Arinn Aanderud     NSC 292

My university teaching experiences have centered on social inequality, adult education, educational professional development, and science education curriculum development.  As the current instructor for NSC 292, my aim is to assist students in creating a foundation for professional career development and leadership within science-related professions.  

My professional background includes multiple positions within domestic and international non-profit/non-governmental organizations.  In these organizations, I was involved with fundraising and development, educational programming, curriculum development, exhibition installation and design, and program evaluation.

Department of Sociology
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Michigan State University

Dr. Habron's research focuses on Adaptive Approaches to Democratic Resource Management Inquiry; Community-based Adaptive Watershed Management; participatory action research and learning; integration of social and ecological factors in natural resource management; and geographic information systems. He is a Lilly Teaching Fellow at MSU.

Stephen Hamilton     ZOL 355L (lab)  
PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara
Professor, Kellogg Biological Station, MSU

My principal research interests involve ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, with particular attention to aquatic environments and the movement of water through landscapes. I am especially interested in running waters, wetlands and floodplains because they represent an interface between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems that is often biologically diverse and productive. I also like to consider ecosystem processes at the landscape or watershed scale, and I prefer to do research that contributes to our understanding of environmental problems or improves our ability to manage ecosystems.

Jen Lau     ZOL 355
PhD, University of California-Davis
Assistant Professor, Kellogg Biological Station and Plant Biology, MSU

My research bridges community ecology and evolutionary biology to explore how plants interact with both the biotic and abiotic environment and how they respond simultaneously to multiple selective pressures. Much of my work uses environmental perturbations, such as biological invasions and climate change, as tools to study how abiotic and biotic selective agents affect the population biology of native species, species interactions, and the evolution of plant populations. I am particularly interested in studying indirect effects that occur when changes in the biotic or abiotic environment alter interactions between community members.    

Aaron McCright     SOC 368

Dr. McCright holds a joint academic appointment in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Sociology at MSU.  He also has a courtesy appointment in the Environmental Science and Policy Program.  Dr. McCright specializes in environmental sociology, political sociology, and sociology of science.  He began his intellectual career working to enhance our understanding of the relationships among social movements, countermovements, and the structure of power within the state—particularly concerning problems of environmental degradation and technological risks.

Recently, he has shifted to sociologically analyze science, the social institution that provides us with information about the biophysical environment.  Over the next five to seven years, he will be conducting ethnographic research at multiple tropical biological field stations around the world attempting to answer the following two research questions:

Dr. McCright also teaches on the MSU campus and for a study-abroad program in Panama.

Jessica Moy     GEO 221
Director, Remote Sensing and GIS Research and Outreach Services, MSU
Website:  http://www.geo.msu.edu/faculty/moy.html