Faculty & Staff

Faculty

The faculty of the department are listed alphabetically below. Each individual faculty member’s name is a link to more detailed information including their email address and other contact information, a description of the research in which that individual is currently engaged, and selected recent publications.

Allen, Ralph  · Professor · Geosciences

Trace element geochemistry; hazardous waste management.

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Berg, Peter  · Research Associate Professor · Ecology

Modeling of transport phenomena where the transport is occurring by diffusion, convection and radiation.

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Biggs, Thomas  · Lecture Professor · Geosciences

Petrology; economic geology; regional geology; geomorphology; soil biogeochemistry

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Blum, Linda K.  · Research Associate Professor · Ecology

Microbial abundance, productivity and community structure in estuarine systems; microbe-plant interactions; effects of microbial community structure on processes.

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Carr, David E.  · Research Associate Professor · Ecology

Evolutionary ecology, population, quantitative, and ecological genetics.

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Cosby, Jack  · Research Professor · Hydrology

Limnology, biogeochemistry, quantitative analysis of environmental data and simulation modeling.

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D’Odorico, Paolo  · Associate Professor · Hydrology

Ecohydrology, surface hydrology, stochastic modelling of hydrologic processes, soil moisture dynamics, soil erosion.

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Davis, Robert E.  · Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Synoptic and applied climatology, statistical climatology, climatic change, bioclimatology.

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De Wekker, Stephan F.J.  · Assistant Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Boundary-layer meteorology, mountain meteorology, mesoscale modeling, land-atmosphere interactions

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Dolan, Robert  · Professor · Geosciences

Coastal processes and geomorphology

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Emmitt, G. David  · Scholar-in-Residence · Atmospheric Sciences

Laser atmospheric wind sounder instruments, earth science data information system, fugitive dust emissions and air quality modeling.

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Epstein, Howard E.  · Associate Professor · Ecology

Ecosystem and plant community ecologist; climate-plant-soil interactions: grassland, shrubland and tundra ecosystems; field studies, remote sensing and simulation modeling

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Erwin, R. Michael  · Research Professor and Wildlife Biologist · Ecology

Population and community ecology, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, avian biology.

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Evan, Amato  · Assistant Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Large-scale variability, ocean-atmosphere interactions, tropical meteorology, aerosols, ocean general circulation, satellite meteorology.

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Galloway, James N.  · Professor · Geosciences

Biogeochemistry at watershed, regional and global scales.

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Garstang, Michael  · Distinguished Investigator and Research Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Tropical marine and continental meteorology; convective storms; trace gas and aerosol transports, animal communication.

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Goodell, Grant  · Research Professor · Geosciences

Sedimentation, marine geology, marine affairs, field hydrogeology, hydrogeology, radionuclides in groundwater, salt-water intrusion.

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Hayden, Bruce  · Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Dynamic climatology and bioclimatology

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Haynes, Kyle  · Research Assistant Professor · Ecology

Landscape, population, and community ecology; movement behavior; plant-herbivore-predator interactions.

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Herman, Janet S.  · Professor and Director, PIRCH · Geosciences

Low-temperature aqueous geochemistry, kinetics of water-rock interactions, geochemical modeling, groundwater in karst terrains

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Howard, Alan D.  · Professor · Geosciences

Fluvial geomorphology and quantitative methods

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Keene, William C.  · Research Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Multiphase tropospheric chemistry, oxidation processes, atmosphere-biosphere interactions, global change, measurement techniques

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Lawrence, Deborah  · Associate Professor · Ecology

Nutrient cycling in primary and secondary tropical rainforests; relating biodiversity and ecosystem function; ecosystem sustainability

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Lerdau, Manuel  · Professor · Ecology

Environmental & evolutionary physiology, ecosystem ecology, biosphere-atmosphere interactions

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Macko, Stephen A.  · Professor · Geosciences

Biogeochemistry, marine organic geochemistry and stable isotope geochemistry

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McGlathery, Karen  · Professor · Ecology

Aquatic ecology, biogeochemical controls on estuarine nutrient dynamics, ecophysiology of algae and seagrasses, marine conservation and management.

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Mills, Aaron L.  · Professor · Geosciences

Microbial ecology, microbial transformations of groundwater pollutants, bacterial transport through porous media

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Moody, Jennie L.  · Research Associate Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Long-range atmospheric transport and trajectory modeling, acid deposition modeling and precipitation chemistry, chemical climatology

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Moore, Laura  · Assistant Professor · Geosciences

Coastal geomorphology; large-scale coastal behavior; barrier island evolution; linkages between coastal processes and climate change; extreme coastal events

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Nelson, Bruce W.  · Professor Emeritus · Hydrology

Sedimentation and estuarine processes, estuarine chemistry as influenced by land-use practices. Deltaic sedimentation.

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Pace, Michael L.  · Professor · Ecology

Aquatic ecosystems, food webs, carbon cycling, biogeochemistry, microbial ecology

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Panday, Arnico  · Research Assistant Professor · Atmospheric Sciences

Atmospheric chemistry, mountain meteorology, urban air pollution, regional haze, aerosol-climate interactions, sustainable development.

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Porter, John H.  · Research Assistant Professor · Ecology

Mammalian dispersal, population, community and landscape ecology, multivariate statistics, remote-sensing and geographical information systems, data management.

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Ray, G. Carleton  · Research Professor · Ecology

Coastal-marine ecology, conservation and policy; polar ecology; coastal-marine biological diversity and ecological processes; marine mammals and fishes.

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Reidenbach, Matthew  · Assistant Professor · Hydrology

Environmental fluid dynamics; Sustainable marine resources; Transport and mixing in estuaries and coral reefs; Biomechanics of marine organisms

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Roulston, T’ai H.  · Research Associate Professor · Ecology

Plant-pollinator interactions; evolutionary ecology; habitat fragmentation; invasive species; bee biology.

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Ruddiman, William F.  · Professor Emeritus · Geosciences

Marine Geology, Paleoclimatology; paleoceanography.

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Scanlon, Todd  · Assistant Professor · Hydrology

Land-atmosphere interaction; climate-vegetation modeling; and catchment hydrology

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Schwarzschild, Arthur  · Research Assistant Professor · Ecology

Marine ecology, long term ecological research

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Shugart, H.H.  · Corcoran Professor and Director, Global Environmental Change · Ecology

Global change; systems ecology; forest ecosystem analysis and dynamics; ornithology.

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Smith, David E.  · Professor and Associate Chairman · Ecology

Biological oceanography, marine ecology, and invertebrate zoology.

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Smith, Thomas M.  · Associate Professor · Ecology

Theoretical ecology, vegetation modeling, global ecology.

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Swap, Bob  · Research Associate Professor · Ecology

Atmospheric, aerosol and trace gas transports/
characterizations; atmosphere/biosphere interactions

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Thomson, Vivian  · Associate Professor

Joint appointment with the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs

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Wiberg, Patricia L.  · Professor and Chair · Hydrology

Sediment transport, coastal oceanography, geological fluid mechanics.

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Wilbur, Henry M.  · B.F.D. Runk Professor (Biology), Professor of Environmental Sciences · Ecology

Population and community ecology, ecological genetics, vertebrate biology.

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Zieman, Joseph C.  · Professor · Ecology

Marine ecology, ecology of seagrass ecosystems, ecology of tropical coastal systems.

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