NRE - Key Persons


Alycia Chrosniak


Amy Cabaniss

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Instructor

Amy Welsh

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Anita Morzillo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Ashley M. Helton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor / Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering / Research Website
  • Associate Professor / Joint Position Center of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

Berg Conservation

Job Titles:
  • Policy Fellow, National Soil and Water Conservation Society

Blaire T. Steven

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Bo Tao

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Carlos Rios

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Instructor

Chad Rittenhouse

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Residence

Chad Seewagen

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Christine Kirchhoff

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor CEE, Faculty Affiliate

Cynnamon Dobbs

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Daniel L. Civco

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Dr. Beth A. Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( Wetland & Plant Ecology )
  • Assistant Professor / Joint Position Center for Environmental Science and Engineering

Dr. Chadwick Rittenhouse

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Residence

Dr. Chandi Witharana

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment

Dr. David Miller

Job Titles:
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
  • Professor Emeritus

Dr. Denis Roy

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
  • Assistant Research Professor / Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Research Website

Dr. Gary A. Robbins

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Geology / Department of Natural Resources & the Environment

Dr. Glenn Warner

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Professor in the Department of Natural Resources
Dr. Glenn Warner is a Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at The University of Connecticut and Director of the Connecticut Institute of Water Resources, which is part of a national network of 54 water institutes. Dr. Warner received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Minnesota and his B.S. in Engineering from Iowa State University. He teaches courses in the areas of watershed hydrology, dynamic modeling of ecosystems, and water and solute movement in porous media. Predicting runoff from landscapes using dynamic, deterministic models, as well as understanding the physical processes of runoff generation are Dr. Warner's general areas of research. Some current research topics include: 1) the influences of land use and land treatment on the infiltration capacity and associated surface and shallow-subsurface flows; 2) the roles of soil flora and fauna in the development of pathways for water and solute movement; 3) the application of watershed models to predict potential changes in stream flow with changes in land use and climate; and 4) the role of water conservation and water reuse in optimizing available water for both instream and out-of-stream uses. As Director of the CT IWR, he is currently involved in a state-wide planning effort for Connecticut involving analyses of both available water and water demand for the next 25 years. He was one of the lead PI's in the Fenton River study that analyzed the impacts of the UConn well field on flow and fisheries habitat in the Fenton River. Another current interest is the study of ancient water systems in Rome. Education PhD 1990

Dr. Isaac M. (Morty) Ortega

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment

Dr. James Knighton

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
Dr. James Knighton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at The University of Connecticut. Dr. Knighton received his Ph.D. in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, his M.A. in Environmental Studies from University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. in Civil Engineering from Drexel University. He teaches courses in the area of watershed hydrology. Education PhD 2019

Dr. Jason Vokoun

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Department Head / Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
  • Professor and Department Head

Dr. Jessica Brandt

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering / Research

Dr. John Clausen

Job Titles:
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
  • Professor Emeritus

Dr. Laura Cisneros

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Dr. Melissa McKinney

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
  • Research Scientist / Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Center / Research Website

Dr. Michael Dietz

Job Titles:
  • Water Resources Extension Education

Dr. Michael R. Willig

Job Titles:
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering

Dr. Richard Anyah

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Research
Anyah, R.O. 2011: Climate-hydrology Connections: Potential effects of groundwater processes in climate models. Sino-USA collaboration on climate, eco-hydrology and water resources. China Agriculture University, Beijing China, May 11 2011 Anyah, R. O: Developing regional climate change scenarios for impacts assessments and adaptation strategies in the water sector in Egypt: WMO Project on Climate change Adaptations in the water sector in Egypt, First National Kick-off Workshop. Water Resources Center, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt 13-15April, 2008.

Dr. Robert Ricard


Dr. Tracy Rittenhouse

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Research

Forest Ecology


Goerge F. Cloutier

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Forestry

Howard J. Kilpatrick

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
  • Research Scientist - Adjunct / Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Center

Indrajeet Chaubey

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Dean and Director

J. Clausen

Effects of vegetation on bacteria and pollutant reduction in a stormwater wetland. J. Clausen, 2006-2009, USDA-CSREES

Jason Parent

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Jodi Eskin


John Bartok

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Emeritus

John C. Volin

Job Titles:
  • Provost, University of Maine

Junming Wang

Job Titles:
  • April L
Wang, J., Hiscox, A. L., Miller, D. R., Meyer, T. H., and Sammis, T. W. (2008) A dynamic Lagrangian, field-scale model of dust dispersion from agriculture tilling operations. In Transactions of the ASABE, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 1763-1774. Rudnicki, Mark; Meyer, Thomas H; Lieffers, Victor J and Silins, Uldis (2008) The periodic motion of lodgepole pine trees as affected by collisions with neighbors. Trees - Structure and Function, vol. 22, pp. 475-482.

Justin Davis

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Martin A. Briggs

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Mayra Rodriguez Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Meg Boyle

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Residence

Michael P. O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor

Min T. Huang

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Nicole Freidenfelds

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Assistant

R.M. Ricard

Saska, M.M., Y.A. Kuzovkina, and R.M. Ricard. 2010. North American willow cut-stem growers: a survey of the business identities, production practices and prospective for the crop. HortTechnology 20(2): 351-356.

Sam Noble

Job Titles:
  • Affiliated Research Associate

Scott C. Williams

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
  • Research Scientist - Adjunct / Department of Natural Resources & the Environment / Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Center

Shi Qiu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Research Professor

Stephen Broderick

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Staff

Thomas H. Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment
  • Professor
Rudnicki, Mark and Meyer, Thomas H. (2007) Methods to convert local sampling coordinates into GIS/GPS-compatible coordinate systems. In The Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, vol. 24 no. 3, pp. 233-238. Meyer, Thomas (2012) Root mean square error compared and contrasted to standard deviation.Surveying and Land Information Science. 72(3) 1-2. (technical note) Meyer, T. and Volin, J. Assessing invasion potential under differential canopy leaf phenologies in southern New England temperate forest ecosystems. McIntire-Stennis project, CONS00868. 2010-2011.

Thomas Worthley


Wei Ren

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

White Water Kayaking

Job Titles:
  • Certified Instructor

Wilbur Cross

The 11th annual Fall Frontiers Poster Exhibition is a celebration of student research and creative projects. Fall Frontiers provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to share their work with the UConn community. An in-person poster exhibition will be held in the Wilbur Cross North Reading Room on October 18 from 5-7pm. More information is available at ugradresearch.uconn.edu/fallfrontiers2023

Zhe Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Department of Natural Resources & the Environment