University of Washington experts
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![]() | Alexandra Anderson-Frey | Assistant professor, Atmospheric Sciences | Tornadoes and severe storms |
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![]() | Christopher Adolph | Associate professor, Department of Political Science | Comparative political economy, public policy and administration |
economics |
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![]() | James Agee | Emeritus professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Wildfire ecology, fire science, fuels management, fire severity |
wildfire |
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![]() | Mika Ahuvia | Assistant professor, Jackson School of International Studies | Archaeology of the Middle East, especially related to ancient Judaism and Christianity |
archaeology |
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![]() | Scott Allard | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Poverty and inequality, safety net policy and urban policy |
inequality |
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![]() | Gunnar Almgren | Professor emeritus, School of Social Work | Social welfare and health care policy; government health care systems; disparities in health and health care; poverty and inequality |
inequality |
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![]() | Ernesto Alvarado | Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Forest fire ecology, fire management, prescribed fire, smoke emissions, climate change, tropical forestry, landscape, international forestry, modeling |
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![]() | Robert Anderson | Professor, School of Law | Public lands management, Native American issues, water and other natural resources, law |
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![]() | Cecilia Aragon | Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering | Human-centered data science; data visualization; visual analytics; human-computer interaction; data-intensive discovery; human-centered natural language processing. |
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![]() | Virginia Armbrust | Professor, School of Oceanography | Diatom genetics, DNA-based investigations of marine microbe communities |
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![]() | Brian Atwater | Affiliate professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Tsunami hazards, especially from earthquakes; transoceanic tsunamis; historic tsunamis including the 1700 Cascadia earthquake |
tsunami |
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![]() | Ryan Avery | Senior research engineer, Washington State Transportation Center | Transportation, planning, demand modeling, incidents, public transit, travel behavior, data analysis for transportation, tolling, congestion & capacity |
bridges |
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![]() | Jared Baeten | Professor, Department of Global Health, Department of Epidemiology and Department of Medicine | Infectious disease physician, public health, global health, epidemiology |
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![]() | Joel Baker | Science director, Center for Urban Waters | Transport of organic contaminants in the environment, oil spills and water contamination, particularly in urban environments. |
chemistry |
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![]() | Marissa Baker | Assistant professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | 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 |
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![]() | Jeff Ban | Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | modeling, simulating and managing multimodal transportation systems to control congestion and reduce energy use and emissions |
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![]() | Janet Baseman | Professor, Department of Epidemiology | Epidemiology, public health practice, public health surveillance, public health emergency preparedness and response systems |
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![]() | David Battisti | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Food security and climate change, geoengineering, long-term climate cycles |
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![]() | Betty Bekemeier | Professor, School of Nursing | Local public health department practice, systems, workforce, and funding; public health practice strengths and needs in the wake of COVID-19 |
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![]() | Emily M. Bender | Professor, Department of Linguistics | Natural language processing; ethics and natural language processing; fairness, transparency and accountability in natural language processing and AI more broadly; multilingual natural language processing. |
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![]() | George Bergantz | Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. Numerical modeling, lab experiments and field studies. |
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![]() | Carl Bergstrom | Professor, Department of Biology | Behavior, evolution and systematics, mathematical and computational biology |
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![]() | Jeffrey Berman | Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Steel structures; seismic design and blast considerations for steel structures |
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![]() | Arbella Bet-Shlimon | Associate Professor | modern Middle East history |
history |
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![]() | Cecilia Bitz | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Arctic sea ice, climate change |
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![]() | Paul Bodin | Research professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Seismicity, seismic wave propagation and aftershock probabilities in the Pacific Northwest; earthquake sources; earthquake early warning system |
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![]() | Nick Bond | Affiliate associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Washington’s state climatologist, can comment on historic trends, recent events and the seasonal outlook |
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![]() | Ann Bostrom | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Risk perception, risk communication, and decision making under uncertainty |
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![]() | Jody Bourgeois | Professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Global tsunamis, history of tsunamis generated by earthquakes and asteroid impact |
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![]() | Karen Boxx | Professor, School of Law | Marijuana legalization |
cannabis |
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![]() | Trevor Branch | Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences | 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 |
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![]() | Rovy Branon | Vice provost, University of Washington Continuum College | Online learning, learning technology development, fee-based degrees and certificate programs, instructional design |
certificate programs |
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![]() | Chris Bretherton | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Applied Mathematics | Clouds, atmospheric convection, and their roles in climate and climate change |
