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Environmental Studies Program Faculty

With core strengths across the social sciences and in the humanities, Departmental faculty members support graduate and undergraduate programs in Environmental Studies, and ESF's Writing Program. We participate, as well, in a variety of college-wide programs, including the Graduate Program in Environmental Science, the Environmental and Natural Resource Policy doctoral program, the Minor in Urban Environmental Science, the Minor in Environmental Writing and Rhetoric, Evolutions (ESF's First Year Student Experience), and the ESF in the High School program.

Core Faculty

Myrna Hall Research Associate and Director, Center for the Urban Environment	M.S., Natural Resources Management, SUNY-ESF, 1995	Environmental Studies; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	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	112 Marshall Hall 315.470.4741 mhhall@esf.edu
Paul D. Hirsch Assistant Professor				114 Marshall Hall, 315.470.6669 pahirsch@esf.edu
Valerie A. Luzadis Professor, Chair	Ph.D., Forest Policy and Economics, SUNY-ESF, 1997	Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science; Environmental Studies	Natural resources policy and values; Ecological Economics Sustainability Development	106 Marshall Hall, 315-470-6636 vluzadis@esf.edu
Jack Manno Associate Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Studies	Ph.D., Social Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2003	Environmental Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Sustainability theory and practice; Great Lakes policy and institutions; science and policy decision making	211A Marshall Hall 315.470.6816 jpmanno@esf.edu
Mark Meisner Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Environmental Studies (Environmental Communication), York University, 2003	Environmental Studies; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Environmental communication; environmental thought and philosophy; mass media; global warming discourse; critical language theory and rhetoric; nature and popular culture; representations of nature	108B Marshall Hall 315.470.6908 mmeisner@esf.edu
Sharon Moran Associate Professor	Ph.D., Geography, Clark University, 2000	Environmental Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Environmental policy; human dimensions of water/wastewater issues; political ecology; environment-society relations; 'green' and innovative technologies; environmental issues in post-communist countries; qualitative research methods; gender and nature; sustainability indicators	113 Marshall Hall 315.470.6690 smoran@esf.edu
Brenda Nordenstam Associate Professor	Ph.D., Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 1994	Environmental Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Risk perception, communication, and assessment of environmental and public health hazards; valuation and management of environmental risk; social survey design, analysis, and policy applications; environmental justice, equity, and policy; right-to-know information policy and behavioral decision-making theory; eco-tourism: environmental policy and community	On leave
Andrea M. Parker Assistant Professor				108A Marshall Hall 315.470.6573 amparker@esf.edu
Theresa Selfa Assistant Professor	Ph.D., Development Sociology, Cornell University, 2001	Environmental Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Environmental sociology; rural sociology; sociology of agriculture; sociology of development; political sociology; qualitative methods; comparative-historical methods	109 Marshall Hall 315-470-6570 tselfa@esf.edu
Richard C. Smardon Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies	Ph.D., Environmental Planning, University of California at Berkeley, 1982	Environmental Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Wetland assessment and management; landscape management policy; public participation and decision-making; sustainable development; eco-tourism; biosphere reserve management	211C Marshall Hall 315.470.6576 rsmardon@esf.edu
David A. Sonnenfeld Professor	Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996	Environmental Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Environmental sociology; environment, development, and sustainability; sociology of science and technology; East and Southeast Asia; qualitative methods	211B Marshall Hall 315.470.4931 dsonn@esf.edu
The Writing Program Faculty:
Benette Whitmore, PhD Instructor and Director, ESF Writing Program	Ph.D., Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University 2011	ESF Writing Program; Environmental Studies; Graduate Program in Environmental Science	Composition; technical writing; communication; children's literature; fiction writing; environmental education	105A Moon Library 315.470.6722 bwhitmore@esf.edu
Janine DeBaise Instructor	M.A. English/ Literature, Syracuse University, 1985	ESF Writing Program; Environmental Studies (undergraduate)	Ecofeminism; poetry; composition; contemporary nature literature; nature and popular culture	105C Moon Library 315.470.4776 jdebaise@esf.edu
Dawnelle A. Jager Instructor	M.S., English Education, Syracuse University, 1989	ESF Writing Program; Environmental Studies (undergraduate)	Creative writing and communication; service learning; food and the environment	105D Moon Library 315.470.6756 dajager@esf.edu

Adjunct Faculty

Adjunct faculty members contribute to the Department of Environmental Studies, ESF, and the world at large by engaging in research, participating in graduate committees, teaching occasional courses, supervising student internships, and more.

