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Akram N. Alshawabkeh


Senior Associate Dean for Research and Global University Campus, 
Office of the Dean

Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration

R. Edward Beighley


Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment

Qin Jim Chen


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Coastal engineering and science, particularly in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability
James Dennedy-Frank

Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation

Matthew J. Eckelman


Associate Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure

Loretta A. Fernandez


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods; transport and transformation of contaminants in built and natural environments

Auroop R. Ganguly


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geoscience (Climate Science, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology); Engineering (Infrastructure Resilience, Water Resources, Lifeline Systems); Data Sciences (Machine Learning, Data Mining, Nonlinear Physics)
Khaled Ghannam

Khaled Ghannam


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology

Tarik Gouhier


Associate Professor, 
Marine and Environmental Sciences

Population Biology

Jonathan Grabowski


Professor, 
Marine and Environmental Sciences

environmental science and policy, fisheries, ecological economics

Brian Helmuth


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs

Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments

Julia Hopkins


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Coastal morphodynamics, including effects of extreme weather events on sediment transport in the surf zone; wave-current interactions in the nearshore; developing and implementing field-verified numerical models to study coastal processes, informing coastal management with process-based research

Randall Hughes


Professor, 
Marine and Environmental Sciences

Marine biodiversity and conservation; genetic management for climate adaptation

Philip Larese-Casanova


Associate Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Physical, chemical, and electrochemical transformation processes of metallic, inorganic, and organic water pollutants, with applications to groundwater environments and unit operations
Yu Miao

Yu (Rain) Miao


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Environmental biotechnology for groundwater remediation, wastewater treatment, and public and ecological health

Amy Mueller


Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Biogeochemistry of natural and engineered systems; in-situ sensors and instrumentation for high-resolution process characterization; remediation and sustainability in natural and built coastal environments; sensor-driven closed-loop controls for resource optimization in engineered systems; signal processing and machine learning, embedded systems, and sensor networks

Samuel Munoz


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sedimentary records of environmental change, paleoclimate and climate change, rivers and fluvial processes, hydroclimatic extremes

Annalisa Onnis-Hayden


Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems

Mark Patterson


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems

Kelsey Pieper


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering
Cristina Schultz

Cristina Schultz


Foley Family Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Influence of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry

Thomas C. Sheahan


Executive Vice Provost, 
Office Of The Provost

Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists

Aron Stubbins


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Environmental chemistry; geochemistry; the carbon cycle; freshwater, coastal and ocean biogeochemistry; feedbacks between natural biogeochemical cycles and climate change; permafrost; black carbon; aquatic microplastics

Geoffrey C. Trussell


Chair and Doherty Professor , 
Marine and Environmental Sciences

Evolutionary and community ecology; coastal sustainability
Julia Varshavsky

Julia Varshavsky


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Department of Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Environmental exposures and maternal-child health outcomes, biomonitoring, risk assessment in vulnerable communities
Megan Woodbury

Megan Woodbury


Postdoctoral Research Associate, 
PROTECT

Prenatal exposures and neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, public health, endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs and supplements, interactive effects of exposures

Yang Zhang


Professor, Distinguished Fellow, and Associate Chair for Research, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; cloud/aerosol microphysics; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; multiscale atmospheric modeling and forecasting; climate and Earth system modeling; health impact assessment; eco-environmental sustainability; human-Earth system interactions