Faculty Experts
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Eric Block
College of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Professor
Department: Chemistry
Expert in the following:
Organic chemistry; food chemistry; garlic, onions and other alliums; olfaction (the sense of smell); the chemistry of sulfur and selenium
Campus phone: (518) 442-4459
Campus email: [email protected]

Ray Bromley
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Geography and Planning
Expert in the following:
Urban planning; regional planning; urban development; urban renewal; community development; housing policy; neighborhood decline; neighborhood revitalization; abandoned buildings; fire tragedies; micro-enterprise; micro-credit; retail markets; street vendors; Peru; Colombia
Campus phone: (518) 591-8183
Campus email: [email protected]

Jerald Brotzge
College of Arts and Sciences
Program Manager
Department: New York State Mesonet
Expert in the following:
Rader and storm-scale meteorology; weather technology
Campus phone: (518) 442-4556
Campus email: [email protected]

David Carpenter
School of Public Health
Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Human health effects of environmental contaminants, including metals and organic compounds
Campus phone: (518) 525-2660
Campus email: [email protected]

Hyunok Choi
School of Public Health
Assistant Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Environmental health; role of pollutants on health; human resilience to adverse environmental conditions
Campus phone: (518) 402-0401
Campus email: [email protected]

Liang Chu
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Environmental heterogeneous chemistry; surface chemistry
Campus phone: (518) 474-6340
Campus email: [email protected]

Kristen Corbosiero
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Tropical cyclones; hurricanes; cloud formation; monsoons
Campus phone: 442-5852
Campus email: [email protected]

Aiguo Dai, PhD
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Climate variability and change; precipitation variability; global water cycle; drought; global and regional climate change
Campus phone: 442-4474
Campus email: [email protected]

Jennifer Dodge
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Associate Professor
Department: Public Administration and Policy
Expert in the following:
Framing (and symbolic politics); citizen participation; nonprofit advocacy; environmental policy conflicts (fracking, environmental justice)
Campus phone: (518) 442-5274
Campus email: [email protected]

Craig Ferguson
College of Arts and Sciences
Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Terrestrial hydrology and hydrometeorology; satellite remote sensing; climate reconstruction and predictability; global climate change
Campus phone: 437-8752
Campus email: [email protected]

Robert Fovell
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Thunderstorm dynamics and weather prediction
Campus phone: (518) 442-4479
Campus email: [email protected]

Jeff Freedman
College of Arts and Sciences
Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Wind and solar power production forecasting; resource assessment; weather and climate influences; interaction of wind farms with the atmospheric boundary layer
Campus phone: 437-8737
Campus email: [email protected]

Sanjay Goel
School of Business
Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Expert in the following:
Information security; hacking; computer forensics; risk analysis; cybersecurity; wireless security; botnets (zombie computers); nanosensor networks; optimization
Campus phone: (518) 956-8323
Campus email: [email protected]
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Brian Greenhill
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Associate Professor
Department: Political Science
Expert in the following:
International relations; human rights; international organization; environmental outcomes; climate change; political globalization
Campus phone: 518-442-5238
Campus email: [email protected]

Vincent Idone
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Lightning; atmospheric electricity; thunderstorms
Campus phone: (518) 442-4577
Campus email: [email protected]

Everette Joseph
College of Arts and Sciences
Director
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Impact of aerosols on climate and weather; satellite use in atmospheric observation; weather, climate and air quality forecasts
Campus phone: 437-8705
Campus email: [email protected]

Haider A. Khwaja
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
acid rain; cloud water chemistry; water and human health issues; health impacts of air pollution
Campus phone: 474-0516
Campus email: [email protected]

Andrea Lang
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Synoptic dynamic meteorology; weather-climate interactions; regional weather patterns; forecasting
Campus phone: 442-4558
Campus email: [email protected]

Andrei Lapenas
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Geography and Planning
Expert in the following:
Global warming; climate change; climatology; Russia
Campus phone: (518) 442-4191
Campus email: [email protected]

Catherine Lawson
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Geography and Planning
Expert in the following:
Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems; freight planning; travel behavior and time use; water transport; hazardous materials transport; microsimulation and GIS applications; Big Data
Campus phone: 442-4775
Campus email: [email protected]

Ross Lazear
College of Arts and Sciences
Instructional Support Specialist
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Weather forecasting; synoptic meteorology (midlatitude weather systems); severe weather; winter storms
Campus phone: 437-3601
Campus email: [email protected]

Jiping Liu
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Climate-Cryosphere dynamics; feedbacks and modeling; atmosphere-ice-ocean interactions; application of remote sensing in oceans
Campus phone: 442-4048
Campus email: [email protected]

Indu
University Offices
University Energy Officer
Department: Office for Environmental Sustainability
Expert in the following:
Energy efficiency and conservation; sustainability; building energy performance
Campus phone: (518) 442-3183
Campus email: [email protected]

