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Name	Title	Email / Phone	Expertise
Alexandra Anderson-Frey	Assistant professor, Atmospheric Sciences	akaf@uw.edu	Tornadoes and severe storms
Christopher Adolph	Associate professor, Department of Political Science	cadolph@uw.edu	Comparative political economy, public policy and administration	economics economy policy
James Agee	Emeritus professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	jagee@uw.edu 425-408-1493	Wildfire ecology, fire science, fuels management, fire severity	wildfire wildfires
Mika Ahuvia	Assistant professor, Jackson School of International Studies	mahuvia@uw.edu 206-685-0891	Archaeology of the Middle East, especially related to ancient Judaism and Christianity	archaeology Christianity Judaism middle east religion
Scott Allard	Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	sallard@uw.edu 206-221-4872	Poverty and inequality, safety net policy and urban policy	inequality policy poverty safety net
Gunnar Almgren	Professor emeritus, School of Social Work	mukboy@uw.edu 206-685-4077	Social welfare and health care policy; government health care systems; disparities in health and health care; poverty and inequality	inequality poverty social work
Ernesto Alvarado	Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	alvarado@uw.edu 206-616-6920	Forest fire ecology, fire management, prescribed fire, smoke emissions, climate change, tropical forestry, landscape, international forestry, modeling
Robert Anderson	Professor emeritus, School of Law	boba@uw.edu 206-685-2861	Public lands management, Native American issues, water and other natural resources, law	Indigenous Native
Cecilia Aragon	Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering	aragon@uw.edu	Human-centered data science; data visualization; visual analytics; human-computer interaction; data-intensive discovery; human-centered natural language processing.
Aleksandr Aravkin	Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics	saravkin@uw.edu	COVID-19 modeling; mathematical and statistical analysis, and applications to natural, physical, and health sciences; optimization; machine learning and data science	compartmental models complex data sets epidemiology expert witness finance inverse problems litigation navigation; kalman filtering and smoothing Nonconvex nonsmooth ODE models optimization optimization algorithms outlier-robust models regression robust statistics tracking transmission models
Virginia Armbrust	Professor, School of Oceanography	armbrust@uw.edu 206-616-1570	Diatom genetics, DNA-based investigations of marine microbe communities
Brian Atwater	Affiliate professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	atwater@uw.edu 206-553-2927	Tsunami hazards, especially from earthquakes; transoceanic tsunamis; historic tsunamis including the 1700 Cascadia earthquake	tsunami
Ryan Avery	Senior research engineer, Washington State Transportation Center	rpavery@uw.edu 206.792.5011	Transportation, planning, demand modeling, incidents, public transit, travel behavior, data analysis for transportation, tolling, congestion & capacity	bridges public transit Seattle traffic traffic West Seattle Bridge
Jared Baeten	Professor, Department of Global Health, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Medicine	jbaeten@uw.edu	Infectious disease physician, public health, global health, epidemiology
Marissa Baker	Assistant professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	bakermg@uw.edu 206-616-4709	Worker health and safety, worker health effects related to COVID-19, health effects of job displacement or job insecurity, occupational risks firefighters face and how that could be compounded during a pandemic, vulnerable workers, controls for worker protection	firefighters wildfire
Joel Baker	Science director, Center for Urban Waters	jebaker@uw.edu 253-254-4423	Transport of organic contaminants in the environment, oil spills and water contamination, particularly in urban environments.	chemistry contaminants modeling oil spills UW Tacoma water
Jeff Ban	Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	banx@uw.edu	modeling, simulating and managing multimodal transportation systems to control congestion and reduce energy use and emissions
Janet Baseman	Professor, Department of Epidemiology	jbaseman@uw.edu	Epidemiology, public health practice, public health surveillance, public health emergency preparedness and response systems
David Battisti	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	battisti@uw.edu	Food security and climate change, geoengineering, long-term climate cycles
Betty Bekemeier	Professor, School of Nursing	bettybek@uw.edu	Local public health department practice, systems, workforce, and funding; public health practice strengths and needs in the wake of COVID-19
Emily M. Bender	Professor, Department of Linguistics	ebender@uw.edu	Natural language processing; ethics and natural language processing; fairness, transparency and accountability in natural language processing and AI more broadly; multilingual natural language processing.
George Bergantz	Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	bergantz@uw.edu 206-685-4972	Volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Numerical modeling, lab experiments and field studies.
Carl Bergstrom	Professor, Department of Biology	cbergst@uw.edu 206-685-3487	Behavior, evolution and systematics, mathematical and computational biology
Jeffrey Berman	Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	jwberman@uw.edu 206-616-3530	Steel structures; seismic design and blast considerations for steel structures
Arbella Bet-Shlimon	Associate Professor	shlimon@uw.edu (206) 616-5279	modern Middle East history	history middle east
Cecilia Bitz	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	bitz@uw.edu 206-543-1339	Arctic sea ice, climate change
Paul Bodin	Research professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	bodin@uw.edu 206-616-7315	Seismicity, seismic wave propagation and aftershock probabilities in the Pacific Northwest; earthquake sources; earthquake early warning system
Nick Bond	Research scientist, UW Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies / Washington state climatologist	nab3met@uw.edu 206-525-7363	Washington’s state climatologist, can comment on recent events, historic trends and the seasonal outlook	heatwave snow
Ann Bostrom	Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	abostrom@uw.edu	Risk perception, risk communication, and decision making under uncertainty
Jody Bourgeois	Professor emerita, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	jbourgeo@uw.edu 202-525-8617	Global tsunamis, history of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and asteroid impact
Karen Boxx	Professor, School of Law	kboxx@uw.edu 206-616-3856	Marijuana legalization	cannabis marijuana
Trevor Branch	Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	tbranch@uw.edu 206-221-0776	Large whales — especially blue whales — and also minke and humpback whales, including studies estimating abundance, changes in population size over time, maps of occurrence, status and the separation of subspecies	blue whales humpback whales marine mammals whales
Rovy Branon	Vice provost, University of Washington Continuum College	Contact Risa de Gorgue to reach Rovy Branon: risadg@uw.edu	Online learning, learning technology development, fee-based degrees and certificate programs, instructional design	certificate programs continuing education fee-based degrees life-long learning professional education professional programs
Chris Bretherton	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Applied Mathematics	breth@uw.edu 206-685-7414	Clouds, atmospheric convection, and their roles in climate and climate change
Philip Brock	Associate professor, Department of Economics	plbrock@uw.edu 206-543-5955	Brock studies development economics, financial economics, international finance and macroeconomics	economics economy macroeconomics
Sally Brown	Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	slb@uw.edu 206-616-1299	Contaminated soils, risks, waste (compost municipal wastewater) soil amendments, carbon accounting
Benjamin M. Brunjes	Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	brunjes@uw.edu 206-685-0680	American political institutions and processes; Public administration – bureaucracy, management, organization theory, ethics; and Public finance and procurement – budgeting, tax policy, government contracting
