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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Joseph R. Graney
Professor
Environmental Studies Program; Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Research Interests
- Environmental Geochemistry
- Environmental Hydrogeology
Teaching Interests
- Environmental Hydrology
- Environmental Measurements
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Robert A. Holahan
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies Program
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
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Jessica Hua
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Ecology and evolution
- Phenotypic plasticity
- Ecotoxicology
- Disease ecology
- Aquatic systems
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George Homsy
Associate Professor; Director of Environmental Studies
CCPA Public Administration; 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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Valerie Imbruce
Director
External Scholarships and Undergraduate Research Center
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Peter L. Knuepfer
Associate Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies; Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Geomorphology
- Glacial Geology
- Neotectonics
Teaching Interests
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Thomas Kulp
Associate Professor
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Research Interests
- Geomicrobiology
- Environmental Microbiology
- Chemistry of Toxic Metals
Teaching Interests
- Geomicrobiology
- Paleobiology
- Environmental Geology
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BrieAnna Langlie
Assistant 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
Environmental Studies Program; 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
- The Dynamic Earth
- Environmental Studies Introductory Course
- Environmental Planning
- Various Upper-Division/Graduate Classes in Anthropology/Archaeology
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George Meindl
Instructor
Environmental Studies Program
Research Interests
- Plant ecology
- Geoecology
- Mycology
- Bioremediation
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Pamela Mischen
Faculty Advisor to the President; Associate Professor
President, Office of the; CCPA Public Administration
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; Anthropology
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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Molly Patterson
Assistant Professor
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Research Interests
- Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Cyclostratigraphy
- Paleoceanography
- Paleoclimatology
Teaching Interests
- Climate and Paleoclimate
- Global Change: A Geological Perspective
- Oceanography
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Kirsten Prior
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Community ecology
- Species interactions
- Environmental change
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Joshua Reno
Professor
Anthropology
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; Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
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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Timothy de Smet
Director, Geophysics and Remote Sensing Laboratory; Environmental Visualization, Research Assistant Professor
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies; First-year Research Immersion Program
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
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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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Sara Velardi
Lecturer
Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies
Research Interests
- Human dimensions of agriculture and natural resources
- Agrifood policy
- Biotechnology in the food system
- Community engagement in research
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David Sloan Wilson
Emeritus Professor
Biological Sciences
Research Interests
- Evolutionary and theoretical ecology
- Evolution of ecological communities
- Human evolutionary biology
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Yuxin Wang
Research Assistant Professor and Lecturer
Environmental Studies Program
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
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Dylan Horvath
Steward of Natural Areas
Environmental Studies Program
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