Faculty Listed by Campus
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Lee Blaney
blaney@umbc.edu
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Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in natural and engineered systems; environmental detection of pharmaceuticals or treatment processes aimed at removing pharmaceuticals from drinking water/wastewater matrices
Allen C. Bush
bush@umbc.edu
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Chemical structure and 3-dimensional conformation of complex carbohydrates of glycoproteins and polysaccharides of the cell surface using biophysical methods
Mercedes Burns (*currently not accepting students)
burnsm@umbc.edu
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Evolutionary ecology of reproductive traits and behaviors, sexual conflict, reproductive polymorphism, arthropod biology
Thomas Cronin
cronin@umbc.edu
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Visual ecology, especially of marine invertebrates with a concentration on crustacean visual neuroscience
Kathleen Cusick
kcusick@umbc.edu
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Microbial ecology of coastal marine systems, with an emphasis on saxitoxin-producing harmful algal bloom ecology and evolution using a combination of genetics, genomics, and transcriptomics
Erle C. Ellis (No longer accepting students)
ece@umbc.edu
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Landscape ecology; biogeochemistry, sustainable resource management
Upal Ghosh
ughosh@umbc.edu
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Experimental investigation, design, and modeling of physiochemical and biological processes that affect water quality; fundamental process mechanisms that control organic contaminant bioavailability in soils and sediments.
Jeff Leips
leips@umbc.edu
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Evolution of life history traits, specifically focused on understanding how the genetic architecture underlying these traits guides and constrains their evolutionary responses to natural selection
Maggie Holland
mholland@umbc.edu
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My scholarly interests rest, at a most fundamental level, on the intersections between rural livelihoods, land use dynamics, governance, and conservation strategies. To date, the majority of my research has situated itself in Latin America, with an added layer of focus on forests. Since 2017, I have engaged in research with colleagues in Mozambique, focused both on protected areas and community engagement, as well as a newer line of work on urban agriculture and green spaces. I collaborate actively with economists, geographers, conservation biologists, as well as conservation and development practitioners. The common thread in this interdisciplinary effort is a commitment to developing research that not only contributes to academic discourse, but also is relevant and practical, informing a specific policy or management dialogue.
Tamra Mendelson (*currently not accepting students)
tamram@umbc.edu
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Ecology & evolution of communication; rate of communication evolution vs. ecological divergence & other reproductive barriers; biology at the science-policy-practice interface.
Andrew J. Miller (*currently not accepting students)
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
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
Harold Schreier (*currently not accepting students)
schreier@umbc.edu
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Microbial molecular genetics and physiology; nitrogen metabolism in Bacillus subtilis; control of glutamine synthease operon expression; regulation of gene expression
Kevin R. Sowers
sowers@umbc.edu
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Biology of methanogenesis; anaerobic bioremediation; regulatory pathways in methanogenic Archaea; bioprocess scale-up of microorganisms from extreme environments
Christopher Swan (*currently not accepting students)
cmswan@umbc.edu
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Steam community and ecosystem ecology; riparian biodiversity and stream processes; urban riparian-steam ecology
Allison Tracy
amtracy@umbc.edu
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I am a community ecologist studying the impact of the environment on species interactions. I'm especially interested in the ecology and evolution of disease, spatial ecology, and the role of habitat-forming foundation species in ecosystems.
My research focuses on marine health and disease, with a focus on Chesapeake Bay organisms and ecosystems. I study the ecology of the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, including the reef habitat they form, the impact of restoration and management, and species interactions. Chesapeake Bay oysters are a well-studied system for understanding marine disease, which serves as a strong foundation for my work on host-parasite interactions. The other branch of my research focuses on co-infection, immunity, and environmental drivers on corals reefs in Puerto Rico. Understanding and conserving foundation species is a uniting theme of my work.
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
Ten-Tsao Wong
wong@umbc.edu
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Molecular, cellular and applied aspects of fish germ cell biology, reproductive physiology and vaccine development
Yonathan Zohar
zohar@umbc.edu
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Fish physiology, aquaculture and endocrinology; environmental and hormonal regulation of fish reproductive cycles, spawning induction technologies, drug delivery in aquaculture, molecular biotechnology