Karin Bumbaco	UW research scientist, Washington's assistant state climatologist	kbumbaco@uw.edu 206-543-3145	Questions or data inquiries on Washington weather trends in the context of historical data. Publishes the monthly newsletter on statewide trends and forecasts.	heatwave snow
Gerard Cangelosi	Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences		Screening, self-sampling, infectious disease emergence, occupational exposure, global health
Beatriz (Bia) Carlini	Senior research scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute	bia@uw.edu 206-616-5880	Tobacco cessation and brief interventions for substance use disorders using technology	cannabis drug abuse marijuana substance disorder tobacco
Emily Carrington	Professor, Biology	ecarring@uw.edu	Marine organisms	heatwave
Manuel Castellote	Research scientist, UW Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean	manuelcm@uw.edu 206-526-6866	Whales’ vocal communication, echolocation and hearing; effects of noise on whales	echolocation marine mammals whales
Angelica Chazaro	Assistant professor, School of Law	chazaro1@uw.edu 206-543-8754	Immigration and refugee law and policy, provision of immigration legal services, immigrant rights movements, criminalization of immigrants, vulnerable immigrant populations	immigration refugees
Shuyi Chen	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	shuyic@uw.edu 206-685-1736	Tropical meteorology, air-sea interactions, mesoscale dynamics, numerical modeling
Sapna Cheryan	Professor, Department of Psychology	scheryan@uw.edu 206-543-5688	The role of cultural stereotypes in human behavior, gender stereotypes, immigration, race relations, women’s under-representation in computer science	gender immigration race STEM stereotypes women
Daniel Chirot	Professor, Jackson School of International Studies	chirot@uw.edu 206-685-2412	Tyranny, genocide, war, conflict mitigation, the role of ideas in shaping our world, social change, the Tea Party	conflict russia war
Chris Coward	Senior principal research scientist, Information School	ccoward@uw.edu	Incorporating research on misinformation into new information literacy guidelines and learning resources.	disinformation misinformation
Kenneth Creager	Professor, Earth & Space Sciences	kcc@uw.edu 206-685-2803	Slow slip and tremor; imaging of Earth’s mantle; a lead investigator on the Imaging Magma Under St. Helens (iMUSH) project.
Katherine Cross	Doctoral student, Information School	kcross1@uw.edu	Social media, online harassment, shaming, video gaming, nerd and tech culture, ethics of information technology, technology ethics education
Alison Cullen	Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	alison@uw.edu	Risk analysis, environmental policy, wildfire risk and management	policy risk analysis wildfire wildfires
Sara Curran	Professor, Jackson School of International Studies	scurran@uw.edu 206-459-9236	Impacts of climate change on people in the developing world, immigration, migration	climate change immigration migration
Karam Dana	Associate professor, Middle East and Islamic Studies	karam@uw.edu 425-352-5284	Religious influence on political identity, political and civic engagement of Muslims in Western contexts, specifically the U.S., Middle East public opinion, how state-society relations are transforming the Middle East	islam middle east muslims religion UW Bothell
Katie Davis	Associate professor, Information School	kdavis78@uw.edu	Technology's role in child/adolescent development and wellbeing; adolescents' technology use, family and friend relationships, online school experiences, and mental health during the coronavirus pandemic
Marine Denolle	Assistant professor, Earth and space sciences	mdenolle@uw.edu	ground motions, seismic monitoring, machine learning with seismic data	earthquakes
Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio	Associate professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, UW Tacoma	jdingpan@uw.edu 253-693-4823	Sources and fate of emerging organic contaminants, including PFCAs (perfluorinated carboxylic acids), PFCAs, PFOS and related human-made pollutants	environment UW Tacoma water quality
Nives Dolšak	Professor and director, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs	nives@uw.edu 206-685-2144	Climate change, policy, common pool resources
David Domke	Professor, Department of Communication	domke@uw.edu 206-543-2662	Political leadership, news coverage and social change, particularly the dynamics of post-9/11 America	communication media news politics
Alison Duvall	Associate professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	aduvall@uw.edu 206-221-8311	Hillsides, river channels, landslide history in Washington and Oregon	environment flooding landslides
Marc Eberhard	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	eberhard@uw.edu 206-715-9751	Reinforced concrete behavior and design; Earthquake engineering; Bridge engineering; Rapid construction	bridges concrete construction earthquake engineering
Kristie Ebi	Professor, Department of Global Health and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	krisebi@uw.edu 206-543-8440	Health risks of and responses to global change, particularly climate change	climate change global health health heatwave
Nicole Errett	Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	nerrett@uw.edu	Public health response, community resilience, health impacts of disaster, health care emergency preparedness
Nadine Fabbi	Managing director, Canadian Studies Center/Arctic & International Relations	nfabbi@uw.edu 206-543-6269	Arctic indigenous politics, Permanent Participants/Arctic Council, Inuit politics in Canada/globally	arctic canada Indigenous politics
Mary Fan	Professor, School of Law	mdfan@uw.edu 206-685-4971	Criminal law and procedure, policing, prosecution, evidence	congress immigration president
Megan Ming Francis	Associate professor, Department of Political Science	meganmf@uw.edu 206-685-2338	American politics, race, the development of constitutional law, black political activism, the construction of rights and citizenship	2020 election activism constitutional law politics race rights and citizenship
Jerry Franklin	Professor emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	jff@uw.edu 425-392-7655	Forest ecology, landscape ecology, disturbances, old-growth and forest management
Dargan Frierson	Associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	dargan@uw.edu 206-685-7364	Global precipitation and climate change, tropical regions and climate change, and climate solutions	climate change precipitation rain tropical
Jon Froehlich	Associate professor, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering	jonf@cs.uw.edu	Urban accessibility, assistive technology, physical computing	deaf education hearing human computer interactions sidewalk
Howard Frumkin	Professor emeritus, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	frumkin@uw.edu	Climate change and health, energy policy and health, the built environment and health, nature contact and health	climate change health
T.J. Fudge	Assistant research professor, Earth and space sciences	tjfudge@uw.edu 206-543-0162	Glaciers in Antarctica and Washington state	glaciers heatwave
Rachel Fyall	Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	fyall@uw.edu 206 616-7677	Involvement of nonprofit organizations in advocacy, policy, and the delivery of public services, particularly within the context of housing and homelessness	advocacy homelessness housing policy
Alex Gagnon	Assistant professor, School of Oceanography	gagnon@uw.edu 206 543-5627	Ocean acidification, corals	acidification corals ocean
Stephen Gardiner	Professor, Department of Philosophy	smgard@uw.edu 206-221-6459	Philosophical implications of geoengineering	geoengineering philosophy
Jim Gawel	Associate professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, UW Tacoma	jimgawel@uw.edu 253-692-5815	Transport of metal contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic systems, environmental chemistry, urban water management issues related to human influences	chemistry environment urban water UW Tacoma water quality
Fabio Ghironi	Professor, Department of Economics	ghiro@uw.edu	International macroeconomics, macroeconomics and monetary economics	economics economy macroeconomics
