Research Area: North America
New Jersey:
Robert W. Taylor, 2005, "Brownfield Property Site Investigations." Project is in conjunction with the New Jersey Dept. of Community Affairs, Office of Smart Growth and Site-Mart Program and the City of Paterson, New Jersey, Office of Brownfields. The project seeks to identify all the Brownfield sites in Paterson, New Jersey and analyze their capacity to be redeveloped for various commercial or residential activities.
Matthew L. Gorring. Application of geochemistry and geochronology of igneous and metamorphic rocks as tools for monitoring mantle and crustal processes and their relation to regional tectonics. The study of mafic volcanic rocks, granitoids and high-grade gneisses and their record of geochemical, P-T, and tectonic conditions under which they formed. This research has focused on Mesoproterozoic gneisses and granites from Neogene to Quaternary mafic volcanic rocks from the New Jersey and Hudson Highlands. Research is being done in collaboration with scientists at Binghamton University , Cornell University , University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Massachusetts , Universidad de Buenos Aires, Rutgers University , SUNY-Oswego, SUNY-Potsdam, and the NJ Geological Survey.
NJ Highlands
Northeastern US:
Michael A. Kruge. Dr. Kruge's research interests span Geochemistry of organic contaminants in sediments; Marine, estuarine and lacustrine biogeochemistry; Geochemistry of peat; Fossil organic matter as indicator of environmental change; Applications of analytical pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry; Biological marker compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in, petroleum, petroleum source rocks, oil shales, coal and sediments; and Environmental forensics. He is working on Rapid assessment of organic pollution (including PAHs) in recent sediments by analytical pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) in Connecticut, Vermont, and at Lake Ontaria and Macromolecular structure of fossil organic matter.
Southwestern US:
Mark Chopping. Research focused on mapping vegetation in desert grasslands and
southwestern forests through the retrieval of canopy structural measures over large areas. His
NASA-funded research uses data from the NASA EOS MISR and MODIS
instruments using a multi-angle approach that is based on the premise that incorporating
multi-angle measures in plant community type mapping results in substantial improvements in
classification accuracy; and that useful canopy structure measures are available in the angular domain.
He collaborates with scientists at the USDA Agricultural Research Service, USDA Forest Service, Boston
University, NASA/JPL, University of Maryland, National Institute of Aerospace, and New Mexico State
University. Click on the pix below to visit related sites...
US/Regional:
Danlin Yu is a Geographic Information Scientist, regional scientist and socioeconomic/urban geographer. Dr. Yu applies GIS, spatial analysis/modeling techniques and remote sensing to understanding socioeconomic/urban phenomena and regional development. His regional interests include China and the United States of America. He is also active in the spatial data analysis and modeling community. With strong interests in R, the statistical language environment, he has contributed to a package for spatial statistics, spatial data analysis and modeling, SPDEP, and co-authored (with professor Roger Bivand) a package for GWR analysis, SPGWR. He is also interested in world political economy, focusing on globalization in developing countries and global city, city-region formation analysis. Please visit Dr. Yu's homepage
