Environmental Studies Program Faculty
Richard E. Andrus
Associate Professor Emeritus
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Taxonomy
- Ecology
- Biogeography of bryophytes
Research Interests
- Biogeography
- Plant Ecology
- Environmental History
- Energy and Society
- Weed Ecology and Evolution
- Ethic Cultural Trajectories
- Agricultural Origins
Research Interests
- Environmental geochemistry
Robert A. Holahan
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Environmental Policy
- Political Science and Sustainability
Louisa Holmes
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program; Geography
Research Interests
- health geography
- social determinants/health disparities
- biodemography
- survey research
Research Interests
- Ecology and evolution
- Phenotypic plasticity
- Ecotoxicology
- Disease ecology
- Aquatic systems
George Homsy
Assistant Professor
CCPA Public Administration
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
Valerie Imbruce
Director
External Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards, Office of; Undergraduate Research Center
Research Interests
- Environmental Economics
Peter L. Knuepfer
Research Interests
- Neotectonics
- geomorphology
Thomas Kulp
Associate Professor
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Research Interests
- Geomicrobiology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Chemistry of Toxic Metals
Research Interests
- Paleoethnobotany
- Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America
Carl P. Lipo
Professor; Professor/Director of Environmental Studies; Associate Dean for Research and Programs
Anthropology; Environmental Studies Program; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
Research Interests
- Archaeology
- Easter Island and Eastern Polynesia
- Cultural transmission
- Evolutionary theory
- Agent-based modeling
- The Archaeology of North America
- Remote Sensing, GIS, and Geophysics
- Sustainable Communities
- Artifact Analyses
George Meindl
Visiting Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Plant ecology
- Geoecology
- Mycology
- Bioremediation
Pamela Mischen
Associate Professor; Faculty Advisor to the President
CCPA Public Administration; President, Office of the
Research Interests
- Knowledge management and inter-organizational networks
- Local government capacity to create sustainable communities
- Sustainability metrics for communities
Molly Patterson
Assistant Professor
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Christopher Morgan-Knapp
Chair and Associate Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests
- Community ecology
- Species interactions
- Environmental change
Research Interests
- Environment
- science and technology studies
- semiotics
- material culture
- North America
- United Kingdom
Lindsey Swierk
Assistant Research Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Behavioral Ecology
- Herpetology
- Tropical Ecology
Research Interests
- Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
- Evolution of ecological communities
- Human evolutionary biology
Adjunct Faculty
Dylan Horvath
Steward of Natural Areas
Environmental Studies Program
Susan Ryan
Adjunct Faculty
Evolutionary Studies Program (EvoS)
Lisa Theo
Research and Scholarship Advisor
External Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards, Office of; Undergraduate Research Center