Deborah Giles	Killer whale researcher, Center for Conservation Biology	giles7@uw.edu 916-531-1516	Marine mammals of the Salish Sea, killer whale health, physiology and diet; Southern Resident orcas; orca population dynamics and reproduction, conservation biology, Salish Sea ecosystem health	biology killer whales orcas salish sea whales
David Ginger	Professor, Department of Chemistry	dginger@uw.edu 206-685-2331	Next generation solar cells including perovskites, polymers and quantum dots; microscopic characterization of advanced materials for solar power, energy efficient lighting and energy storage materials	efficient lighting solar
Hilary Godwin	Dean, School of Public Health		Translating public health communications and projections for a general audience; insights into how to make good, evidence-based decisions in times of uncertainty
Karen Fredriksen Goldsen	Professor, School of Social Work	fredrikk@uw.edu 206-543-5722	Aging, well-being and longevity, intergenerational solutions to reduce social isolation, health disparities and resilience among LGBTQ+ people and other underserved communities	aging equity LGBTQ
Frank Gonzalez	Affiliate professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	figonzal@uw.edu 206-290-0903	Earth motion and tsunami hazard; monitoring and prediction of tsunami risk	tsunami
Anne Goodchild	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	annegood@uw.edu 206-543-3747	Freight transportation, E-commerce and online shopping, Urban Freight Home delivery, UAV or drone delivery, Goods movement, Sustainable freight transportation, Transportation logistics
Steven Goodreau	Professor, Department of Anthropology	goodreau@uw.edu	Infectious disease modeling, HIV, gay/bisexual men's health, pandemics in history
Anthony Greenwald	Professor, Department of Psychology	agg@uw.edu 206-543-7227	Unconscious cognition, implicit bias, co-creator of the Implicit Association Test	equity implicit bias race
Jake Grumbach	Assistant professor, political science	grumbach@uw.edu	American politics, elections, voting, statistical methods, political economy, politics of race, business and labor	2020 election ballots elections politics voting
Daniel Grünbaum	Professor, School of Oceanography	random@uw.edu 206-221-6594	Developing low-cost sensors to detect harmful algal blooms	algae environment
Mary Kay Gugerty	Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	gugerty@uw.edu	Evaluation and impact measurement in the social sector; advocacy, accountability and voluntary regulation programs among nonprofit and NGOs; and health, agriculture and rural development in sub-Saharan Africa	advocacy philanthropy policy
Kevin Haggerty	Professor, School of Social Work	haggerty@uw.edu 206-543-3188	Marijuana use and youth development; prevention programs at the community, school and family level; the intersection of biological and environmental risks for drug abuse	cannabis drug abuse drugs marijuana prevention
Anjum Hajat	Associate professor, Department of Epidemiology	anjumh@uw.edu 206-685-3618	Air pollution (including from wildfires) impacts on disadvantaged populations, impacts of employment on health	air quality
Gregory Hakim	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	ghakim@uw.edu 206-685-2439	Weather and climate models	modeling snow weather
Crystal C. Hall	Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	hallcc@uw.edu 206-221-5237	Judgment and decision making, poverty and social welfare policy, and psychology and behavioral economics	economics economy policy poverty welfare
Mark Hallenbeck	Director, Washington State Transportation Center	tracmark@uw.edu 206-543-6261	Urban transportation planning and policy; electronic traffic monitoring; tolls; traffic simulations; intelligent transportation systems
Robert Halvorsen	Professor, Department of Economics	halvor@uw.edu 206-543-5546	Environmental economics, applied microeconomics and resource economics	economics economy microeconomics
Alexes Harris	Professor, Department of Sociology	yharris@uw.edu	Deviance and social control, juvenile justice, race and ethnicity, social stratification/inequality	ethnicity inequality race
Dennis Hartmann	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	dhartm@uw.edu 206-543-7460	Global climate change	climate change environment
Brian Harvey	Assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	bjharvey@uw.edu 206-685-9929 (desk) 650-521-1988 (mobile)	Wildfires, climate, ecology, resource management, forest disturbances
Rachel Heath	Associate professor, Department of Economics	rmheath@uw.edu 206-543-5796	Development economics, with a particular focus on gender and labor markets	economics economy markets
Jeffrey Heer	Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering	jheer@cs.washington.edu	Data visualization; human-computer interaction; the perceptual, cognitive and social factors involved in making sense of data, resulting in new interactive systems for visual analysis and communication	computer science
Donald Hellmann	Professor, Jackson School of International Studies	hellmann@uw.edu 206-543-4904	Geopolitical issues, American foreign policy, Japanese politics and the international political economy of East Asia	China Japan politics
Dr. Jeremy Hess	Professor, School of Medicine and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	jjhess@uw.edu 206-221-4059	Climate change health impacts, health care disaster risk management, public health adaptation to climate change, health effects of heat exposure, early warning systems	climate change forest fire heatwave wildfire
Paul Hessburg	Affiliate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	pfhess@uw.edu Desk: 509-664-1722 Mobile: 509-423-9269	Forest ecology, forest pathology, wildfire ecology, landscape ecology, climate change and wildfire, wildfire management	wildfire wildfires
Barbara Hickey	Professor emeritus, School of Oceanography	bhickey@uw.edu 360-825-3911	Coastal currents, harmful algal blooms, Columbia River freshwater plume, transport of harmful algae along the coast	algae environment
Heather Hill	Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	206-685-8041	Effects of poverty and low-wage work on families and children
Hugh Hillhouse	Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering	h2@uw.edu 206-685-5257	Conversion of sunlight into electricity; current solar cell technology (Silicon, CdTe, CIGS, tandems); next generation printable solar cells based on earth abundant materials and hybrid perovskites; conversion of chemical fuels into electricity	solar
Thomas Hinckley	Professor emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	hinckley@uw.edu 206-525-1396	Long-term research at Mount St. Helens, ecological lessons learned, pre- and post-1980 mountain, lessons learned on risks associated with volcanoes
Anne Hirsch	Associate professor, School of Nursing	hirsca2@uw.edu 509-385-7490	Nursing education
Shana Hirsch	Research scientist, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering	slhirsch@uw.edu (206)-384-7350	Marine renewable energy	climate change Columbia River Basin renewable energy restoration salmon science and society
Rodney JY Ho	Professor, School of Pharmacy		Anti-viral and COVID-19 drugs, HIV and cancer drug development, experimental treatment and prevention, global drug access, clinical virology, drug repurposing, translational medicine, mentoring medical scientists for research, developing products for medical impact
Anna Lauren Hoffmann	Assistant professor, Information School	alho@uw.edu 206-616-1198	Data ethics; Data and Society; Data, Fairness, and Discrimination
Paula Holmes-Eber	Affiliate professor, Jackson School of International Studies	pholmese@uw.edu	Culture and conflict in the Middle East, women and Islam, women and war in the Middle East, sectarianism and ethnic identity in the Middle East, U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq, new media/Internet and culture change, Arab spring	Afghanistan Arab Spring islam middle east
Robert Holzworth	Professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	bobholz@uw.edu 206-290-5182	Lightning, space plasma	lightning weather
Meredith Honig	Professor, College of Education	mihonig@uw.edu	School district decision-making	education
Heidi Houston	Professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	hhouston@uw.edu 206-616-7092	Deep earthquakes, slow-slip tremors	Cascadia earthquakes geology
