UAlbany has a great array of faculty and staff experts in environmentally related fields. The Task Force on Environmental Sustainability itself is a great example of the strengths available here for students to tap and for task force initiatives on campus. Members who are experts in key fields are listed below. And, students can find many, many more faculty experts in such areas as Biological Sciences, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Geography and Planning, Public Administration and Policy, Political Science, Public Health and other disciplines.

Some task force members and areas of expertise

John Delano
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Resources and energy use; NASA-funded research includes areas related to the sustainability of earliest life on earth. (Family powers home with solar photovoltaic system.)

Kenneth Demerjian
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Atmospheric chemistry and air quality

Edward Fitzgerald
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Adverse health effects of environmental and occupational exposures to toxic agents

Vincent Franconere (staff)
Environmental Health and Safety, Division of Finance and Business
Hazardous waste

Helmut V.B. Hirsch
Department of Biological Sciences
World food crisis: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding global problems through analyses of nutritional, agricultural and environmental aspects of world hunger

Michael Fancher
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Federal, state and local economic development, energy, and environmental programs

Gary Kleppel
Department of Biological Sciences
Aquatic ecology; effect of human demographic and land-use patterns on ecosystem integrity

Andrei Lapenas
Department of Geography and Planning
Climate, global carbon cycle, soils

Catherine Lawson
Geography and Planning
Land use and transportation planning

Michele McConville (staff)
Department of Physical Plant, Division of Finance and Business
Recycling

Robert Nakamura
Department of Political Science, Rockefeller College
Superfund clean-up approaches and comparison with strategies in other countries

Richard Perez
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Solar energy applications

John Pipkin
Department Geography and Planning
Urban design, built environment, urban geography

George Robinson
Department of Biological Sciences
Forest ecology, tree disease, botany, watershed ecology, riparian ecology, ecological restoration, habitat
reclamation, biological conservation

Jon Jacklet
Department of Biological Sciences
Community stewardship related to environmental conservation