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Graduate Programs Faculty Descriptions

This section provides brief descriptions of the research interests and specialties of our graduate program faculty. Please click on a name for more detailed information. For more information e-mail: gradsec@envsci.rutgers.edu


GRADUATE FACULTY:

Tamar Barkay - Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology CC;
AREAS OF STUDY:
Microbial transformations of mercury and their role in the geochemical cycling of mercury in the environment.

Tony Broccoli - Associate Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers University.
AREAS OF STUDY: Climate modeling; Climate dynamics.

Brian Buckley - Administrative Director Laboratories, EOHSI; Ph.D., North Carolina State University.  AREAS OF STUDY: Analytical chemistry of environmental samples.

Joanna Burger - Professor of Biology, FAS-NB; Ph.D., Minnesota.
AREAS OF STUDY: Behavioral ecology, ecotoxicology, ecological risk.

Keith R. Cooper - Professor of Toxicology, CC; Ph.D., Rhode Island.
AREAS OF STUDY: Xenobiotic metabolism and diseases of aquatic animals; animal models.

Joan G. Ehrenfeld - Professor of Ecology, CC; Ph.D., CUNY.
AREAS OF STUDY: Wetland Ecology, soil ecology, ecosystems ecology, pollution impacts on ecosystems.

ZhiHua (Tina) Fan - Assistant Professor, UMDNJ-RWJMS
AREAS OF STUDY: Studies of personal and ambient air exposures to air toxics.  Studies of the association of health effects with personal and ambient air exposures to air toxics

Paul Falkowski - Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; Ph.D., University of British Columbia. AREAS OF STUDY: Evolution and ecology of marine phytoplankton and symbiotic algae.

Donna Fennel - Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Cornell University.
AREAS OF STUDY: Bioenvironmental engineering.

Susan E. Ford - Assistant Research Professor of Oyster Culture, CC; Ph.D., Duke.
AREAS OF STUDY: Invertebrate pathology/parasitology; genetics and mechanisms of resistance to pathogens; physiological ecology of estuarine organisms.

Jennifer Francis - Assistant Research Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, CC; Ph.D., University of Washington.
AREAS OF STUDY: Polar meteorology, remote sensing, air-sea-ice energy transfer.

Michael A. Gallo - Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Albany Medical College. AREAS OF STUDY: Food additives; phototoxins; dermatotoxicology.

Panos Georgopoulos - Associate Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology.  AREAS OF STUDY: Environmental modeling, environmental information systems, human exposure and risk assessment.

Daniel Gimenez - Associate Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Minnesota,
AREAS OF STUDY: Soil structure, water movement and solute transport through soils, soil quality.

William Goldfarb - Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Columbia.
AREAS OF STUDY: Environmental law and policy; water resources law and policy; hazardous substances law and policy.

Fred Grassle - Director, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, CC; Ph.D., Duke.
AREAS OF STUDY: Ecology of marine bottom-dwelling organisms.

Max. M. Haggblom - Professor, Center for Agricultural Molecular Biology, CC; Ph.D., University of Helinski.  AREAS OF STUDY: Environmental and applied microbiology, biodegradation and bioremediation.

Robert P. Harnack - Professor of Meteorology, CC; Ph.D., Maryland.
AREAS OF STUDY: Synoptic and climatic aspects of meteorology

Weilin Huang - Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, CC; Ph.D., University of Michigan
AREAS OF STUDY: Physicochemical Processes.

Sidney A. Katz - Professor of Chemistry, RU Camden; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
AREAS OF STUDY: Environmental, nutritional, toxicological aspects of trace elements.

Stanley E. Katz - Research Professor of Microbiology, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Antibiotic residues in tissues and soils.

Lee Kerkhof - Associate Professor, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, CC; Ph.D., University of California - San Diego  AREAS OF STUDY: Marine microbiology and molecular biology; microbial population dynamics.

Uta Krogmann - Associate Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (Germany). AREAS OF STUDY: Solid waste management and engineering; collection systems, biosolids, land application. Waste analyses, recycling, waste minimization, anaerobic digestion, composting.

Jerome J. Kukor- Associate Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., University of Michigan.
AREAS OF STUDY: Biochemistry of microbial degradation of aromatic and aliphatic compounds.

Paul J. Lioy - Professor of Environmental & Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Human exposure to pollutants; air pollution; industrial hygiene; risk assessment.

Gedi Mainelis - Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati.
AREAS OF STUDY: Biological and non-biological aerosols.

James R. Miller - Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, CC; Ph.D., Maryland.
AREAS OF STUDY: Meteorology; atmospheric modeling.

George H. Nieswand - Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Environmental systems analysis.

Chris Obropta - Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology AREAS OF STUDY: Watershed management.

John R. Reinfelder - Associate Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook).
AREAS OF STUDY: Trace metal biogeochemistry of aquatic systems, phytoplankton--ecology.

David A. Robinson - Professor of Geography, RU; Ph.D., Columbia.
AREAS OF STUDY: Climate and climate change.

Alan Robock - Professor II of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., MIT.
AREAS OF STUDY: Climate change, climate modeling, soil moisture.

Mark Robson - Clinical Assistant Professor of Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers Public Health. AREAS OF STUDY: Risk assessment; exposure to pesticides.

Stuart Shalat - Associate Professor, UMDNJ-RWJMS;
AREAS OF STUDY:
Epidemiologic studies of environmental toxin effects on the fetus and the child

Robert M. Sherrell - Assistant Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, CC; Ph.D., MIT.
AREAS OF STUDY: Marine geochemistry of trace metals and natural radionuclides.

