Stephanie Malin PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at C.S.U.  

She is a sociologist of environment, globalization, and development, focusing on community-level outcomes of natural resource development and energy production. Her main interests include environmental justice, environmental health, social mobilization, poverty, and political economy of energy development. Stephanie’s current research centers around energy development’s socio-environmental impacts and includes a 3-year study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, which examines the relationships between unconventional oil and gas development, quality of life, and stress levels. Stephanie’s work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Rural Studies, Society and Natural Resources, and Land Use Policy. Her book, The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice, was published by Rutgers University Press in May 2015.

Lisa McKenzie, PhD, MPH, Colorado School of Public Health

Through her research on “Birth Outcomes and Maternal Residential Proximity to Natural Gas Development in Rural Colorado”  she has contributed to the understanding of how air pollutants and other exposures affect the health people  living in natural gas development areas. Dr. Lisa McKenzie is an Assistant Research Professor  at Colorado School of Public Health (CSPH) on the University of Colorado Denver’s Anschutz Medical Campus.  She holds a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado, an MPH in Epidemiology from the CSPH, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry from the University of Montana.  Her research focuses on human exposures to chemicals in air and resulting health outcomes, as well as health effects associated with climate change.  Dr. McKenzie was a co-investigator on a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) which assessed potential health effects associated with a proposed natural gas development project, as well as the principal author of the supporting human health risk assessment published in Science of the Total Environment (March 2012). Her most recent study on birth outcomes in areas with natural gas development was published in Environmental Health Perspectives in April 2014.  Dr. McKenzie has testified before the United States Congress and the Denver Metropolitan Regional Air Quality Council on the public health implications of natural gas development.

Joseph Ryan PhD, is a Professor and Bennett-Lindstedt Faculty Fellow in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University Of Colorado Boulder. 

He has been teaching and conducting research at the University Of Colorado Boulder since 1993. At the University, Joe is affiliated with the Environmental Engineering Program in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Environmental Studies Program in the College Of Arts ad Sciences. Joe holds a B.S. degree in geological engineering from Princeton University and  M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His research and outreach focuses on the fate and transport of contaminants in natural waters.  Current research efforts include investigations of the role of colloids and organic matter in the speciation and transport of contaminants and the effects of oil and gas development on water quality.  He and his co-authors have published seventy-some articles on these topics. Joe is the faculty director of the National Science Foundation-funded AirWaterGas Sustainability Research Network, a multi-institution team of twenty-eight researchers addressing the effects of oil and gas development on air and water resources in the Rocky Mountain Region.  He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the American Chemical Society, and the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.