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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.
| 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 |
114 Marshall Hall, 315.470.6669 |
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Valerie A. Luzadis |
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, |
| 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 |
108A Marshall Hall |
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| 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: |
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| 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 |
| 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 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.
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
Associate Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, China
Public administration, environmental policy, ecocivilization, Chinese forestry history (until January 2012)
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.