Our Team
Our team consists of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, professional staff, and students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Our team is interdisciplinary by design. By combining expertise in river science, river policy, and community outreach, we are able to offer the holistic approach necessary to design sustainable river management plans in New England.

Eve Vogel
RiverSmart Principal Investigator for Policy and Institutional Research
Associate Professor, Geography
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: evev@umass.edu
Tel: (413) 545-0778

Christine Hatch
RiverSmart Principal Investigator for River Science Research and Extension
Extension Assistant Professor
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: chatch@geo.umass.edu
Tel: (413) 577-2245

Benjamin P. Warner
Research Water-Related Hazards to Resilient Agricultural Systems
FFFGM Project Manager and Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Email: bpwarner@umass.edu
Tel: (765) 977-6238

John Gartner
Research Stream Power and Effects of Restoration of River Form and Habitat
Farms, Floods, and Fluvial Geomorphology Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: johndgartner@gmail.com
Tel: (603) 801-5424

Marie-Françoise Hatte
RiverSmart Support Staff
WRRC Associate Director
Water Resources Research Center
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: mfhatte@umass.edu
Tel: (413) 545-5531

Stephen Lukas
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: slukas@umass.edu