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Faculty/Staff
BIOREMEDIATION
 

Jeff Chalmers
chalmers.1@osu.edu
decription forthcoming

Mark Morrison
morrison.234@osu.edu
Environmental microbiology, with specific emphasis on anaerobic microbial communities. Use of (meta)genomics and related approaches to study polymer degradation. Leader of the MAPLE research initiative at The Ohio State University. Microbiology

Richard Sayre
sayre.2@osu.edu

Heavy metal bioremediation using genetically engineered algae. Heavy metal biosensors. Hort & Crop

Olli Tuovinen
olli.tuovinen@osu.edu
Biotransformations of metals and minerals, biogeochemistry of iron and sulfur, biotreatment of liquid and solid waste materials, biodegradation of pesticides. Entomology

Shang- Tian Yang
yang.15@osu.edu
Biochemical Engineering, Bioprocessing for Value-Added Products from Biomass, Bioreactor Engineering, Biodegradation, Bioremediation. Chemical Engineering

 

CLIMATOLOGY

 

David Bromwich
bromwich.1@osu.edu
Polar meteorology and climatology; global climate modeling;
global climate change; mesoscale meteorology; numerical weather prediction;
reanalysis. Geography

 

Ellen Mosley- Thompson
thompson.4@osu.edu
Chemical and physical analysis of ice cores from which climatic and environmental histories may be reconstructed. Geological Sciences

ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

 

Tim Granata
granata.6@osu.edu
Hydrodynamic-ecosystems interactions; Dam removal /River restoration; Management of Marine and Freshwater Coastal Watersheds; Water Quality Modeling and Monitoring ( Instrumentation). CEEGS

 

Jay Martin
martin.1130@osu.edu
Ecosystems for waste utilization and treatment, sustainable agriculture, ecosystem modeling, ecosystem (riparian) restoration, wetlands, aquaculture. FABE

 

ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION  

P. Charles Goebel
goebel.11@osu.edu

Forest ecosystem restoration; forest community and ecosystem ecology; riparian ecology and management; watershed management and restoration. School of Natural Resources

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY

 

Heather A. Allen
allen@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
Heterogeneous Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Interfacial Processes, Instrumentation Development for Water Analysis. Basic and Applied Research. Chemistry

 

Yu-Ping Chin
yo@geology.ohio-state.edu
Environmental chemistry of organic compounds including the fate, transport, and transformation of organic contaminants. Geological Sciences

 

Clive Edwards
soilecol@osu.edu
Soil ecology and ecotoxicology; bioremediation; environmental impact and risk assessment; sustainable agriculture; global environmental issues. Entomology

 

Patrick Hatcher
hatcher@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
Environmental chemistry, geochemistry of humic substances in soils,
sediments, and natural waters, environmental toxicology, analytical
chemistry of the environment. Chemistry

 

W. Berry Lyons
lyons.142@osu.edu
inorganic environmental geochemistry, isotopic geochemistry, watershed hydrology, climate change studies. Geological Sciences

 

Susan Olesik
olesik.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

 

Harold Walker
walker.455@osu.edu
Coagulation and flocculation, sorption of natural organic matter, membrane processes, re-use of coal combustion by-products. CEEGS

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS & PLANNING

 

 

David Forster
forster.4@osu.edu
Farm Management/Production Economics, Agricultural Finance, Natural Resource/Environmental Economics. Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics

 

Fred Hitzhusen
hitzhusen.1@osu.edu
Economic evaluation of river corridors, wetlands, rural landscapes and off- site impacts of agricultural, forestry and mining systems. AEDE

 

Alan Randall
arandall+@osu.edu
Environmental benefit estimation, damage assessment, restoration economics; sustainability, biodiversity, habitat conservation; regulatory policy, pollution control, nonpoint source pollution control. AEDE

 

Doug Southgate
southgate.1@osu.edu
environmental issues in developing countries; tropical deforestation;
water and watershed management. AEDE

 

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION & SOCIOLOGY

 

 

Roseanne Fortner
fortner.2@osu.edu
School environmental education, mass media messages, public knowledge of issues, Great Lakes education, marine education, instructional strategies, global change education. School of Natural Resources

 

Joe Heimlich
heimlich.1@osu.edu
teaching and learning in the non-formal/informal teaching/learning exchange; community understanding of environmental issues; evaluation; life-span learning in communities. School of Natural Resources

 

Ted Napier
napier.2@osu.edu
technology transfer, environmental policy, ecotourism, watershed planning and development, outdoor recreation development and planning, environmental impact assessment. HCRD

 

Deborah Stinner
stinner.2@osu.edu
Organic agriculture, farming systems, watersheds, ecosystem processes, soil quality, participatory research, field crops, Holistic Management(TM) , biodiversity and agroecosystems. Entomology

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

 

