Faculty Affiliates
Kirk Alter
Building Construction Management
Sustainable construction, sustainability, emissions reduction, weatherization, energy efficiency
SERV
765 494-2454
Joseph Balagtas
Agricultural Economics
Agricultural markets, food security, agricultural and food policy
KRAN 557
765 494-4298
Mike Baldwin
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Climate and extreme weather, numerical modeling, data mining, model evaluation, data assimilation
CIVL 4267A
Peter Bermel
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Photovoltaics, thermophotovoltaics, agrivoltaics, food-energy-water nexus, and aglectric farms.
BRK 2270
765-496-7879
Brandon Boor
Civil Engineering
Indoor and urban air pollution, aerosol science, airborne nanoparticles, bioaerosols, low-cost air quality monitoring
HAMP G241
Laura Bowling
Agronomy
Watershed hydrology, hydroclimatology, hydrology of extreme events, GIS and remote sensing
Lilly 3-337
765-494-8051
Sylvie Brouder
Agronomy
Carbon and nitrogen cycling, soil sequestration, greenhouse gas emission, and water quality impacts of intensively and extensively managed agriculture
LILY 3-351
765-496-1489
Grzegorz Buczkowski
Entomology
Climate change impacts on insect spread and management, urban ecology under climate change, invasive species, biodiversity, winners and losers of climate change.
765-494-6314
Michele Buzon
Anthropology Department
Investigating social and cultural perceptions of, and experiences with, climate change in Bronze and Early Iron Ages in the Near East.
STON 314
765-494-4680
Marc Caffee
Physics And Astronomy
Cosmogenic nuclides and climate change
PHYS S153A
765-494-2586
Hua Cai
Industrial Engineering
Urban sustainability, emerging transportation systems, energy policy, sustainable consumption, food-water-energy nexus
GRIS 390
Timothy Cason
Dan Chavas
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Hurricanes, tropical cyclones, severe weather, tornadoes, risk
HAMP 3221
765-496-6661
Keith Cherkauer
Agricultural And Biological Engineering
Hydroclimatology, flooding, drought, modeling, observations
ABE 312
765-496-7982
John Couture
Depts of Entomology and Forestry and Natural Resources
Atmospheric change; carbon and nutrient cycling; drought; herbivory; plant defenses
Melba Crawford
Agronomy
Statistical classification methods, digital image processing, statistical analysis of spatial and temporal processes, analysis of remotely sensed data
Lilly 3-353
765-496-3224
G. Jonathon Day
Hospitality and Tourism Management
Climate change adaptations and mitigation with a focus on tourism systems, sustainable tourism, destination management, corporate social responsibility and environmental programs in hospitality and tourism related companies
MRRT 255
765-496-2084
Jeff Dukes
Forestry And Natural Resources
Terrestrial ecosystem responses, terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks, invasive species, biodiversity, biofuels
PFEN 221A
765-494-1446
SongLin Fei
Forestry And Natural Resources
Ecosystem dynamic and modeling, invasive species modeling and surveillance, and biometrics and spatial analysis
FORS 111
765-496-2199
Timothy Filley
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Soil organic matter sequestration, plant-soil-microbe system, soil organic carbon vulnerability, isotope biogeochemistry
3277C Civil Eng.