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![]() | Philip Brock | Associate professor, Department of Economics | Brock studies development economics, financial economics, international finance and macroeconomics |
economics |
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![]() | Sally Brown | Research associate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Contaminated soils, risks, waste (compost municipal wastewater) soil amendments, carbon accounting |
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![]() | Benjamin M. Brunjes | Assistant Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | American political institutions and processes; Public administration – bureaucracy, management, organization theory, ethics; and Public finance and procurement – budgeting, tax policy, government contracting |
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![]() | Karin Bumbaco | Assistant state climatologist | Questions or data inquiries on Washington weather trends in the context of historical data. Publishes the monthly newsletter on statewide trends and forecasts. |
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![]() | Gerard Cangelosi | Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Screening, self-sampling, infectious disease emergence, occupational exposure, global health |
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![]() | Beatriz (Bia) Carlini | Senior research scientist, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute | Tobacco cessation and brief interventions for substance use disorders using technology |
cannabis |
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![]() | Manuel Castellote | Research scientist, UW Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean | Whales’ vocal communication, echolocation and hearing; effects of noise on whales |
echolocation |
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![]() | Angelica Chazaro | Assistant professor, School of Law | Immigration and refugee law and policy, provision of immigration legal services, immigrant rights movements, criminalization of immigrants, vulnerable immigrant populations |
immigration |
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![]() | Shuyi Chen | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Tropical meteorology, air-sea interactions, mesoscale dynamics, numerical modeling |
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![]() | Sapna Cheryan | Professor, Department of Psychology | The role of cultural stereotypes in human behavior, gender stereotypes, immigration, race relations, women’s under-representation in computer science |
gender |
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![]() | Daniel Chirot | Professor, Jackson School of International Studies | Tyranny, genocide, war, conflict mitigation, the role of ideas in shaping our world, social change, the Tea Party |
conflict |
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![]() | Chris Coward | Senior principal research scientist, Information School | Incorporating research on misinformation into new information literacy guidelines and learning resources. |
disinformation |
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![]() | Kenneth Creager | Professor, Earth & Space Sciences | Slow slip and tremor; imaging of Earth’s mantle; a lead investigator on the Imaging Magma Under St. Helens (iMUSH) project. |
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![]() | Alison Cullen | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Risk analysis, environmental policy, wildfire risk and management |
policy |
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![]() | Sara Curran | Professor, Jackson School of International Studies | Impacts of climate change on people in the developing world, immigration, migration |
climate change |
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![]() | Karam Dana | Associate professor, Middle East and Islamic Studies | 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 |
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![]() | Katie Davis | Associate professor, Information School | 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 |
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![]() | Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio | Associate professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program, UW Tacoma | Sources and fate of emerging organic contaminants, including PFCAs (perfluorinated carboxylic acids), PFCAs, PFOS and related human-made pollutants |
environment |
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![]() | Nives Dolšak | Professor and director, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs | Climate change, policy, common pool resources |
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![]() | David Domke | Professor, Department of Communication | Political leadership, news coverage and social change, particularly the dynamics of post-9/11 America |
communication |
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![]() | Dennis Donovan | Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Etiological and risk factors associated with alcohol and drug use, abuse and dependence, including marijuana; assessment of addictive behaviors; treatment-seeking behavior among substance abusers |
alcohol |
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![]() | Alison Duvall | Associate professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Hillsides, river channels, landslide history in Washington and Oregon |
environment |
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![]() | Marc Eberhard | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Reinforced concrete behavior and design; Earthquake engineering; Bridge engineering; Rapid construction |
bridges |
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![]() | Kristie Ebi | Professor, Department of Global Health and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Health risks of and responses to global change, particularly climate change |
climate change |
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![]() | Nicole Errett | Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Public health response, community resilience, health impacts of disaster, health care emergency preparedness |
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![]() | Nadine Fabbi | Managing director, Canadian Studies Center/Arctic & International Relations | Arctic indigenous politics, Permanent Participants/Arctic Council, Inuit politics in Canada/globally |
arctic |
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![]() | Mary Fan | Professor, School of Law | Enforcement discretion over immigration, relative powers of Congress and the president |
congress |
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![]() | Megan Ming Francis | Associate professor, Department of Political Science | American politics, race, the development of constitutional law, black political activism, the construction of rights and citizenship |
2020 election |
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![]() | Jerry Franklin | Professor emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Forest ecology, landscape ecology, disturbances, old-growth and forest management |
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![]() | Dargan Frierson | Associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Global precipitation and climate change. Tropical regions and climate change |
climate change |
