Research
Center for the Urban Environment
The Center for the Urban Environment at SUNY-ESF conducts research in the following areas:
Interdisciplinary
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 (PDF)
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.