Julie Brigham Grette, PhD
Professor
Department of Geosciences – Quaternary/Glacial Geology; Arctic Paleoenvironments
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: juliebg@geo.umass.edu
phone: 413.545.4840
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Brigham Grette’s research interests are focused on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and chronology of geologic systems that record the climate evolution and sea level history of the Arctic since the mid-Pliocene. Most of her research program is aimed at documenting the global context of paleoenvironmental change across “Beringia”, i.e., the Bering Land Bridge, stretching across the western Arctic from Alaska and the Yukon into NE Russia including the adjacent marginal seas. Read more
Edward Calabrese, PhD
Professor
Department: Environmental Health Sciences
School of Public Health
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: edwardc@schoolph.umass.edu
phone: 413.545.3164
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Calabrese has researched extensively in the area of host factors affecting susceptibility to pollutants, and is the author of over 750 papers in scholarly journals, as well as more than 10 books. Areas of Specialization: toxicology, risk assessment, environmental health, dose-response, hormesis. Read more
David T. Damery, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: ddamery@eco.umass.edu
phone: 413.545.1770
Areas of research/interest: He currently teaches classes covering: Sustainability in the Built Environment, The Business of Building, and our Senior Integrative Experience. He is also a member of the UMASS Architecture and Design faculty. He has research interests in the economics of sustainable construction technologies, wildlife conservation economics, marketing and economics. Read more
Andy J. Danylchuk, PhD
Intercampus Marine Science Graduate Program Campus Coordinator
Assistant Professor of Fish Conservation
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413.545.2940
Areas of research/interest: The overarching theme of Dr. Danylchuk’s research is to understand the factors that naturally influence the life history and ecology of fishes and other aquatic organisms, as well as how natural and anthropogenic disturbances can influence the dynamics of their populations. His work spans both marine and freshwater systems, and includes stress physiology, behavioral ecology, spatial ecology, predator-prey interactions, and adaptations in life history traits as a response to disturbance. Read more
John Finn, PhD
Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413.545.1819
email: finn@eco.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Finn is the department’s systems ecologist. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Ecology at the University of Georgia, did a post-doc at the Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, and trained in satellite remote sensing at the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA. His interests include the development of modeling and analysis techniques, statistical methods for ecological data, GIS, remote sensing and application of modeling and theory to environmental assessment and resource management. Read more
Stephen Frasier, PhD
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: frasier@ecs.umass.edu
phone: 413.545.4582
Areas of research/interest: Microwave Imaging and Interferometry. Radar and Radiometer Systems. Radio Oceanography and Meteorology. Read more
Curtice R. Griffin, PhD
Professor and Department Head
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413.545.2640
email: cgriffin@eco.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Griffin’s teaching and research interests are in biodiversity conservation, wetland wildlife ecology and management, and integrated natural resources management issues. Although his research program addresses both applied and basic ecological questions, it focuses primarily on the conservation of biological diversity and providing a strong science base for management decisions. Read more
Adrian Jordaan, PhD
Assistant Professor of Fish Population Ecology and Conservation
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: ajordaan@eco.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: (1) understanding the influence of environmental variables on growth and survival of individuals and populations, (2) elucidating the temporal and spatial structure and function of ecosystems, and (3) determining the best management policies given the environmental constraints on growth, survival and geographic distributions of fish. Read more
Paul T. Kostecki, PhD
Professor and Associate Director
Northeast Regional Environmental Public Health Center
Department of Environmental Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: pkostecki@research.umass.edu.
