SUNY ESF
Ecosystems: Land, Water and Air (ELWA)
All major components of our environment - land, water, and air - have been affected in pervasive and complex ways by the intensifying resource use of the growing human population. Resulting global and regional changes in climate, material flows and biogeochemical cycles, disturbance regimes, and biodiversity loss have detrimental effects on the very ecosystem services that support local communities, national economies, and overall human well-being. To help restore ecosystem functions and address the negative interactions and feedback loops between human society, environment, and ecosystems, we have assembled a large group of scientists across multiple disciplines who address these critical issues. GPES students in this Research Area integrate multidisciplinary approaches by working with faculty experts to contribute better understanding and novel solutions relevant to society-environment-ecosystem interactions.
- ELWA Research Area Leader: Chuck Kroll
Examples of the tools and concepts that are commonly used in Ecosystems: Land, Water and Atmosphere Research Area include:
- Biodiversity and conservation biology
- Environmental data science
- Restoration science and ecosystem management
- Environmental monitoring and modeling
- Geospatial analyses and remote sensing
- Global environmental change
- Landscape management, design and planning
- Sustainable resource management
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- Water and wetland resources
Participating Faculty in Ecosystems: Land, Water and Atmosphere (ELWA)
| Name | Research Keywords | |
|---|---|---|
| Colin Beier | [email protected] | long-term ecosystem monitoring, ecosystem services, watershed biogeochemistry, greenhouse gas fluxes, soil microclimate |
| Eddie Bevilacqua | [email protected] | natural resources sampling, biometrics, forest modeling, geospatial technologies, geographic information systems, spatial analysis, tree-ring analysis |
| Russ Briggs | [email protected] | site productivity, soil quality, water quality |
| Margaret Bryant | [email protected] | socio-ecological systems, spatial planning, urban ecology, climate adaptive design, interdisciplinary problem-focused research and practice |
| Mariela Cavo | [email protected] | Watershed management, environmental economics, forest economics, valuation of ecosystem services, payment for ecosystem services, rural development. |
| Jiajue Chai | [email protected] | Atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemistry, climate change, stable isotopes, reactive nitrogen cycling, urban air quality and sustainability, development of air monitoring techniques and instrumentation |
| Jonathan Cohen | [email protected] | wildlife habitat restoration, wildlife population dynamics, early successional forest and coastal wildlife habitat |
| Doug Daley | [email protected] | Solid waste, stormwater, green infrastructure, compost, sustainable materials management, environmental restoration, ecological engineering |
| Stewart Diemont | [email protected] | agroecology, restoration ecology, traditional ecological knowledge, urban ecosystems, biocultural restoration, agroforestry |
| Klaus Doelle | [email protected] | municipal, industrial and urban waste water treatment, phytoremediation, bioengineering, process design and development |
| Martin Dovciak | [email protected] | biodiversity conservation, ecology, ecosystem management and restoration, forest ecosystems, global environmental change |
| John Drake | [email protected] | forest ecosystem science, carbon cycling, climate extremes, tree physiology, forest climate feedbacks |
| Joshua Drew | [email protected] | conservation biology, coastal communities, community ecology, historical ecology, ichthyology |
| Theodore Endreny | [email protected] | modeling watershed restoration, green infrastructure, eco-hydraulics, i-Tree Hydro software development |
| John Farrell | [email protected] | aquatic ecology, fisheries science and management, aquatic habitat restoration, wetlands, invasive species |
| Danilo Fernando | [email protected] | genomics, phylogenetics, genetic diversity, rare plant conservation, propagation, restoration, development |
| Christine Georgakakos | [email protected] | water quality, sustainable agriculture, residue transport, antimicrobials |
| Jennifer Goff | [email protected] | environmental microbiology; microbial ecophysiology; genomics and evolution; heavy metals; bioremediation |
| Cole Gross | [email protected] | Sustainable ecosystem management, soil health, soil carbon, ecosystem carbon cycling, greenhouse gas fluxes, soil-carbon-climate feedbacks, soil-root interactions, agroforestry |
| Deborah Hilbert | [email protected] | urban forestry; arboriculture; socio-ecological systems; sustainable urban landscape management |
| Chuck Kroll | [email protected] | environmental modeling, water resources planning and management, hydrology, ecosystem services, ecosystem restoration |
