Our People

Professor of Forest Ecosystem Restoration and Ecology and Department Head of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences

Kaella Dinius

Administrative Assistant II

Research Faculty

Professor of Remote Sensing

Extension Professor of Forestry and Extension Forestry Specialist

Stephen Bunting, Ph.D.

Professor Emerita

Assistant Professor of Forest & Sustainable Products

Professor of Forestry

Senior Ecology Instructor

Professor Emerita of Forest Policy

Professor of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Ecology

Professor Emeritus of Forest & Sustainable Products

Senior Fire Ecology & Management Instructor

Associate Professor

Karen L. Johnson

Administrative Financial Specialist

Associate Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Harold F. and Ruth M. Heady Endowed Chair of Rangeland Ecology

Associate Professor and Director, University of Idaho Experimental Forest

Research Associate Professor of Forest Resources, Director of the Intermountain Forestry Cooperative

Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Director of the U of I Rangeland Center

Professor of Hydrology; Director, Water Resources Graduate Program

Professor of Forest & Sustainable Products

Professor Emerita of Fire Ecology and Forest Ecology and Certified Senior Fire Ecologist

Director of Franklin H. Pitkin Forest Nursery, Tom A. Alberg and Judith Beck Endowed Chair of Native Plant Regeneration, Associate Professor

Professor of Forest Resources

Professor Emeritus and Former Dean for the College of Natural Resources

Professor Emeritus of Physiological Ecology

Marc Rust

Director of Inland Empire Tree Improvement Cooperative

Associate Dean and Professor of Forest & Sustainable Products

Professor of Wildland Fire Science

Research Faculty

Associate Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management

Eric Winford

Associate Director, Rangeland Center

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kelsey Bryant, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Darcy Hammond, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Justin Mathias, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jaslam Poolakkal, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nuria Sanchez Lopez, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Farid Sotoudehnia, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Benjamin Spei, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wayne Buck

FRAMES Content Specialist

Matthan Hale

Nursery Management Specialist

Joshua Hyde

FRAMES Fuels and Smoke Project Manager

Lauren King

Nursery Sales and Outreach Coordinator

Lori Mackey

Special Projects Coordinator

George Naughton

Forested Watershed Project Scientist

Diana Olson

FRAMES Project Manager

Chu Qi

Research Scholar

Paul Robinson

Watershed Research Project Manager

Terry Shaw

Research Scientist III

Mike Tjoelker

FRAMES Content Specialist

Lynn Wells

FRAMES Program Manager