765-494-6581
Jane Frankenberger
Agricultural And Biological Engineering
Watershed management and TMDLs in agricultural watersheds, and water and nitrate flux to subsurface drainage tiles
ABE 208A
765-494-1194
Jennifer Freeman
Health Sciences
Human health, disease, development, genetic biomarkers, zebrafish
CIVL 1263D
765-494-1408
James Garrison
Aeronautics And Astronautics
Remote sensing, earth observation, global navigation satellite, systems (GNSS) soil moisture oceanography
ARMS 3311
765-496-7482
Charles Gick
Visual and Performing Arts
An interdisciplinary artist, combining video, performance, painting, photography and assemblage. Current work focuses on humankind’s use of the poetics of art to confront and examine our often tenuous, physical, intellectual, and emotional relationships with art, nature and time
PAO 3151
765-494-3360
Margaret Gitau
Agricultural And Biological Engineering
Broad interest in water resources and ecohydrologic engineering
ABE 119
Alexander Gluhovsky
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and Statistics
Application of nonlinear time series analysis and nonlinear dynamical systems to problems of weather and climate
CIVL 4263
765-494-0670
Reuben Goforth
Forestry And Natural Resources
Partnering for land use sustainability, aquatic ecosystems, ecological studies, GIS spatial analyses
FORS 111A
Alla Golub
Agricultural Economics
Land use, mitigation policies, energy and environment, bioenergy, general equilibrium modeling
765-586-0601
Jay Gore
Mechanical Engineering
Sustainable energy and environment and global policy research
765-494-0061
Rich Grant
Agronomy
Greenhouse gas emissions, micrometeorological flux measurements, land surface emissions, agricultural emissions
215 Life Science Plant and Soils
765-494-8048
Brady Hardiman
Forestry And Natural Resources
Relationships between ecosystem structure and function across a gradient of natural to highly-engineered environments within a global change context
PFEN G021F
765-494-3593
Brock Harpur
Entomology
Bees, pollinators, evolution, honey bees, agriculture
WSLR 220
Erin Hennes
Psychological Sciences
Public understanding of climate change information
PRCE 2168
Tom Hertel
Agricultural Economics
Economic consequences of climate impacts on agriculture as well as land-based mitigation policies
KRAN 563
765-494-4199
Tomas Höök
Forestry And Natural Resources
Great Lakes ecology and fisheries; Aquatic ecosystem responses to climate change and other stressors
FORS 209
Matthew Huber
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Paleoclimate Modeling, Climate Change, Global Warming, Paleoceanography, Regional Climate Modeling, Extreme Weather Events, and Heat Stress
HAMP 4259-B
Douglass Jacobs
Forestry And Natural Resources
Research interests in reforestation and restoration of forest trees, with emphasis on understanding the eco-physiology of forest regeneration in response to management and environmental stress
PFEN 221F
765-494-3608
David Johnson
Industrial Engineering
Climate change adaptation, coastal flood risk management, renewable energy policy, assessment of infrastructure risks, and water scarcity and quality management.
GRIS 290
765-494-7122
Jennifer Johnson
Anthropology Department
Food security, food sovereignty, fisheries, gender, contaminated diversity, eastern and central Africa
STON 219E
Daniel Kelly
Jinha Jung
Civil Engineering
Full waveform LiDAR, UAV based remote sensing, High Performance Computing for Remote Sensing Applications, Web GIS development using FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)
HAMP 4106
jinha@purdue.edu
765-496-1267
Website
Cliff Johnston
Agronomy
Soil biogeochemistry, carbon dynamics, GHG exchange, surface chemistry
Lilly 3-464A
765-496-1716
David Klenosky
Department Of Health And Kinesiology
Impacts of climate change and environmental factors on recreation use and tourism activity
111-B Lambert
765-494-0865
Samuel Labi
Civil Engineering
Modeling of the effects of climate on civil infrastructure deterioration, analysis of civil infrastructure resilience to climate change, sustainable development of civil infrastructure to reduce anthropogenic impacts on climate
CIVL G175A
765 494-5926
Alexander Laskin
Chemistry
Atmospheric aerosols, their impacts on climate and public health
Atmospheric aerosols, their impacts on climate and public health
BRWN 5131B
alaskin@purdue.edu
alaskin@purdue.edu
765-494-5243
Jingjing Liang
Forestry and Natural Resources
Global forest resources and ecology, terrestrial biodiversity, forest carbon dynamics
Global forest resources and ecology, terrestrial biodiversity, forest carbon dynamics
Nathaniel Lifton
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
In situ cosmogenic nuclide analyses of past glacial changes in Arctic and mountainous environments, Quaternary geology, and surficial processes
CIVL 3275
Stacy Lindshield
Anthropology
Research transects the fields of primate behavior, ecology, nutrition, and conservation.
