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Environmental Management Doctoral Program

CORE DOCTORAL FACULTY

  • Dibyendu Sarkar, Professor and PhD Program Director, Earth and Environmental Studies. Environmental geochemistry, environmental quality and remediation, green technology.
  • Paul Bologna, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Restoration and community biology of coastal ecosystems.
  • Mark Chopping, Professor. Earth and Environmental Studies. Global information systems, remote sensing.
  • Yang Deng, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Studies. Environmental engineering, environmental remediation.
  • Huan Feng, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Estuarine and coastal environmental quality assessment and management.
  • Carlos Molina, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Cancer Biology.
  • Duke U. Ophori, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Hydrogeology, groundwater flow modeling in fractured reservoirs.
  • Avinandan Mukherjee, Professor and Chair, Department of Marketing. Green marketing.
  • Robert S. Prezant, Professor, Biology and Dean, College of Science and Mathematics. Aquatic ecology and environmental impact, biomineralization, biodiversity, malacology.
  • Robert W. Taylor, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Environmental public policy, urban environmental issues, environmental business policy.
  • Aparna Varde, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science. Data mining, databases, artificial intelligence.
  • Meiyin Wu, Associate Professor, Department of Biology and Molecular Biology. Ecology, restoration of aquatic ecosystems.
  • Danlin Yu, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. GIS, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Statistics.

 

AFFILIATED FACULTY

  • Sandra Adams, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Virology.
  • Clement A. Alo, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Regional climate and ecosystem modeling; integrated assessment and modeling of climate change impacts on water resources
  • Jack Baldwin-LeClair, Associate Professor, Political Science and Law. Jurisprudence; governance, civil rights, human rights under international law.
  • Stefanie Brachfeld, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, ice-sheet-ocean interactions in the Antarctic and Arctic regions, mineral magnetism, paleomagnetism.
  • Patrali Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing. Consumer behavior, customer relationship management.
  • Jerry Fails, Assistant Professor, Computer Science. Human-computer interactions.
  • Charles Feldman, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences. Food contamination, organic food, sustainable food and food safety
  • Eric Forgoston, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Ocean monitoring and transport, infectious disease outbreak and spread, disease and species extinction, collective motion of biological swarms.
  • Josh Galster, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies, Hydrology, GIS, geomorphology.
  • Matthew Gorring, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Igneous petrology, geochronology, radiogenic isotope, geochemistry, tectonics.
  • Nina Goodey, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Pharmaceutical biochemistry.  
  • Reginald Halaby, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Metastasis in prostate and breast cancer, apoptosis.
  • Lisa Hazard, Assistant Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Physiological ecology of reptiles and amphibians.
  • Katherine Herbert, Associate Professor, Computer Science. Bioinformatics, data mining and knowledge discovery, data integration, data cleaning.
  • Shifeng Hou, Assistant Professor, Chemistry. Nanobiotechnology.
  • Mark Kasner, Professor and Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Computational chemistry.
  • Scott L. Kight, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Evolutionary biology, entomology, ecology, animal behavior.
  • Michael Kruge, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Geochemistry of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and other organic contaminants in the environment.
  • Jennifer Krumins, Assistant Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Microbial ecology, biodiversity, food web ecology.
  • Pankaj Lal, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy.
  • Kirsten Monsen, Assistant Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Conservation genetics, molecular ecology.
  • Bogdan Nita, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Mathematics and modeling applied to geophysical imaging.
  • Michael Oudshoorn, Professor and Chair, Computer Science. Autonomic systems, distributed and parallel systems, software engineering and compilers.  
  • Sandra Passchier, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Sedimentary Geology with a focus on Antarctica, glacial stratigraphy.
  • Elena Petroff, Assistant Professor. Biology and Molecular Biology. Neuroscience, ion channel physiology.
  • Gregory A. Pope, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Geomorphology, global change, geoarchaeology.
  • Stefan Robila, Associate Professor, Computer Science. Hyperspectral sensors and data, distributed processing of remote sensed data.
  • Johannes Schelvis, Associate Professor. Chemistry and Biochemistry. Protein-DNA interactions and gene regulation, DNA damage and enzymatic DNA repair.
  • Peter Siegel, Associate Professor, Anthropology. Historical ecology, palaeoecology, climate reconstruction in the Caribbean.
  • John Siekierka, Professor and Director of the Sokol Institute, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Pharmaceutical biochemistry.
  • John Smallwood, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Ecology and kestrel ecology, effect of land use on bird migration and nesting.
  • Vladislav Snitsarev, Assistant Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Immunology, toxicology, pharmacology.
  • Haiyan Su, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Environmental statistics, biostatistics application.
  • Neeraj Vedwan, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Earth and Environmental Studies. Cultural ecology, climatic change and society, peoples and cultures of South Asia, development anthropology.
  • Quinn Vega, Professor and Chair, Biology and Molecular Biology. Mammalian signal transduction.
  • Elizabeth Wishnick, Assistant Professor, Political Science and Law. International relations, non-traditional security (environment, health, migration and security).
  • Ashwin Vaidya, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic stability.
  • Dirk W. Vanderklein, Associate Professor, Biology. Tree physiological ecology, forestry and forest ecology.
  • Shahla Wunderlich, Professor, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences. Contamination in food, nutritional quality.
  • Phillip Yecko, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Fluid mechanics and stability theory, numerical analysis, dynamical systems.
  • Yanli Zhang, Assistant Professor, Management and Information Science. Innovation, International Business, International Economics.

