Steering Committee

The Natural Resources and Environmental Science program is an interdisciplinary major which is managed by a Steering Committee of faculty from departments in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, and UK Transportation Services. The Steering Committee collaborates to guide all aspects of this undergraduate major.

Current NRES Steering Committee members include:

Mary A. Arthur, Ph.D. | Forestry and Natural Resources | Committee Chair

Brian Lee, Ph.D. | Landscape Architecture | Director of Undergraduate Studies

Jack Shieffer, Ph.D. | Agricultural Economics | Internship Coordinator

Chris Barton, Ph.D. | Forestry and Natural Resources

Sandra Broadus | NRES Alumna, UK Transportation Services

David McNear, Ph.D. | Plant & Soil Sciences

Chris Matocha, Ph.D. | Plant & Soil Sciences

Robert Paratley, M.S. | Forestry and Natural Resources

Lynn Phillips, Ph.D | Geography

Steve Price Ph.D | Forestry and Natural Resources

Chris Sass, Ph.D. | Landscape Architecture

Christopher Shepard, Ph.D. | Plant & Soil Sciences

Kevin Yeager, Ph.D | Earth and Environmental Sciences