Sara McMillan
Agricultural And Biological Engineering
Hydrology and biogeochemistry of urban and agricultural aquatic systems; ecosystem restoration to mitigation impacts from changing climate and land use practices
ABE 208B
Zhao Ma
Forestry And Natural Resources
Focus on invasive plant management, small-scale farming, payment for ecosystem services, climate change perception and adaptation, water governance, and ecological restoration.
FORS 111
765-494-1790
Manjana Milkoreit
Political Science
Global climate change politics, esp. the role of emerging powers and the design of review mechanisms in the Paris Agreement; the interface between science and policy/politics/diplomacy; cognition and emotion in climate-related decision-making, esp. future thinking.
BRNG 2226
765-496-3921
Robert Marzec
English
Work on the historical transformations of humanity’s relationship to the environment, and how these transformations inform and affect the event of climate change in today’s world, and our reactions to that event
HEAV 332A
Rick Meilan
Forestry And Natural Resources
Work to improve the utility of trees, poplars (Populusspp.) in particular, as a bioenergy crop—including efforts to insert into poplar genes that affectcell-wall properties (e.g., lignin content and composition, and cellulose configuration); water-use efficiency; and poplar’s ability to remediate contaminated sites
G021E Pfendler Hall
765-496-2287
Greg Michalski
Dept Earth, Atmospheric, And Planetary Sci
Stable isotope biogeochemistry, Nitrogen cycling in aquatic and soil systems, regional air/water pollution, mass-independent isotope effects and their use in paleoclimatology and aerosol chemistry, isotope effects in gas phase reactions, modeling isotopes in atmospheric chemistry
765-494-3704
Roshanak Nateghi
Environmental & Ecological Engineering and Industrial Engineering
Work on modeling the impacts of climate extremes and climate change on the reliability and resiliency of energy infrastructure using risk and decision analysis,simulation, statistical modeling and big data analytics
GRIS 264
Loring Nies
Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Global sustainable engineering, sustainable urban systems, education for sustainability in engineering
CIVL 3145C
765-494-8327
Erik Otarola-Castillo
Anthropology
Evolution, ecology and diversity of behavior in prehistoric and modern populations of hunter-gatherers; effects that climatic change, variation of food-availability and-distribution had on the diet of some of the first North American native populations.
STON 312
765-494-2443
Linda Pfeiffer
Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication
Communicating controversial science to non-scientists
AGAD 223A
765-496-1890
Bryan Pijanowski
Forestry And Natural Resources
Land-climate-people interactions, climate adaptation, land-climate-hydrologic dynamics, uncertainty, soundscape ecology
305 FORS (Forestry Building)
765-496-2215
Gouri Prabhakar
Earth, Atmospheric,and Planetary Sciences
Aerosol-cloud interactions, and impacts of atmospheric aerosols on climate and regional air quality
HAMP
Paul Preckel
Agricultural Economics
Electric power sector emissions policy, agricultural land use
KRAN 589
765-494-4240
Linda Prokopy
Forestry And Natural Resources
Social dimensions of both adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change
FORS 201B
765-496-2221
P Suresh Rao
Civil Engineering
Environmental engineering, environmental/ecological sciences, resilience-based analysis of coupled natural and engineered complex systems, including food-bioenergy-water sustainability issues
CIVL 3145B
765-496-6554
Leigh Raymond
Political Science
Climate change, energy conservation, environmental risk management, renewable fuels, and conservation tillage.
