Please note that some committees will not be updated from their 2006-2007 roster until a few weeks into the
start of the fall semester.
Standing Committees
Ad Hoc Committees
Standing Committees
Academic Planning Council
Sharon Dunwoody (Chair)
Jonathan Foley
Lewis Gilbert
Leila Harris
Arthur McEvoy
Mary Mercier
Kenneth Potter
Donald Waller
Air Resources Management Certificate Program Committee
William Bland
Matthew Hitchman
Tracey Holloway
Erhard Joeres
Marty Kanarek
Jonathan Patz
James (Jamie) Schauer (Chair)
Pao Wang
Bunn Award Selection Committee
Michael Corradini (Chair)
Tracey Holloway
Rodney Stevenson
Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Admissions Committee
Tom Eggert
Lisa Naughton
Brian Ohm
Janet Silbernagel Balster
Timothy Van Deelen
Lydia Zepeda
Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development Program Committee
William Bland
Thomas Eggert
Nancy Mathews
Lisa Naughton (Chair)
Brian Ohm
Janet Silbernagel Balster
Adrian Treves
Timothy Van Deelen
Alberto Vargas
Donald Waller
Lydia Zepeda
Duke Fellowship Selection Committee
William Bland (Chair)
Lewis Gilbert
Arthur McEvoy
Lisa Naughton
Kenneth Potter
Stephen Ventura
Energy Analysis and Policy Certificate Admissions Committee (Spring 2006)
Michael Corradini (Chair)
Tracey Holloway
Rodney Stevenson
Energy Analysis and Policy Certificate Program Committee
William Bland
Michael Corradini (Chair)
Tracey Holloway
Bernard Lesieutre
Gregory Nemet
Douglas Reinemann
Richard Shaten
Rodney Stevenson
Paul Wilson
Environmental Monitoring Program Committee
William Bland
Kurt Feigl
Mutlu Ozdogan
Warren Porter
Annemarie Schneider
Janet Silbernagel Balster
Stephen Ventura (Chair)
Donald Waller
Executive Committee of the Governance Faculty
William Bland
Calvin DeWitt
Sharon Dunwoody
Jonathan Foley
Gregg Mitman
Harvey Jacobs
Marty Kanarek
Nancy Langston
Zheng-yu Liu
Nancy Mathews
Lisa Naughton
Peter Nowak
Jonathan Patz
Stephen Ventura
Paul Zedler
Governance Faculty Committee
Teresa Adams
Samer Alatout
Timothy Allen
Robert Beattie
William Bland
Quentin Carpenter
Michael Corradini
William Cronon
Calvin DeWitt
Sharon Dunwoody
Patrick Eagan
Thomas Eggert
Jonathan Foley
Lewis Gilbert
Paul Gunther
Leila Harris
Tracey Holloway
Sara Hotchkiss
Evelyn Howell
Harvey Jacobs
Marty Kanarek
Jack Kloppenburg
Christopher Kucharik
Nancy Langston
Zheng-yu Liu
Nancy Mathews
Brent McCown
Arthur McEvoy
Mary Mercier
Gregg Mitman
Lisa Naughton
Gregory Nemet
Peter Nowak
Mutlu Ozdogan
Jonathan Patz
Kenneth Potter
James (Jamie) Schauer
Annemarie Schneider
Rodney Stevenson
Stanley Temple
Adrian Treves
Stephen Vavrus
Stephen Ventura
Donald Waller
Paul Zedler
Human and the Global Environment (CHANGE) Certificate Committee
Samer Alatout
Robert Beattie
William Bland
Jonathan Foley
Leila Harris
Tracey Holloway
Gregg Mitman
Lisa Naughton
Jonathan Patz (Chair)
Instructional Committee
Teresa Adams
William Bland
Michael Corradini
Marty Kanarek
Arthur McEvoy
James Miller
Lisa Naughton
Kenneth Potter
James (Jamie) Schauer
Steve Ventura
Kaplan Family Travel Award
Timothy Allen
William Bland (Chair)
Nancy Langston
Arthur McEvoy
Lisa Naughton
Land Resources Admissions Committee
Patrick Eagan
Jon Foley
Harvey Jacobs
Marty Kanarek
Jack Kloppenburg
Zheng-Yu Liu
Brent McCown
Arthur McEvoy
Paul Zedler
Land Resources Program Committee
William Bland
Sharon Dunwoody
Jonathan Foley
Sara Hotchkiss
Harvey Jacobs
Marty Kanarek
Nancy Langston
Nancy Mathews
Brent McCown
Arthur McEvoy (Chair)
Peter Nowak
Stephen Ventura
Paul Zedler
Outreach Committee
James Addis
Stephen Born
Kurt Brown
Michael Dombeck
Anthony Earl
Thomas Eggert
Lewis Gilbert
Lynn Hobbie
Richard Lathrop
Jerry Long
Christopher Kucharik
Nancy Mathews
Peter Nowak (Chair)
Steven Pomplun
Lewis Posekany
Tom Sinclair
Daniel Vimont
