Publications & Grants

The faculty members associated with the PhD program in Environmental Management have published extensively in scholarly venues. Since the inception of the doctoral program in 2004 and early 2009 when the PhD program was approved, doctoral faculty published several books, more than 250 journal articles and book chapters, and numerous technical abstracts and conference proceedings. View a partial list of the faculty publications.

The students in the doctoral program have been equally active in publishing their research. Four students have graduated so far. Topics of their dissertation research ranged from management of groundwater in Ghana to municipal solid waste management in New Jersey. The students have so far published one book, 30+ journal articles, and more than 50 technical abstracts. They presented their research in numerous national, regional, and local conferences. View a list of student publications.

The faculty members associated with the program have increased their external funding several folds over the past several years bringing in highly competitive grants from NSF, EPA, NOAA, NASA, NIH, etc. Faculty participating in this program have, for example, obtained funding from the following agencies: Chinese Education Ministry Research Fund (Feng); Department of Housing and Urban Development (Sarkar); Environmental Protection Agency (Feng, Ophori, Sarkar); National Science Foundation (Brachfeld, Pope, Gorring, Ophori, Prezant, Passchier); National Endowment for the Humanities (Sternberg, Taylor); National Park Service, Department of the Interior (Prezant); NJ Department of Environmental Protection (Gorring, Pope); Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission (Smallwood); E. J. Noble Foundation (Prezant); National Institute of Health (Hallaby, Vega, Sarkar); U.S. Geological Survey (Sarkar), U.S. Department of Defense (Sarkar); U.S. Military Academy at West Point via Matrix New World Engineering, Inc. (Prezant). A partial listing of the grants obtained by the participating Doctoral Faculty in the Environmental Management program since 2004.