People : Affiliates

The Office of Sustainability is pleased to announce the appointment of the following Faculty Research Affiliates. These faculty members are actively engaged in research that is directly related to a range of sustainability issues at local and global scales. In their own, unique areas of scientific expertise, they provide technical advice and counsel to the Office of Sustainability.

Norma Alcantar, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests: surface forces and chemical characterization of biomimetic membranes; micellar surfactants; nanoparticles and organic/inorganic thin films

Robert Brinkmann, Professor, Department of Geography

Research Interests: human alteration of soils, sediments, and water; geographical dimensions of soil pollution, archaeological deposits, and water quality; karst geomorphology and land use; Florida’s karst landscape; sinkhole geomorphology and sinkhole policy

Thomas Crisman,Patel Professor of Environment, Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions

Research Interests: freshwater ecology

Jeffrey Cunningham, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: contaminant fate and transport in the (aqueous) environment; physical, chemical, and biological processes for water treatment and water quality control; water resources and water re-use; contaminant behavior in groundwater; groundwater remediation; geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide

Delcie Durham, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: sustainable manufacturing; predictive product realization; fundamental methods for complex systems; interdisciplinary research organizational models

Nichole Fabricant, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology

Research Interests: neoliberalism and globalization; race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality and feminist studies; Latin American urban history; social movements and political ecology

Yogi Goswami, John and Naida Ramil Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering

Research Interests: energy conversion; solar energy; hydrogen energy and fuel cells; thermodynamics and heat transfer; HVAC; photovoltaics; solar thermal energy; solar electric conversion; photocatalytic detoxification and disinfection of water and indoor air; biomass conversion; hydrogen production; fuel cells

Sharon Hanna-West, Exide Distinguished Lecturer of Ethics and Sustainability, Department of Management and Organization

Research Interests: business ethics; environmental law; business sustainability

Sara Hendricks, Senior Research Associate, Center for Urban Transportation Research

Research Interests: transportation management associations; land use and transportation interactions; traffic impact analysis; growth management; greenway development; bicycle and pedestrian planning

James Mihelcic, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: sustainable development; green engineering; global water and sanitation; engineering education reform

Mark Rains, Associate Professor, Department of Geology

Research Interests: hydrological controls on ecosystem structure and function in fresh, brackish, saline, and hypersaline aquatic ecosystems; Ecohydrology; hydrogeology

Philip Reeder, Associate Professor, Department of Geography

Research Interests: water resources geoarchaeology; hydrology; environmental contamination; karst studies; soil geography; geomorphology

Christopher Roos, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology

Research Interests: geoarchaeology; archaeological method and theory (formation processes, resilience theory); applied historical ecology; fire history; climate change; human environmental impacts; landscape archaeology

Amy Stuart, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health

Research Interests: air pollution; atmospheric chemistry; environmental computational modeling; emergency releases and terrorism response

Maya Trotz, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: application of chemical principles to the study and manipulation of pollutant behavior (e.g., arsenic) in natural aquatic systems and in engineered processes

Daniel Yeh, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: membrane separation processes; biological wastewater treatment processes; anaerobic digestion; industrial waste minimization and pollution prevention

Rebecca Zarger, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Research Interests: sociocultural anthropology; environmental anthropology; ethnoecology; ethnographies of childhood; anthropology of education; public engagement in environmental policy; conservation, migration, and environmental change; environmental education

Qiong Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: green engineering; embodied energy models; water-energy system dynamic modeling; life cycle impact of bioenergy; sustainable development indicators; environmental fate and transport modeling of water/air treatment systems; green engineering principles in design and engineering curriculum