Team

Kevin’s research strives to understand how microbial communities respond to anthropogenic influences on natural ecosystems, including changes in climate, presence of chronic ecosystem stressors and emerging pollutants.  Biotechnology research in his lab includes investigations into novel microbial systems for renewable energy generation, natural resource damage assessment, bioremediation and biotechnology.

Emily Wakild is Professor of History and Environmental Studies, as well as the Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands in the School of Public Service. She earned her PhD in Latin American history from the University of Arizona in 2007 and joined the Department of History at Boise State in 2012, moving to Environmental Studies in 2018.

Brittany Brand is a distinguished researcher and the executive director of the Hazard and Climate Resilience Institute (HCRI). Her research interests are in volcanology, hazard and risk communication strategies, risk perception, preparedness behavior and community resilience.

Rebecca is a rural studies and agrifood system scholar. Using a range of methodological approaches, she examines how experiences with environmental and agrifood system change are shaped by inequality and marginalization.

Jodi is the leader of the Land Use Lab at Boise State University. She is a land-use scientist who studies landscape change and its drivers and the impacts of landscape change on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Megan is interested in how interacting anthropogenic and biophysical factors alter disturbance regimes and subsequent recovery and in evaluating the efficacy of intervention options in increasing social-ecological resilience.

Vicken studies human behavioral and institutional change in environmental contexts, using quantitative surveys, behavioral experiments, computational modeling and social-ecological network analysis.

Kelly studies how environmental and social changes are affecting ecosystems and rural livelihoods, particularly in mountain and pastoral regions.

Stephanie Lenhart is a Senior Research Associate in the Energy Policy Institute affiliated with the Center for Advanced Energy Research and an Associate Research Professor in the School of Public Service at Boise State University. Stephanie examines institutional design, stakeholder participation, policy implementation and the negotiation of authority. Recent work explores the governance of electricity systems and the exercise of power and agency in energy transitions.

Bob Reinhardt is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the School of the Environment. Bob is the director of The Atlas of Drowned Towns, a digital public history project exploring the lost histories of communities displaced by river development projects in the American West. He also founded Boise State’s Working History Center, which showcases the vitality and relevance of history.

Matt is a conservation scientist interested in understanding how the interactions between people, their environment and the institutions that govern them inspire (or inhibit) conservation action and how that impacts their effectiveness.