HEST Faculty

Carolyn Fonyo Boggess — HEST 412/512
Director, Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
Email: boggessc@onid.orst.edu
Systems ecology, systems modeling and analysis, embodied energy (emergy) analysis, watershed assessment, sustainable design for the environment, and sustainable business.

Elain Fu — HEST 320
Associate Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Email: elain.fu@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-1062
Investigation of molecular interactions and fluid transport in microfluidic systems, the development of tools and methods for use in high-performance microfluidic assays, and the implementation of microfluidic assays for clinically relevant analytes.

David Hill — HEST 411/511
Professor, Civil and Construction Engineering
Email: david.hill@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-4939
Experimental fluid mechanics, visual imaging techniques, wave mechanics and sediment transport, computational tidal modeling.

Nordica Maccarty — HEST 241, 541, 242, 444, 542, HEST/ANTH 201
Associate Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Richard and Gretchen Evans Scholar of Humanitarian Engineering
Email: nordica.maccarty@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-5927
Understanding the relationships between energy, society and the environment through integrating complex systems modeling, thermal fluid sciences, and engineering design

Kendra Sharp — HEST 310
Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Richard and Gretchen Evans Professor of Humanitarian Engineering
Email: kendra.sharp@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-5246
Engineering for global development, sustainable energy for the developing world, experimental fluid mechanics, and microfluidics for biological and energy applications.

Bryan Tilt — ANTH 482/582
Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Anthropology Department
Email: bryan.tilt@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-3896
Environmental anthropology, sustainable development, pollution, water resources, community participation, natural resources, fisheries management.

Jeff Walters — HEST 462/562
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
University of Washington - Tacoma
Email: jpwalt@uw.edu Office: 253-692-4330
Integration of theory and application of systems thinking and engineering for social justice.

Brian Wood — HEST 411/511
Professor, Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering
Email: brian.wood@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-9249
Description of mass, momentum, and energy transport in natural and engineered multiscale systems; subsurface hydrology; bioremediation and biochemical processes; water and wastewater treatment; and sustainable design and engineering. More ...

Shaozeng Zhang — HEST/ANTH 201
Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Anthropology Department
Email: shaozeng.zhang@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-3055
Science and Technology Studies (STS), ecological/environmental anthropology, applied anthropology, and research methodology
Affiliated Faculty

Jana Bouwma-Gearhart
Assistant Professor, College of Education
Email: jana.bouwma-gearhart@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-2206
Organizational change concerning STEM education at research universities.

J. Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: ecs@eecs.oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-8926
Cascading outages in power grids, complex systems and complex networks, chaos and nonlinear dynamics, big data and high performance computing, PMU-supported power system stability monitoring.

Rebekah Elliott
Associate Professor, College of Education
Email: elliottr@science.oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-1821
Professional education along the professional continuum.

Hannah Gosnell
Associate Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Email: gosnellh@geo.oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-1222
Drivers and consequences of rural land use change; water resource policy, management and law; climate change adaptation; environmental governance; social-ecological resiliency; adaptive management; payment for ecosystem services; sustainability transitions; transformational adaptation.

Perry Hystad
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health and Human Sciences
Email: perry.hystad@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-4829
Spatial exposure assessment methods to determine the chronic health effects associated with exposure to air pollution.

Todd Jarvis
Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Email: todd.jarvis@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-4032
Engineering geology, geography of groundwater, online dispute resolution.

Molly Kile
Assistant Professor, College of Public Health & Human Sciences
Email: Molly.Kile@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-1443
Environmental, molecular epidemiology and global health.

Kenneth Maes
Assistant Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Anthropology Department
Email: kenneth.maes@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-4465
Global health and development, primary health care, community health workers, health systems strengthening, food insecurity, water insecurity, mental health, maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, religion, morality, and ritual.

Ben Mason
Assistant Professor, Civil and Construction Engineering
Email: ben.mason@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-2014
Natural hazards engineering, specifically: geotechnical earthquake engineering, including soil-structure interaction and residual soil liquefaction; coastal geotechnical engineering, including fluid-soil-structure interaction, momentary soil liquefaction, and tsunami-induced scour.

Tala Navab-Daneshmand
Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering
Email: tala.navab@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-0552
Inactivation, growth and persistence of bacterial pathogens in the environment and treatment processes.

Elizabeth Schroeder
Associate Professor, Economics
Email: liz.schroeder@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-1476
Applied microeconometrics and development.

John Selker
Professor, Biological & Ecological Engineering
Email: selkerj@engr.orst.edu Office: 541-737-6304
Hydraulic instrumentation, vadose zone hydrology, groundwater hydrology, stochastic Hydrology, hontaminant hransport.

Samuel Rivera
Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering
Email: sammy.rivera@engr.orst.edu Office: 541-737-6304
Interests include topics related to water resources systems analysis, information technologies and cyberinfrastructure for smart, sustainable, and resilient water infrastructure and resources, and big data and artificial intelligence in integrated water management.

James Sweeney
Professor, Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Email: jim.sweeney@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-3769
Bio- and environmental sensors, bioelectricity, implanted medical devices, neuromuscular stimulation, and engineering education.

Desirée Tullos
Associate Professor, Biological & Ecological Engineering
Email: desiree.tullos@oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-2038
Ecohydraulics, river engineering and restoration, system analysis in water resources management, hydrodynamic modelling.

Jamon Van Den Hoek
Assistant Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences
Email: jvandenhoek@coas.oregonstate.edu Office: 541-737-1229
Understanding how changes in land cover pattern or land use vulnerability may result from or potentially contribute to the process of conflict at regional or national levels.