Bill Howe	Associate professor, Information School	billhowe@uw.edu 206-221-9261	Scientific databases, data-intensive scalable computing, visualization, web services, cloud computing, citizen science	citizen science computer science data data science engineering informatics
Alex Hutko	Research seismologist, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network	ahutko@uw.edu (206) 685-9677	ShakeAlert earthquake early warning, regional earthquake monitoring, global seismology, large earthquakes	earthquakes
Tania Busch Isaksen	Senior lecturer, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	tania@uw.edu 206-685-4919	Safe workplaces, clean air, public health outcomes associated with extreme heat and wildfire smoke exposures, risk communication methods, climate change-related public health adaptation planning and response, sustainable materials management	air quality
Ann Ishimaru	Associate professor, College of Education	aishi@uw.edu 206-543-9840	educational equity, families and education, educational leadership and systems change, school-community relations, community organizing	education
Dan Jaffe	Professor and chair, Physical Sciences Division, UW Bothell	djaffe@uw.edu 425-352-5357	Particles in wildfire smoke, particle transport, wildfire plumes, air quality, atmospheric chemistry	air quality pollution smoke wildfire
Alex Jen	Professor emeritus, Department of Materials Science & Engineering	ajen@uw.edu 206-543-2626	Flexible solar cells made with roller coating and roll-to-roll printing; hybrid thin film	solar
Susan Joslyn	Associate professor, Department of Psychology	susanj@uw.edu	Decision-making, risk communication
Ian Joughin	Glaciologist, Applied Physics Laboratory	ian@apl.washington.edu 206-221-3177	Glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, global sea-level rise	Antarctica glaciers greenland ice polar science sea-level rise
Peter Kahn	Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and Department of Psychology	pkahn@uw.edu 206-616-9395	Nature's effects on health; using technology to simulate nature's benefits
Jonathan Kanter	Research associate professor, Department of Psychology	jonkan@uw.edu	Mental health consequences of the crisis and how to cope (especially stress and depression); social distancing, isolation, and the importance of staying connected; xenophobia and prejudice during the crisis	psychology
Catherine Karr	Professor, School of Medicine and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	ckarr@uw.edu 206-616-4355	Pediatric environmental health, air pollution, asthma, pesticides, global children’s environmental health, farmworker health
Reşat Kasaba	Professor, Jackson School of International Studies	kasaba@uw.edu 206-543-4373	State-society relations in the Middle East from a historical perspective, Turkey	middle east politics Turkey
Lynn Katz	Research professor, Department of Psychology	katzlf@uw.edu	Communicating with children about coronavirus; parenting in the context of coronavirus
Aaron B. Katz	Principal lecturer emeritus, Department of Health Systems & Population Health	garlyk@uw.edu 206-550-2277	Health care policy, public health policy, health care markets, health insurance markets, health care safety net, health care reform, Medicaid, ACA, global health policy, global AIDS policy
Dr. Joel Kaufman	Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and School of Medicine	joelk@uw.edu 206-616-3501	Environmental and occupational epidemiology, health effects of diesel exhaust exposures, environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease, traffic-related air pollution, environmental health
Rick Keil	Professor, School of Oceanography	rickkeil@uw.edu	Organic matter in aquatic environments, water quality, water testing	water quality
Deborah Kelley	Professor, School of Oceanography	dskelley@uw.edu 206-543-9279	Underwater volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, cabled deep-sea observatories	volcanoes
Maureen Kennedy	Assistant professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma	mkenn@uw.edu 253-692-4981	General regional wildfire issues, wildfire ecology, wildfire science, wildfire severity, strategies to reduce wildfire fuels, reducing fire hazards and impacts on wildlife and homes.	forest fire UW Tacoma wildfire
Bill Keough	Managing Director, Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Master’s program	wkeough@uw.edu	Supply chain and logistics	supply chain
Os Keyes	Doctoral student, Human Centered Design & Engineering	okeyes@uw.edu	Gender, disability, artificial intelligence, data ethics, facial recognition, medical AI	ethics LGBTQ
Julie Kientz	Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering	jkientz@uw.edu 206-221-0614	families, kids and technology; consumer health technologies; human-centered design; families using technology to navigate home-based learning during COVID-19 pandemic	family kids technology
Jason Kilmer	Associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	jkilmer@uw.edu 206-685-4512	Evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol, cannabis/marijuana, and other drug use by college students	alcohol drug abuse drugs marijuana prevention
Amy Kim	Affiliate assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering	amyakim@uw.edu 206-685-0228	Indoor (building) air quality during wildfire season
Teri King	Marine water quality specialist, Washington Sea Grant	guatemal@uw.edu 360-432-3054	Harmful algal bloom monitoring, shellfish/seafood safety, aquaculture, shellfish toxins	algae aquaculture seafood shellfish
Sharon Kioko	Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	skioko@uw.edu	Public finance (US states/local governments), tax policy, voter referendum and tax limitations, education finance (K-12), infrastructure finance/debt management
Daniel Kirschen	Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering	kirschen@uw.edu 206-543-2174	Smart grids, integration of renewable energy, power system economics, power system security, blackouts, electricity grid	brown out brownout energy heat wave heatwave natural gas power systems
Marieka Klawitter	Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	marieka@uw.edu 206-616-1673	Family and employment policy, gender, policy analysis, LGBTQ policy and savings and asset-building for low-income families	family gender income LGBTQ policy sexual orientation
Terrie Klinger	Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs	tklinger@uw.edu 206 685-2499	Managing natural resources in the ocean; ecological effects of environmental stressors, such as ocean acidification and habitat loss; how rocky intertidal communities respond to and recover from disturbance	acidification environment intertidal ocean
David Kohlbrenner	Assistant professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering	dkohlbre@cs.washington.edu	Security and privacy (computers, computer hardware, web browsers, internet-of-things), computer security competitions (e.g. Capture the Flag, DEFCON)	hacking
Ed Kolodziej	Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	koloj@uw.edu 253-692-5659	Water quality and organic contaminants in natural and engineered systems, particularly in urban environments and roadway runoff	contaminant removal mass spectrometry pollution Puget sound salmon stormwater tires
Gregory Korshin	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	korshin@uw.edu 206-543-2394	Corrosion, release of heavy metals (lead, copper) in drinking water and other water contaminants
Steven Kramer	Professor emeritus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	kramer@uw.edu 206-685-2642	Foundations, soil liquefaction
Meade Krosby	Senior scientist, Climate Impacts Group	mkrosby@uw.edu 206-579-8023	Climate change, wildlife movement, climate adaptation	heatwave
Kristin Laidre	Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	klaidre@uw.edu 206-616-9030	Arctic marine mammals (narwhals, bowhead whales, belugas) as well as baleen whales (humpbacks and fin whales)	beluga bowhead whales fin whales humpback whales marine mammals narwhals whales
Joshua Lawler	Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	jlawler@uw.edu	Nature’s health benefits, and the effectiveness of programs and policies designed to take advantage of those benefits. Director of UW's Nature and Health Initiative.
