Research - Center for the Urban Environment

Research

The Center for the Urban Environment at SUNY-ESF conducts research in the following areas:

1. Water Quality John P. Hassett: Quantification and Fate of Organic Compounds in Urban and Other Watersheds Karin Limburg, Myrna Hall, Giorgos Mountrakis, and Peter Groffman: An Integrated Monitoring/Modeling Framework for Assessing Human-Nature Interactions in Urbanizing Watersheds: Onondaga and Wappinger Creeks Karin Limburg: 1st Onondaga Creek Synoptic Survey a.k.a. “EcoBlitz Myrna Hall, Rene Germain, Charles Hall, and Mary Tyrrell: Predicting Future Water Quality from Land Use Change Projections in the Catskill-Delaware Watersheds

2. Water Quantity Ted Endreny: Onondaga Creek Restoration Feasibility Study Charles Kroll: A National Assessment of Low Streamflow Estimation Methodology

3. Brownfields Doug Daley, Timothy Volk, and Daniel Brown: Calibration of the Simultaneous Heat and Water (SHAW) Model using Sap Flow Measurements of a Salix-based Evapotranspiration Landfill Cover System

4. Air Quality Myron J. Mitchell: Characterization of ambient air quality in Syracuse, NY and identification of its origins Myron J. Mitchell: Urban Towers for Air Quality Monitoring David Nowak: Air pollution removal by urban trees and shrubs in the United States Myron J. Mitchell: Characterization of ambient air quality in Syracuse, NY and identification of its origins

5. Indoor Air Quality Susan E. Anagnost: Indoor Air Quality and Indoor Air Sampling for Molds

6. The Built Environment Giorgos Mountrakis: Incorporating Spatially-Explicit Uncertainty Metrics in Image-Derived Classification of Impervious Surfaces Cheryl Doble, Anthony Miller, and Maren King: Community Visioning George Curry: Landscape Preservation

7. Urban Heat Island Research Gordon Heisler, Jeffrey Walton, Ian Yesilonis, David Nowak, Richard Pouyat, Richard Grant, Sue Grimmond, Karla Hyde, and Gregory Bacon: Empirical Modeling and Mapping of Below-canopy Air Temperatures in Baltimore, MD and Vicinity David J. R. Murphy, Myrna Hall, Charles Hall, Gordon Heisler, and Steve Stehman: The Relation Between Land-cover and the Urban Heat Island in Northeastern Puerto Rico

8. Sprawl Analysis Giorgos Mountrakis: Modeling Land Use Changes in Colorado's Front Range Myrna Hall: Modeling Urban Sprawl in the Northeast

9. Urban Forest Charles A. Maynard and Dr. William A. Powell: The American Chestnut Research and Restoration Center Gordon Heisler: Urban Forest Effects on Environmental Quality (click here for more information)

10. Energy Sustainability Charles A. S. Hall, Energy Return on Energy Investment (EROI) Institute at SUNY-ESF

11. Urban Toxicology Donald Hughes, Myrna Hall, and Samuel Sage: Onondaga Lake’s Contaminated Sediments: Characterization and Public Policy Implications M. Laidlaw, H.W. Mielke, G.M. Filippelli, D.L. Johnson and C.R. Gonzales: Seasonality and Children's Blood Lead Levels: Developing a Predictive Model Using Climatic Variables and Blood Lead Data from Indianapolis, Indiana, Syracuse, New York, and New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) V. A. Jouraeva, D. L. Johnson, J. P Hassett, D. J. Nowak, N. A. Shipunova, D. Barbarossa: Role of sooty mold fungi in accumulation of fine-particle-associated PAHs and metals on deciduous leaves.