CAHNRS researchers focus on improving the health of whole communities– humans, animals, crops, and the environment.
Human sciences focused on healthy behavior
- Department of Human Development Research Labs & Projects
- Cory Bolkan, healthy aging
- Laura Hill, health promotion programs
- Jane Lanigan, promoting healthy weight and eating in childhood
- Yoshi Sano, health literacy, risks, and issues in low-income/rural populations
- Elizabeth Soliday, medical and mental health care during pregnancy and postpartum
- Sara Waters, biological mechanisms linking early adversity to health outcomes
- Elizabeth Weybright, adolescent health promotion
Animal health
- Amber Adams-Progar, dairy cattle health and well-being
- Brandon Hopkins, honey bee health
- Charlie Robbins, bear health and nutrition
- Rodney Sayler, conservation of threatened and endangered species
- Lisa Shipley, nutritional and behavioral ecology of wild herbivores
- John Stark, effects of pesticides on salmon health; Salmon Research Laboratory
- Dan Thornton, mammalian spatial ecology and conservation
- Wildlife Habitat and Nutrition Lab, performs chemical analyses on wildlife diets
Developing more nutritious foods
- Steve Jones, wheat
- Ted Kisha, dry beans
- Rebecca McGee, winter peas and lentils
- Phil Miklas, dry beans
- Kevin Murphy, quinoa, spelt, perennial wheat, buckwheat, millet, and amaranth
- George Vandemark, chickpeas
Organic agriculture and integrated pest management
- Biological control of orchard pests
- Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources– Organic Agriculture
- Food and Environmental Quality Lab
- Integrated pest management
- Organic gardening
- Organic grain production
- Organic tree fruit production
- Organic vineyard management
- WSU Eggert Family Organic Farm
- WSU-Puyallup Organic Farming Systems and Nutrient Management
Aquatic ecosystem health
- Stephen Bollens, aquatic ecology
- Alex Fremier, riverine ecology
- Stephanie Hampton, ecological dynamics in aquatic ecosystems
- Barry Moore, pollutants in freshwater ecosystems; sediment/water interactions
- Gretchen Rollwagen-Bollens, aquatic ecology
Terrestrial ecosystem health
- Henry Adams, forest response to global change; physiological ecology of trees
- Arjan Meddens, forest ecosystem dynamics; insect and wildfire impacts
- Andrew Perleberg and Kevin Zobrist, forest stewardship and family forestry
- Rodney Sayler, wetland and Palouse Prairie ecology; restoration ecology
- Bill Schlosser, forest resource analysis and econometrics
- Mark Swanson, forest disturbance processes and early succession