BRNG 2216E
Jacob Ricker-Gilbert
Agricultural Economics
Sub-Saharan Africa, food security, vulnerability, adaptation, behavioral modeling
KRAN 623
Catherine Searle
Biological Sciences
Disease ecology, community ecology, host-parasite interactions, freshwater biology
Lilly G-331
searlec@purdue.edu
765-496-0062
Website
Disease ecology, community ecology, host-parasite interactions, freshwater biology
Lilly G-331
searlec@purdue.edu
765-496-0062
Website
Juan Sesmero
Agricultural Economics
Climate adaptation, land use change, economics of biofuels, water-energy trade-offs, energy economics
KRAN 591A
Amisha Shah
Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Photochemical processes in water, sulfur budget, effects of climate change on water quality and sustainability
HAMP 3145A
Guofan Shao
Forestry And Natural Resources
Understanding forest responses to climate change and improving forest carbon sequestration through sustainable forest management
109 Forestry Building
765-494-3630
Daniel Shepardson
Curriculum And Instruction
Student conceptions’ of climate change, climate science instructional materials, climate system education
BRNG 4130
765-494-5284
Gerald Shively
Agricultural Economics
Economic implications of climate change and adaptation in low-income agriculture
629 Krannert Building
765-494-4218
Shweta Singh
Agricultural & Biological Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Impact on resource flows and consumption pattern change, urban responses to climate change, adn impact of climate change on nitrogen biogeochemical cycling
ABE 313
Robert Swihart
Forestry And Natural Resources
Effects of climate change on plant-consumer interactions
PFEN 125
765-494-3575
Nathan Thompson
Agricultural Economics
Economics, agricultural production, adaptation, technology, risk management
KRAN 754G
765-494-0593
Mark Tilton
Political Science
Comparing climate change policies in advanced industrialized countries
BRNG 2216C
765-494-4176
Marissa Tremblay
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Paleoclimate, glaciers, polar regions, surface processes
HAMP 3273
765-494-1255
Cary Troy
Civil Engineering
Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence and mixing in natural water bodies, Lake Michigan circulation
CIVL 1101D
765-494-3844
Wen-Wen Tung
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Tropical dynamics, observation-driven modeling of multiscale convective systems, cloud systems in climate, dynamical predictability, multiscale data analysis
CIVL 3219
765-494-0272
Ron Turco
Agronomy
Soil biology and N2O formation, carbon sequestration in agricultural systems, large data sets, water-food-energy-climate nexus
G-121 Lilly Hall or 126 AGAD
765-494-8077
Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe
Agricultural Economics
Focused on developing economies and particularly on the potential economic impacts from climate change—such as on crop yields, sea-level rise, health, etc.
KRAN 563
Jeff Volenec
Agronomy
Physiological and biochemical mechanisms influencing growth and stress tolerance of plant species used for livestock feed and biofuels
LILY 2-327
765-494-8071
Lei Wang
Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Science
Atmospheric dynamics, large-scale atmospheric circulation, intra-seasonal atmospheric variability, extreme weather events, climate change.
HAMP 2285-B
765-494-3177
Lisa Welp-Smith
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Research on the exchange of water and carbon between the land biosphere and the atmosphere
HAMP 3239
Michael Wetzstein
Agricultural Economics
Economics, Food waste, Solar, Technology adoption, Wood pellets
KRAN 639
765-494-4244
Ellen Wells
Health Sciences
Public health, epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, and environmental health science
HAMP
765-496-3535
Jae Hoon David Yu
Civil Engineering and Political Science
Resilience of highly-engineered social-ecological systems to unexpected, emergent shocks. Research methods include mathematical and computational modeling, case study analysis, and behavioral experiments
HAMP G175D
Qianlai Zhuang
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and Agronomy
Ecosystems dynamics; biogeochemical dynamics; interactions of biosphere, atmosphere, and human dimension
CIVL 2269
765-494-9610
Laura Zanotti
Anthropology Department
Environmental anthropologist and interdisciplinary social scientist who partners with communities to examine how local, mostly rural, livelihoods and well-being can be sustained and to identify the pathways that shape just futures
STON 323
Hao Zhang
Statistics and Forestry and Natural Resources
Analysis of spatial and space-time data of climatology, geophysics, geology, natural resources, agriculture, health sciences, economics and marketing
765-496-9548
Pat Zollner
Forestry And Natural Resources
Mechanistic modelling of animal movements in response to climate change and other anthropogenic impacts upon wildlife species
FORS 307
765-496-9495