Sharon D. MoranAssociate Professor
224 Baker Lab
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210
315-470-6690
smoran@esf.edu
Affiliations
- Research Associate Professor, Department of Religion, Syracuse University
- Affiliated Faculty, Department of Geography, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
- Partner Faculty, Certificate of Advanced Study in Sustainable Enterprise, Syracuse University and SUNY - ESF
- http://www.esf.edu/es/moran/CASSE_flyer_2016.pdf
Education
- Ph.D., Geography, Clark University, 2000
- M.S., Political Science and Public Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- B.A., Chemistry, Boston University
Research Interests
- Political ecology; environment-society relations
- ‘Green’ and innovative technologies; sustainable enterprise
- Human dimensions of water/ wastewater issues; policy and regulation
- Post-communist countries - environmental issues
- Qualitative research methods
Current Graduate Advisees
Current Graduate Advisees
Sophia Brown
sebrown@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Moran
- Area of Study: Environmental and Community Land Planning
Personal Statement
Sophie Brown is a PhD student in the division of Environmental Science at SUNY ESF. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Science from SUNY ESF, a Certificate in Environmental Leadership from SUNY ESF, a B.A. in Environmental Communications from Bard College, and a Certificate in Iroquois Linguistics from Syracuse University. She grew up in and resides on unceded Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ territory near what in English is called Ithaca, New York. Her work as a researcher centers around indigenous language restoration, decolonial studies of place, and forces of language, home, and belonging within landscape.
Research Interests
Linguistic geography; decolonial scholarship; rhetorical sovereignty; counter-mapping; environmental education and curriculum development
Mario Christie
mchris15@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Moran and Luzadis
- Area of Study: Human Dimensions of the Environment
Marie Loeffelholz
maloeffe@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Sonnenfeld and Moran
- Area of Study: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
Doctoral Research Topic
Moving away from a Human-only Perspective in International Environmental Governance to an Inclusive Approach: Utilizing Agency and Future-oriented Concepts in Transboundary River Basin Case Studies
Areas of Competency
Environmental policy; Global environmental governance; Environmental values and collective behavior; Climate change and complex systems
Stacey Mack
samack@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Germain and Moran
- Area of Study: Natural Resources Mgt
Graduate Research Topic
Resource challenges associated with hydraulic fracturing
Favorite Quote
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."- Steve Prefontaine
Aaron Otis
aaotis@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Moran
- Area of Study: Environmental Policy
Prajapati Shapkota
pshapkot@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Moran
- Area of Study: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy
Personal Statement
I hope to understand the process of environmental adaptation and integration of resettled refugees from a developing country and thus generate new knowledge on the subject. My special focus is on my own community - the Bhutanese-Nepali (Bhupali) refugees resettled in the US since March 2008.
Favorite Quote
"A bundle of belongings is not the only thing a refugee brings to his new country" ..... Dr. Albert Einstein
(Dr. Einstein is the greatest physicist of the 20th century, Nobel Laureate and one of the 5 refugees who changed the world)
Graduate Students
Note: Prof. Moran’s graduate students are enrolled in either ESF's (1) Dept. of Environmental Studies OR
(2) GPES (Graduate Program in Environmental Sciences).
Research Highlights
- Citizen Science: Research projects on helping unpack people's knowledge and awareness about contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in lakes. The ways people understand ‘the environment’ in places they inhabit will make or break our future on this planet.
- Coastal issues: The NOAA-Sea Grant Coastal Storms Awareness Program // Understanding Responses to Storm Warnings: Learning from Those Who "Rode Out" Hurricane Sandy
- Wasteful cultivation: Engaging the water cycle in everyday life
- What do we want in our watersheds?
Selected Publications
- Wang, Shiru, Monica Matt, Bethany L. Murphy, MaryGail Perkins, David A. Matthews, Sharon D. Moran, and Teng Zeng. 2020. Organic Micropollutants in New York Lakes: A Statewide Citizen Science Occurrence Study. Environmental Science & Technology, October, Vo. 54, no. 21, pp. 13759-13770 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c04775)
- Nahar, Sarah and Sharon Moran. 2020. Local communities in water and sanitation: Practices and challenges, in Filho, W. L., Azul, A. M., Brandi, L, Lange Salvia, A., and Wall, T., eds. Clean Water and Sanitation Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, London, UK: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_141-1
- Moran, Sharon, Meredith Perreault, and Richard Smardon. 2019. Finding Our Way: A Case Study of Urban Waterway Restoration and Participatory Process, Landscape and Urban Planning, November, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.08.004
- Smardon, Richard, Sharon Moran, and April Baptiste. 2018, Revitalizing Urban Waterway Communities: Streams of Justice. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Revitalizing-Urban-Waterway-Communities-Streams-of-Environmental-Justice/Smardon-Moran-Baptiste/p/book/9781138698611
- Comer, Bryan and Sharon Moran. 2017. The Evolution of Empirical Environmental Justice Research Methods: A Call for Greater Use of Geographically Weighted Regression, Environmental Justice, February, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 11-15.