Ed Lazowska	Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering	lazowska@cs.washington.edu 206-543-4755	Techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery; information technology and public policy; design, implementation and analysis of high-performance computing and communications systems.
Randy LeVeque	Professor emeritus, Department of Applied Mathematics	rjl@uw.edu 206-685-3037	Modeling tsunamis and other geohazards in the Pacific Northwest	math modeling tsunami
Christine Lee	Research professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences	leecm@uw.edu 206-543-6574	Marijuana and young adults, high-risk behavior, alcohol, prevention, intervention	alcohol drug use drugs marijuana prevention
Dawn Lehman	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	delehman@uw.edu 206-715-2108	Concrete bridges, composite construction, concrete frames, concrete walls and structural steel braced frames	concrete construction infrastructure steel structures tsu
Scott Lemieux	Assistant teaching professor, Department of Political Science	slemieux@uw.edu	Supreme Court, electoral college, elections, impeachment, politics	2020 election electoral college supreme court voting
Liliana Lengua	Professor, Department of Psychology	liliana@uw.edu 206-543-5655	Children's resilience in economic disadvantage and adversity; children’s social, emotional and academic competence in the face of adversity
Tom Leschine	Professor emeritus, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs	tml@uw.edu 206-543-0117	Marine policy, risk management and policy	conservation marine science
Evelyn Lessard	Professor, School of Oceanography	elessard@uw.edu 206-543-8795	Harmful algal bloom dynamics and prediction, biological responses to ocean change	algae climate ecology environment
La TaSha Levy	Assistant professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies	levyl@uw.edu 206-543-4358	African American history, race and ethnicity, social justice, social change movements	ethnicity history race social change social justice
Taryn Lindhorst	Professor, School of Social Work	tarynlin@uw.edu	Grief/loss, death and dying, cancer, domestic violence, international child abduction
Clark Lombardi	Professor, School of Law	lombardi@uw.edu 206-543-4939	Islamic law, constitutional law, religion and the law	federal courts Islamic law religion
Jana Mohr Lone	Director, UW Center for Philosophy for Children / Affiliate Associate Professor	mohrlone@uw.edu	Philosophical abilities of children and youth	philosophy youth
James D. Long	Associate professor, Department of Political Science	jdlong@uw.edu 206-543-2947	Elections in fragile and developing countries, voting behavior and turnout, election fraud, corruption, electoral violence, Afghanistan, Africa	2020 election corruption election politics voting
Mark Long	Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	marklong@uw.edu 206-543-3787	Policies that affect transitions from high school to college to the labor market	economics income minimum wage policy
Gabriel Lotto	ShakeAlert User Engagement Facilitator, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network	glotto@uw.edu	ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system; tsunamis; subduction zone earthquakes
George Lovell	Professor, Department of Political Science	glovell@uw.edu 206-543-2780	American political institutions, political development, social movements and constitutional theory	constitution politics social movements
Jessica Lundquist	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	jdlund@uw.edu 206-685-7594	Mountain snow, snow melt and streams
Christine Luscombe	Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering	luscombe@uw.edu 206-616-1220	Design and synthesis of novel organic materials (polymers and macromolecules) for solar applications and flexible electronic devices; emphasis on using less toxic and more environmentally friendly materials	clean energy solar
Parker MacCready	Research professor, School of Oceanography	pmacc@uw.edu 206-685-9588	Modeling of ocean circulation; chemistry and biological properties in the Salish Sea and coastal waters of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia	algae modeling tsunami
Devin MacKenzie	Associate professor, Department of Materials Sciences & Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering	jdmacken@uw.edu 206-221-0309	Scale-up and applications of printed electronics and emerging thin film electronic material such as solar materials and energy storage devices	clean energy solar
Don MacKenzie	Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	dwhm@uw.edu 206-685-7198	Electric vehicles, shared use transportation services, energy use in transportation sector	bike shares bike sharing discrimination e-scooters Lyft rental scooters ride-share scooter sharing Uber
Stephen Majeski	Professor, Department of Political science	majeski@uw.edu 206-543-9648	U.S. foreign policy	foreign policy policy politics
Steve Malone	Research professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	smalone@uw.edu 206-685-3811	Regional earthquake and volcanic hazards; helped to monitor and study the first major modern eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.	earthquakes Mount St. Helens
Lisa Manheim	Associate professor, School of Law	manheim@uw.edu 206-685-2546	election law, disputed elections, constitutional law, presidential power, Supreme Court, federal courts	2020 election constitutional law elections presidential power supreme court
Laurie Marhoefer	Associate professor, Department of History	marl@uw.edu 206-685-5085	Gender, sexuality and LGBT/queer politics in the 20th century United States and Europe, and German electoral politics in the 1920s	antifa fascism gender history LGBTQ politics queer
Julian Marshall	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	jdmarsh@uw.edu (206) 685-2591	Models and measurements of people's exposure to air pollution, investigating ways to reduce exposures, environmental justice and disparities in exposure, exposures in the United States and in low-income countries	air pollution environmental justice
Cliff Mass	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	cmass@uw.edu 206-685-0910	Weather prediction and modeling	snow weather
Guillaume Mauger	Research scientist, Climate Impacts Group	gmauger@uw.edu	Pacific Northwest climate change impacts and adaptation with a focus on flooding and water supply
Ryan McCabe	Research scientist, The Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies	rmccabe@uw.edu 206-685-0599	Currently leads the UW’s coastal modeling and prediction project, which includes forecasts of harmful algal blooms	algae coast modeling
Michael McCann	Professor, Department of Political Science	mwmccann@uw.edu 206-543-2780	Politics of low-wage workers, minority race workers, gender and work, market segmentation and labor unions, economic and wage inequity	economics economy gender labor politics race
Don McKenzie	Affiliate assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	dmck@uw.edu 206-732-7824	Forest ecology, wildfire ecology, landscape ecology, climate change
