WSSS FACULTY & RESEARCH AREAS
WSSS STUDENTS & RESEARCH AREAS
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/INTERNSHIP (IPE)
A Partnership Among Tufts University's:
School of Arts and Sciences
School of Engineering
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Medical School
The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
School of Veterinary Medicine
WSSS FACULTY & RESEARCH AREAS
| Name and School/Department | Contact Information | Research Interests |
| Co-Chairs | ||
| Paul
Kirshen (Director and Co-Chair) |
paul.kirshen@tufts.edu (617) 627-5589 |
Integrated Management and Planning, Climate and Environmental Change, Water Resources Engineering |
| Beatrice Rogers (Co-Chair) |
beatrice.rogers@tufts.edu |
Implementing interdisciplinary graduate curricula, Economics, Food Policy |
| School of Arts & Sciences | ||
| Jonathan Kenny (School Coordinator) |
jonathan.kenny@tufts.edu |
Characterization of natural and contaminant organics in surface water and sediments |
frank.ackerman@tufts.edu |
Environmental Economics. The economics of climate change, energy, materials and waste, and the relationship between trade and the environment. | |
julian.agyeman@tufts.edu |
Environmental justice and sustainability; the characteristics of sustainable communities; social marketing and sustainability; community involvement in local environmental and sustainability policy and education for sustainability. | |
| Astier Almedom |
astier-m.almedom@tufts.edu |
Author of the widely disseminated and used field handbook Hygiene Evaluation Procedures now available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. Editorial Advisory Board Member of Waterlines: International Journal of Appropriate Technologies for Water Supply and Sanitation. |
| Lawrence Bacow |
bacow@tufts.edu |
Environmental Economics and Policy |
| Brett
Baden Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning |
brett.baden@tufts.edu (617) 627-3394 |
Urban and Environmental Economics and Policy |
dale.bryan@tufts.edu |
Watershed Restoration, Environmental Justice, and Environmental Movements, and Environmental Leadership. | |
shorsley@cape.com |
Wetlands Protection, Stormwater Management and Watershed Protection | |
sheldon.krimsky@tufts.edu |
Environmental Policy and Ethics, focusing on the linkages between science/technology, ethics/values and public policy. | |
david.oleary@tufts.edu |
Comparative Religion and Ethics | |
ann.rappaport@tufts.edu |
Environmental Science and Management, focusing on enterprise-level decision making with respect to the environment, institutional responses to climate change, voluntary initiatives related to companies and the environment, and contemporary issues in corporate social responsibility. | |
michael.reed@tufts.edu |
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. | |
| Rusty
Russell Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning |
rusty.russell@tufts.edu (617) 627-3394 |
Environmental Law |
Albert
Robbat |
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. | |
Jay.Shimshack@tufts.edu |
Environmental economics, natural resource economics, and Policy: the regulation and the monitoring and enforcement of environmental legislation. | |
| Sherman
Teichman |
sherman.teichman@tufts.edu |
Global Issues and Leadership |
david.walt@tufts.edu |
Sensors and Pathogen Detection. Application of enzymes and cells to organic synthesis; enzyme mechanistic studies; preparation of fiber optic chemical sensors; immunochemistry, polymeric microstructures, artificial sensing systems, combinatorial chemistry. | |
jwitte01@emerald.tufts.edu |
Land use planning, land use law and land use litigation. | |
| School of Engineering | ||
| Paul
Kirshen (School
Coordinator) |
paul.kirshen@tufts.edu (617) 627-5589 |
Integrated Management and Planning, Climate and Environmental Change, Water Resources Engineering |
| Richard Vogel Civil and Environmental Engineering |
richard.vogel@tufts.edu (617) 627-4260 |
Hydrology and water resources engineering: optimal water allocation, decision support systems, hydromorphology, watershed modeling and management, and environmental statistics. |
| Linda Abriola Dean, School of Engineering, and Civil and Environmental Engineering Department |
linda.abriola@tufts.edu (617) 627- 3237 |
Mathematical Modeling and Laboratory Experiments Pertaining to the transport and Fate of Organic Chemical Contaminants in Porous Media, Aquifer Remediation Technologies |
| Steve Chapra Civil and Environmental Engineering |
steven.chapra@tufts.edu (617) 627-3654 |
Surface water-quality modeling and advanced computer applications in environmental engineering |
| John Durant Civil and Environmental Engineering |
john.durant@tufts.edu (617) 627-5489 |
Urban water quality, exchange of pollutants between sediment and water, river restoration, GIS |
| David Gute Civil and Environmental Engineering, Family Medicine and Community Health |
david.gute@tufts.edu (617) 627-3452 |
Epidemiology, Public Health |
| David
Kaplan Biomedical Engineering |
david.kaplan@tufts.edu (617) 627-3251 |
Research at the interface between biology and materials science and engineering - aimed at understanding and controlling the biological synthesis and processing of polymers and polymer interfaces. |
| shafiqul.islam@tufts.edu (617) 627-4290 |
Hydroclimatology/meteorology, Remote Sensing, Scale Issues | |
| Andrew
Ramsburg Civil and Environmental Engineering |
andrew.ramsburg@tufts.edu (617) 627-4286 |
Innovative Remediation Technologies, Fate and Transport in Porous Media |
| Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy | ||
| William Moomaw (School
Coordinator) |
william.moomaw@tufts.edu |
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. |
Leila Fawaz |
leila.fawaz@tufts.edu |
Social and political history of the modern Middle East; late Ottoman Arab history; wars and civil wars; relations of city and state, culture and society from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean circa 1890-1920. |
adil.najam@tufts.edu |
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| Medical School | ||
Jeff
Griffiths (School
Coordinator) |
jeffrey.griffiths@tufts.edu |
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. |
Elena Naumova |
elena.naumova@tufts.edu |
Development of analytical tools for time series/longitudinal data and analysis applied to disease surveillance, exposure assessment and growth studies; research projects that include infectious disease, environmental epidemiology, molecular biology and immunogenetics, nutrition and growth. |
Beth
Rosenberg |
Beth.Rosenberg@tufts.edu |
Occupational and environmental health; creating systems of production that do not harm workers or the environment; focusing now on silica in abrasive blasting operations and how to encourage the use of safer substitutes; public health improvements as social change. |
Patricia.Hibberd@tufts.edu |
Infectious Diseases | |
| Veterinary School | ||
Mark Pokras
(School Coordinator) |
mark.pokras@tufts.edu |
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. |
acacia.warren@tufts.edu |
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saul.tzipori@tufts.edu |
Enteric infections and the host response; this includes viral, bacterial and protozoan pathogens of veterinary and medical importance causing acute or chronic diarrhea in the immunocompetent or the immunodeficient host. | |
giovanni.widmer@tufts.edu |
Molecular biology of protozoan parasites, molecular epidemiology of C. parvum; genetics of C. parvum; molecular detection and viability methods for waterborne Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts. | |
| Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy | ||
Beatrice Rogers (School
Coordinator) |
beatrice.rogers@tufts.edu |
Implementing interdisciplinary graduate curricula, Economics, Food Policy |
Patrick Webb |
patrick.webb@tufts.edu |
Household Water Security, Flooding and other natural disasters, Water policy in agrarian societies, Agricultural policy in relation to irrigation, 'virtual water' and high reliance on rainfed crops |
Kathleen
Merrigan |
kathleen.merrigan@tufts.edu |
Sustainable development, negotiation theory, policy implementation, interest group politics. |
peter.walker@tufts.edu |
Climate change and disasters, humanitarian accountability, organisational change. | |