Alphabetical Faculty and Staff List

Research Interests

• Coupled human and environmental systems
• Fishery economics and management
• Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
• Regional economic modeling

Research Interests

• Surface and underwater autonomous or remotely operated research platforms
• Acoustic signal processing
• Optical engineering
• Marine engineering
• Business water risk

Research Interests

• Limnology
• Engineering approaches to lake and river management
• Mathematical modeling of surface water quality

Research Interests

• Fish Biology
• Zooplankton ecology
• Limnology
• Conservation Biology

Research Interests

• Robotics, Multi-robot systems
• Coordination of Heterogeneous Robot Systems
• Vehicle Routing Problems
• Multi-robot System Control and Optimization
• Autonomous Navigation
• Unmanned Vehicles
• Operational Research for Autonomous Vehicles

Research Interests

• Dam Decommissioning
• Environmental Engineering
• Hydraulic Structures
• River Mechanics
• Sediment Transport
• Stream Rehabilitation
• Sustainability

Research Interests

• Bioremediation of Contaminated Groundwater Environments
• Microbial Ecology and Kinetics of Chlorinated Aliphatic Solvent Biodegradation
• Conversion of Organic Solid Wastes and Cellulosic Feedstocks to Electricity via Microbial Fuel Cells

Research Interests

• Chemical biology: development of novel molecular probes for DNA sequencing analysis and disease gene discovery
• Medicinal chemistry: development of new imaging and therapeutic agents towards cancer and cardiovascular disease; Design and synthesis of novel prodrugs of peptides and peptide mimetics.

Research Interests

• Dynamic Measurement Problems
• Developing new digital signal processing algorithms to understand NVH type problems
• Ways to improve the NVH characteristics of virtually any machine

Areas of Interest

• Atmospheric optics
• Statistical optics
• Quantum optics
• Image and Signal Processing
• Autonomous vehicles and vehicular networks
• Industrial automation and controls

Research Interests

• Aquatic and Landscape Ecology
• Invasive Species Mapping
• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring
• Applications of Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Assessment of Transportation Infrastructure Condition Using Remote Sensing
• Automated Road and Bridge Condition Analysis
• Multispectral Sensing
• Development and Deployment of Decision Support Systems
• Land Cover Change Mapping and Monitoring

Area of Expertise

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
• Data Mining and Data Science
• Applications of AI and ML to Energy (microgrids, power systems), Health, and other domains

Areas of Expertise

• Cybersecurity
• Computer Network
• Machine Learning
• Computing Education

Research Interests

• Atmospheric Science
• Cloud and aerosol physics and chemistry
• Nucleation

Teaching Interests

• Mine Planning and Design
• Mineral Resource Estimation
• Mining System Reliability and Optimization
• Geostatistics and Data Analysis

Areas of Expertise

• Mobile Device Security
• Cloud Computing Security
• Internet of Things Security
• Cyber-Physical Systems Security
• Blockchain

Areas of Expertise

• Peatland and wetland restoration
• Peatland and wetland carbon cycling
• Mountain wetlands
• Tropical peatlands
• Ecosystem carbon cycling
• Wetland ecohydrology

Research Interests

• Labor Economics
• Economics of Gender
• Public Policy
• Applied Microeconomics 

Research Interests

• Low-carbon cementitious materials; SCM; LCA and EPD; durability performance
• Design and performance of concrete pavement and structures
• Mechanics-based computation; Data-driven performance evaluation
• NDE techniques (acoustic, ultrasonic and eddy current systems)
• Structure resilience subjected to extreme weather conditions
• Active-material actuator design, wind-structure interaction, vibration reduction

Research Interests

• Risk and Reliability of Infrastructure Systems
• Life Cycle Resilience Enhancement
• Community Resilience Assessment
• Machine Learning
• Network Analysis
• Wind Engineering

Specialties

• Plant Biochemistry
• Environmental Remediation
• Plant-Microbe Interactions

Research Interests

• Mobility and postural control in aging and special populations
• Ergonomics and design of built environments for special populations

Research Interests

• Impacts of climate change on electric power systems
• Energy transitions in cold climates
• Solar photovoltaic design for cold climates
• Heat pump performance
• Thermal power plant modeling

Research Interests

• Data-driven Infrastructure Management
• Project Delivery and Procurement
• Smart Construction
• Risk Management
• Equity and Diversity
• Text Analytics and Natural Language Processing
• Artificial Intelligence Modeling

Research Interests

• Field performance of air sparging for removing volatile organic chemicals from ground water
• Volatile organic vapor transport in unsaturated soils
• Sulfur dioxide interactions with volcanic ash

Research Interests

• Instructional practices that support environmental literacy and stewardship
• Integration of computing into STEM education
• Teachers beliefs about reforms-based science instruction including nature of science, inquiry, engineering, Next Generation Science Standards, and technology integration
• Professional development elements (remote and face-to-face) that support instructional change, teacher leadership and reforms-based science instruction
• Using levels of inquiry to support teachers' understanding and integration of mathematical and scientific inquiry in k-12 education
• Teachers' understandings regarding key concepts in science including respiration and photosynthesis

Research Interests

• Climate change communication
• Science-policy interface
• Youth engagement in climate policy
• Response of aquatic systems to climate change
• Great Lakes
• Fluorescence-based analytical methods
• Aerosol chemistry
• Origin and fate of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in terrestrial, lake, and marine environments
• Methods for detection of free radicals, photochemical transformations of natural and anthropogenic organic compounds in the environment
• Integration of biological, geological, physical, and chemical data for understanding global cycles.