Lynn McMurdie	Research associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	lynnm@uw.edu 206-685-9405	Weather, thunderstorms, storms over mountain ranges	snow
Victor Menaldo	Professor, Department of Political Science	vmenaldo@uw.edu 206-543-2769	Political economy of natural resources and property rights, including intellectual property rights, and regime change	economy intellectual property property rights regime change
Scott Meschke	Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	jmeschke@uw.edu	Environmental virology
Ian Miller	Coastal hazards specialist, Washington Sea Grant	immiller@uw.edu 360-417-6460	Helping coastal communities with issues including sea-level rise and tsunamis; studying historical data and current tsunami-related debris on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula	peninsula sea-level rise tsunami
Kristen Missall	Professor, College of Education	kmissall@uw.edu 206-616-9689	early skill development, school readiness, school transition and early school adjustment for ages 3-8; director of the School Psychology Program	education
David Montgomery	Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	bigdirt@uw.edu 206-685-2560	Dirt formation, transport, movement, geology, soil health	dirt geology soil
Scott Montgomery	Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies	scottlm@uw.edu 206-897-1611	Arctic and oil, oil and gas (reserves, technology, prices, politics), fracking, nuclear power, worked 25 years in the energy industry	arctic energy fracking nuclear power oil
Sue Moore	Research scientist, Center for Ecosystem Sentinels	moore4@uw.edu	Ecology, bio-acoustics and natural history of whales and dolphins; emphasis on marine mammals in the Pacific Arctic region	bio-acoustics bioacoustics dolphins marine mammals whales
Kristi Morgansen	Professor and Chair, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics	morgansen@aa.washington.edu 206-616-5950	Aerospace engineering, bioinspired sensing and control, sensor networks, remote sensing
Jamie Morison	Polar scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory	morison@apl.washington.edu 206-543-1394	Present and future conditions in the Arctic Ocean and Chukchi Sea, sea ice and sea ice seasonality	arctic ocean polar science
Steve Muench	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	stmuench@uw.edu 206-616-1259	Infrastructure construction (bridges, roads, dams, etc.), Transportation infrastructure sustainability, Sustainability rating systems, Roads and pavements
Sean Munson	Associate professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering	smunson@uw.edu	Consumer health technologies, health-tracking technologies, patient-provider collaboration, human-centered design, design and mental health	exercise fitness health
Robert Naiman	Professor emeritus, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences	naiman@uw.edu	River ecology, watershed management, river restoration	rivers
Rebecca Neumann	Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	rbneum@uw.edu 206-221-2298	Arsenic and other metal contamination in groundwater; plants and contamination; climate change; water quality/storm water; and food quality
Jan Newton	Oceanographer, UW Applied Physics Laboratory	newton@apl.washington.edu 206-543-9152	Ocean observing, ocean acidification and phytoplankton in Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest waters	heatwave
Peter Nicolas	Professor, School of Law	pnicolas@uw.edu 206-685-2459	LGBTQ issues, civil rights, affirmative action, constitutional law, music law, First Amendment issues	affirmative action civil rights First Amendment LGBTQ music law
Anthony Odell	Research analyst, UW’s Olympic Natural Resources Center	odellamo@uw.edu 360-593-2398	Surveying extent of current West Coast harmful algal bloom; sampling shellfish and water quality along Washington’s outer coast; responding to bloom events on Washington’s outer coast	algae
Dennis O’Dea	Senior lecturer, Department of Economics	odea@uw.edu	Public economies, social networks and applied macroeconomics	economics economy macroeconomics social media
Margaret O’Mara	Professor, Department of History	momara@uw.edu 206-685-2928	Tech history and tech regulation, American presidents and American politics, work and workers, past and future of cities	2020 election history silicon valley technology
Soojin Oh Park	Assistant professor, College of Education	parkso@uw.edu	Early childhood development, parenting, race and income equity, immigrant-origin children, family engagement	education
Christopher Parker	Professor, Department of Political Science	csparker@uw.edu 206-543-2947	American politics, civil rights, minority and race politics, social movements, public opinion and survey research methods	2020 election politics polling race
Robert Pavia	Affiliate associate professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs	bobpavia@uw.edu 425-502-5243	Scientific aspects of oil spills, preparedness and general oil spill response issues	oil spill oil spills water
Diana Pearce	Senior lecturer, School of Social Work	pearce@uw.edu	Income inequality	coronavirus COVID-19 income inequality
David Peterson	Affiliate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	wild@uw.edu 206-732-7812	Wildfire ecology, forest ecology, climate change, natural resource management
Noam Pianko	Director, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies	npianko@uw.edu	History of Israel; modern Jewish history; Zionism; American Judaism
Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky	Associate professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies	cpt4@uw.edu 206-543-6363	Immigration and citizenship, Latinx studies, race relations, labor, illegality and the everyday experiences of societal membership as undocumented migrants and members of mixed-status families	citizenship family immigration labor latino latinx race
Robert Plotnick	Professor emeritus, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance	plotnick@uw.edu 206-930-5111	American poverty, income inequality, income support policy and social policy issues	economics economy income inequality policy poverty
Brian Polagye	Associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering	bpolagye@uw.edu 206-543-7544	Marine renewable energy (wave, tidal, riverine and offshore wind)
Matthew J. Powers	Associate Professor, Department of Communication	mjpowers@uw.edu 802-922-3364	Media	2020 election communication media
Aseem Prakash	Professor, Department of Political Science	aseem@uw.edu 425-681-5097	Environmental policy, climate governance, NGOs and nonprofits, and voluntary/private regulation	2020 election environmental policy politics
Susan Prichard	Fire ecologist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	sprich@uw.edu 509-341-4493	Wildfire ecology, climate change and fire, wildfire management, fuel treatment effectiveness, dry forest restoration, changing landscapes (legacies of fire exclusion, recent wildfires and climate change).	climate change ecology forest restoration wildfire wildfires
Peter Rabinowitz	Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences		Emerging infectious diseases, zoonotic infectious diseases, One Health
