Affiliate Faculty

Robin Abrams

Professor of Architecture
College of Design
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Interests: sustainability, green infrastructure, inner city revitalization, housing, and city design

Professor and Department Head of Applied Ecology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Interests: aquatic ecology, conservation biology, fishery science, and environmental toxicology

Marcelo Ardon Sayao

Assistant Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources
College of Natural Resources
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Interests: salinization, wetland ecology, biogeochemistry, and carbon processing

Sankar Arumugam

Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: modeling, hydroclimatology, water resources planning, and environmental assessment

Emily Berglund

Associate Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: water management, reclamation and conservation, complex adaptive systems, agent-based modeling, and human behavior

Jonathan Bohlmann

Professor of Marketing and Innovation
Poole College of Management
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Interests: decision-making, first-mover advantage, innovation adoption and pricing strategy

Matthew Booker

Associate Professor of History
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Interests: history, ecology, law, and agriculture

Zachary Brown

Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Interests: behavioral economics, environmental policy, and biotechnology innovation

Jay Cheng

Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: environmental engineering, bioenergy, reneweable energy, and waste treatment

Joseph DeCarolis

Associate Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: energy system models, economics, solid waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions

Jason Delborne

Associate Professor of Science, Policy and Society
College of Natural Resources
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Interests: science & technology policy, genetic engineering and society, politicized scientific controversies, and environmental policy

Owen Duckworth

Associate Professor of Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Interests: biogeochemistry, nutrient flow, and contaminants

Joel Ducoste

Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: water treatment, computational fluid dynamics modeling, water/wastewater process optimization, sewer collection sustainability, energy recovery, plant biosystems, and solid waste process modeling

Rob Dunn

Professor of Applied Ecology
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Interests: microbiomes, microbiology, ecology, evolution, and public science

Ryan Emanuel

Associate Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources
College of Natural Resources
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Interests: ecohydrology, watershed hydrology, watershed biogeochemistry, secondary ecosystem succession, land-atmosphere interaction, and coastal science

David Gilmartin

Professor of History
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Interests: South Asia, history, and imperialism

Nora Haenn

Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Interests: anthropology, sustainable development, environmental justice, multiculturalism, and conservation

Jane Hoppin

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
College of Sciences
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Interests: environmental epidemiology, chemical exposure, and environmental toxicology

Lee-Ann Jaykus

Professor of Food Science
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
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Interests: microbial food safety, food virology, and transmission of enteric viruses

Madhusudan Katti

Associate Professor of Leadership in Public Science
College of Natural Resources
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Interests: land use, landscape change, evolutionary ecology, human modification, biodiversity, and conservation

Detlef Knappe

Professor of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: wastewater treatment, organic contaminants, drinking water quality, and drinking water treatment

Stefano Longo

Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Interests: social and ecological systems, marine ecosystems, political economy, and food systems

Elizabeth Nichols

Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources
College of Natural Resources
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Interests: organic pollutant fate, pollutant bioavailabilty, ecological toxicology, risk assessment, and hazardous materials management

Dan Obenour

Assistant Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: watershed modeling, water quality, nutrient loading, hydrologic modeling, and surface water quality

Ranji Ranjithan

Professor, Director of Graduate Programs, Associate Head of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering
College of Engineering
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Interests: engineering systems analysis, infrastructure, sustainability, solid waste management, groundwater monitoring and remediation, and emergency management