Our core faculty are dedicated to teaching Environmental Studies at the master’s level. Our adjunct faculty are working professionals in the field. Together, they give you individual attention with a balance of theory and practice.

Faculty Research and Publications

Our faculty have diverse interests, a testament to which can be seen in their publications. A great way to learn more about our faculty members is through their professional work. A selection of recent papers is presented below: 

Kevin Francis, PhD

Francis, Kevin, Henderson, M., Martin, E., Saul, K., Joshi, S. (2018). Collaborative Teaching and Interdisciplinary Learning in Graduate Environmental Studies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, 8 (3), 343-350.

Shangrila Joshi, PhD

Paudel, D., Derman, B., Murton, G., Rampini, C., Joshi, S. (2024). Climate Change Justice and Global Resource Commons: Local and Global Postcolonial Political Ecologies, The AAG Review of Books, 12(2), 31-42.

Osborne, T., Bond, P., Grossman, Z., Rice, J., Joshi, S., Derman, B. (2024). Struggles for Climate Justice: Uneven Geographies and the Politics of Connection, The AAG Review of Books, 12(2), 17–30.

Joshi, Shangrila, (2023). Climate Justice. In Climate, Science, and Society: A Primer, edited by Zeke Baker, Tamar Law, Mark Vardy, and Stephen Zehr, Routledge.

Joshi, Shangrila. (2022) North-South Relations: Colonialism, Empire and International Order. In Handbook of Global Environmental Politics, 2nd ed, edited by Paul Harris, Routledge.

Joshi, Shangrila. 2021. Climate Change Justice and Global Resource Commons: Local and Global Postcolonial Political Ecologies, Routledge.

Francis, K., Henderson, M., Martin, E., Saul, K., Joshi, S. (2018). Collaborative Teaching and Interdisciplinary Learning in Graduate Environmental Studies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, 8 (3), 343-350.

Joshi, Shangrila. 2015. Postcoloniality and the North-South Binary Revisited: The Case of India’s Climate Politics. In The International Handbook of Political Ecology, edited by R.L. Bryant, Edward Elgar.

Joshi, Shangrila. 2014. Environmental Justice Discourses in Indian Climate Politics. GeoJournal, 79 (6), 677-691 ‘Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change’ Special Issue

Joshi, Shangrila. 2013. Understanding India’s Representation of North-South Climate Politics. Global Environmental Politics, 13 (2), 128-147

John Kirkpatrick, PhD

Kirkpatrick, John B., Walsh, E.A., D’Hondt, S., (2019) Microbial Selection and Survival in Subseafloor Sediment. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, 946.

Uhlig, C., Kirkpatrick, John B., D’Hondt, S., Loose, B., (2018) Methane-oxidizing Seawater Microbial Communities from an Arctic Shelf. Biogeosciences (in press version available online).

Kirkpatrick, John B., Walsh, E.A., D’Hondt, S., (2016) Fossil DNA Persistence and Decay in Marine Sediment Over Hundred-Thousand-Year to Million-Year Time Scales. GeoScienceWorld, 44(8), 615-618.

Walsh, E.A., Kirkpatrick, John B., Pockalny, R., Sauvage, J., Spivack, A.J., Murray, R.W., Sogin, M.L., D’Hondt, S., (2016) Relationship of Bacterial Richness to Organic Degradation Rate and Sediment Age in Subseafloor Sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(16), 4994-4999.

Walsh, E., Kirkpatrick, John B., Rutherford, S., (2015) Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition from Seasurface to Subseafloor. TheISME Journal,10, 979–989.

John Kirkpatrick Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=hJQ8l2kAAAAJ

Carri J. LeRoy, PhD 

LeRoy, Carri J., S.J. Heitmann, M.A. Thompson, I.J. Garthwaite, A.M. Froedin-Morgensen, Sorrel Hartford, B.K. Kamakawiwo’ole, L.J. Thompson, J.M. Ramstack Hobbs, S.M. Claeson, R.C. Evans, J.G. Bishop, and P.E. Busby. (2024). Insect herbivores, plant sex, and elevated nitrogen influence willow litter decomposition and detritivore colonization in early successional streams. Forests 15(8), 1282.

Tiegs, S.D.,  K.A. Capps, D.M. Costello, J.P. Schmidt, C.J. Patrick, J.J. Follstad Shah, C.J. LeRoy, and the CELLDEX Consortium. (2024). Human activities shape global patterns of decomposition rates in rivers. Science 384(6701),1191-1195.