| Eun Kyung Lee | [email protected] | Air pollution; environmental health disparities; exposure assessment; air dispersion modeling; spatial analysis |
| Huiting Mao | [email protected] | atmospheric chemistry, air quality, regional to global budgets of trace gases, long range transport, continental export, climate change |
| Stacy McNulty | [email protected] | forest ecology, phenology, vertebrate ecology, long-term change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem function, Northern Forest |
| Jaime Mirowsky | [email protected] | environmental health, exposure assessment, air pollution, cardiopulmonary health, in vitro models, environmental noise, epidemiology, public health |
| Sharon Moran | [email protected] | human dimensions of watershed restoration, sociotechnical systems, co-production of knowledge, contaminants of emerging concern, citizen science |
| Tim Morin | [email protected] | forests, wetlands, ecosystem carbon cycling, ecosystem modeling |
| Giorgos Mountrakis | [email protected] | geospatial modeling, remote sensing, land science, land dynamics, machine learning |
| Lee Newman | [email protected] | phytoremediation, environmental toxicology, plant microbe interactions, hyperspectral imagining |
| Aaron Ninokawa | [email protected] | ocean acidification, chemical modification by ecosystem engineers, community metabolism, climate change ecophysiology |
| Madeline Nyblade | [email protected] | Water justice; community-based participatory research; climate and landcover change impacts and adaptation; Indigenous Nation - University collaborations; research ethics; critical history of earth science |
| Nicholas Pflug | [email protected] | aquatic chemistry, photochemistry, organic contaminants, chemical cues and pheromones, and fate processes. |
| Leanne Powers | [email protected] | aquatic photochemistry, chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry, dissolved organic matter, reactive oxygen species, and ocean optics. |
| Lindi Quackenbush | [email protected] | remote sensing, geospatial analysis, land cover classification and characterization, riparian cover mapping |
| Roxanne Razavi | [email protected] | freshwater ecosystems, environmental toxicology, invasive species, aquatic conservation |
| Bahram Salehi | [email protected] | remote Sensing, machine learning and AI, Google Earth Engine, wetlands inventory and change, forest biomass, land cover land change |
| Kim Schulz | [email protected] | freshwater ecosystems, ecological stoichiometry, invasive species, aquatic ecosystem restoration, aquatic conservation |
| Michael Schummer | [email protected] | wetland restoration, wetland design, wetland ecology, early successional, biodiversity, human dimensions, recreation |
| Theresa Selfa | [email protected] | sustainable agriculture, payment for ecosystems services, cultural ecosystems services, urban gardens |
| Richard Ross Shaker | [email protected] | Environmental & sustainability indicators, sustainable development, landscape ecology, global change; ecological restoration, applied statistics, spatial analysis & modeling |
| Jamie Shinn | [email protected] | Environmental governance and policy, climate change adaptation, water-society relationships, flooding, political ecology, disaster response and recovery |
| Steve Stehman | [email protected] | environmental sampling, land cover monitoring, map accuracy assessment |
| John Stella | [email protected] | riparian and stream ecology, restoration, watershed management, ecological modeling, dendroecology, arid-land and Mediterranean ecosystems |
| Wendong Tao | [email protected] | ecosystem-based wastewater treatment, nutrient recovery from wastewater, anaerobic digestion, microbial ecology of waste treatment systems |
| Timothy Volk | [email protected] | agroforestry, short rotation woody crops, phytoremediation, shrub willow, landscape design |
| John Wagner | [email protected] | applied analytical and conceptual mathematical economic modeling, sustainable management, use of forest and natural resources |
| Endong Wang | [email protected] | green infrastructure |
| Jill Weiss | [email protected] | socio-ecological systems, landscape-scale conservation initiatives, natural resources management, alpine zone |
| Ruth Yanai | [email protected] | Multiple-element limitation in northern hardwood ecosystems, quantifying uncertainty in ecosystem studies, and REDD+ carbon accounting for climate mitigation |
| Yaqi You | [email protected] | environmental microbiology, microbial ecology and evolution, biogeochemistry, environmental health |
| Nathan Young | [email protected] | Hydrology, hydrogeology, ecohydrology, soil physics |
| Stephen B. Shaw | [email protected] | influence of climate change on hydrology, beaver dam analogs and stream restoration, vegetative water use and sap flux monitoring |