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Area Of Specialization : Env. Science


Lowell W. Adams
ladams4@.umd.edu
web site
Urban wildlife ecology & management; human-wildlife interactions in the metropolitan environment; biological and cultural carrying capacities of urban environments

Isoken Tito Aighewi
tiaighewi@umes.edu
Environmental quality/health; soil-water pollution/watershed management; environmental soil chemistry; food safety; geographical information systems applications

Carolyn B. Brooks
cbbrooks@mail.umes.edu
web site
Molecular Biology; development of microbial insecticides; biological nitrogen fixation; pathogenic microbiology; plant call/tissue culture

Amy E. Brown
amybrown@umd.edu
web site
Effects of pesticides on human health; potential for behavioral effects of organophosphates; policies associated with multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome

Kaye L. Brubaker
klbrubak@umd.edu
web site
Physical hydrology; numerical modeling; stream and estuary water-quality modeling; water vapor transport; hydroclimatology; land-atmosphere interactions

Mark S. Castro
castro@al.umces.edu
web site
Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, greenhouse gas fluxes, global environmental changes, effects of atmospheric deposition and human activities on nutrient dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems, the composition of the atmosphere

James Dietz
jimdietz@umd.edu
web site
Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of neotropical mammals; metapopulation dynamics and management

Joseph Dodoo
jdodoo@umes-bird.umd.edu
web site
Structure and thermochemical kinetic studies of coal pyrolysis; Monte Carlo simulation of gamma ray bursts

Erle C. Ellis
ece@umbc.edu
web site
Landscape ecology; biogeochemistry, sustainable resource management

Andrew Elmore
aelmore@al.umces.edu
web site
Land use and land cover change; ecohydrology; biogeochemistry; remote sensing and spatial analysis

Keith N. Eshleman
eshleman@al.umces.edu
web site
Watershed and wetlands hydrology; groundwater/surface water interactions; biogeochemical processes in upland and wetland ecosystems; hydrochemical modeling; ecosystem interactions with land use change

Irwin N. Forseth, Jr.
iforseth@umd.edu
web site
Plant physiological and population ecology; heliotropic leaf movement; biodiversity; photosynthesis responses to global climate change

J. Edward Gates
gates@al.umces.edu
web site
Wildlife, habitatd and landscape ecology; habitat fragmentation and alteration, connectivity, edge effects and boundary dynamics; habitat suitability for vertebrate species

Jeannine Harter-Dennis
jmharter-dennis@mail.umes.edu
Nutritional requirements of roaster chickens; reduction of carcass fat in broilers and roasters; bone abnormalities of chickens

Robert L. Hill
rlh@umd.edu
web site
Tillage effect on soil hydraulic properties and agrichemical losses; development of nutrient management planning and environmental risk assessment software

David W. Inouye
inouye@umd.edu
web site
Pollination biology; plant demography; climate change biology; flowering phenology; plant-animal interactions

Andrea Karen Johnson
akjohnson@mail.umes.edu
web site
Assessing the health of Atlantic menhaden using several biomarkers of fish health: indicators of tissue damage, nutritional status and exposure to environmental stresors, immune function and disease

Jagmohan Joshi
jjoshi@mail.umes.edu
Plant breeding and genetics; host plant and insect resistance in soybeans; sustainable agriculture

Patrick Kangas
pkangas@umd.edu
web site
Ecological engineering; natural resource management; tropical ecosystems

Dennis M. King
dking@cbl.umces.edu
web site
Environmental Economics; ecological economics, ecosystem restoration, ecosystem valuation

Laura Lewis
ljlewis@umbc.edu
web site
Biogeography of crop species; domestication and radiation of agricultural species; agro-ecology, germplasm management, genetic resources conservation; applied urban ethnobotany/ethnobiology, specifically in the Washington DC/Baltimore area

Todd Lookingbill
tlookingbill@al.umces.edu
web site
Forest community ecology; climate change; spatial analysis and landscape scaling; ecosystem-based adaptive management; ecohydrological modeling; urban ecology

Thomas Malone
malone@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Biological phytoplankton ecology; nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems, role of science in developing marine policy

Marla McIntosh
mmcintos@umd.edu
web site
Sustainable forestry; genetics of hyperaccumulation of Cd in Thlaspi caerulescens; pytomedicinals; genetic diversity

Andrew J. Miller
miller@umbc.edu
web site
Surface-water hydrology and fluvial geomorphology; interaction between flow patterns and boundary conditions imposed by geometry; effects of human activities on watershed hydrology and river channels

