SUNY ESF
Ecosystems: Land, Water and Air (ELWA)
All major components of our environment - land, water, and air - have been affected in pervasive and complex ways by the intensifying resource use of the growing human population. Resulting global and regional changes in climate, material flows and biogeochemical cycles, disturbance regimes, and biodiversity loss have detrimental effects on the very ecosystem services that support local communities, national economies, and overall human well-being. To help restore ecosystem functions and address the negative interactions and feedback loops between human society, environment, and ecosystems, we have assembled a large group of scientists across multiple disciplines who address these critical issues. GPES students in this Study Area integrate multidisciplinary approaches by working with faculty experts to contribute better understanding and novel solutions relevant to society-environment-ecosystem interactions.
- ELWA Study Area Leader: Chuck Kroll
Examples of the tools and concepts that are commonly used in Ecosystems: Land, Water and Atmosphere Study Area include:
- Biodiversity and conservation biology
- Environmental data science
- Restoration science and ecosystem management
- Environmental monitoring and modeling
- Geospatial analyses and remote sensing
- Global environmental change
- Landscape management, design and planning
- Sustainable resource management
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- Water and wetland resources
Participating Faculty in Ecosystems: Land, Water and Atmosphere (ELWA)
| Name | Research Keywords | |
|---|---|---|
| Colin Beier | cbeier@esf.edu | long-term ecosystem monitoring, ecosystem services, watershed biogeochemistry, greenhouse gas fluxes, soil microclimate |
| Eddie Bevilacqua | ebevilacqua@esf.edu | natural resources sampling, biometrics, forest modeling, geospatial technologies, geographic information systems, spatial analysis, tree-ring analysis |
| Gregory Boyer | glboyer@esf.edu | water quality monitoring, harmful algal blooms, lake remediation and HAB mitigation |
| Russ Briggs | rdbriggs@esf.edu | site productivity, soil quality, water quality |
| Margaret Bryant | mbryant@esf.edu | socio-ecological systems, spatial planning, urban ecology, climate adaptive design, interdisciplinary problem-focused research and practice |
| Emanuel Carter | ejcarter@esf.edu | UNESCO biosphere reserves, urban ecosystem design |
| Mariela Cavo | mcavo@esf.edu | Watershed management, environmental economics, forest economics, valuation of ecosystem services, payment for ecosystem services, rural development. |
| Jiajue Chai | jichai@esf.edu | Atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemistry, climate change, stable isotopes, reactive nitrogen cycling, urban air quality and sustainability, development of air monitoring techniques and instrumentation |
| Jonathan Cohen | jcohen14@esf.edu | wildlife habitat restoration, wildlife population dynamics, early successional forest and coastal wildlife habitat |
| Dan Cronan | drcronan@esf.edu | Alternative Futures Analysis, Scenario Planning (Urban and Regional), GIS and Geospatial Analysis, Urban Sustainability, Stormwater Green Infrastructure |
| Doug Daley | djdaley@esf.edu | Solid waste, stormwater, green infrastructure, compost, sustainable materials management, environmental restoration, ecological engineering |
| Stewart Diemont | sdiemont@esf.edu | agroecology, restoration ecology, traditional ecological knowledge, urban ecosystems, biocultural restoration, agroforestry |
| Klaus Doelle | kdoelle@esf.edu | municipal, industrial and urban waste water treatment, phytoremediation, bioengineering, process design and development |
| Martin Dovciak | mdovciak@esf.edu | biodiversity conservation, ecology, ecosystem management and restoration, forest ecosystems, global environmental change |
| John Drake | jedrake@esf.edu | forest ecosystem science, carbon cycling, climate extremes, tree physiology, forest climate feedbacks |
| Joshua Drew | jadrew@esf.edu | conservation biology, coastal communities, community ecology, historical ecology, ichthyology |
| Theodore Endreny | te@esf.edu | modeling watershed restoration, green infrastructure, eco-hydraulics, i-Tree Hydro software development |
| John Farrell | jmfarrell@esf.edu | aquatic ecology, fisheries science and management, aquatic habitat restoration, wetlands, invasive species |
| Danilo Fernando | dfernando@esf.edu | genomics, phylogenetics, genetic diversity, rare plant conservation, propagation, restoration, development |
| Christine Georgakakos | cbgeorga@esf.edu | water quality, sustainable agriculture, residue transport, antimicrobials |
| Jennifer Goff | jegoff@esf.edu | environmental microbiology; microbial ecophysiology; genomics and evolution; heavy metals; bioremediation |
| Cole Gross | cdgross@esf.edu | Sustainable ecosystem management, soil health, soil carbon, ecosystem carbon cycling, greenhouse gas fluxes, soil-carbon-climate feedbacks, soil-root interactions, agroforestry |
| John Hassett | jphasset@syr.edu | water chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, organic contaminants, sampling technology |
