CHANGE-IGERT Faculty

CHANGE-IGERT Faculty
	Jonathan Patz CHANGE-IGERT Principal Investigator and Director 258 Enzyme Institute 1710 University Ave Madison, WI 53726 608-262-4775 patz@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Patz’s areas of research include the effects of climate change on heat waves, air pollution and water- and vector-borne infectious diseases, as well as the link between deforestation and the resurgence of malaria in the Amazon.
	Samer Alatout 336A Agricultural Hall 1450 Linden Drive Madison, WI 53706 608-263-0970 snalatout@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Alatout's research and teaching focus on water, territory, and political identity at the local, regional, and global scale. One of his current projects is a comparative investigation of how “environmental narratives” define racial, ethnic and political relations between the Indian tribes of Wisconsin and the state and federal government and also between Palestinians and Israelis.
	Robert B. Beattie CHANGE-IGERT Associate Director 213 Enzyme Institute 1710 University Ave Madison, WI 53726 608-890-0912 rbeattie@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Dr. Beattie's research seeks to understand and promote the role of democratic decision making in science-intensive environmental policy controversies and to apply insights from science pedagogy research to understand and analyze professional responses to environmental controversies, with a particular emphasis on urban environmental justice.
	Jon Foley 202A Enzyme Institute 1710 University Ave Madison, WI 53726 608-265-5144 jfoley@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Foley’s research examines scientific challenges to global sustainability; interactions between humans & global environment systems; land use practices and their effects on ecosystems, climate & freshwater systems; applications of modeling & remote sensing techniques to global change and sustainability issues; innovative methods for sustainability education & outreach.
	Leila Harris 115d Science Hall 550 N Park St Madison, WI 53706 608-265-0531 lharris@geography.wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Harris’ research interests include: water politics, institutions and governance; socio-economic inequality/ vulnerability and connections to resource conditions, use, and access (e.g. political ecology approaches that emphasize poverty, gender and ethnicity, as well as environmental justice debates); theories of states, democracy, and citizenship in relation to environmental change; critical development studies; Turkey and Middle East.
	Tracey Holloway 201A Enzyme Institute 1710 University Ave Madison, WI 53726 608-262-5356 taholloway@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Holloway’s research focuses on air quality on global, regional, and local scales; atmospheric modeling; and the connections between air pollution and energy, health, climate, and policy.
	Gregg Mitman 1415 Medical Sciences Center 1300 University Ave Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-9140 gmitman@med.wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Mitman’s research and teaching interests span the history of ecology, nature, and health in twentieth-century America across scientific and popular culture. Particular research areas include the history of ecology, environment and health, 20th century life sciences, science in America, science and film.
	Lisa Naughton 373 Science Hall 550 N Park St Madison, WI 53706 608-262-4846 naughton@geography.wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Naughton’s research centers on biodiversity conservation in tropical countries. She studies how development policies and governance institutions affect land use and ecological sustainability in ‘mixed’ landscapes of natural forest and agriculture. She has more than 20 years of field research experience in protected areas of East Africa and Latin America.
	Greg Nemet 285 Enzyme Institute 1710 University Avenue Madison, WI 53726 608-890-0336 nemet@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Nemet's research and teaching focus on improving understanding of the environmental, social, economic, and technical dynamics of the global energy system.
	Christopher Olsen 3150 Veterinary Medicine 2015 Linden Dr Madison, WI 53706 608-265-8681 olsenc@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Olsen’s laboratory studies influenza A viruses, with an emphasis on understanding the genetic factors that control interspecies transmission of these economically and medically important pathogens.
	Mutlu Ozdogan 285 Enzyme Institute 1710 University Avenue Madison, WI 53726 608-890-0336 ozdogan@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Ozdogan's research focuses on land-use / land-cover conversion and climate change impacts on the global water and energy cycles and how these impacts interact with ecosystem goods and services that are important to human well-being.
	Annemarie Schneider 264 Enzyme Institute 1710 University Avenue Madison, WI 53726 608-890-0557 aschneider4@wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. Schneider's research interests are focused on the human dimensions of global environmental change. Her work examines the socio-economic drivers and land-based impacts of urbanization in a comparative, cross-nation framework using satellite remote sensing, spatial statistics, and econometric modeling.
	Katherine White 350 Agricultural Hall 1450 Linden Dr Madison, WI 53706 608-890-1900 kwhite@ssc.wisc.edu CV \| webpage	Prof. White's research focuses on migration and population redistribution, socio-economic inequality, and land use. White examines these issues in the U.S. at the national level and at the sub-national level in the Great Plains, South, and Puerto Rico, using advanced methods of spatial data analysis.