Faculty

Core Faculty

• Kirk Barrett, Director, Passaic River Institute. Wetlands, surface water hydrology, hydraulics, water quality
• Lora Billings, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Epidemiology, modeling of disease dynamics.
• Paul Bologna, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Restoration and community biology of coastal ecosystems.
• 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.
  
• James Campanella, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Molecular genetics, phylogenetics of Arabidopsis thaliana
• Mark Chopping, Associate Professor. Earth and Environmental Studies. Global information systems, remote sensing.
• Huan Feng, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Estuarine and coastal environmental quality assessment and management.
• 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.
• 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.
• Shifeng Hou, Assistant Professor, Chemistry. Nanobiotechnology.
• Scott L. Kight, Associate Professor of 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.
• Jack Baldwin-LeClair, Associate Professor, Political Science and Law. Jurisprudence; Governance, civil rights, human rights under international law.
• Lee Lee, Professor, Biology. Environmental microbiology.
• George T. Martin, Professor, Sociology. Social impacts of the automobile, globalization and consumption.
• Carlos Molina, Associate Professor, Biology and Molecular Biology. Cancer Biology.
• 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.
• Duke U. Ophori, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Hydrogeology, groundwater flow modeling in fractured reservoirs.
• Sandra Passchier, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Sedimentary Geology with a focus on Antarctica, glacial stratigraphy.
• Gregory A. Pope, Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Geomorphology, global change, geoarchaeology.
• Robert S. Prezant, Professor, Biology and Dean, College of Science and Mathematics. Aquatic ecology and environmental impact, biomineralization, biodiversity, malacology.
• Stefan Robila, Associate Professor, Computer Science. Hyperspectral sensors and data, distributed processing of remote sensed data.
• Dibyendu Sarkar, Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program in Environmental Management, Earth and Environmental Studies. Low-T Geochemistry, Aqueous and surface chemical modeling, Environmental Quality and Remediation.
• Lynn Schneemeyer, Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Inorganic chemistry, superconducting, magnetic, electronic and optical materials and devices.
• John Smallwood, Associate Professor, Biology. Ecology and kestrel ecology, effect of land use on bird migration and nesting.
• Harbans Singh, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Environmental policy; problem solving.
• Eric Stern, Research Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies and Regional Contaminated Sediment Program Manager, US EPA Region 2. Oceanography, remediation.
• Rolf Sternberg, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Geography, geopolitics, urban geography, transportation geography and world resources.
• Robert W. Taylor, Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. Environmental public policy, urban environmental issues, environmental business policy.
• William Thomas, Director, School of Conservation. Ethno-ecology, conservation and traditional ecological wisdom of indigenous people.
• Aparna Varde, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science. Data Mining, Databases, Artificial Intelligence.
• Neeraj Vedwan, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Earth and Environmental Studies. Cultural ecology, climatic change and society, peoples and cultures of South Asia, and development anthropology.
• Quinn Vega, Associate 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)
• Dirk W. Vanderklein, Associate Professor, Biology. Tree physiological ecology, forestry and forest ecology.
• Danlin Yu, Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Studies. GIS, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Statistics.
• Yanli Zhang, Assistant Professor, Management and Information Science. Innovation, International Business, International Economics.

Affiliated Faculty

• Norma C. Connolly, Professor, Legal Studies. Environmental law, natural resource dispute litigation.
• Clement Counts, Research Associate, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Salisbury State University. Ecology, Marine Science.
• Rupali Datta, Research Associate, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University. Plant-Microbe interactions, environmental quality, phyto- and bio-remediation.
• Dave Konas, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Medicinal chemistry.
• Peter Freund, Professor, Sociology. Sociological aspects of public health, social organization of space and the environment, social impacts of the automobile.
• Keith Jones, Research Associate, Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory. Surface spectroscopy, imaging, environmental remediation.
• Michael Jones, Research Associate, American Mathematical Society. Quantitative modeling of environmental systems.
• Lubo Liu. Research Associate, Assistant Professor, Florida State University at Panama City. Hydraulic engineering, water resources, environmental engineering.
• Paul Mankiewicz, Research Associate, Director, Gaia Institute. Biology, Plant Science.
• Glenville Rawlins, Associate Professor, Economics and Finance. International business, international development, Africa.
• Ira Schwartz, Research Associate, Head of the Nonlinear Dynamics System, Applied Mathematics Task Area Coordinator, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Applied mathematics and physics, biomathematics and epidemiology.
• John Siekierka, Professor and Director of the Sokol Institute, Chemistry and Biochemistry. Pharmaceutical biochemistry.
• John Thiruvathukal, Earth and Environmental Studies. Oceanography.
• Diana Thomas, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Dynamical systems and mathematical biology.
• William Wallace, Research Associate, Associate Professor, City University of New York at Staten Island. Environmental Biology, Toxicology.
• Michael P. Weinstein. Research Associate, and President Emeritus, New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium. Marine ecology.
• Peddrick Weis. Research Associate, and Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University. Ecology, Ecotoxicology.
• Jacalyn G. Willis, Director, Professional Resources in Science and Mathematics. Behavioral ecology, Science education.
• Phillip Yecko, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences. Fluid mechanics, dynamical systems.
• Michael Zey, Associate Professor, Management. International business, technology development, futurist.