Contact:

cswan@northland.edu

(715) 682-1483

Humanities:

Jared Anderson
Choral development; choral literature; music theory; conducting.

J. Paul O'Keefe
Modern German History; Environmental History; American History, includes Progressive Era and Puritans; 19th Century Papacy.

Paul Schue
European History, includes French History of the 1930s; French fascist writers, includes Robert Brasillach, Andre Malraux and Georges Bernanos; Spanish Civil War, including the French perspective on the war; Fascism; The Holocaust.

Tim Ziegenhagen
19th Century British Literature; Literature in science including John Keats; Environmental writing, includes John Clare.

Natural Sciences:

Rick Dowd

Dilute aqueous solution polyelectrolyte dynamics.

Tom Fitz

Minerals, Rocks, Sediments, Soil and Water; Geology, including Apostle Islands region, Lake Superior region and geologic history of Northern Wisconsin.

Bruce Goetz

Hydrology, includes local streams in Northern Wisconsin; Geology, includes glacial history, history of Apostle Islands; Surface process, includes how time has changed regional landforms

Wendy Gorman

Stem cell biology; Immunology; Microbiology, includes antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

Andrew P. Goyke

Aquatic biology, includes Lake Superior; Fish ecology, includes ecology of Lake Superior; Limnology; Aquatic invertebrate.

Scott Grinnell

Renewable energy sources, includes green building and sustainable living practices; Cloud Physics, includes cumulus clouds, air flow patterns and a cloud’s life-cycle; Conservation; Sigurd Olson Philosophy.

James E. Meeker

Wetland Vegetation, includes species within Voyageurs National Park, Isle Royal National Park and Great Lakes Region. Wild Rice, includes impact invasive species can have on wild rice growth. Habitat sampling and data analysis.

Derek Ogle

Fisheries issues; exotic aquatic species; basic statistics.

James D. Paruk

Loons, includes both behavior and ecology of loons and migration; Ornithology, includes how changes in environment impact bird species; Northern Shrikes; Sigurd Olson philosophy

Douglas F. Smith

Deer, includes impact deer have on vegetation; Island biology; Cottontails, includes New England and Eastern cottontails; Wildfires; Conservation.

Social Sciences:

Cindy Dillenschneider

Access to outdoor experiences for people with disabilities. Therapeutic outdoor adventure education, includes working with diverse populations and the impact using the outdoors as a therapeutic medium can have. Adventure education training, includes training professionals to teach adventure education to participants of all abilities. Risk management focus. Universal access for people with disabilities and therapeutic uses of the outdoors. Adventure education, includes backpacking, wilderness navigation and adaptive alpine skiing.

Dorothy Lagerroos

Sustainable development; Experiential Pedagogy at the Collegiate Level; Local Watershed Initiatives; Public participation techniques and policies; Non-profit management and communication.

Joy Meeker

Conflict resolution; includes alternatives to violent resolution. Mediation; includes serving as a third party to resolving conflict. Environmental Citizenship; includes incorporating the environment into conflict resolution.

Clayton T. Russell

Environmental Education; Outdoor Education, includes adventure education, therapeutic and universal design, programming and interpretation of the natural and cultural landscape; Native American Oral Tradition; Voyageur History; Natural History.

Kevin F. Schanning

Wolves, includes people’s perceptions of wolves in Great Lakes region, current status of wolves and management issues; Survey Research; Volunteerism; Social inequality, includes race, class, sex, and sexuality discrimination and global inequality.

Paul Van Horn

Adventure Education. Traditional and primitive outdoor living skills.

Harold Vanselow

Marketing, accounting, management and finance.