Personnel Committee
William Bland (Chair)
Harvey Jacobs
Nancy Langston
Zheng-yu Liu
Nancy Mathews
Gregg Mitman (on leave Spring 2008)
Research Committee
Jonathan Chipman
Calvin DeWitt
Jonathan Foley
Holly Gibbs
Lewis Gilbert (Chair)
Zheng-yu Liu
Peter Nowak
Kenneth Potter
Matthew Turner
Transportation Management and Policy Certificate Program Committee
Teresa Adams (Chair)
William Bland
Peter Carstensen
Jessica Guo
Tracey Holloway
James La Gro
Gregory Nemet
David Noyce
Kurt Paulsen
Anita Thompson
Stephen Ventura
Travel Awards Committee
William Bland
Jim Miller
Undergraduate Committee
Samer Alatout
Timothy Allen
William Bland
Calvin DeWitt
Sharon Dunwoody
John Harrington
Tracey Holloway
Evelyn Howell
Harvey Jacobs
Marty Kanarek (Chair)
Nancy Langston
Nancy Mathews
Brent McCown
Stephen Ventura
Paul Zedler
Water Resources Management Admissions Committee
Jean Bahr
Peter Nowak
Kenneth Potter
Water Resources Management Program Committee
Samer Alatout
David Armstrong
Jean Bahr
William Bland
Kenneth Genskow
Linda Graham
Leila Harris
Frederick Madison
Arthur McEvoy
Peter Nowak
Kenneth Potter (Chair)
William Sonzogni
Stephen Ventura
Herbert Wang
Joy Zedler
Water Resources Management Workshop Selection Committee
William Bland
Julia Ferguson
Matthew Krueger
Arthur McEvoy
Kenneth Potter (Chair)
Emily Stanley
Dalayna Tillman
Weston Distinguished Lecture Series Committee
Peter Bosscher
Jonathan Foley (Chair)
Tracey Holloway
Lewis Gilbert
Claus Moberg
Weston Fellowship Selection Committee
Jonathan Foley
Tracey Holloway
Jonathan Patz
Christopher Kucharik
Ad Hoc Committees
Joint MPH Degree Committee
This committee is charged with looking at the option of creating and designing formal joint degrees with the Master of Public Health program.
William Bland
Barbara Duerst
Marty Kanarek (Chair)
Sara Lorence
Arthur McEvoy
Jim Miller
Lisa Naughton
Kenneth Potter
Applied Master's Degree Design Committee
This committee is charged with addressing design considerations for an applied (non-thesis) master's degree program in the Nelson
Institute by mid-September 2006.
Patrick Eagan
Thomas Eggert
Arthur McEvoy
Lisa Naughton
Donald Waller
Stephen Ventura (Chair)
Core Competency Committee
This committee is both an information-gathering team and an adviser to the Redesign Committee. It will survey existing graduate
programs and workshops in environmental studies to discern which competencies, and which methodologies to teach those competencies, are
most effective. The committee will then advise the Redesign Committee on how best to fold specific competencies and methodologies into
the Land Resources degree structure.
This committee is developing new evaluation criteria for Nelson Institute faculty members based on the interdisciplinary mission of
the institute.
Calvin DeWitt
Patrick Eagan
Lewis Gilbert
Tracey Holloway
Nancy Mathews (Chair)
Pete Nowak
Steve Vavrus
Steve Ventura
Business and Environment Committee
This committee is charged with exploring possible joint efforts between the Nelson Institute and the School of Business.
Dan Anderson (Co-chair)
Vicki Bier
Peter Bosscher
Pat Eagan
Tom Eggert (Co-chair)
Mark Finster
Lewis Gilbert
Michael Hernke
Tracey Holloway
Zheng-yu Liu
Anne Miner
Anne Terlaak
John Surdyk
Position Vacancy Listing (PVL) Committee
This committee is charged with developing a faculty position development listing (PVL) by mid-September 2006.
Sharon Dunwoody (Co-chair)
Lewis Gilbert
Tracey Holloway
Nancy Mathews
Gregg Mitman
Peter Nowak
Kenneth Potter (Co-chair)
Redesign Committee
This committee is charged with harmonizing the structure of the Land Resources degree with the goals of interdisciplinary teaching,
research, and outreach, along with student needs of community building and competency instruction.