Dr. Art Bettis acts as program director for the UI Environmental Sciences program and is a professor in the Earth and Environmental Science department. He also holds a joint appointment with the Institute of Hydraulic Research. Dr. Bettis has been at the university since 2000. We sat down with Dr. Bettis to discuss his work within…
Dr. Craig Just is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa. Up for tenure this summer, Dr. Just teaches graduate level courses along with an undergraduate principles of environmental engineering course. His research interests range from freshwater mussels' impacts on the nitrogen cycles in rivers and streams to the…
This week, Iowa Environmental Focus sat down with Dr. Brandi Janssen, Clinical Assistant Professor in the UI College of Public Health’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, to discuss her multi-faceted research into local food in Iowa. A trained anthropologist, Dr. Janssen collects qualitative, ethnographic data about alternative, small-scale farming in Iowa to further understand…
Jenna Ladd | October 2, 2017 Episode 8 of EnvIowa features an interview with Ingrid Gronstal Anderson, Environmental Compliance Specialist with the University of Iowa Power Plant. Ingrid explains the unique challenges faced by a university-based utility and recent strides the plant has made toward a renewable energy portfolio, which includes a growing miscanthus energy crop…