LeRoy, Carri J., S.A. Morley, J.J. Duda, A.A. Zinck, P.J. Lamoureux, C. Pennell, A. Bailey, C. Oswell, M. Silva, B. Kamakawiwo’ole, S. Hartford, J. Van Der Hout, R. Peters, R. Mahan, J. Stapleton, R.C. Johnson, and M.M. Foley. (2023). Leaf litter decomposition and detrital communities following the removal of two large dams on the Elwha River (Washington, USA). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1231689.

Scheuerell, R.P., and C.J. LeRoy. (2023) Plant sex influences on riparian communities and ecosystems. Ecology & Evolution, 13, 7, e10308.

LeRoy, Carri J., S.M. Claeson, I.J. Garthwaite, M.A. Thompson, L.J. Thompson, B. Kamakawiwo’ole, A.M. Froedin-Morgensen, V. McConathy, J.M. Ramstack Hobbs, R. Stancheva, C.M. Albano, and D.S. Finn. (2023) Canopy development influences early successional stream ecosystem function but not biotic assemblages. Aquatic Sciences, 85, 77.

Minsavage-Davis, C.D., I.J. Garthwaite, M.D. Fisher, A. Leigh, J.M. Ramstack Hobbs, S.M. Claeson, G.M. Wimp, and C.J. LeRoy. (2023) Spatial habitat structure assembles willow-dependent communities across the primary successional watersheds of Mount St. Helens, USA. Forests, 14, 322.

Ferreira, V., R. Albariño, A. Larrañaga, C.J. LeRoy, F.O. Masese, and M.S. Moretti. (2023). Ecosystem services provided by small streams: An overview. Hydrobiologia, 850, 2501-2535.

Erin Martin, PhD

Francis, K., Henderson, M., Martin, E., Saul, K., Joshi, S. (2018). Collaborative Teaching and Interdisciplinary Learning in Graduate Environmental Studies. Journal of Environmental Studies and Science, 8 (3), 343-350.

Martin, Erin E., Ingalls, A.E., Richey, J.E., Keil, R.G., Santos, G.M., Truxal, L.T., Alin, S.R., Druffel, E.R.M. (2013) Age of riverine carbon suggests rapid export of terrestrial primary production in tropics. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(21), 5687-5691.

Ellis (Martin), Erin E., Keil, R.G., Ingalls, A.E., Richey, J.E., Alin, S.R. (2012). Seasonal variability in the sources of particulate organic matter of the Mekong River as discerned by elemental and lignin analyses. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 117(G1), G01038.

John Withey, PhD

Neupane, N., Peruzzi, M., Arab, A., Mayor, S.J., Withey, J.C., Ries, L., Finley, A.O. (2022). A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 108, 102747.

Hashida, Y., Withey, J.C., Lewis, D.J., Newman, T., Kline, J.D. (2020). Anticipating changes in wildlife habitat induced by private forest owners’ adaptation of climate change and carbon policy. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0230525.

Lawler, J.J., Rinnan, D.S., Michalak, J.L., Withey, J.C., Randels, C.R., Possingham, H.P. (2020). Planning for climate change through additions to a national protected area network: implications for cost and configuration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375, 20190117.

Runge, C.A., Withey, J.C., Naugle, D.E., Farigone, J.E., Helmstedt, K.J., Larsen, A.E., Martinuzzi, S., Tack, J.D. (2019). Single species conservation as an umbrella for management of landscape threats. PLOS ONE, 14(1), e0209619.

Mayor, S.J., Guralnick, R.P., Tingley, M.W., Otegui, J., Withey, John C., Elemdorf, S.C., Andrew, M.E., Leyk, S., Pearse, I.S., Schneider, D.C. (2017). Increasing phenological asynchrony between spring green-up and arrival of migratory birds. Science Reports, 7(1902), 1-10.

Martinuzzi, S., Withey, John C., Pidgeon, A.M., Plantinga, A.J., McKerrow, A.J., Williams, S.G., Helmers, D.P. and Radeloff, V.C. (2015). Future land‐use scenarios and the loss of wildlife habitats in the southeastern United States. Ecological Applications, 25, 160-171.

Lawler, J.J., Lewis, D.J., Nelson, E., Plantinga, A.J., Polasky, S., Withey, John C., Helmers, D.P., Martinuzzi, S., Pennington, D., Radeloff, V.C. (2014). Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(20), 7492-7497.

Withey, John C., Lawler, J.J., Polasky, S., Plantinga, A.J., Nelson, E.J., Kareiva, P., Wilsey, C.B., Schloss, C.A., Nogeire, T.M., Ruesch, A., Ramos JR, J., Reid, W. (2012). Maximizing return on conservation investment in the conterminous USA. Ecology Letters, 15, 1249-1256.