Expertise at UAlbany
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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.

A list of UAlbany Faculty and Staff, who are experts in environmentally related fields:

Roger Bisbing
Art - Outdoor sculpture

Ronald Bosco
English - has published on Emerson and Thoreau

Maia Boswel-Penc
Women's Studies - Environmental Justice

Joanna Carson
Art - Wood in her example piece, may use natural themes

Sarah Cohen
Art History, Women's Studies - Artistic representations of animals in the eighteenth century

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

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

Kristen Hessler
Philosophy - Environmental Ethics, Agriculture

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

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

Fernando Leiva
Latin American and Caribean Studies: Water Rights in the Andes

David Lewis
Environmental Restoration

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

Kwadwo Sarfoh
Africana Studies - Water in Africa; resource development in Africa

Holly Sims
Rockefeller College - International Environmental Policy

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

Office contact information: Mary Ellen Mallia Director of Environmental Sustainability University Hall 212E MMallia@uamail.albany.edu 518-956-8120