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
tiaighewi@umes.edu
Environmental quality/health; soil-water pollution/watershed management; environmental soil chemistry; food safety; geographical information systems applications
cbbrooks@mail.umes.edu
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Molecular Biology; development of microbial insecticides; biological nitrogen fixation; pathogenic microbiology; plant call/tissue culture
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
klbrubak@umd.edu
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Physical hydrology; numerical modeling; stream and estuary water-quality modeling; water vapor transport; hydroclimatology; land-atmosphere interactions
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
jimdietz@umd.edu
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Behavioral ecology and conservation biology of neotropical mammals; metapopulation dynamics and management
jdodoo@umes-bird.umd.edu
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Structure and thermochemical kinetic studies of coal pyrolysis; Monte Carlo simulation of gamma ray bursts
ece@umbc.edu
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Landscape ecology; biogeochemistry, sustainable resource management
aelmore@al.umces.edu
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Land use and land cover change; ecohydrology; biogeochemistry; remote sensing and spatial analysis
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
iforseth@umd.edu
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Plant physiological and population ecology; heliotropic leaf movement; biodiversity; photosynthesis responses to global climate change
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
jmharter-dennis@mail.umes.edu
Nutritional requirements of roaster chickens; reduction of carcass fat in broilers and roasters; bone abnormalities of chickens
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
inouye@umd.edu
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Pollination biology; plant demography; climate change biology; flowering phenology; plant-animal interactions
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
jjoshi@mail.umes.edu
Plant breeding and genetics; host plant and insect resistance in soybeans; sustainable agriculture
pkangas@umd.edu
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Ecological engineering; natural resource management; tropical ecosystems
dking@cbl.umces.edu
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Environmental Economics; ecological economics, ecosystem restoration, ecosystem valuation
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
tlookingbill@al.umces.edu
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Forest community ecology; climate change; spatial analysis and landscape scaling; ecosystem-based adaptive management; ecohydrological modeling; urban ecology
malone@hpl.umces.edu
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Biological phytoplankton ecology; nutrient cycling in aquatic ecosystems, role of science in developing marine policy
mmcintos@umd.edu
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Sustainable forestry; genetics of hyperaccumulation of Cd in Thlaspi caerulescens; pytomedicinals; genetic diversity
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
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
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
morgan@al.umces.edu
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Aquatic pollution ecology, with emphasis on acid rain and mine drainage effects; fishery genetics; conservation biology and restoration ecology; zymurgy
cm48@umail.umd.edu
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Agricultural and environmental sciences; stress physiology, environmental chemistry
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
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
joneil@hpl.umces.edu
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Cyanobacteria ecophysiology and plankton trophodynamics
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
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
mpaoliss@umd.edu
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Environmental and economic anthropology; environment and pollution; international and rural development; research methods and gender
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
mschreur@umd.edu
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Comparative environmental and energy politics in northeast Asia and in Europe
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
ysohn@umbc.edu
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Analytical mapping of forests/biotic communities and urban growth; GIS and remote sensing; land use, land cover change
sparling@umbc.edu
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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
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
cat@al.umces.edu
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Environmental science education and scientific inquiry in precollege classrooms; remote sensing and plant ecophysiology
cmswan@umbc.edu
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Benthic evolution/ecology; community ecology; limnology; systems; biostatistics
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
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
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
rweismil@umd.edu
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Nonpoint source pollution from agricultural systems as related to surface and ground water resources; remote sensing as related to soil resources
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