- Leah Harnish, Adam T. Carpenter, and Sharon Moran. 2016. Comparing Water Source Knowledge in Cities that Exceed the Lead Action Level. Journal of the American Water Works Association, December, vol. 108, no. 12, pp. 606-614 http://dx.doi.org/10.5942/jawwa.2017.109.0015
- Marlon, Jennifer, E. Christa Farmer, and Sharon Moran. 2015. Communicating Hurricane Risks: Challenges and Recommendations. November. Eos (Transactions, American Geophysical Union).https://eos.org/meeting-reports/communicating-hurricane-risks-challenges-and-recommendations#.VlTHLmnww8s.email
- Magnuszewski, Artur, Edyta Kiedrzyńska, Marcin Kiedrzyński, and Sharon Moran. 2014. GIS Approach to Estimation of the Total Phosphorous Transfer in the Pilica River Lowland Catchment. Quaestiones Geographicae. September, 33(3) 101-110. doi 10.2478/quageo-2014-0033
- Magnuszewski, Artur, Sharon Moran. 2014. Vistula River bed erosion processes and their influence on Warsaw's flood safety.In Sediment Dynamics: From the Summit to the Sea, Proceedings of the Symposium of International Commission on Continental Erosion, IAHS 367.Wallingford, UK: IAHS Press. doi:10.5194/piahs-367-147-2015
- Dimpfl, Mike and Sharon Moran. 2014. "Waste matters: Compost, domestic practice, and the transformation of alternative toilet cultures around Skaneateles, NY," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32: 721-738.
- Dimpfl, Mike and Sharon Moran. 2011. "Composting toilet," in Green Technology: An A–Z Guide, eds. Paul Robbins and Dustin Mulvaney. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Press.
- Moran, Sharon. 2010. "Cities, Creeks, and Erasure: Stream Restoration and Environmental Justice," Environmental Justice, June 2010, 3(2): 61-69.
- Magnuszewski, Artur, Sharon Moran, and Guoliang Yu. 2010. "Modeling Lowland Reservoir Sedimentation Conditions and Potential Environmental Consequences of Dam Removal: Wloclawek Reservoir, Vistula River, Poland." Pp. 8-16 in Sediment Dynamics for a Changing Future, ed. Kazimierez Banasik. Proceedings of the Symposium of International Commission on Continental Erosion. Publication 337. Wallingford, UK: IAHS Press. Available here.
- Moran, Sharon. 2009. "Bytes of Note - The State of the Toilet," Environment 51(11 November): 7-8. Available here.
- Moran, Sharon. 2008. "Under the Lawn: Engaging the Water Cycle," Ethics, Place, and Environment 11(2): 129-145.
- Moran, Sharon. 2007. "Stream Restoration Projects: A Critical Analysis of Urban Greening," Local Environment 12(2): 111-128.
- Moran, Sharon. 2003. "Stream Restoration: Opportunities for Synthesis and Integration," Journal of Geography 102(2, March-April): 67-79.
- Moran, Sharon. 2003. "Review of 'The Carbon Wars' by Jeremy Leggett," Economic Geography 79:1 (January).
- Moran, Sharon. 2002. "Teaching Stream Restoration: A Senior Seminar Theme". In Teaching Sustainability at Universities: Toward Curriculum Greening, ed. Walter Leal Filho. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
Courses
- EST 296 Diversity and knowledge of the Environment (currently listed as EST 204)
- EST 696 Deconstructing Environmental Despair (graduate)
- EST 600 Foundations of Environmental Studies (graduate)
- EST 652 Managing Sustainability (graduate)
- EST 759 Sustainability Driven Enterprise (graduate)
- EST 796 Environmental Health Policy (graduate)
- EST 797 Comparative Environmental Policy: US-Canada (graduate)
- ENS 797 Environmental Health Policy (graduate)
- EST 797 Human Dimensions of Water Systems (graduate)
- EST 797 Human Dimensions of Dirty Water (graduate)
- EST 797 Human Dimensions of Water Problems (graduate)
- EST 321 Government and the Environment (undergraduate)
Professional Associations
- Association of American Geographers
- Society for the Social Study of Science (4S)
- Society for the History of Technology
- American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