 

ADJUNCT RESEARCHERS

  • Kirk Barrett, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Manhattan College. Environmental engineering, wetlands, surface water hydrology, hydraulics, water quality.
  • Rupali Datta, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University. Plant biochemistry, environmental remediation, plant-microbe interactions.
  • Richard Ferrieri, Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Radiochemistry, plant science.
  • Edward R. Landa, Research Hydrologist, United States Geological Survey, Water Resources Division. Soil chemistry, water quality, environmental remediation.
  • Philip LeBel, Professor Emeritus, Montclair State University. Applied microeconomics with emphasis on risk and natural resources.
  • Paul Mankiewicz, Director, Gaia Institute. Biology, Plant science.
  • Sudipta Rakshit, Temporary Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Science. Soil chemistry, environmental quality and remediation.
  • Attinti Ramesh, Post Doctoral Scientist, Earth and Environmental Studies, Montclair State University. Environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry.
  • Eric Stern, Sediment Management Research Leader, Battelle Memorial Institute. Oceanography, remediation.
  • William Thomas, Director, School of Conservation, Montclair State University. Ethno-ecology, conservation and traditional ecological wisdom of indigenous people.
  • Michael P. Weinstein. Director, PSE&G Institute of Sustainability Studies, Montclair State University. Marine ecology.
  • Jacalyn G. Willis, Director, Professional Resources in Science and Mathematics, Montclair State University. Behavioral ecology, Science education.

INDUSTRY AFFILIATES

  • J. Chris Anderson, PhD, Director, Communities and Social Performance, Rio Tinto Ltd.
  • Mark Chappell, PhD, Research Physical Scientist, Environmental Laboratory, US Army Corps of Engineers.
  • Shawn Crouse, Principal Biologist, Division of Fish and Wildlife, NJ Department of Environmental Protection.
  • Daniel Elliott, PhD, Associate, Geosyntec Consultants.
  • Adrian Enache, PhD, Team Leader, Pesticides, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 2.
  • Hadi Falahatpisheh, PhD, DVM, Drug Safety Team Lead, Pfizer Global Research and Development.
  • Frank J. Gallagher, PhD, Administrator, Division of Parks and Forestry, NJ Department of Environmental Protection.
  • Sunil K. Garg, PhD, JD, Executive Director, Union County Utilities Authority.
  • Solomon Gbondo-Tugbawa, PhD, Technical Leader, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc.
  • Frances Hoffman, PhD, Director of Redevelopment, Somerset Development, LLC.
  • Marc L. Imhoff, PhD, Terra Project Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • Timothy L. King, PhD, Research Fish Biologist, Leetown Science Center, United States Geological Survey
  • Ronald MacGillivray, PhD, Environmental Toxicologist, Delaware River Basin Commission.
  • Joseph M. Mirabella, Environmental Enforcement Supervisor, NJ Department of Environmental Protection
  • Patrick T. Mottola, JD, Senior Manager – Environmental Risk, GE Capital, Americas.
  • Anand Ranganathan, PhD, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research.
  • Tamara L. Sorell, PhD, Life Sciences Group Manager, AMEC Earth and Environmental.
  • Daniel J. Van Abs, PhD, Senior Director of Planning and Science, New Jersey Highlands Council.

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