phone: 413.577.9009
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Kostecki has over thirty years of experience in the assessment and remediation of environmental contamination receiving over $10 M in funding from federal, state and private sector sources in the area of environmental contamination and petroleum contamination in particular. Dr. Kostecki served as Scientific Advisor to the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science and in collaboration with the Foundation conducted the First International Congress on Petroleum Contamination in London in 2001. Read more
Molly Lutcavage
Gloucester Marine Station
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 978.283.0269
email: mlutcavage@eco.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Fisheries oceanography, physiological ecology of marine vertebrates. Read more
Kevin McGarigal, PhD
Director and Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation
College of Natural Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: mcgarigalk@eco.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Dr. McGarigal’s overall professional goal, achieved through research, teaching, and outreach, is to improve our understanding of how landscapes are structured physically and biologically and the agents responsible for those patterns, how these patterns affect the distribution and dynamics of animal populations, how these patterns and processes change over time, and how to apply this information to better manage natural resources over multiple spatial and temporal scales. Accordingly, a major goal of his research program is to provide natural resource managers with information and tools that will enable them to become better stewards of healthy and sustainable ecosystems. Read more
Blair Perot, PhD
Professor
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: perot@ecs.umass.edu
phone: 413.545.3925
Areas of research/interest: Turbulence Modeling; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Numerical Methods; Supercomputers & Parallel Computation; Droplets, Hydrophobic Surfaces, and Micro Flows. Read more
Timothy Randhir, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413.545.3969
email: randhir@eco.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Randhir’s primary interests include: watershed management, water quality, ecological economics, dynamic modeling and optimization, spatial analysis and simulation, complex systems, Institutional economics, GIS-Internet-Simulation interfacing, systems modeling, climate change, land use policy, international trade and development, common pool resource management, nonpoint source pollution, and natural resources policy and management. Read more
Allison Roy, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
The University of Georgia Assistant Unit Leader
Fisheries US Geological Survey Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
email: aroy@eco.umass.edu
phone: 413.545.4895
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Roy’s research broadly revolves around characterizing anthropogenic impacts on aquatic ecosystems and identifying conservation strategies for effectively protecting and restoring watersheds. The growing human population continues to constrain biotic assemblages in a variety of ways, and understanding the mechanisms by which urbanization and its associated stressors result in degraded fish assemblages is an overarching challenge of my research program. I am interested in examining the effects of altered hydrology, temperature, habitat, water quality, and food resources on stream fishes; quantifying sublethal (e.g., behavior, physiology) responses of fishes to urbanization; and assessing potential for management (e.g., forested riparian buffers, green infrastructure, dam removal) to restore fish assemblages. Read more
Andrew Whiteley, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Conservation
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413.577.0204
email: awhiteley@eco.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Whiteley conducts both applied conservation genetics research and research that tests and develops basic evolutionary theory. His research program conducts conservation genetics studies of a variety of taxa. His overarching research goal is to link genetic factors with other aspects of an organism’s biology, life-history, and demography to help predict population persistence. More specifically, his research aims to understand: 1) spatial patterns of an organism’s genetic diversity, 2) effective population size as a predictor of persistence probability, 3) whether translocation is an effective practice to enhance persistence probabilities (“genetic rescue”), and 4) adaptive dynamics and mechanisms. His research also works to develop and test general tools that will help advance the field of conservation genetics. Read more
Jon Woodruff, PhD
Assistant Professor- coastal processes; sedimentology
Department of Geosciences
phone: 413.577.3831
email: woodruff@geo.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Woodruff is a sedimentologist, who focuses on coastal, estuarine and fluvial processes. In particular, he studies mechanisms of sediment transport during extreme flooding, as well as how these high-magnitude, low-frequency events are recorded within the geologic record. Read more
Baoshan Xing, PhD
Professor – Environmental & Soil Chemistry Program
College of Natural Sciences
Stockbridge School of Agriculture
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413.545.5212
email: bx@umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Environmental fate, behavior and ecotoxicity of engineered nanoparticles; Sorption mechanisms of organic chemicals in soils and sediments; Characterization of natural organic matter and its roles in sustainable agriculture and environmental protection; Fate and transport of organic chemicals and heavy metals; Biochar characterization and soil quality; Risk-assessment and soil remediation; application of advanced analytical, spectroscopic and microscopic instruments in environmental and soil research. Read more
Qian Yu, PhD
Associate Professor in GIS and Remote Sensing
Department of Geosciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413.545.2095
email: qyu@geo.umass.edu
Areas of research/interest: Dr. Yu’s current research focuses on these following topics. 1. Riverine carbon export from watershed, currently focusing on water carbon measure using in situ spectral measurement and hyperspectral remote sensing image. (Collaborate with Yong Tian at Central Michigan Univ. and Bob Chen of EEOS, UMass-Boston); 2.Aquatic biomass monitoring and assessment from in situ spectral measurement and high-resolution satellite imagery. (Collaborate with USGS MA-RI Water Resources Center ); 3.Object-based classification and vegetation information (biophysical parameters and vegetation species) extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery.; 4.Greenhouse gas emission and soil respiration. (Collaborate with Jim Tang @ Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole). Read more