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Affiliated Scientists

Jim Bonta

Jim.Bonta@ars.usda.gov
USDA-Agricultural Research Service — Research Leader and Hydraulic Engineer, North Appalachian Experimental Watershed in Coshocton, OH. a 1050-acre outdoor experimental watershed laboratory for land and water management research
https://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=532

M. Siobhan Fennessy

fennessym@kenyon.edu
Kenyon College — Aquatic and restoration ecology, structure and function of wetland ecosystems, the use of wetland plant communities in assessing ecosystem disturbance, and exploring techniques to restore degraded wetlands
https://www.kenyon.edu/x41258

Rafiq Islam

islam.27@osu.edu
OARDC at Piketon — Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at OSU. Soil and Water Engineering
https://southcenters.osu.edu/soil/StaffContact.html

Kevin King

king.220@osu.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, FABE — Agricultural and urban conservation practices at the watershed scale.
https://fabe.osu.edu/our-people/kevin-king

Robert Long

rlong@fs.fed.us
USDA-Forest Service — Research plant pathologist
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/rlong

William Mitsch

wmitsch@fgcu.edu
Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL — Currently Director of Everglades Wetland Research Park, professor emeritus-OSU
https://www.fgcu.edu/swamp/

Peter C. Smiley, Jr.

smiley.50@osu.edu
Adjunct Assistant Professor, SENR — Research Ecologist, USDA Soil Drainage Unit, Community ecology, restoration ecology, stream and wetland ecology
https://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=37236

Don Stoeckel

StoeckelD@battelle.org
Battelle — Principal Research Scientist CBRNE Defense/Identity Management (Molecular, Environmental, and Public Health Microbiology)
http://www.dsh2o.com/

Elizabeth Toman

toman.11@osu.edu
Ohio State University — Sediment production, unbound aggregate road design, open channel hydraulics and stream crossing design, water quality impacts, implementation of best management practices for forest roads
https://senr.osu.edu/our-people/elizabeth-m-toman

*Environmental scientists and other professionals from outside Ohio State University may participate in ESGP through its Affiliated Scientist Program. These Scientists are not currently associated with a specific disciplinary program or department at Ohio State. Affiliated Scientists appointed in the past may participate in the ESGP seminar program, student recruitment activities and social events. However, ESGP is not able to make any future appointments to this category. In addition, directly appointed Affiliated Scientists are eligible to be appointed as additional members of the M.S. and Ph.D. advisory committees of ESGP students(though not as advisors), subject to the recommendation of the ESGP Graduate Studies Chair. They would serve in addition to the number of graduate faculty members required by The Graduate School

Students should be aware that having an Affiliated Scientist on their committee will require extra steps in the process of creating their committee, ie., special permission must be gotten from the Graduate School. The process is thus: your advisor should write a letter addressed to the ESGP Graduate Studies Committee with supporting reasons for how and why the Affiliated Scientist will contribute to your committee. Once approved, the GSC Chair will send a support packet (including a letter from the Chair and a copy of the advisor letter and a CV) directly to the Graduate School also supporting this request.