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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

Andrew Baldwin
baldwin@umd.edu
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Wetland ecology; plant community dynamics of coastal marshes and mangroves; disturbance and regeneration ecology of wetland vegetation; wetland seed banks; influence of sea level rise on coastal wetlands; community and ecosystem processes of created and restored wetlands; nutrient effects on wetland plant communities

Neil V. Blough
neilb@umd.edu
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methods for detecting and identifying free radicals in condensed phases; impact of (photo)oxidative reactions on the transformation and fate of organic & inorganic compounds in natural waters and biological systems

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

James Carton
carton@umd.edu
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Physical oceanography; ocean circulation; dynamics of the tropical Atlantic as it responds to meteorological forcing on seasonal and longer timescales

Allen P. Davis
apdavis@umd.edu
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Environmental chemistry; aquatic and interfacial environmental chemistry as related to water/ wastewater treatment processes and in natural aquatic/soil systems

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

William Fagan
bfagan@glue.umd.edu
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Meshing field research with theoretical models to address critical questions in community ecology and conservation biology; ecological "edge effects" and spatial dynamics; ecoinformatics, biodiversity databases, and conservation planning

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

Oliver J. Hao
ojh1@umd.edu
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Wet air oxidation of hazardous wastes; cometabolism of hazardous organics; nutrient removal; biological processes control; biological nitrate; sulfate chromium and selenium reduction

Reginal M. Harrell
rharrell@umd.edu
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Aquaculture; fisheries ecology; genetics and hybridization of fishes; stress physiology

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

Anwar Huq
huq@umd.edu
Transmission of aquatic bacterial pathogens, their molecular ecology and direct detection, using remote sensing and aerospace technology; development and optimization of rapid detection of aquatic pathogens, using molecular and immunological methods, and application of these methods in the field

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

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

Michael S. Kearney
mkearne2@umd.edu
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Quaternary geomorphology; processes and rates of marsh loss; barrier island dynamics; applications of remote sensing to the study of coastal processes

William O. Lamp
lamp@umd.edu
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Applied insect ecology; integrated pest management, with emphasis on forage crops; benthic macroinvertebrate ecology in streams impacted by humans

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.

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

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

Maile Neel
mneel@umd.edu
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Understanding patterns of biological diversity as well as the relationships between these patterns and the ecological and evolutionary processes that have created them; applying this understanding to developing effective conservation approaches and to predict effects of changing patterns and processes

Judd O. Nelson
judd@umd.edu
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Insecticide toxicology; physiology; environmental toxicology

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

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

Kennedy Paynter

paynter@umd.edu
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Comparative biochemistry and physiology of estuarine animals, especially bivalves; oyster disease biochemistry; biology and ecology of the eastern oyster

Karen L. Prestegaard

kpresto@umd.edu
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Sediment transport and depositional processes; mechanisms of streamflow generation and their variations with watershed scale, geology and land use; hydrology of coastal and riparian wetlands

Martin Rabenhorst

mrabenho@umd.edu
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Genesis, morphology and classification of hydromorphic soils, particularly non-tidal wetlands and coastal marshes; pedogenesis and resource inventory of subaqueous soils

Marjorie Reaka-Kudla

mkudla@umd.edu
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Marine ecology; coral reef ecology; bioerosion of coral reefs; ecology and behavior of mantis shrimp; evolutionary ecology of life history patterns in crustacea

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

Kevin Sellner
sellnerk@si.edu
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Plankton ecology, cyanobacteria

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

Frank Siewerdt
siewerdt@umd.edu
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Quantitative and population genetics, conservation genetics, selection theory, genetic improvement of farm animals, applied statistical methods and experimental designs for the natural sciences

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

Daniel E. Terlizzi
dterlizz@umd.edu
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Plant aquaculture; phycology (Sea Grant Extension Service, NOAA)

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

Alba Torrents
alba@eng.umd.edu
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Chemical transformations and sorption of organic pollutants; environmental fate of toxic chemicals; applications of spectroscopic techniques to env. systems

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

L. Curry Woods
curry@umd.edu
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Aquaculture; problems related to the domestication of striped bass; cryopreseveration of sperm; physiological responsiveness to stress; selective breeding