Faculty Experts

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Environment
 


        Eric Block

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]



        Michael Bloom

Michael Bloom
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences


Expert in the following: Effects of toxic environmental agents; epidemiology; human reproduction and fertility
Campus phone: 473-1821
Campus email: [email protected]



        Ray Bromley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]



        Brian Greenhill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ross Lazear
College of Arts and Sciences
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

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

Indu
University Offices
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

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

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

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

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]



        Patrick Parsons

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

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

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

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

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

James Schwab
University at Albany
Senior Research Associate
Department: Atmospheric Sciences Research Center


Expert in the following: Air pollution; airborne particulate matter; stratospheric ozone depletion; ground-level ozone pollution; global warming/climate change; environment
Campus phone: (518) 437-8754
Campus email: [email protected]



        Kendra Smith-Howard

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

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

Brian Tang
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences


Expert in the following: Tropical cyclones; moisture and tropical disturbances; global variability of tropical disturbances
Campus phone: 442-4572
Campus email: [email protected]



        Chris Thorncroft

Chris Thorncroft
College of Arts and Sciences
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fangqun Yu
College of Arts and Sciences
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

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

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]