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
Timothy de Smet
Environmental Visualization, Research Assistant Professor
First-year Research Immersion Program
Research Interests
- Environmental Geochemistry
- Environmental Hydrogeology
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
Associate 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
- Geomorphology
- Glacial Geology
- Neotectonics
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
- Evolution of Past Human Populations
- Models of Cultural Transmission
- Methods in Remote Sensing, Geophysics
- North American Prehistory, Prehistory of the Pacific
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
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
Molly Patterson
Assistant Professor
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Research Interests
- Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Cyclostratigraphy
- Paleoceanography
- Paleoclimatology
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
- 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
Adjunct Faculty
Dylan Horvath
Steward of Natural Areas
Environmental Studies Program
Susan Ryan
Lisa Theo
Research and Scholarship Advisor
External Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards, Office of; Undergraduate Research Center