Ann Christy
christy.14@osu.edu
bioreactor landfills, solid and hazardous waste management, in-situ
bioremediation, hydrogeology of fractured glacial till, ground water
vulnerability assessment. FABE

Fred Michel
michel.36@osu.edu
Composting Process Engineering; Microbial Ecology of Composting; Bioremediation of Xenobiotics; Organic Agriculture; Human Pathogen Reduction in Manure Management; Sustainable Livestock Facility Design. FABE

 

Linda Weavers
weavers.1@osu.edu
Destruction of organic pollutants in water systems, sonolysis, photolysis, sonochemical remediation, membrane defouling, fly ash reuse. CEEGS

 

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND RISK ASSESSMENT

 

 

Joseph Arvai
arvai.7@osu.edu
Structured decision making; Environmental, human health, and
technological risk assessment and management; Choice and preference
behavior; Risk communication; Environmental Policy. School of Natural Resources

 

Steven Gordon
sgordon+@osu.edu
Environmental modeling and simulation; biological quality of watersheds.Geography
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY

 

Earl Epstein
epstien.2@osu.edu
Property; land law and tenure; environmental science and law; the role of land information and of science in environmental decisions; land information institutions; the economics of information and law. School of Natural Resources

 

Tomas Koontz
koontz.31@osu.edu
Land use policy, forest policy, public lands, collaborative environmental management, citizen participation, federalism, agency policy-making, ecosystem management policy. School of Natural Resources

 

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS

 

Earl Whitlach

whitlach.1@osu.edu
Water resources planning, environmental systems analysis, mathematical
modeling, engineering economics, optimization methods, statistics.
description forthcoming. CEEGS

ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY

 

Paul Baumann
baumann.1@osu.edu
Effects of contaminants on native fishes, particularly effects of carcinogens and genotoxins including cancer, immune deficiency and reproductive dysfunction. EEOB

 

Susan Fisher
fisher.14@osu.edu
desription forthcoming

 

 

Deborah Gray
gray.49@osu.edu
Human health risk assessment; associations between exposures to toxic chemicals in the environment and disease conditions in people. School of Public Health

Roman Lanno
lanno.1@osu.edu
Ecotoxicology of soil organisms and ecosystems; environmental chemistry and bioavailability; ecological risk assessment; metals, cyanide, and organic compounds. Entomology

 

Paul Stromberg
stromberg.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

John Wilkins
wilkins.2@osu.edu
Environmental, occupational, and reproductive epidemiology. Human risk assessment. Agricultural safety and health. School of Public Health

 

Lynn Willett
willett.2@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

HYDROGEOLOGY

 

Anne Carey
carey.145@osu.edu
Groundwater hydrology; watershed hydrology; fluvial transport of solutes and suspended matter; salt water intrusion into coastal aquifers; climate change. Geological Sciences

 

Motomu Ibaraki
ibaraki@geology.ohio-state.edu
Contaminant transport in subsurface and watershed; Artificial Intelligence application for hydrological sciences; Computational modeling; Technology enhanced environmental education. Geological Sciences

 

Frank Schwartz
schwartz.11@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

 

Andrew Ward
ward.2@osu.edu
River geomorphology, storm water management, modeling hydrologic systems, drainage, land use change impacts on water resources, ecological engineering. AEDE

 

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

 

John Cardina
cardina.2@osu.edu
Weedy and invasive plant ecology, invasive species monitoring and mapping, weed and invasive plant management in agriculture and natural systems. Hort & Crop

 

Paul Robbins
robbins.30@osu.edu
Cultural and political ecology; land use and land cover change in India; urban ecological knowledge and behavior; remote sensing applications. Geography

Amanda Rodewald
rodewald.1@osu.edu
wildlife ecology and conservation, landscape ecology, community ecology, management of forest wildlife. School of Natural Resources

 

MODELING ECOSYSTEMS & IMPACTS

 

 

Anand Desai
desai.1@osu.edu
Policy modeling, Construction of indices to measure pollution prevention, performance, effectiveness and efficiency. Public Policy & Management

 

Dale White
Dale.White@epa.state.oh.us
Explore variation of stressors within and between watersheds. Understand and predict hydrologic processes using GIS, spatial statistics, and distributed parameter models. School of Natural Resources/Ohio EPA

 

NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION

 

Douglas Doohan
doohan.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

Robert Gates
gates.77@osu.edu
Ecology and management of migratory birds and wetlands wildlife, wildlife-habitat relationships, wetlands ecology and management. School of Natural Resources

 

Parwinder Grewal
grewal.4@osu.edu
Environmental impact of chemical and biological pesticides and invasive species; structure and function of food webs; nematodes as soil health indicators. School of Natural Resources

 

David Johnson
johnson.46@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY

 