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![]() | Howard Frumkin | Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Climate change and health, energy policy and health, the built environment and health |
climate change |
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![]() | Rachel Fyall | Assistant professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Involvement of nonprofit organizations in advocacy, policy, and the delivery of public services, particularly within the context of housing and homelessness |
advocacy |
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![]() | Alex Gagnon | Assistant professor, School of Oceanography | Ocean acidification, corals |
acidification |
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![]() | Stephen Gardiner | Professor, Department of Philosophy | Philosophical implications of geoengineering |
geoengineering |
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![]() | Jim Gawel | Associate professor, environmental chemistry and engineering | Transport of metal contaminants in terrestrial and aquatic systems, environmental chemistry, urban water management issues related to human influences |
chemistry |
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![]() | Fabio Ghironi | Professor, Department of Economics | International macroeconomics, macroeconomics and monetary economies |
economics |
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![]() | Deborah Giles | Killer whale researcher, Center for Conservation Biology | 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 |
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![]() | David Ginger | Professor, Department of Chemistry | 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 |
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![]() | 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 |
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![]() | Karen Fredriksen Goldsen | Professor, School of Social Work | Aging and well-being, health disparities among LGBT older adults |
aging |
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![]() | Frank Gonzalez | Affiliate professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Earth motion and tsunami hazard; monitoring and prediction of tsunami risk |
tsunami |
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![]() | Anne Goodchild | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Freight transportation, E-commerce and online shopping, Urban Freight Home delivery, UAV or drone delivery, Goods movement, Sustainable freight transportation, Transportation logistics |
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![]() | Steven Goodreau | Professor, Department of Anthropology | Pandemics in history, stigmatizing groups during pandemics |
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![]() | Anthony Greenwald | Professor, Department of Psychology | Unconscious cognition, implicit bias, co-creator of the Implicit Association Test |
equity |
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![]() | Jake Grumbach | Assistant professor, political science | American politics, elections, voting, statistical methods, political economy, politics of race, business and labor |
2020 election |
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![]() | Daniel Grünbaum | Professor, School of Oceanography | Developing low-cost sensors to detect harmful algal blooms |
algae |
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![]() | Carlos Guestrin | Associate professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering | Machine learning, graph analytics. Co-founder of GraphLab Inc. |
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| Kevin Haggerty | Professor, School of Social Work | 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 |
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![]() | Anjum Hajat | Assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology | Air pollution (including from wildfires) impacts on disadvantaged populations |
air quality |
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![]() | Gregory Hakim | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Weather and climate models |
modeling |
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![]() | Crystal C. Hall | Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Judgment and decision making, poverty and social welfare policy, and psychology and behavioral economics |
economics |
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![]() | Mark Hallenbeck | Director, Washington State Transportation Center | Urban transportation planning and policy; electronic traffic monitoring; tolls; traffic simulations; intelligent transportation systems |
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![]() | Robert Halvorsen | Professor, Department of Economics | Environmental economics, applied microeconomics and resource economics |
economics |
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![]() | Alexes Harris | Professor, Department of Sociology | Deviance and social control, juvenile justice, race and ethnicity, social stratification/inequality |
ethnicity |
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![]() | Dennis Hartmann | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Global climate change |
climate change |
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![]() | Brian Harvey | Assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Wildfires, climate, ecology, resource management, forest disturbances |
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![]() | Rachel Heath | Associate professor, Department of Economics | Development economics, with a particular focus on gender and labor markets |
economics |
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![]() | Jeffrey Heer | Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering | 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 |
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![]() | Donald Hellmann | Professor, Jackson School of International Studies | Geopolitical issues, American foreign policy, Japanese politics and the international political economy of East Asia |
China |
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![]() | Dr. Jeremy Hess | Associate professor, School of Medicine and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | 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 |
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![]() | Paul Hessburg | Affiliate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Forest ecology, forest pathology, wildfire ecology, landscape ecology, climate change and wildfire, wildfire management |
wildfire |
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![]() | Barbara Hickey | Professor emeritus, School of Oceanography | Coastal currents, harmful algal blooms, Columbia River freshwater plume, transport of harmful algae along the coast |
algae |
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![]() | Heather Hill | Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Effects of poverty and low-wage work on families and children |
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![]() | Hugh Hillhouse | Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering | 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 |
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![]() | Thomas Hinckley | Professor emeritus, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Long-term research at Mount St. Helens, ecological lessons learned, pre- and post-1980 mountain, lessons learned on risks associated with volcanoes |
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![]() | Shana Hirsch | Research scientist, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering | How science and society adapt to climate change, community and marine renewable energy futures, ecological restoration in a changing climate |
climate change |
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![]() | Anne Hirsch | Associate professor, School of Nursing | Nursing education |
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![]() | Rodney Ho | Professor, School of Pharmacy | Anti-viral or covid-19/SAR drug expert, drugs in development, experimental treatment and prevention, global drug access, clinical virology, drug repurposing, translational medicine, infectious disease expert |
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![]() | Anna Lauren Hoffmann | Assistant professor, Information School | Data ethics; Data and Society; Data, Fairness, and Discrimination |
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![]() | Paula Holmes-Eber | Affiliate professor, Jackson School of International Studies | 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 |
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![]() | Robert Holzworth | Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Lightning |
lightning |
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![]() | Meredith Honig | Professor, College of Education | School district decision-making |
education |
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![]() | Heidi Houston | Professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Deep earthquakes, slow-slip tremors |
Cascadia |
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![]() | Bill Howe | Associate professor, Information School | Scientific databases, data-intensive scalable computing, visualization, web services, cloud computing, citizen science |
citizen science |
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![]() | Tania Busch Isaksen | Senior lecturer, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | 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 |
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![]() | Ann Ishimaru | Associate professor, College of Education | educational equity, families and education, educational leadership and systems change, school-community relations, community organizing |
education |
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![]() | Dan Jaffe | Professor and chair, Physical Sciences Division, UW Bothell | Particles in wildfire smoke, particle transport, wildfire plumes |
air quality |
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![]() | Alex Jen | Professor emeritus, Department of Materials Science & Engineering | Flexible solar cells made with roller coating and roll-to-roll printing; hybrid thin film |
solar |
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![]() | Susan Joslyn | Associate professor, Department of Psychology | Decision-making, risk communication |
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![]() | Ian Joughin | Glaciologist, Applied Physics Laboratory | Glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, global sea-level rise |
Antarctica |
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![]() | Peter Kahn | Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and Department of Psychology | Nature's effects on health; using technology to simulate nature's benefits |
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![]() | Jonathan Kanter | Research associate professor, Department of Psychology | 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 |
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![]() | Catherine Karr | Professor, School of Medicine and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Pediatric environmental health, air pollution, asthma, pesticides, global children’s environmental health, farmworker health |
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![]() | Reşat Kasaba | Professor, Jackson School of International Studies | State-society relations in the Middle East from a historical perspective, Turkey |
middle east |
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![]() | Aaron Katz | Principal lecturer, Department of Health Services | 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 |
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![]() | Lynn Katz | Research professor, Department of Psychology | Communicating with children about coronavirus; parenting in the context of coronavirus |
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![]() | Dr. Joel Kaufman | Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and School of Medicine | Environmental and occupational epidemiology, health effects of diesel exhaust exposures, environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease, traffic-related air pollution, environmental health |
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![]() | Rick Keil | Professor, School of Oceanography | Organic matter in aquatic environments, water quality, water testing |
water quality |
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![]() | Deborah Kelley | Professor, School of Oceanography | Underwater volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, cabled deep-sea observatories |
volcanoes |
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![]() | Maureen Kennedy | Assistant professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma | 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 |
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![]() | Bill Keough | Managing Director, Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Master’s program | Supply chain and logistics |
supply chain |
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![]() | Julie Kientz | Professor, Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering | families, kids and technology; consumer health technologies; human-centered design; families using technology to navigate home-based learning during COVID-19 pandemic |
family |
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![]() | Jason Kilmer | Associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Evaluating prevention and intervention efforts for alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use by college students |
alcohol |
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![]() | Amy Kim | Assistant professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Indoor (building) air quality during wildfire season |
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![]() | Teri King | Marine water quality specialist, Washington Sea Grant | Harmful algal bloom monitoring, shellfish/seafood safety, aquaculture, shellfish toxins |
algae |
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![]() | Sharon Kioko | Associate professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Public finance (US states/local governments), tax policy, voter referendum and tax limitations, education finance (K-12), infrastructure finance/debt management |
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![]() | Daniel Kirschen | Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | Smart grids, integration of renewable energy, power system economics, power system security, blackouts |
energy |
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![]() | Marieka Klawitter | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Family and employment policy, gender, policy analysis, sexual orientation policy and savings and asset-building for low-income families |
family |
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![]() | Terrie Klinger | Professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs | 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 |
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![]() | David Kohlbrenner | Assistant professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering | Security and privacy (computers, computer hardware, web browsers, internet-of-things), computer security competitions (e.g. Capture the Flag, DEFCON) |
hacking |
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![]() | Ed Kolodziej | Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Water quality and contaminants in natural and engineered systems, particularly in urban environments. Kolodziej’s research group works to characterize and control non-point source pollution, understand attenuation mechanisms in natural systems, and optimize engineered systems for trace contaminant removal |
mass spectrometry |
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![]() | Gregory Korshin | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Corrosion, release of heavy metals (lead, copper) in drinking water and other water contaminants |
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![]() | Steven Kramer | Professor emeritus, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Foundations, soil liquefaction |
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![]() | Meade Krosby | Senior scientist, Climate Impacts Group | Climate change, wildlife movement, climate adaptation |
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![]() | Kristin Laidre | Associate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences | Arctic marine mammals (narwhals, bowhead whales, belugas) as well as baleen whales (humpbacks and fin whales) |
beluga |
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![]() | Joshua Lawler | Professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | 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. |
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![]() | Ed Lazowska | Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering | Techniques and technologies of data-intensive discovery; information technology and public policy; design, implementation and analysis of high-performance computing and communications systems. |
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![]() | Randy LeVeque | Professor emeritus, Department of Applied Mathematics | Modeling tsunami wave hazards in the Pacific Northwest |
math |
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![]() | Christine Lee | Research professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences | Marijuana and young adults, high-risk behavior, alcohol, prevention, intervention |
alcohol |
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![]() | Dawn Lehman | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Concrete bridges, composite construction, concrete frames, concrete walls and structural steel braced frames |
concrete |
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![]() | Scott Lemieux | Assistant teaching professor, Department of Political Science | Supreme Court, electoral college, elections, impeachment, politics |
2020 election |
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![]() | Liliana Lengua | Professor, Department of Psychology | Children's resilience in economic disadvantage and adversity; children’s social, emotional and academic competence in the face of adversity |
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![]() | Tom Leschine | Professor emeritus, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs | Marine policy, risk management and policy |
conservation |
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![]() | Evelyn Lessard | Professor, School of Oceanography | Harmful algal bloom dynamics and prediction, biological responses to ocean change |
algae |
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![]() | La TaSha Levy | Assistant professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies | African American history, race and ethnicity, social justice, social change movements |
ethnicity |
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![]() | Clark Lombardi | Professor, School of Law | Islamic law, constitutional law, religion and the law |
federal courts |
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![]() | James D. Long | Associate professor, Department of Political Science | Elections in fragile and developing countries, voting behavior and turnout, election fraud, corruption, electoral violence |
2020 election |
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![]() | Mark Long | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | Policies that affect transitions from high school to college to the labor market |
economics |
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![]() | George Lovell | Professor, Department of Political Science | American political institutions, political development, social movements and constitutional theory |
constitution |
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![]() | Jessica Lundquist | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Mountain snow, snow melt and streams |
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![]() | Christine Luscombe | Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering | 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 |
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![]() | Parker MacCready | Professor, School of Oceanography | Modeling and observation of coastal processes; pinpointing where and when tsunami debris might land on Washington’s shores |
algae |
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![]() | Don MacKenzie | Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Electric vehicles, shared use transportation services, energy use in transportation sector |
bike shares |
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![]() | Devin MacKenzie | Associate professor, Department of Materials Sciences & Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering | Scale-up and applications of printed electronics and emerging thin film electronic material such as solar materials and energy storage devices |
clean energy |
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![]() | Stephen Majeski | Professor, Department of Political science | U.S. foreign policy |
foreign policy |
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![]() | Steve Malone | Research professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Regional earthquake and volcanic hazards; helped to monitor and study the first major modern eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. |
earthquakes |
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![]() | Lisa Manheim | Associate professor, School of Law | election law, disputed elections, constitutional law, presidential power, Supreme Court, federal courts |
2020 election |
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![]() | Laurie Marhoefer | Associate professor, Department of History | Gender, sexuality and LGBT/queer politics in the 20th century United States and Europe, and German electoral politics in the 1920s |
antifa |
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![]() | Julian Marshall | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | 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 |
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![]() | Cliff Mass | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Weather prediction and modeling |
weather |
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![]() | Guillaume Mauger | Research scientist, Climate Impacts Group | Pacific Northwest climate change and effects on temperature, precipitation and sea level |
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![]() | Ryan McCabe | Research scientist, The Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies | Currently leads the UW’s coastal modeling and prediction project, which includes forecasts of harmful algal blooms |
algae |
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![]() | Michael McCann | Professor, Department of Political Science | Politics of low-wage workers, minority race workers, gender and work, market segmentation and labor unions, economic and wage inequity |
economics |
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![]() | Don McKenzie | Affiliate assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Forest ecology, wildfire ecology, landscape ecology, climate change |
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![]() | Lynn McMurdie | Research associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Weather, thunderstorms, storms over mountain ranges |
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![]() | Victor Menaldo | Professor, Department of Political Science | Political economy of natural resources and property rights, including intellectual property rights, and regime change |
economy |
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![]() | Scott Meschke | Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Environmental virology |
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![]() | Ian Miller | Coastal hazards specialist, Washington Sea Grant | 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 |
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![]() | Kristen Missall | Professor, College of Education | early skill development, school readiness, school transition and early school adjustment for ages 3-8; director of the School Psychology Program |
education |
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![]() | Scott Montgomery | Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies | Arctic and oil, oil and gas (reserves, technology, prices, politics), fracking, nuclear power, worked 25 years in the energy industry |
arctic |
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![]() | David Montgomery | Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Dirt formation, transport, movement, geology, soil health |
dirt |
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![]() | Sue Moore | Research scientist, Center for Ecosystem Sentinels | Ecology, bio-acoustics and natural history of whales and dolphins; emphasis on marine mammals in the Pacific Arctic region |
bio-acoustics |
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![]() | Kristi Morgansen | Professor, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics | aerospace, mechanical and electrical engineering with a focus in guidance, navigation and control. |
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![]() | Jamie Morison | Polar scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory | Present and future conditions in the Arctic Ocean and Chukchi Sea, sea ice and sea ice seasonality |
arctic |
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![]() | Robert Naiman | Professor emeritus, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences | Rivers |
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![]() | Rebecca Neumann | Associate professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Arsenic and other metal contamination in groundwater; plants and contamination |
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![]() | Jan Newton | Oceanographer, UW Applied Physics Laboratory | Ocean observing, ocean acidification and phytoplankton in Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest waters |
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![]() | Peter Nicolas | Professor, School of Law | LGBTQ issues, civil rights, affirmative action, constitutional law, music law, First Amendment issues |
affirmative action |
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![]() | Anthony Odell | Research analyst, UW’s Olympic Natural Resources Center | 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 |
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![]() | Dennis O’Dea | Senior lecturer, Department of Economics | Public economies, social networks and applied macroeconomics |
economics |
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![]() | Margaret O’Mara | Professor, Department of History | Political, economic and urban history and the history of capitalism; intersections between cities, politics and technology |
2020 election |
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![]() | Soojin Oh Park | Assistant professor, College of Education | Early childhood development, parenting, race and income equity, immigrant-origin children, family engagement |
education |
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![]() | Christopher Parker | Professor, Department of Political Science | American politics, civil rights, minority and race politics, social movements, public opinion and survey research methods |
2020 election |
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![]() | Robert Pavia | Affiliate associate professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs | Scientific aspects of oil spills, preparedness and general oil spill response issues |
oil spill |
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![]() | Diana Pearce | Senior lecturer, School of Social Work | Income inequality |
coronavirus |
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![]() | David Peterson | Affiliate professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Wildfire ecology, forest ecology, climate change, natural resource management |
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![]() | Noam Pianko | Director, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies | History of Israel; modern Jewish history; Zionism; American Judaism |
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![]() | Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky | Associate professor, Department of American Ethnic Studies | 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 |
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![]() | Robert Plotnick | Professor emeritus, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance | American poverty, income inequality, income support policy and social policy issues |
economics |
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![]() | Brian Polagye | Associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering | Marine renewable energy (wave, tidal, riverine and offshore wind) |
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![]() | Matthew J. Powers | Associate Professor, Department of Communication | Media |
2020 election |
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![]() | Aseem Prakash | Professor, Department of Political Science | Environmental policy, climate governance, NGOs and nonprofits, and voluntary/private regulation |
2020 election |
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![]() | Susan Prichard | Fire ecologist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | 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 |
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![]() | Peter Rabinowitz | Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Emerging infectious diseases, zoonotic infectious diseases, One Health |
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![]() | Adrian Raftery | Professor, Department of Statistics, Department of Sociology | Interpreting COVID-19 data, understanding different COVID-19 data sources and statistics |
COVID-19 |
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![]() | Anita Ramasastry | Professor, School of Law | Supply chains, workers rights, business and contract issues |
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![]() | Jessica Ray | Assistant professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | 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 |
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![]() | Crystal Raymond | Climate adaptation specialist, Climate Impacts Group | Climate change and wildfires, climate adaptation and impact on risk of forest fires |
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![]() | Mouse Reusch | Regional ShakeAlert coordinator, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network | Pacific Northwest earthquakes, seismic risk, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system |
earthquakes |
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![]() | Marilyn Roberts | Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Contamination and disinfection in the environment and on surfaces |
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![]() | Charles Roeder | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | 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 |
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![]() | Franziska Roesner | Associate professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering | Computer security and privacy |
2020 election |
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![]() | Roger Roffman | Professor emeritus, School of Social Work | Behavioral interventions in the fields of addicted disorders and domestic violence |
addiction |
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![]() | Jennie Romich | Associate professor, School of Social Work | Poverty, government policies to address inequities |
income |
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![]() | Elaina Rose | Associate professor, Department of Economics | Labor economics, development economics and applied microeconomics |
economics |
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![]() | Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar | Assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology | Injuries and adverse events with the goal of enhancing safety, impact of marijuana use on motor vehicle collisions |
epidemiology |
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![]() | Chris Rudell | Associate professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering | 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 |
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![]() | Adrienne Russell | Mary Laird Wood Professor of Communication | Communications and media |
activism |
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![]() | 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 |
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![]() | Tatiana Sadak | Associate professor, School of Nursing | Geriatric mental health, multi-morbidity, caregiving, dementia, and educating nurses during pandemic |
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![]() | Eric Salathé | Associate professor, School of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics, UW Bothell | Pacific Northwest climate change, extreme weather events |
climate change |
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![]() | Christopher Schell | Assistant professor, UW Tacoma | Urban carnivores, urban wildlife |
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![]() | Ilene Schwartz | Professor, College of Education | special education, inclusion, behavorial interventions, autism |
education |
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![]() | Dan Schwartz | Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering | Clean energy research, Washington Clean Energy test-beds, energy storage, accelerating global clean energy development and integration |
clean energy |
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![]() | Pepper Schwartz | Professor, Department of Sociology | Sexuality, marriage, cohabitation, gender, women’s issues, parent and child issues, communication between men and women in intimate and work relationships |
communication |
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![]() | Axel Schweiger | Polar scientist, UW Applied Physics Laboratory | Sea ice volume, Arctic weather, polar science |
arctic |
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![]() | Chirag Shah | Associate professor, Information School | misinformation and search engines, search and recommender systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence |
fake news |
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![]() | Nancy Simcox | Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Use of cleaners and disinfectants in the workplace, green cleaning, and transitioning to safer chemicals |
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![]() | Kate Simonen | Assistant professor, Department of Architecture | High-performance building systems and environmental life cycle assessment of buildings, explaining engineering concepts to non-technical audiences |
architecture |
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![]() | Christopher Simpson | Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Air pollution monitoring and modeling, wood smoke, ambient air pollutants, diesel exhaust, indoor air, pesticides, trace contaminants |
wildfires |
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![]() | Mark Smith | Professor, Department of Political Science | Public opinion, interest groups, political communication, political economy and public policy |
2020 election |
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![]() | Amy Snover | Director, Climate Impacts Group | Climate change effects in the Pacific Northwest. Co-authored numerous regional reports on effects of climate change. Works with regional communities, governments and businesses on preparing for and adapting to climate change. |
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![]() | Emma Spiro | Assistant professor, Information School | 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. |
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![]() | Hugh Spitzer | Professor, School of Law | Constitutional law, legal ethics and professional responsibility, legal philosophy and theory, legislative process, local government and municipal law |
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![]() | Kate Stafford | Principal oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory | Arctic Ocean environment and marine mammals, including blue whales, bowhead and beluga whales; Sound-based monitoring of whales |
beluga |
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![]() | John Stanton | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | General bridge knowledge; earthquake engineering, including seismic isolation; precast and pre-stressed concrete structures; concrete bridges |
bridges |
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![]() | Bill Steele | Director of outreach and information services, Pacific Northwest Seismic Network | Regional earthquake, volcano and tsunami hazards, risk communication, tours of the UW seismology lab, ShakeAlert earthquake early warning |
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![]() | Eric Steig | Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences | Antarctic glaciers, Antarctic ice cores, El Niño cycles |
Antarctica |
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![]() | Nephi Stella | Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Marijuana and neuropathologies, multiple sclerosis |
marijuana |
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![]() | Kristi Straus | Associate director, Program on the Environment | Sustainability, personal choices, sustainable behavior |
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![]() | Stuart Streichler | Affiliate associate professor, Law, Societies and Justice Program | Presidential campaigns, law, Supreme Court, constitutional law, law and race |
law |
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![]() | Jennifer Stuber | Associate professor, School of Social Work | Suicide prevention, mental health policy, social justice, stigma and discrimination, health disparities among vulnerable populations |
discrimination |
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![]() | Abigail Swann | Associate professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Biology | Vegetation and global climate |
biology |
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![]() | Pooja Tandon | Associate professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | 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. |
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![]() | LuAnne Thompson | Professor, School of Oceanography | Climate models, including impact of climate change on heat uptake and large-scale ocean currents; ocean’s role in climate change; sea-level rise; satellite observations of sea-level rise |
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![]() | Jim Thomson | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Wave hazards in the Arctic Ocean |
arctic |
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![]() | Judith Thornton | Professor emeritus, Department of Economics | Development economics and political economy |
economics |
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![]() | Joel Thornton | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Tracking wildfire smoke impacts on air quality and climate, detecting emissions |
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![]() | Rebecca Thorpe | Associate professor, Department of Political Science | United States political institutions, political development, state violence, the national security state, criminal justice system |
criminal justice system |
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![]() | Harold Tobin | Professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Subduction zones, Cascadia Subduction Zone, earthquakes, “ShakeAlert” earthquake early warning system |
Cascadia |
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![]() | Vera Trainer | Affiliate professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences | Early detection of toxic algae blooms, impact on coastal fisheries, conditions that influence bloom development |
algae |
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![]() | Kathy Troost | Associate teaching professor, Department of Earth & Space Sciences | Landslides, Seattle geology, Puget Lowland geology, geologic hazard mapping |
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![]() | Ka-Kit Tung | Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics | Modeling COVID-19 outbreaks, projecting public health impact, comparing different types of modeling approaches |
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![]() | Stephen Turnovsky | Professor, Department of Economics | Economic growth, macroeconomics and international macroeconomics and public economies |
economics |
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![]() | Jacob Vigdor | Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance | Immigration policy, racial and economic inequality, minimum wage |
economics |
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![]() | Denise Walker | Research associate professor, School of Social Work | Development, testing and implementation of interventions that bring about positive changes in patterns of behavior; treatment of marijuana disorders in both adolescents and adults |
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![]() | Camille Walsh | Associate professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell | Immigration law |
immigration |
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![]() | Joseph Wartman | Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering | Slope stability, natural hazards |
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![]() | Stacey Wedlake | Research coordinator and analyst, Information School | Digital equity/digital inclusion/digital divides with a more specific focus on adult digital skills in the United States |
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![]() | Jevin West | Associate professor, Information School | Misinformation, evolution of science, the models and science used to predict the spread of COVID-19 |
disinformation |
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![]() | William Wilcock | Professor, School of Oceanography | Marine geology, monitoring seafloor earthquakes, Cascadia subduction zone |
Cascadia |
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![]() | John Wilkerson | Professor, Department of Political Science | Legislative organization and decision-making, health politics, comparative legislative studies |
legislative |
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![]() | Daniela Witten | Professor, Department of Biostatistics; Department of Statistics | The development of statistical machine learning methods for high-dimensional data, with applications to genomics and other fields |
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![]() | Kathleen Wolf | Research social scientist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences | Nature's benefits for human health, especially on mental health and well-being. Strategies for experiencing benefits of nature while indoors, at home, on walks. |
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![]() | Rob Wood | Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | Clouds, marine brightening, climate change, climate variability |
climate |
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![]() | Rebecca Woodgate | Associate professor, School of Oceanography | Arctic Ocean environment, especially in the Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea |
arctic |
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![]() | Paul Yager | Professor, Department of Bioengineering | Microfluidic bacterial and viral testing at the point of care |
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![]() | Jinkyu "JK" Yang | Associate professor, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics | metamaterials, composites, origami-inspired material/structure design |
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![]() | Michael Yost | Professor and chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | Agricultural safety and health, ambient air pollutants, children’s health, climate change, diesel exhaust, pesticides, noise, vibration exposure |
coronavirus |
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![]() | Lori Zoellner | Professor, Department of Psychology | Post-traumatic stress disorder; anxiety and trauma among refugees and immigrants |
anxiety |