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Dr. Joanna Endter-Wada

Dr. Joanna Endter-Wada

Program Director (NEPA Graduate Certificate); Associate Professor (Natural Resource & Environmental Policy; Water Management & Planning; Human Ecology).
Department: Environment & Society, Watershed Sciences
Departmental Role: Environment & Society Faculty
Status: Adjunct, Faculty
Location:  BNR 270A
Office Phone:  435.797.2487
Fax:  435.797.4048
Utah State University
Department of Environment & Society
5215 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-5215
Curriculum Vitae

USU SelectedWorks

Overarching Themes of Endter-Wada Lab Group:

  • Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management
     -interdisciplinary perspectives on human-environment linkages
    -human hydrology
     
  • Water Law and Policy
    -drought management
    -urban water use     and conservation
    -climate change
    -water for wetlands

  • Natural Resource and Environmental Policy
    -public land and common property resources
    -National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Urban Water Conservation Research Lab:  435-797-9084

Courses:

ENVS 1990 - Professional Orientation for Environment and Society
ENVS 5320 - Water Law and Policy in the United States
ENVS 6700/7700 - Research Approaches in HDESM 

 

Graduate Students:


Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management

Enjie Li - PhD
Lisa Welsh - PhD

Master of Natural Resources

Matthew Betts- MNR
Mark Blair- MNR
Dawnee Burson- MNR
Eric Cox- MNR
Jessica Delph- MNR
David DeRouhlac- - MNR
Russell Franklin- MNR
Cynthia Horwitz- MNR
Chris Jensen- MNR
Douglas Johnson- MNR
Nicholas Mitrovich - MNR
Stephanie Parke- MNR
Nick Richins- MNR
Bonnie Roos- MNR
Barbara Walton- MNR

Other Departmental and Program Affiliations:

NEPA Certificate Program
MNR Ecosystem Management
Ecology Center
Watershed Science Department
Institute for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

Biography:

Dr. Joanna Endter-Wada is an Associate Professor of Natural Resource Policy and Social Science.  Her research generally focuses on conceptualizing and analyzing linkages between humans and biophysical aspects of ecosystems, with emphases on water, public land, forest resources, fisheries and urban landscapes. She is currently conducting research on human dimensions of drought and climate change, urban landscape water use, and wetlands.  The National Science Foundation, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Western Water Assessment (NOAA) are funding her current research projects. 

During her professional career, Dr. Endter-Wada has been involved in numerous activities related to translation between academic disciplines and translation of science to the general public. She has directed and been involved in interdisciplinary academic programs and research projects.  She has served at state and federal levels in policy-related appointments.  For the State of Utah, she served as Chairperson of the Utah Fish Health Policy Board (1998-2006, two terms), Chairperson of the Utah Forest Practices Task Force (1996, which resulted in a Forest Practices Act passed by the Utah Legislature), and Member of the  Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands Advisory Council (1995-1998).  For the United States, she served as Chairperson (1996-1998) and Member (1993-1999) of the Outer Continental Shelf Advisory Board Scientific Committee, U.S. Dept. of Interior.  She has also served as Associate Editor of Society and Natural Resources (1994-1997) and reviewer for other academic journals.

At present Dr. Endter-Wada advises graduate students in the Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management degree program and in the Master of Natural Resources degree program.  Her former students have gone on to work in academia, natural resource agencies, and non-profit organizations.