Adrian Raftery	Professor, Department of Statistics, Department of Sociology	raftery@uw.edu	Interpreting COVID-19 data, understanding different COVID-19 data sources and statistics	COVID-19 data statistics
Anita Ramasastry	Professor, School of Law	arama@uw.edu	Supply chains, workers rights, business and contract issues
Jessica Ray	Assistant professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	jessray@uw.edu	Contaminants in stormwater; current green stormwater infrastructure and best management practices; reactive media that can increase contaminant removal; sources of PFAS in water; PFAS properties; current treatment processes for PFAS in water	PFAS salmon stormwater
Crystal Raymond	Climate adaptation specialist, Climate Impacts Group	clrfire@uw.edu 206-616-4304	Climate change and wildfires, climate adaptation and impact on risk of forest fires
Mouse Reusch	Regional ShakeAlert coordinator, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network	topo@uw.edu 206-462-8874	Pacific Northwest earthquakes, seismic risk, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system	earthquakes shake alert shakealert
Marilyn Roberts	Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	marilynr@uw.edu	Contamination and disinfection in the environment and on surfaces
Charles Roeder	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	croeder@uw.edu 206-543-6199	Gusset plates and steel bracing frames; seismic behavior of steel and composite structures; fatigue of steel structures; temperature effects in structures; movements in bridges; bridge bearings and expansion joints	bridges construction earthquakes infrastructure
Franziska Roesner	Associate professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering	franzi@cs.washington.edu	Computer security and privacy, online mis/disinformation, online advertising and tracking	2020 election
Roger Roffman	Professor emeritus, School of Social Work	roffman@uw.edu 206-915-6544	Behavioral interventions in the fields of addicted disorders and domestic violence	addiction domestic violence social work
Jennie Romich	Associate professor, School of Social Work	romich@uw.edu	Poverty, government policies to address inequities	income inequality poverty
Elaina Rose	Associate professor, Department of Economics	erose@uw.edu 206-543-5237	Labor economics, development economics and applied microeconomics	economics economy labor microeconomics
Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar	Assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology	rowhani@uw.edu 206-221-1602	Injuries and adverse events with the goal of enhancing safety, impact of marijuana use on motor vehicle collisions	epidemiology
Chris Rudell	Associate professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering	jcrudell@uw.edu 206-685-1600	Wireless communication systems; integrated circuit design, particularly in CMOS technology; analog, mixed-signal, radio- and high-frequency millimeter wave circuit design; integrated neural interfaces; all-CMOS integrated Positron Emission Tomography front-end readout electronics; biomedical integrated circuits
Adrienne Russell	Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication	adruss@uw.edu	Communications and media	activism communication media
Dr. Coralynn Sack	Acting assistant professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and School of Medicine		Lung problems, health effects of smoky air	air quality wildfire
Tatiana Sadak	Associate professor, School of Nursing	sadakt@uw.edu	Geriatric mental health, multi-morbidity, caregiving, dementia, and educating nurses during pandemic
Eric Salathé	Associate professor, School of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, UW Bothell	salathe@uw.edu 206-616-5351	Pacific Northwest climate change, extreme weather events	climate change flooding UW Bothell weather
Ilene Schwartz	Professor, College of Education	ilene@uw.edu 206-616-3450	special education, inclusion, behavorial interventions, autism	education
Pepper Schwartz	Professor, Department of Sociology	couples@uw.edu 206-543-4036	Sexuality, marriage, cohabitation, gender, women’s issues, parent and child issues, communication between men and women in intimate and work relationships	communication family gender LGBTQ marriage relationships sexuality
Dan Schwartz	Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering	dts@uw.edu	Clean energy research, Washington Clean Energy test-beds, energy storage, accelerating global clean energy development and integration	clean energy
Axel Schweiger	Polar scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory	axel@apl.washington.edu 206-543-1312	Sea ice volume, Arctic weather, polar science	arctic climate change physics polar science sea ice weather
Chirag Shah	Associate professor, Information School	chirags@uw.edu	misinformation and search engines, search and recommender systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence	fake news Google Google searches music playlists Spotify
Nancy Simcox	Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	nsimcox@uw.edu	Use of cleaners and disinfectants in the workplace, green cleaning, and transitioning to safer chemicals
Kate Simonen	Assistant professor, Department of Architecture	ksimonen@uw.edu 206-685-7282	High-performance building systems and environmental life cycle assessment of buildings, explaining engineering concepts to non-technical audiences	architecture infrastructure
Jane Simoni	Professor, Department of Psychology	jsimoni@uw.edu	coping with COVID-19 trauma, chronic illness and other stressful life events; behavioral and e-health interventions; living with HIV; culturally relevant disease prevention; LGBTQ concerns	psychology
Christopher Simpson	Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	simpson1@uw.edu 206-543-3222	Air pollution monitoring and modeling, wood smoke, ambient air pollutants, diesel exhaust, indoor air, pesticides, trace contaminants	wildfires
Mark Smith	Professor, Department of Political Science	masmith@uw.edu 206-616-3606	Public opinion, interest groups, political communication, political economy and public policy	2020 election elections politics polling public policy voting
Amy Snover	Director, Climate Impacts Group	aksnover@uw.edu 206-221-0222	Climate change effects in the Pacific Northwest and strategies for building resilience. Co-authored numerous regional reports on effects of climate change and guides for preparing. Works with regional communities, governments and businesses on preparing for and adapting to climate change.	heatwave
Dr. June Spector	Associate professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences	spectj@uw.edu	Heat exposure and other climate-related hazards in working populations	heatwave
Emma Spiro	Assistant professor, Information School	espiro@uw.edu	misinformation in social media, including disaster and crisis events; information flow; social behavior and social interaction; collective sensemaking; attention dynamics; role of emergency responders; and computational and data science methods.
