Tian, Hanqin

Areas of Research:
Global biogeochemical and hydrological cycles
Land-atmosphere-ocean interactions
Food-water-energy nexus
Ecosystem and earth system modeling

Alley, Kelly

Areas of Research:
Cultural Anthropologist working on decentralized wastewater management and socioeconomic analysis in river basins of South Asia

Anderson, Christopher

Areas of Research:
Wetland and floodplain ecology, urban ecology, land use effects and wetland and stream functions, coastal wetland management

Batchelor, William

Areas of Research:
Crop modeling
Sustainable energy solutions
Precision agriculture
Variable-rate production
Crop yield increase
Crop management systems

Chen, Charles Y.

Areas of Research:
Improve crop adaptation to climate change and extremes through conventional and genomic approaches such as drought tolerance

Dobson, F. Stephen

Areas of Research:
Behavioral, historical, and population ecology
Population genetics
Mammalogy
Seabird behavior and ecology

Fang, Xing

Areas of Research:
Water quality and ecological modeling in aquatic systems (lakes, reservoirs, and estuaries) under past and future climate variations/scenarios

Feng, Yucheng

Areas of Research:
Impact of climate change on microbial processes
How drought affects symbiotic nitrogen fixation in legumes

Kalin, Latif

Areas of Research:
Modeling watershed scale hydrologic processes and wetland nutrient cycling with a focus on land use/cover change impacts

Kumar, Sanjiv

Areas of Research:
Conducting climate modeling experiments to better understand the roles of land and vegetation processes and their coupled atmospheric interactions in improving soil moisture predictability, and clarifying the role of internal climate variability in regional climate change

Lee, Ming-Kuo

Areas of Research:
Groundwater hydrology
Environmental geochemistry
Reactive transport of contaminants and bioremediation
Effects of climate change on water resources

Leisner, Courtney

Areas of Research:
Plant responses to climate and environmental changes

Lepczyk, Christopher

Areas of Research:
Climate change and human activity impacts on birds and other wildlife
Landscape patterns and processes

Liu, Nannan

Areas of Research:
Insect Molecular Toxicology and Physiology
Mechanisms of insecticide resistance

Liu, Bo

Areas of Research:
Machine learning
Deep learning
Healthcare informatics
Stochastic optimization

Lockaby, Graeme

Areas of Research:
Forest biogeochemistry
Wetland
Environmental change and human health

Marzen, Luke

Areas of Research:
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
Land Use Change
Water Resources
Biogeography
Weather and Climate

McNeal, Karen

Areas of Research:
Geoscience education and geocognition where I explore questions concerning human understanding of Earth systems. My current work ties together the affective and cognitive domains of learning through both qualitative and quantitative methods in the context of climate change phenomena.

Miao, Ruiqing

Areas of Research:
Economic decision making under risk and uncertainty, with applications in areas of land conservation, agricultural production and insurance, advanced biofuel investment, new technology innovation and adoption, and food waste.

Mitra, Chandana

Areas of Research:
Climatology, urbanization and growth models, urban climate, climate change, south Asia urbanization and impacts, sustainability, GIS and remote sensing, climate modeling

Morse, Wayde

Areas of Research:
Ecosystem services, nature-based recreation, human dimensions of wildlife, interdisciplinary research and linked social ecological systems nationally and in Latin America

Muntifering, Russell

Areas of Research:
Air-quality effects on productivity and nutritive value of herbaceous vegetation for ruminant livestock and wildlife

Nadolnyak, Denis

Areas of Research:
Resource economics
Environmental economics
Policy
Climate change

O’Donnell, Frances

Areas of Research:
Field studies and stochastic and statistical modeling of the influence of plants on soil moisture and carbon cycles

Ortiz, Brenda

Areas of Research:
Crop modeling, climate change impacts and adaptation

Pan, Susan (Shufen)

Areas of Research:
Land use and land cover changes, climate impacts, mitigation and adaptation, food and water security across many regions of the world including Asia, Africa and North America

Rashotte, Aaron

Areas of Research:
Development and effects of abiotic stress on plants, with a specifically interest in how the plant hormone cytokinin is involved in these processes

Sengupta, Aditi

Areas of Research:
Environmental Economics and Applied Microeconomic Theory

Shepherd, Stephanie

Areas of Research:
Geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology, landscape evolution, anthropogenic impacts on river systems, GIS applications in geomorphology

Tian, Di

Areas of Research:
Agroclimatology with emphasis on weather and climate models assessment and application to agricultural and water management, downscaling of weather and climate model forecasts, assessment of climate impacts on agricultural and hydrological systems, hydrological and drought monitoring and forecasting, and climate service for agriculture and water resources

Uddin, Ashraf

Areas of Research:
Sedimentary geology, including clastic sedimentology, sedimentary petrology, tectonics and stratigraphy, basin analysis and provenance studies of sequences deposited primarily in orogenic systems

Vasconcelos, Jose

Areas of Research:
Modeling of extreme flow events in hydraulic systems
Air-water flows in hydraulic systems
Free surface flow modeling
Water quality modeling in distribution systems
Optimization of water pumping systems

Zohdy, Sarah

Areas of Research:
Parasite-host dynamics, primatology, wildlife disease ecology, vector-borne diseases, public health, and conservation biology