Madhumi Mitra
mmitra@mail.umes.edu
web site
Paleontology, paleocology and paleoenvironmental studies of cretaceous-quaternary sediments of atlantic coastal plain; factors impacting the decline of submerged aquatic vegetation; phytoplankton dynamics

Bahram Momen
bmomen@umd.edu
web site
Forest ecosystems; air pollution effects on ecosystem processes through plants; tree and crop ecophysiology; applied statistical analysis and experimental design in natural resources

Raymond P. Morgan II
morgan@al.umces.edu
web site
Aquatic pollution ecology, with emphasis on acid rain and mine drainage effects; fishery genetics; conservation biology and restoration ecology; zymurgy

Charles Lee Mulchi
cm48@umail.umd.edu
web site
Agricultural and environmental sciences; stress physiology, environmental chemistry

Laura Murray
murray@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Wetlands ecology, nutrient and pore water chemistry dynamics of submerged aquatic vegetation, nutrient retention by wetlands, wetland plant ecology

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri
anagchaudhuri@umes.edu
web site
Integration of advanced technologies of mechatronics in the fields of precision agriculture, environmental, marine and geosciences; remote sensing and image analysis

Judith O'Neil
joneil@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Cyanobacteria ecophysiology and plankton trophodynamics

Mary A. Ottinger
maotting@umd.edu
web site
Neuroendocrine regulation of endocrine and behavioral aspects of avian reproduction; effects of environmental factors, such as endocrine disrupting chemicals

Margaret Palmer
palmer@cbl.umces.edu
web site
Stream community and ecosystems ecology; restoration ecology; stream ecosystem structure and function; influence of land use, hydrology and geomorphology on health of running-water ecosystems

Michael Paolisso
mpaoliss@umd.edu
web site
Environmental and economic anthropology; environment and pollution; international and rural development; research methods and gender

Brian Reed
reedb@umbc.edu
web site
Sorption of organics/inorganics, surface chemistry, seperation processes, water and wastewater treatment, soil and site remediation, pollution prevention/waster minimization, stormwater management

Miranda Schreurs
mschreur@umd.edu
web site
Comparative environmental and energy politics in northeast Asia and in Europe

Adel Shirmohammadi
ashirmo@umd.edu
web site
Bioenvironmental and water resources engineering; water quality/transport modeling; nonpoint source pollution assessment using an integrated watershed approach

Youngsinn Sohn
ysohn@umbc.edu
web site
Analytical mapping of forests/biotic communities and urban growth; GIS and remote sensing; land use, land cover change

Lynn C. Sparling
sparling@umbc.edu
web site
Understanding the dynamical, chemical and transport processes in the atmosphere and ocean that contribute to the observed spatiotemporal variability in chemical tracers and dynamical fields

J. Court Stevenson
court@hpl.umces.edu
web site
Coastal zone resources and water quality management; ecology of marsh and sea grass systems; effects of sea-level rise on wetlands and coastal shorelines; environmental history of Chesapeake Bay and its watershed

Cathlyn D. Stylinski
cat@al.umces.edu
web site
Environmental science education and scientific inquiry in precollege classrooms; remote sensing and plant ecophysiology

Christopher Swan
cmswan@umbc.edu
web site
Benthic evolution/ecology; community ecology; limnology; systems; biostatistics

David Rogers Tilley
dtilley@umd.edu
web site
Ecological engineering; wetland assessment with hyperspectral radiometry; ecosystem filtration of air pollutants; net energy analysis of bio-fuels; environmental accounting and emergy analysis

Lisa Wainger
wainger@cbl.umces.edu
web site
Risk analysis and decision support tools for prioritizing natural resource management options; invasive species risk assessment; wetland restoration prioritization; ecological and economic indicators for communicating relative costs and benefits of natural resource change

Raymond R. Weil
rweil@umd.edu
web site
Soil fertility and ecology; soil quality; improvements in ridge tillage; environmental impacts of management intensive grazing; benefits of Brassica cover crop mixtures in sustainable cropping systems

Richard Weismiller
rweismil@umd.edu
web site
Nonpoint source pollution from agricultural systems as related to surface and ground water resources; remote sensing as related to soil resources

Claire Welty
weltyc@umbc.edu
web site
Transport processes in aquifers; mathematical modeling of groundwater flow and transport in porous and fractured media; application of stochastic methods to interpreting groundwater problems; design and analysis of field-scale hydraulic and tracer tests