Hugh Spitzer	Professor, School of Law	spith@uw.edu 206-685-1635	Constitutional law, federalism, legal ethics and professional responsibility, state and local government law, comparative constitutionalism
Kate Stafford	Principal oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory	kate2@uw.edu 206-685-8617	Arctic Ocean environment and marine mammals, including blue whales, bowhead and beluga whales; Sound-based monitoring of whales	beluga blue whales bowhead Chile orcas whales
John Stanton	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	stanton@uw.edu 206-543-6057	General bridge knowledge; earthquake engineering, including seismic isolation; precast and pre-stressed concrete structures; concrete bridges	bridges concrete earthquake engineering
Bill Steele	Director of outreach and information services, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network	wsteele@uw.edu 206-685-5880	Regional earthquake, volcano and tsunami hazards, risk communication, tours of the UW seismology lab, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning
Eric Steig	Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences	steig@uw.edu 206-685-3715	Antarctic glaciers, Antarctic ice cores, El Niño cycles	Antarctica El Nino glaciers ice weather
Nephi Stella	Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences	nstella@uw.edu 206-221-5220	Marijuana and neuropathologies, multiple sclerosis	marijuana multiple sclerosis
Kristi Straus	Associate director, Program on the Environment	kmstraus@uw.edu	Sustainability, personal choices, sustainable behavior
Stuart Streichler	Affiliate associate professor, Law, Societies and Justice Program	sstreich@uw.edu 206-842-4902	Presidential campaigns, law, Supreme Court, constitutional law, law and race	law race supreme court UW Bothell
Jennifer Stuber	Associate professor, School of Social Work	jstuber@uw.edu 206-616-9083	Suicide prevention, mental health policy, social justice, stigma and discrimination, health disparities among vulnerable populations	discrimination forefront mental health suicide
Abigail Swann	Associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Biology	aswann@uw.edu 206-616-0486	Vegetation and global climate	biology climate change ecosystem plants
Pooja Tandon	Associate professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	pooja@uw.edu	Strategies for play and exercise for children during COVID-19 restrictions. Research is on preventing childhood obesity and the connection between outdoor play, physical activity and various health and development outcomes in preschool-age children.
LuAnne Thompson	Professor, School of Oceanography	luanne@uw.edu 206-543-9965	The ocean's role in climate variability and change, marine heatwaves, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation	climate climate change models sea-level rise
Riki Thompson	Associate Professor, Writing Studies & Digital Rhetoric at UW Tacoma	rikitiki@uw.edu 206-355-5474	Intersections of language, technology, identity, and interpersonal connectivity with a focus on how people negotiate digital spaces to connect with (and exclude) others	digital communication online dating pandemic dating self-representation online social media and society teaching with technology visual communication
Jim Thomson	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	jthomson@apl.washington.edu 206-616-0858	Wave hazards in the Arctic Ocean	arctic ocean waves
Joel Thornton	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	joelt@uw.edu 206-543-4010	Tracking wildfire smoke impacts on air quality and climate, detecting emissions
Judith Thornton	Professor emeritus, Department of Economics	thornj@uw.edu 206-543-5784	Development economics and political economy	economics economy
Rebecca Thorpe	Associate professor, Department of Political Science	bthorpe@uw.edu 206-543-6493	United States political institutions, political development, state violence, the national security state, criminal justice system	Afghanistan criminal justice system politics terrorism
Harold Tobin	Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	htobin@uw.edu 206-543-6790	Earthquakes, Cascadia subduction zone, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system, global plate tectonics	Cascadia earthquakes PNSN shakealert subduction tsunami
Vera Trainer	Affiliate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences	vera.l.trainer@noaa.gov 206-860-6788	Early detection of toxic algae blooms, impact on coastal fisheries, conditions that influence bloom development	algae coast environmental NOAA
Kathy Troost	Associate teaching professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences	ktroost@uw.edu 206-221-1770	Landslides, Seattle geology, Puget Lowland geology, geologic hazard mapping
Ka-Kit Tung	Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics	ktung@uw.edu	Modeling COVID-19 outbreaks, projecting public health impact, comparing different types of modeling approaches
Stephen Turnovsky	Professor, Department of Economics	sturn@uw.edu 206-685-8028	Economic growth, macroeconomics and international macroeconomics and public economies	economics economy macroeconomics
Jacob Vigdor	Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance	jvigdor@uw.edu 206-616-4436	Immigration policy, racial and economic inequality, minimum wage	economics economy minimum wage race
Denise Walker	Research associate professor, School of Social Work	ddwalker@uw.edu 206-543-7511	Development, testing and implementation of interventions that bring about positive changes in patterns of behavior; treatment of marijuana disorders in both adolescents and adults
Camille Walsh	Associate professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell	camwalsh@uw.edu 425-352-3352	Immigration law	immigration law UW Bothell
Yinhai Wang	Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering	yinhai@uw.edu	Transportation safety, traffic sensing, smart infrastructure and mobility, connected and automated vehicles, traffic operations, smart cities, artificial intelligence methods and applications	bike biking pedestrians
Joseph Wartman	Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering	wartman@uw.edu 206-685-4806	Natural hazards, disasters, landslides	landslides natural disaster
Stacey Wedlake	Research scientist, Information School	staceyaw@uw.edu	Digital equity, digital inequalities, digital divides, adult digital literacy — mostly focused in the United States
Jevin West	Associate professor, Information School	jevinw@uw.edu 206-543-2646	Misinformation, evolution of science, the models and science used to predict the spread of COVID-19	disinformation misinformation
William Wilcock	Professor, School of Oceanography	wilcock@uw.edu 206-543-6043	Marine geology, monitoring seafloor earthquakes, Cascadia subduction zone	Cascadia earthquakes geology subduction zones
John Wilkerson	Professor, Department of Political Science	jwilker@u.washington.edu 206-543-8030	Legislative organization and decision-making, health politics, comparative legislative studies	legislative legislator politics waleg
Daniela Witten	Professor, Department of Biostatistics; Department of Statistics	dwitten@uw.edu 206-616-7182	Machine learning for big data, with applications to genomics, neuroscience, and other fields
Kathleen Wolf	Research social scientist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences	kwolf@uw.edu	Nature-based human health, environmental health, environmental psychology, urban ecosystems, urban forestry, urban planning, green schoolyards
Rob Wood	Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences	robwood@atmos.washington.edu 206-543-1203	Clouds, marine brightening, climate change, climate variability	climate clouds
Rebecca Woodgate	Associate professor, School of Oceanography	woodgate@apl.washington.edu 206-221-3268	Arctic Ocean environment, especially in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea	arctic ocean sea
Paul Yager	Professor, Department of Bioengineering	yagerp@uw.edu	Microfluidics, bioassay development for detection of pathogens and assays for biomarkers of human health, home diagnostics and point-of-care diagnostics development, biophysics.	bacteria virus
Jinkyu "JK" Yang	Associate professor, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics	jkyang@aa.washington.edu	metamaterials, composites, origami-inspired material/structure design
Michael Yost	Professor and chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	airion@uw.edu 206-685-7243	Agricultural safety and health, ambient air pollutants, children’s health, climate change, diesel exhaust, pesticides, noise, vibration exposure	coronavirus COVID PPE wildfire
Lori Zoellner	Professor, Department of Psychology	zoellner@uw.edu 206-685-3126	Post-traumatic stress disorder; anxiety and trauma among refugees and immigrants	anxiety immigration mental health PTSD refugees

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