Jerrold L. Abraham (Public Health), SUNY Upstate Medical University
Kevin Bliss (Water Resources), NY State Department of Environmental Conservation
Steven R. Brechin (Environmental, Organizational and Political Sociology), Syracuse University
David Driesen (Environmental Law), Syracuse University
Steven Effler (Water Quality Modeling), Upstate Freshwater Institute
Marla R. Emery (Research Geography), US Forest Service
Betty Faust (Human Ecology, Ethnoecology), CINVESTAV Mexico
John Ferrante (Watershed Ecology and Management), Environmental Consultant
Rhea Jezer (Energy, Environmental Policy), Environmental Consultant
Thane Joyal (Environmental Law, Land Use Law, Native Land Claims), Environmental Lawyer
Timm Kroeger (Adaptation to Climate Change, Conservation Policy, Payment for Ecosystem Services), The Nature Conservancy
David J. Nowak (Urban Forests, Environmental Health, Environmental Quality), US Forest Service
Samuel H. Sage (Green Jobs, Economic Development), Atlantic States Legal Foundation

Visiting Faculty

Environmental Studies

Mary Ann Keenan, Associate Professor
Ruth Kurlandsky, Instructor
Jessica Mathewson, Instructor
Elizabeth Vidon, Instructor
Constanze Weyhenmeyer, Instructor

ESF Writing Program

Carol Courtwright, Instructor
Kristopher Dodson, Instructor
Maureen Fitzsimmons, Instructor
Elizabeth Hogan, Instructor
Patrick Lawler, Instructor
Thomas McGrath, Instructor
Jeffrey Simmons, Instructor
Stephen Thorley, Instructor
Donald Wagner, Instructor

Professor Emeritus

John Felleman
Environmental information policy; visualizing environmental processes; environmental decision making.

Patrick Lawler
Environmental Studies; Graduate Program in Environmental Science

Susan Senecah
Environmental Studies; Environmental and Natural Resources Policy; Graduate Program in Environmental Science

Visiting Scholar

Zhen Lin

Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, China

Public administration, environmental policy, ecocivilization, Chinese forestry history (until January 2012)

Participating Faculty

Biological Science Applications Option

James Gibbs
Professor, Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
Conservation biology, ecological monitoring, population genetics, applied demography, undergraduate conservation education.

Charles Hall*
Professor, Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
Systems ecology; synthetic studies of populations and ecosystems, including studies of fish migrations, estuaries, tropical land use change and energetics of both natural and human-dominated ecosystems. Emphasis on measuring and modeling human-dominated ecosystems and geographic modeling as well as biophysical economics.

* Coordinator, Biological Science Applications Option, BS Environmental Studies program

Karin Limburg
Associate Professor, Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
Fisheries ecology, ecosystem ecology, watershed ecology, fish migration, biogeochemical tracers, modeling, ecological economics.

Tsutomu Nakatsugawa
Professor, Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
Toxicology; role of liver in chemical defense; chemical ecology and health impacts of nature's chemical warfare; health effects of pesticides and other pollutants.

William Shields
Professor, Dept. of Environmental and Forest Biology
Animal behavior; evolution and genetics; evolution of animal communication and dispersal systems; effects of genetic constraints on the evolution of social behavior; sociobiology and behavioral ecology, the use of DNA in identity testing and conservation biology, the interface between science and the law.