Environmental Studies Program Faculty
Mark A. Blumler
Associate Professor
Geography
Research Interests
- Biogeography
- Plant Ecology
- Environmental History
- Energy and Society
- Weed Ecology and Evolution
- Ethic Cultural Trajectories
- Agricultural Origins
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Amber (Amy) Churchill
Assisant Professor of Ecosystem Science
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Plant ecology and plant-ecosystem feedbacks
- Community-level interactions in plants and impacts on ecosystems
- Plant-pollinator interactions under global change
- Forage and mixed pasture ecosystem resilience
- Global changes as drivers of ecosystem function and services
Teaching Interests
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Joseph R. Graney
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interests
- Environmental Geochemistry
- Environmental Hydrogeology
Teaching Interests
- Environmental Hydrology
- Environmental Measurements
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George Homsy
Director of Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies Program
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
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Peter L. Knuepfer
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interests
- Geomorphology
- Glacial Geology
- Neotectonics
Teaching Interests
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Thomas Kulp
Associate Professor; Sustainable Communities Program Director
Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interests
- Geomicrobiology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Chemistry of Toxic Metals
Teaching Interests
- Geomicrobiology
- Paleobiology
- Environmental Geology
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BrieAnna Langlie
Associate Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Paleoethnobotany
- Landscape archaeology in the Andes Mountains of South America
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Carl P. Lipo
Professor; Associate Dean for Research and Programs
Anthropology; Harpur College of Arts and Sciences
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
- Archaeological Laboratory Methods
- Archaeological Remote Sensing
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Humans and the Environment
- Eastern North American Prehistory
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Pamela Mischen
Faculty Advisor to the President; Chief Sustainability Officer; Professor
President, Office of the; Office of Sustainability; Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Knowledge management and inter-organizational networks
- Local government capacity to create sustainable communities
- Sustainability metrics for communities
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David W. Mixter
Research Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies Program
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
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Christopher Morgan-Knapp
Professor
Philosophy
Research Interests
- Ethics
- Metaethics
- Applied Ethics
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Joe Panzik
Environmental Visualization, Research Assistant Professor; Research Educator
First-year Research Immersion Program; Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interests
- Geomagnetism
- Geophysics
- Data Science
- Earth Evolution
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Nirav Patel
Lecturer
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Social-ecological systems
- Food-Energy-Water nexus (FEW nexus) and ecosystems of global health
- Social and behavioral aspects of sustainability
- Integrative sustainability science
- Natural resource management
- Coupled human-environment system
Teaching Interests
- FEW nexus and One Health in the Anthropocene
- Urban ecology and GIS
- Integration of UN-SDGs in sustainability science
- Nature of place and people
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Molly Patterson
Assistant Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Research Interests
- Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Cyclostratigraphy
- Paleoceanography
- Paleoclimatology
Teaching Interests
- Climate and Paleoclimate
- Global Change: A Geological Perspective
- Oceanography
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Kirsten Prior
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Community ecology
- Species interactions
- Environmental change
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Joshua Reno
Professor/Graduate Director; TRIP Courtesy Title
Anthropology; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Environment
- science and technology studies
- semiotics
- material culture
- North America
- United Kingdom
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Jonathan Schmitkons
Biogeochemistry, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program; Department of Earth Sciences
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
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Alexander Sorenson
Lecturer
Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- German literature and thought ca. 1800-1917
- Literary, philosophical and artistic accounts of the relation between human communities and the natural world (ecocriticism, nature writing, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, etc.)
- Modern European intellectual and cultural history
- Convergences between the natural and human sciences
Teaching Interests
- German language and literature
- European literature, culture and thought
- Cultural, literary and critical theory
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Lindsey Swierk
Assistant Research Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Behavioral Ecology
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Herpetology
- Tropical Ecology
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Adam Vaught
Administrative Assistant 1
Environmental Studies Program
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Sara Velardi
Instructor; Undergraduate Director
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Human dimensions of agriculture and natural resources
- Agrifood policy
- Biotechnology in the food system
- Community engagement in research
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Yuxin Wang
Assistant Professor
Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
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
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Adjunct Faculty
Juliet Meghan Berling
Adjunct Lecturer
Environmental Studies Program; Engineering Design Division (EDD); Geography
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Dylan Horvath
Steward of Natural Areas
Environmental Studies Program
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