WSSS Faculty

Steering Committee

School of Engineering

School of Arts & Sciences

Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy

School of Medicine

Other Participating Institutions

Steering Committee



Vogel

Richard Vogel
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Hydrology and water resources engineering: optimal water allocation, decision support systems, hydromorphology, watershed modeling and management, and environmental statistics.

Russell

Rusty Russell
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Research Interests:
Environmental Law

Griffin

Timothy Griffin
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Agriculture, Food and Environment Program

Research Interests:
Sustainable and organic agricultural systems, environmental nutrient flows, carbon cycling in agricultural systems, and climate change impacts on agriculture.

Participating Faculty Advisors



Abriola

Linda Abriola
School of Engineering
Dean

Chapra

Steven Chapra
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chudyk

Wayne Chudyk
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Durant

John Durant
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Urban water quality, exchange of pollutants between sediment and water, river restoration, GIS

Gute

David Gute
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Epidemiology, Public Health

Islam

Shafiqul Islam
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Hydroclimatology/meteorology, Remote Sensing, Scale Issues

Levine

Stephen Levine
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Pennell

Kurt Pennell
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ramsburg

Andrew Ramsburg
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Reed

Michael Reed
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Biology

Research Interests:
Ecology and Conservation, Wetlands. Identifying characteristics of species that put them at risk to human-caused threats, understanding why (or how) these characteristics put a species at risk, and determining how best to reduce the risk.

Kenny

Jonathan Kenny
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Chemistry

Research Interests:
Characterization of natural and contaminant organics in surface water and sediments

Agyeman

Julian Agyeman
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Krimsky

Sheldon Krimsky
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Horsley

Scott Horsley
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Parmenter

Barbara Parmenter
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Portney

Kent Portney
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Political Science

Garven

Grant Garven
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Geology

Ridge

Jack Ridge
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Geology

Rogers

Beatrice Rogers
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Food Policy and Applied Nutrition Program

Walker

Peter Walker
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Feinstein International Center

Pokras

Mark Pokras
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Environmental and Population Health

Research Interests:
Functional and surgical anatomy of birds and reptiles (including imaging techniques); Environmental pathology (including toxicology) of wildlife species; Captive management of aquatic reptiles, birds and mammals; Allometric scaling as a tool for understanding comparative clinical medicine; and Development of minimally invasive field techniques for wildlife health studies.

Warren

Acacia Warren
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Environmental and Population Health

Moomaw

William Moomaw
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
International Environment and Resource Policy

Research Interests:
Quantitative indicators of environment and development; sustainable development; trade and environment; technology and policy implications for climate change; water and climate change; biodiversity; negotiation strategies for environmental agreements.

Almedom

Astier Almedom
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health

Research Interests:
Resilience research in health and social systems; sustainability of water resource use and conservation practices; participatory methods in health and social research; international and national humanitarian action and disaster/emergency mitigation and response policies; public health impact of disasters; interdisciplinary applied anthropology and behavioral sciences focusing on human adaptation, complex systems and resilience science and policy.

Griffiths

Jeffrey Griffiths
School of Medicine
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Research Interests:
Water Borne Diseases, National Policy.  The epidemiology and biology of Cryptosporidium, an emerging protozoan pathogen that usually causes mild disease in normal hosts, but that can be lethal in the immunocompromised (e.g. people with AIDS) and/or in the malnourished.

Naumova

Elena Naumova
School of Medicine
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Naumova

Siobhan Mor
School of Medicine
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine

Other Participating Institutions



CUAHSI

Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of the Hyrdological Sciences (CUAHSI)
Richard P. Hooper

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey
Massachusetts - Rhode Island Water Science Center

Peter Weiskel
Stacey Archfield
Sara Brandt

SEI

Stockholm Environment Institute, U.S. Center (SEI-US)
Jack Seiber
Brian Joyce
David Purkey
Annette Huber
Eric Kemp-Benedict

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