This study area focuses on multidisciplinary approaches to measuring and
modeling environmental systems and processes. Students address pressing environmental problems in
an integrative manner by taking advantage of a broad range of faculty expertise, a variety of course
offerings related to the environment and access to advanced field equipment, study sites and
computational hardware. Current research in this area includes sustainable development, air quality,
water resources, biogeography, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, climate and anthropogenic change,
forest biometrics and energy systems. Specific course work in environmental monitoring and modeling
is supplemented by courses offerings in the fields of science, engineering, mathematics, natural
resources and environmental and social policy.
NAME | SPECIALTY | E-MAIL | ADDRESS |
| Beier, Colin M. | climate change, social-ecological systems, forest landscapes, ecosystem services, landscape complexity | cbeier@esf.edu | 311 Bray Hall |
| Bevilacqua, Eddie | forest ecology, landscape ecology, ecological modeling, tree-ring science, silviculture, sampling/inventory, biometrics, growth and yield modeling, GIS/spatial analysis, quantitative silviculture, applied statistics, forest mensuration | ebevilacqua@esf.edu | 301 Bray Hall |
| Boyer, Gregory L. | environmental monitoring, including buoy and ship-based monitoring systems for water quality | glboyer@esf.edu | 320 Jahn Laboratory |
| Endreny, Theodore A. | river and watershed restoration, river and watershed monitoring, river and watershed modeling, computational fluid dynamics | te@esf.edu | 404 Baker Laboratory |
| Gibbs, James | herpetology, vertebrate conservation biology, genetics and ecology in birds, reptiles and amphibians, songbirds, giant tortoise, statistics, wildlife population monitoring, galapagos islands, conservation biology, ecological monitoring, population genetics, applied demography, undergraduate conservation education | jpgibbs@esf.edu | 405 Illick Hall |
| Hall, Myrna H. | integrating simulation modeling and geographical information systems for studying interaction between humans and their environments, natural resources management, sustainable development, graphic information visualization, foreign language communication, land use change, modeling, urban ecology, coupled human and natural systems | mhhall@esf.edu | 112 Marshall Hall |
| Hall, Charles A. | Systems science, Systems ecology, ecosystems, biophysical economics, energy, energy return on energy investment, study of human-dominated ecosystems | chall@esf.edu | 354 Illick Hall |
| Hassett, John P. | environmental chemistry, aquatic chemistry | jphasset@syr.edu | 321 Jahn Laboratory |
| Im, Jungho | geospatial information systems, image processing, remote sensing, algorithm development | imj@esf.edu | 417 Baker Laboratory |
| Kroll, Charles N. | environmental modeling, computer science, hydrologic prediction, field hydrology, statistical analyses | cnkroll@syr.edu | 424 Baker Laboratory |
| Limburg, Karin E. | watershed assessment, coastal margins, fish/fisheries, and otolith chemistry | klimburg@esf.edu | 249 Illick Hall |
| Mao, Huiting | environmental chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, regional to global budgets of trace gases, long range transport, continental export, climate change | hmao@esf.edu | 420 Jahn Laboratory |
| Mountrakis, Georgios E. | remote sensing, GIS, urbanization, biodiversity, climate dynamics | gmountrakis@esf.edu | 419 Baker Laboratory |
| Quackenbush, Lindi J. | remote sensing, geographic information systems, spatial analysis | ljquack@esf.edu | 416 Baker Laboratory |
| Shaw, Stephen B. | hydroclimatology, water resources engineering, ecohydrology in a changing climate, water resources, climate change, hydrology, systems modeling, stormwater management | sbshaw@esf.edu | 418 Baker Laboratory |
| Stehman, Stephen V. | sampling designs for monitoring, applied statistics, land-cover change, map accuracy assessment | svstehma@syr.edu | 322 Bray Hall |
| Stella, John C. | riparian and stream ecology, restoration ecology, watershed management, ecological modeling, tree-ring science, river restoration | stella@esf.edu | 344 Illick Hall |
| Teece, Mark A. | environmental chemistry, food web biochemistry, stable isotope biogeochemistry, coral, stable isotopes, metabolomics, biogeochemistry | mteece@esf.edu | 415 Jahn Laboratory |
| Yanai, Ruth D. | forest ecology, watershed ecology, soils, biogeochemistry, forest health, ecological modeling, watershed management, ecosystem nutrient cycling, uncertainty | rdyanai@esf.edu | 210 Marshall Hall |