Georgiy L. Stenchikov - Research Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Moscow Physical Technical Institute.
AREAS OF STUDY: Climate modeling, cloud modeling, air pollution, computational fluid dynamics, radiative transport, numerical methods.

Peter F. Strom - Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Biological treatment; hazardous wastes.

Gary L. Taghon - Associate Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, CC; Ph.D., Washington.
AREAS OF STUDY: Marine ecology.

Robert L. Tate III- Professor of Soils and Crops, CC; Ph.D., Wisconsin.
AREAS OF STUDY: Soil microbiology.

Paul E. Thomas - Professor of Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy; Ph.D., Ohio.
AREAS OF STUDY: Metabolism of drugs and environmental chemicals, cytochrome P-450.

Lisa Totten - Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., John Hopkins University.
AREAS OF STUDY: Environmental Organic Chemistry.

Barbara Turpin - Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Oregon Graduate Institute.
AREAS OF STUDY: Air pollution, chemistry and physics of atmospheric aerosols.

Christopher G. Uchrin - Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Michigan.
AREAS OF STUDY: Math modeling of contamination transport in surface and groundwaters.

Dana Veron - Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., University of California.
AREAS OF STUDY: Atmospheric Physics.

Chris Weaver - Assistant Research Professor of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography  AREAS OF STUDY: Clouds and climate, land-surface/atmosphere interaction, and climate modeling

Judith S. Weis - Professor of Zoology, FAS-N; Ph.D., New York.
AREAS OF STUDY: Effects of environmental factors, including pollutants on development and growth of estuarine organisms.

Clifford P. Weisel - Assistant Professor of environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rhode Island.
AREAS OF STUDY: Measurement of environmental constituents to assess human exposure.

Lily Y. Young - Professor II of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Harvard.
AREAS OF STUDY: Anaerobic microbial metabolism of environmental contaminants; microbial ecology.

Jenfeng Zhang - Assistant Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., Rutgers University and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
AREAS OF STUDY: Air pollution, exposure assessment, atmospheric chemistry and greenhouse gases.

Gerben J. Zylstra - Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology, CAMB; Ph.D., Michigan.
AREAS OF STUDY: Genetics and physiology of microbial aromatic hydrocarbon degradation.


ASSOCIATE GRADUATE FACULTY:

John W. Baum - Senior Scientist, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Ph.D., Michigan.
AREAS OF STUDY: Radiological physics; bioeffects and risks of ionizing and nonionizing radiations.

Edward A. Christman - Director of Environmental Health and Safety, Columbia University, Ph.D., Rutgers University.  AREAS OF STUDY: Radiation safety; health physics.

Richard Dunk - Lecturer Ph.D., Rutgers University.
AREAS OF STUDY:
Meteorology, air-sea interactions, sea breezes

Nancy L. Fiedler - Associate Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University.  AREAS OF STUDY: Neurobehavioral and health effects in human exposure to hazardous substances.

Elan J. Gandsman - Director of Health and Safety, Yale University, Ph.D., Tel Aviv.
AREAS OF STUDY: Medical imaging; health physics; radiation safety; occupational health.

Francis J. Haughey - Professor Emeritus of Radiation Science, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Radiation, aerosol, and health physics; environmental radioactivity.

Robert Hordon - Associate Professor of Geography, RC; Ph.D., Columbia University.
AREAS OF STUDY: Ground and surface water hydrology; water quality.

Joseph V. Hunter - Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Source, fate and detection of water and soil pollutants.

Howard Kipen - Assistant Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; M.D., California (San Francisco) AREAS OF STUDY: Occupational health.

Richard Lathrop - Assistant Professor of Environmental Resources, CC; Ph.D., Wisconsin (Madison).
AREAS OF STUDY: Remote sensing and spatial modeling of terrestrial aquatic ecosystems.

Theodore B. Shelton - Specialist of Agriculture and Resource Management, CC; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Water resources planning and management.

K. David Steidly - Chief Physicist, St. Barnabas Medical Center; Ph.D., Rutgers.
AREAS OF STUDY: Medical physics; biophysics; health physics; computers in medicine.

Wesley R. Van Pelt - President, Wesley Van Pelt Associates, Inc.; Ph.D., New York.
AREAS OF STUDY: Health physics; industrial hygiene; radiation dosimetry; environmental radioactivity.

Vikram M. Vyas , Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS; Ph.D., North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
AREAS OF STUDY: Spatial and spatiotemporal geostatistical analysis of environmental; ecological and health indicator data

Stephen M. Waldow - Clinical Assistant Professor, UMDNJ, and Director, Division of Radiation Research, Cooper Hospital; Ph.D., SUNY (Buffalo).
AREAS OF STUDY: Radiation biology; radiation therapy; models of tumor treatment.

George Winnett - Associate Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, CC; M.A., New York.
AREAS OF STUDY: Pesticide residue and pollution research.


ADJUNCT GRADUATE FACULTY:

Norberto J. Palleroni - Research Professor, Center for Agricultural Molecular Biology, CC; Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires.  AREAS OF STUDY: Taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of environmentally important bacteria.

Alan Stern - Research Scientist, NJDEP and Energy; Ph.D., Columbia University.
AREAS OF STUDY: Population exposures to metals in the environment.

Arthur C. Upton - Professor of Environmental and Community Medicine, UMDNJ-RWJMS, Ph.D., University of Michigan. AREAS OF STUDY: Biological effects and risks of ionizing radiation.

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