Mary Ellen Mallia
University Offices
Director
Department: Office for Environmental Sustainability
Expert in the following:
Sustainability; ecological economics; recycling; education; formulating and implementing sustainable practices
Campus phone: (518) 442-2601
Campus email: [email protected]

Marilyn Masson
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Archaeology, Mexico, Pre-Columbian Maya Civilization, Ancient Urban Life and Landscapes, Pre-Modern Political Economy, Household Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology, Stone Tool Analysis
Campus phone: (518) 442-4700
Campus email: [email protected]

Scott Miller
College of Arts and Sciences
Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Micrometeorology; field measurements of momentum, heat, water, and trace gas (e.g., carbon dioxide) exchange between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems, lakes, and the ocean
Campus phone: 437-8799
Campus email: [email protected]

Justin R. Minder
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Mountain weather and climate; regional climate; mesoscale dynamics; hydrometeorology
Campus phone: 437-3732
Campus email: [email protected]
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Patrick Parsons
School of Public Health
Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Childhood lead poisoning; atomic spectrometry; trace element analysis; inorganic mass spectrometry; human biomonitoring and environmental measurements of toxic metals.
Campus phone: 518-474-7161
Campus email: [email protected]

Christopher Pastore
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
European and Native American history; social and human dimensions of environmental change; colonial history
Campus phone: (518) 442-5311
Campus email: [email protected]

Richard Perez
University at Albany
Senior Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Solar and renewable energy; environment; economics
Campus phone: (518) 437-8751
Campus email: [email protected]

Paul Roundy
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Weather patterns; prediction models; tropical cyclone formation; hurricanes
Campus phone: 442-4476
Campus email: [email protected]

Lawrence Schell
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Anthropology
Expert in the following:
Anthropology; minority health disparities; epidemiology; biostatistics; childhood development; environmental health; risk factors
Campus phone: (518) 442-4714
Campus email: [email protected]

James Schwab
University at Albany
Research Professor and Senior Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Air pollution and air pollution measurements; ground-level ozone pollution; atmospheric aerosols; air quality; environment
Campus phone: (518) 437-8754
Campus email: [email protected]

Kendra Smith-Howard
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following:
Environmental history; twentieth-century US history; history of consumer culture and politics; history of technology; history of public health; agriculture and rural life
Campus phone: (518) 442-5375
Campus email: [email protected]

Kara Sulia
College of Arts and Sciences
Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Cloud Physics; Ice/Snow Microphysics; Crystal Growth Theory; Model Development; Simulated Polarimetric Radar Analysis
Campus phone: 518-437-8755
Campus email: [email protected]

Brian Tang
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Tropical Cyclones; Hurricanes; Severe Weather
Campus phone: 442-4572
Campus email: [email protected]

Chris Thorncroft
College of Arts and Sciences
Interim Director
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Tropical weather and climate; monsoons, hurricanes
Campus phone: 442-4555
Campus email: [email protected]

Oliver Timm
College of Arts and Sciences
Research Associate Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Climate change and variability; Impacts of climate on the environment and human health; Paleoclimate of the last 1,000 to 1,000,000 years
Campus phone: 518-442-3854
Campus email: [email protected]

Ryan Torn
College of Arts and Sciences
Department Chair
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Weather forecasting; numerical weather prediction models; tropical cyclones; atmospheric predictability
Campus phone: (518) 442-4560
Campus email: [email protected]

Mathias Vuille
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Climate change; global warming; mountain climate; glaciology; paleoclimatology
Campus phone: (518) 442-4472
Campus email: [email protected]

Christopher Walcek
University at Albany
Senior Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Air Pollution; ozone pollution; global warming; energy and pollution; clouds and climate; cloud physics; acid rain formation
Campus phone: (518) 437-8720
Campus email: [email protected]

Wei-Chyung Wang
University at Albany
Professor
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Climate modeling and data analysis; global warming; impact of climatic changes on social and economic activities and their policy implications
Campus phone: (518) 437-8708
Campus email: [email protected]

Xiaobo Xue
School of Public Health
Assistant Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
environmental sustainability; risk analysis; life cycle assessment; water-energy-food nexus; climate adaptation; resource management.
Campus phone: 518-402-0273
Campus email: [email protected]

Fangqun Yu
College of Arts and Sciences
Senior Research Associate and Professor
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center
Expert in the following:
Atmospheric aerosols and global climate impact; air quality; radiation; atmospheric chemistry
Campus phone: 437-8767
Campus email: [email protected]

Liming Zhou
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following:
Remote sensing; land-atmosphere/climate interactions; land surface modeling; climate change
Campus phone: 442-4446
Campus email: [email protected]

Lei Zhu
School of Public Health
Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
Expert in the following:
Statistics; pollution and health
Campus phone: (518) 474-6846
Campus email: [email protected]