establish quantitative relationships between short-term, small-scale processes, such as individual movement behaviors, and their long-term, large-scale population level effects, such as population fluxes and distributions.
Peter Guttorp Professor, Statistics	Uses of stochastic models in scientific applications in hydrology, atmospheric science, geophysics, environmental science, and hematology.
Ray Hilborn Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Bayesian analysis of decision making in natural resources, adaptive management of renewable resources, the dynamics of the Serengeti ecosystem in east Africa; the role of hatcheries in management of Pacific salmon, the ability of institutions to learn from experience, statistical methods in testing dynamic ecological hypotheses, the analysis of migration and dispersal from mark–recapture data, and the ecological dynamics of fishing fleets.
John Horne Research Associate Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Scale-dependent processes influencing aquatic organism distributions, predator-prey interactions, and the application of acoustics to aquatic ecology and resource management
Mark Kot Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics Acting Director, QERM	Interface between applied mathematics and ecology and evolutionary biology; model the dynamics of biological populations, use mathematics to shed light on the abundance and distribution of biological populations, and use biology to motivate interesting mathematical problems.
Donald Percival Principal Mathematician, Affiliate Associate Professor, Statistics	Application of statistical methodology in the physical sciences; research in time series and spectral analysis, simulation of stochastic processes, computational environments for interactive time series and signal analysis, statistical analysis of biomedical time series and underwater turbulence, and wavelets.
Andre Punt Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Providing quantitative scientific advice for fisheries management: new methods for assessing fish and marine mammal populations; Bayesian assessment and risk analysis methods; evaluating the performance of existing methods for assessing and managing renewable resource populations.
Jennifer Ruesink Associate Professor, Biology	Quantitative approaches to basic and applied questions in population, community, and ecosystem ecology, particularly in nearshore marine environments.
John Skalski Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Assessing population effects in a hypothesis testing framework using capture-recapture data. Research on design optimality indicates that many field studies which failed to detect population changes could have done so if sampling efforts had been properly allocated
E. Ashley Steel Affiliate Assistant Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Impact of landscape condition on in-stream processes including salmon population performance and in-stream conditions through the Salmonid Watershed Analysis Model (SWAM) and related projects.
Sandor Toth Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources	Primary field of interest is developing quantitative decisision support tools to aid forest and natural resource management.
Eric Turnblom Associate Professor, College of Forest Resources	Plant population and systems modeling, quantitative silviculture and stand dynamics, forest mensuration, biometrics, natural resources inventory, and sampling.
Judith Zeh Research Professor, Statistics	Population size estimation, population dynamics, robust statistical methods, statistical computing, applications in infectious disease research.

Affiliated QERM Faculty

B. Bruce Bare Professor and Dean, Forest Resources	Forest management and economics, forest valuation, timber taxation, timber and timberland appraisal, management science, planning, forest policy, and decision support systems.
David Briggs Professor, Forest Resources	Operations research and management science in the forest products industry, emphasizing modeling and optimization of converting trees into logs and recovery of lumber and other products from logs; quality control and quality management systems in the forest products industry.
Alison C. Cullen Associate Professor, Public Affairs	Specialization areas: Environmental risk analysis, environmental science and policy, quantitative uncertainty analysis, statistical decision theory.
Thomas Daniel Professor and Chair, Biology	Dynamics and control of animal locomotion.
Joseph Felsenstein Professor, Genome Sciences	Methods for estimating population parameters (such as effective population size, mutation rate, and so on) from population samples of molecular sequences; use of computationally intensive method known as Markov Chain Monte Carlo Integration to make approximate calculations of the statistical likelihoods for different values of the population parameters.
Francis Greulich Professor, Forest Resources	Management science and biometry applied to land management
Jay Johnson Professor, Forest Resources	Mathematical modeling of the radial wood density variation in trees.
Tom Leschine Professor and Director, Marine Affairs	Quantitative methods applied to resource management and environmental impact assessment; marine pollution management; ocean policy studies.
Paul Sampson Research Professor, Statistics	Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling in environmental statistics. Applied multivariate analysis and partial least squares methods.

Emeritus Faculty

James Agee Professor Emeritus, Forest Resources	Disturbance ecology, specifically the role of fire in forest ecology.
Gardner Brown Professor Emeritus, Economics	Economics. He specializes in natural resource economics and applied microeconomic theory.
Robert Francis Professor Emeritus, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	Fisheries ecosystem plan for the Northern California current; Pacific Northwest climate impacts study; Models of alternative management policies for marine ecosystems.
Gerard Schreuder Professor, Forest Resources	Analyzing the international trade of forest products, tariff and non-tariff barriers, econometric projections, and the role of forestry in economic development; environmental monitoring with aerial photos and remotely sensed materials, and in the area of measurements using photogrammetric techniques as it relates to natural resources, including wate
Gordon L. Swartzman Research Professor Emeritus, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences