Team

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

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

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

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

Dorsey is an igneous petrologist who focuses on volcanic eruptions in submarine environments. Her work requires seagoing expeditions to remote locations around the globe, where she uses remotely operated vehicles, human occupied submersibles and autonomous underwater vehicles to investigate how magmas evolve from generation inside the earth, to storage within the crust, and finally, eruption on the seafloor.