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Lowell W. Adams
ladams4@.umd.edu
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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

Amy E. Brown
amybrown@umd.edu
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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
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Physical hydrology; numerical modeling; stream and estuary water-quality modeling; water vapor transport; hydroclimatology; land-atmosphere interactions

Mark S. Castro

castro@al.umces.edu
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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
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Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of neotropical mammals; metapopulation dynamics and management

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

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

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

Keith N. Eshleman
eshleman@al.umces.edu
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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
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Plant physiological and population ecology; heliotropic leaf movement; biodiversity; photosynthesis responses to global climate change

J. Edward Gates

gates@al.umces.edu
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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
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Tillage effect on soil hydraulic properties and agrichemical losses; development of nutrient management planning and environmental risk assessment software

Raymond M. Hoff
hoff@umbc.edu
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Optical properties of aerosols and gases in the atmosphere; pathways and fates of toxic organic and elemental chemicals in the environment

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

Andrea Karen Johnson
akjohnson@mail.umes.edu
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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

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

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

Stephanie Lansing
slansing@umd.edu
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Anaerobic digestion; ecological waste treatment systems; treatment wetlands; nutrient cycling; energy analysis; ecological modeling

Paul T. Leisnham
leisnham@umd.edu
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The ecology of native and invasive mosquitoes in water-filled containers, wetlands, and drainage systems; species that are affected both by human disruption (e.g., climate change, land use change, and globalization) and that present social, economic and health risks.

Laura Lewis
ljlewis@umbc.edu
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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

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

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

Andrew J. Miller

miller@umbc.edu
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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
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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
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Forest ecosystems; air pollution effects on ecosystem processes through plants; tree and crop ecophysiology; applied statistical analysis and experimental design in natural resources

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

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri
anagchaudhuri@umes.edu
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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
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Cyanobacteria ecophysiology and plankton trophodynamics

Mary A. Ottinger
maotting@umd.edu
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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
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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
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Environmental and economic anthropology; environment and pollution; international and rural development; research methods and gender

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

Amy R. Sapkota
ars@umd.edu
Microbial environmental exposure assessment, with a focus on evaluating the complex relationships between the environment, food and water production systems, and human infectious diseases

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

J. Court Stevenson
court@hpl.umces.edu
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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
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Environmental science education and scientific inquiry in precollege classrooms; remote sensing and plant ecophysiology

Joseph Sullivan
jsull@umd.edu
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The responses of plants to various forms of environmental stress - both natural and anthropogenic; physiological mechanisms that enable plants to exist in a wide range of environmental conditions; how human activities impact plant, agricultural or ecosystem productivity

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

David Rogers Tilley
dtilley@umd.edu
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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
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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
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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

Claire Welty
weltyc@umbc.edu
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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