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WSSS Faculty

Steering Committee



Durant

John Durant, Director
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Chemical exchange between surface waters and aquatic sediments, transport and transformation of pollutants in wetland systems,watershed-scale chemical fate and transport processes,watershed management for parasite control, and particulate airborne pollution measurement and monitoring.

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.

Russell

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

Research Interests:
Environmental Law

Participating Faculty Advisors



Abriola

Linda Abriola
School of Engineering
Dean

Agyeman

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

Research Interests:
Relations between humans and the environment; public policy and planning processes and outcomes; justice and equity.

Almedom

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

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

Amahl Bishara
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Anthropology

Research Interests:
Media, journalism, the Middle East, expressivity, human rights, knowledge production, democracy, ethnography of place.

Capiro

Natalie Cápiro
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chapra

Steven Chapra
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chudyk

Wayne Chudyk
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Mary Davis
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Research Interests:
Environmental health, economics, biostatistics, occupational health, marine resources

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

Garven

Grant Garven
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Geology

Research Interests:
Hydrogeology and geohydrology of the Earth's crust; physics and chemistry of regional groundwater flow; geothermal/hydrothermal systematics, role of groundwater in the formation of economic ore deposits; effects of hydrogeology on the migration and exploration of petroleum.

Gnedenko

Ekaterina Gnedenko
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Economics

Research Interests:
Optimal land use, open space and watershed preservation, drinking water quality issues and non-market valuation methods

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.

Gute

David Gute
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Epidemiology, Public Health

Rick Hooper Richard P. Hooper, visiting scholar
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Other Affliations
Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of the Hydrological Sciences (CUAHSI)

Horsley

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

Research Interests:
Water Resources Policy, Watershed Management, Smart Growth, Low Impact Design, Climate Change, Wetlands Protection, Nutrient Management.

Annette Huber-Lee Annette Huber-Lee, research professor
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Islam

Shafiqul Islam
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Kelsey Jack Kelsey Jack
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Economics
Kenny

Jonathan Kenny
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Chemistry

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

Paul Kirshen

Paul Kirshen
Research Professor
University of New Hampshire
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space

Research Interests:
Climate change adaptation, integrated water resources management

Koch

Magaly Koch
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

Research Interests:
human impact in environmental change, land & water resources in arid/semiarid lands, remote sensing, GIS

Krimsky

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

Levine

Stephen Levine
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Gib Metcalf Gilbert Metcalf
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Economics
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.

Mor

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

Naumova

Elena Naumova
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Methodology development for modeling of transient processes with application in environmental epidemiology, infectious diseases, and public health.

Colin Orians
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Biology

Research Interests:
Ecology, plant-herbivore-environment interactions.

Parmenter

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

Research Interests:
GIS and geospatial analysis related to urban and environmental policy and planning; urban and environmental history.

Pennell

Kurt Pennell
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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.

Portney

Kent Portney
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Political Science

Ramsburg

Andrew Ramsburg
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Fate and transport of emerging contaminants in applications of water reuse; emulsion-based delivery solutes and reactive particles employed in subsurface remediation; technology innovation for assessment and remediation of source zones; and flow, transport, and exchange in multiphase porous media.

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.

Ridge

Jack Ridge
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Geology

Research Interests:
Climate change during the last glaciation and postglacial time (30,000 yr ago to present). Glacial lakes, their annual layers (varves), and paleomagnetism as chronologies of ice age climate. Glacial and Quaternary geology and geomorphology of the northeastern United States including the initial formation of surface water systems. Click here for more information regarding North American Glacial Varves.

Robbat

Albert Robbat, Jr.
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Chemistry

Rogers

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

Small

David Small
School of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:
Global hydrologic processes & climate change; environmental impacts of climate change; dynamics & downstream impacts of Pacific blocking in summer and fall;medium-range & seasonal forecasting of precipitation & streamflow; synoptic & dynamic meteorology of severe weather events across North America & the western Canadian Arctic; water diplomacy

Shinsuke Tanaka
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Research Interests:
Environmental economics and public health, with a focus on developing countries; environmental regulations and their effect on air pollution, infant mortality, and industrial activities in China; human-environment connection, such as air, water, land, or climate change.

Walker

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

Giovanni Widmer
Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases

Research Interests:
Molecular biology and evolution of protozoan parasites such as Cryptosporidium and Giardia; metagenomics of complex microbial populations; waterborne microorganisms.

Jeff Zabel

Jeffrey Zabel
School of Arts & Sciences
Department of Economics

Research Interests:
Applied microeconomics, with a particular interest in domestic policy analysis in the fields of urban/housing, education, environmental, and welfare economics

Other Participating Institutions



CUAHSI

Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of the Hydrological Sciences (CUAHSI)
Richard P. Hooper
Jennifer Arrigo

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 Sieber
Brian Joyce
David Purkey
Annette Huber
Eric Kemp-Benedict

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