Faculty

Research Interests

• Biogeography
• Plant Ecology
• Environmental History
• Energy and Society
• Weed Ecology and Evolution
• Ethic Cultural Trajectories
• Agricultural Origins

Research Interests

• Environmental Geochemistry
• Environmental Hydrogeology

Teaching Interests

• Environmental Hydrology
• Environmental Measurements

Research Interests

• Environmental Policy
• Political Science and Sustainability

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Environmental Policy
• Environmental Policy Analysis
• Sustainability and Urban Policy
• Environmental Impact Statements
• American Public Policy
• Global Environmental Politics

Research Interests

• Ecology and evolution
• Phenotypic plasticity
• Ecotoxicology
• Disease ecology
• Aquatic systems

Research Interests

• Sustainability
• Sustainable communities and regions
• Heritage and neighborhood sustainability
• Community planning across generations
• Land use and economic development planning
• Citizen participation in local government policymaking

Research Interests

• Environmental Economics

Research Interests

• Geomorphology
• Glacial Geology
• Neotectonics

Teaching Interests

• Surface Processes

Research Interests

• Geomicrobiology
• Environmental Microbiology
• Chemistry of Toxic Metals

Teaching Interests

• Geomicrobiology
• Paleobiology
• Environmental Geology

Research Interests

• Paleoethnobotany
• Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America

Research Interests

• Evolution of Past Human Populations
• Models of Cultural Transmission
• Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
• North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific

Teaching Interests

• The Dynamic Earth
• Environmental Studies Introductory Course
• Environmental Planning
• Various Upper-Division/Graduate Classes in Anthropology/Archaeology

Research Interests

• Plant ecology
• Geoecology
• Mycology
• Bioremediation

Research Interests

• Knowledge management and inter-organizational networks
• Local government capacity to create sustainable communities
• Sustainability metrics for communities

Research Interests

• Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
• Comparative Studies of Societal Collapse and Recovery
• Frontiers and Early Complexity
• Social Dynamics of Urban Landscapes
• Collective Memory
• GIS and Spatial Analysis

Research Interests

• Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Cyclostratigraphy
• Paleoceanography
• Paleoclimatology

Teaching Interests

• Climate and Paleoclimate
• Global Change: A Geological Perspective
• Oceanography

Research Interests

• Community ecology
• Species interactions
• Environmental change

Research Interests

• Environment
• science and technology studies
• semiotics
• material culture
• North America
• United Kingdom

Research Interests

• Urban watersheds: transport and storage of traffic derived pollutants, pollutant cycling through constructed wetlands
• Biogeochemical cycling in meromictic lakes: whiting events, sulfur oxidizing bacteria, microbialite

Research Interests

• Near-surface Applied Geophysics
• UAV-based Remote Sensing
• Geoarchaeology
• GIS Statistical and Physics Modeling

Teaching Interests

• Environmental Geophysics
• Geospatial Remote Sensing
• Environmental Visualization
• Geographic Information Systems

Research Interests

• Behavioral Ecology
• Herpetology
• Tropical Ecology

Research Interests

• Human dimensions of agriculture and natural resources
• Agrifood policy
• Biotechnology in the food system
• Community engagement in research

Research Interests

• Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
• Evolution of ecological communities
• Human evolutionary biology

Research Interests

• Water quality related to human activity and technology development
• Risk assessment of contaminants
• Water-energy nexus
• Urban water system and sustainability

Teaching Interests

• Environmental chemistry
• Environmental processes and laboratory
• Drinking water treatment
• Biological wastewater treatment
• Sustainable engineering

Research Interests

• Environmental Law