| Robin Kimmerer | rkimmer@esf.edu | bryophytes, biocultural restoration, botany |
| Charles Kroll | cnkroll@esf.edu | environmental modeling, water resources planning and management, hydrology, ecosystem services, ecosystem restoration |
| Eun Kyung Lee | eklee02@esf.edu | Air pollution; environmental health disparities; exposure assessment; air dispersion modeling; spatial analysis |
| Huiting Mao | hmao@esf.edu | atmospheric chemistry, air quality, regional to global budgets of trace gases, long range transport, continental export, climate change |
| Stacy McNulty | smcnulty@esf.edu | forest ecology, phenology, vertebrate ecology, long-term change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem function, Northern Forest |
| Jaime Mirowsky | jmirowsk@esf.edu | environmental health, exposure assessment, air pollution, cardiopulmonary health, in vitro models, environmental noise, epidemiology, public health |
| Sharon Moran | smoran@esf.edu | human dimensions of watershed restoration, sociotechnical systems, co-production of knowledge, contaminants of emerging concern, citizen science |
| Tim Morin | thmorin@esf.edu | forests, wetlands, ecosystem carbon cycling, ecosystem modeling |
| Giorgos Mountrakis | gmountrakis@esf.edu | geospatial modeling, remote sensing, land science, land dynamics, machine learning |
| Lee Newman | lanewman@esf.edu | phytoremediation, environmental toxicology, plant microbe interactions, hyperspectral imagining |
| Aaron Ninokawa | atninoka@esf.edu | ocean acidification, chemical modification by ecosystem engineers, community metabolism, climate change ecophysiology |
| Madeline Nyblade | mlnyblad@esf.edu | Water justice; community-based participatory research; climate and landcover change impacts and adaptation; Indigenous Nation - University collaborations; research ethics; critical history of earth science |
| Nicholas Pflug | ncpflug@esf.edu | aquatic chemistry, photochemistry, organic contaminants, chemical cues and pheromones, and fate processes. |
| Leanne Powers | lcpowers@esf.edu | aquatic photochemistry, chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, dissolved organic matter, reactive oxygen species, and ocean optics. |
| Lindi Quackenbush | ljquack@esf.edu | remote sensing, geospatial analysis, land cover classification and characterization, riparian cover mapping |
| Roxanne Razavi | razavi@esf.edu | freshwater ecosystems, environmental toxicology, invasive species, aquatic conservation |
| Bahram Salehi | bsalehi@esf.edu | remote Sensing, machine learning and AI, Google Earth Engine, wetlands inventory and change, forest biomass, land cover land change |
| Kim Schulz | kschulz@esf.edu | freshwater ecosystems, ecological stoichiometry, invasive species, aquatic ecosystem restoration, aquatic conservation |
| Michael Schummer | mlschumm@esf.edu | wetland restoration, wetland design, wetland ecology, early successional, biodiversity, human dimensions, recreation |
| Theresa Selfa | tselfa@esf.edu | sustainable agriculture, payment for ecosystems services, cultural ecosystems services, urban gardens |
| Richard Ross Shaker | rrshaker@esf.edu | Environmental & sustainability indicators, sustainable development, landscape ecology, global change; ecological restoration, applied statistics, spatial analysis & modeling |
| Jamie Shinn | jeshinn@esf.edu | Environmental governance and policy, climate change adaptation, water-society relationships, flooding, political ecology, disaster response and recovery |
| Steve Stehman | svstehma@esf.edu | environmental sampling, land cover monitoring, map accuracy assessment |
| John Stella | stella@esf.edu | riparian and stream ecology, restoration, watershed management, ecological modeling, dendroecology, arid-land and Mediterranean ecosystems |
| Wendong Tao | wtao@esf.edu | ecosystem-based wastewater treatment, nutrient recovery from wastewater, anaerobic digestion, microbial ecology of waste treatment systems |
| Mark Teece | mteece@esf.edu | marine systems, freshwater systems, food webs |
| Timothy Volk | tavolk@esf.edu | agroforestry, short rotation woody crops, phytoremediation, shrub willow, landscape design |
| John Wagner | jewagner@esf.edu | applied analytical and conceptual mathematical economic modeling, sustainable management, use of forest and natural resources |
| Endong Wang | ewang01@esf.edu | green infrastructure |
| Jill Weiss | jiweiss@esf.edu | socio-ecological systems, landscape-scale conservation initiatives, natural resources management, alpine zone |
| Ruth Yanai | rdyanai@syr.edu | Multiple-element limitation in northern hardwood ecosystems, quantifying uncertainty in ecosystem studies, and REDD+ carbon accounting for climate mitigation |
| Yaqi You | yyou@esf.edu | environmental microbiology, microbial ecology and evolution, biogeochemistry, environmental health |
| Nathan Young | nyoung07@esf.edu | Hydrology, hydrogeology, ecohydrology, soil physics |
| Stephen B. Shaw | sbshaw@esf.edu | influence of climate change on hydrology, beaver dam analogs and stream restoration, vegetative water use and sap flux monitoring |