Paul Berkman
berkman.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

Pierluigi Bonello
bonello.2@osu.edu
Chemical ecology and molecular biology of plant-pathogen-insect interactions in conifers; ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi in artificial landscapes. EEOB

 

David Culver
culver.3@osu.edu
desription forthcoming

 

Peter Curtis
curtis.7@osu.edu
Global Change Biology; Forest Ecology; Carbon, nitrogen, and water cycling; Restoration ecology; Physiological Ecology; Plant Ecology. EEOB

 

Konrad Dabrowski
dabrowski.1@osu.edu
aquaculture, fish biology, aquatic ecology. School of Natural Resources

 

 

Thomas Grubb
grubb.1@osu.edu
desription forthcoming

 

John Harder
harder.2@osu.edu
Reproductive biology and reroductive ecology of mammals with emphasis on masupials. EEOB

David Hix
hix.6@osu.edu
Quantitative silviculture including forest stand development;
applied forest ecology; old-growth forests;
forest ecosystem classification, analysis, and management. School of Natural Resources

Harry Hoitink
hoitink.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming
David Horn
horn.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming
Martin Quigley
quigley.30@osu.edu
designing for sustainable horticulture, urban landscape ecology, forest fragment stewardship; biofiltration and riparian landscapes. Hort & Crop
Jeffrey Reutter
reutter.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming
Roy Stein
stein.4@osu.edu
description forthcoming
Mohan Wali
wali.1@osu.edu
plant communities and environmental gradients; ecological succession; ecosystem reconstruction after drastic disturbance; energy and land use; environmental policy; ecosystem modeling. School of Natural Resources
REMOTE SENSING & POLLUTANT DETECTION  
Carolyn Merry
merry.1@osu.edu
Remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), hydrology, civil engineering. CEEGS
Douglas Way
way.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming
Marshall Williams
williams.70@osu.edu
Environmental pollutants as mutagens and their role in disease processes. Micro & Immunology
SOIL & WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS  

Jerry Bigham
bigham.1@osu.edu
Basic soil mineralogy, mine drainage chemistry, biological leaching of metal sulfides, biomineralization, land application of industrial wastes. School of Natural Resources

 

Ralph Boerner
boerner.1@osu.edu
Terrestrial ecosystem ecology; landscape ecology; fire ecology and management; nutrient cycling; soil ecology; mycorrhizae; soil microbial ecology. EEOB
Virginie Bouchard
bouchard.8@osu.edu
Wetland and stream ecology; ecosystem restoration; role of biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems; carbon cycle and food web interactions in aquatic ecosystems. School of Natural Resources

Larry Brown

brown.59@osu.edu
Agricultural water management, drainage, irrigation, agricultural constructed wetlands, stormwater, computer modeling . Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Frank Calhoun
calhoun.2@osu.edu
Genesis, morphology, mineralogy, classification, and management of soils; soil characterization databases; soil quality trends in Lake Erie watersheds. School of Natural Resources

Craig Davis
davis.80@osu.edu
Ecology of wetland plant communities and ecosystems; wetland renovation; and environmental conflict resolution. School of Natural Resources

Warren Dick
dick.5@osu.edu
Microbial ecology, soil enzymes, solid waste management, no-tillage, soil organic C, soil nitrogen, sulfur nutrition of plants, soil DNA, soil biochemistry. FABE

Rattan Lal

lal.1@osu.edu
carbon sequestration; global warming. FAES

 

Edward McCoy
mccoy.13@osu.edu
description forthcoming
William Mitsch
mitsch.1@osu.edu
Wetland ecology and management; restoration and creation of wetlands and rivers; ecosystem modelling. School of Natural Resources
Benjamin Stinner
stinner.1@osu.edu
Agroecology; sustainable agroecosystems; nutrient cycling processes; on-farm research with emphasis on ecological studies. Entomology
WATER RESOURCES & WASTE TREATMENT  

Audeen Fentiman
fentiman.1@osu.edu
Radioactive waste management, environmental engineering risk assessment, public information and policy related to nuclear power and nuclear waste, engineering education. CEEGS

Karen Mancl
mancl.1@osu.edu
Rural wastewater treatment; treatment of food processing wastewater; adult environmental education in water supply and waste management. AEDE

Peter Webb
webb.3@osu.edu
description forthcoming

 

WATERSHED MANAGEMENT  
Scott Bair
bair.1@osu.edu
description forthcoming
Norman Fausey
fausey.1@osu.edu
desription forthcoming

John Simpson

simpson.10@osu.edu
landscape history, environmental stewardship. School of Architecture and School of Natural Resources

 

 

 

Kent Harrison
harrison.9@osu.edu
desription forthcoming

  Robert Sykes
bob-sykes+@osu.edu
description forthcoming--NOT IN PRESENT LISTING
  Yvonne Dragan
dragan.6@osu.edu
desription forthcoming--NOT IN PRESENT LISTING