Research Interests

• Algal Extracellular Polymers and Biocomposites - Regulation of Biogenesis

Research Interests

• Qualitative and quantitative mass spectrometry application
• Persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic pollutants (PBTs) monitoring
• Fate and transport of PBTs in aquatic environment
• Biomarkers of DNA damage induced by carcinogens

Research Interests

• Life-cycle assessment
• Sustainability and resilience
• Food, Energy, and Water systems
• Sustainable materials and manufacturing
• Ecosystem services
• Aquaponics and hydroponics

Regional Focus

•  The Hispanic World
• Spain
• Argentina

Specialties

• Corporate/Industry Sponsorship
• Program Management

Areas of Interest

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Signal and Image Processing
• Sensor and Data Fusion
• Heterogeneous Data Mining

Research Interests

• Establishment of long-term climate observations
• Great Lakes acidification
• Ship based flow-through systems
• Nutrient cycling and subsequent productivity
• Advanced technologies for increasing public safety
• Data science and tool building

Research Interests

• Great Lakes cross-scale hydrodynamics
• Integrated Earth modeling system
• Long-term climate change and projection over the Great Lakes
• Short-term hydrodynamic forecasting in the Great Lakes
• Interactions between atmospheric and lake processing

Research Expertise

• Ecology of lakes, streams, and their riparian interface with terrestrial systems
• Fish ecology, biology, functional morphology
• effects of land use on ecological systems
• Biomonitoring for research and restoration
• Effects of Invasive Species

Research Interests

• Technology Adoption
• Online Learning
• Service Learning
• First-year Engineering
• Sustainability

Research Interests

• Antibiotic resistance dissemination and treatment in engineered and agricultural environments
• Establishing standards for microbiome research
• Pathogen detection and control
• Microbial ecology and molecular epidemiology

Research Interests

• Aquatic Ecology
• Paleoecology

Research Interests

• Arctic water cycle
• Water isotope geochemistry
• Ice-ocean/lake-atmosphere interactions
• Ocean/lake water mass partitioning
• Impacts of changing cryosphere on hydrologic systems

Research Interests

• Environmental Change and Life Course Epidemiology
• Urban Environments and Population Health
• Public Participatory GIS
• Historical GIS & Deep Mapping
• Spatial Humanities 
• Deindustrialization and Shrinking Cities
• Time-Space Integration and Modeling in GIS
• Demography and Historical Record Linkage
• Sense of Place and Neighborhood Construction

Areas of Interest

• Toxics, forested watersheds, and northern lakes
• Environmental history
• Watershed change and water quality
• Mining history

Areas of Expertise

• Ecohydrology and forest hydrology
• Hydrological and biogeochemical processes in snowmelt-dominated watersheds
• Black ash wetland ecosystem processes 

Research Interests

• Environmental anthropology/political ecology
• Anthropology of industry (mining, sugar)
• Hawai`i and the Pacific
• Anthropology of public policy

Research Interests

• Adaptive Systems and Meta-structures
• Internet-of-Vibrations
• Environmental Testing
• Human-structure Interaction
• Piezoceramics and SMAs
• Wave Propagation
• Structural Health Monitoring
• Bio-inspired Dynamics

Research Interests

• Limnology
• Ecosystem Ecology of Streams and Rivers
• Biogeochemistry

Research Interests

• Understanding the identities, occurrence, and transformation of aerosol organic compounds
• Identifying organic aerosol constituents from a variety of atmospheric environments
• Exploration of new LC column chemistries with ultrahigh pressure pumps for fast and thorough separations
• Aqueous reaction pathways

Research Interests

• Electrification of Vehicles
  • Boats
  • Snowmobiles
  • Off-Road and Utility Vehicles
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Charging Systems
• Solar Energy
  • Community Solar
  • Snow Shedding
  • Improving Production in Snowy Climates

Research Interests

• Sustainable water and wastewater treatment and management
• Development of assessing and predicting tools for water treatment technologies
• Innovative water and wastewater treatment technologies for energy saving and harvesting
• Systematic and integrated understanding of water and wastewater reuse
• Application of computational chemistry and molecular modeling

Research Interests

• Water and Wastewater Treatment
• Water reclamation systems and Fate of personal products in treatment systems

Research Interests

• Community Ecology
• Trophic Interactions
• Marine Ecology
• Ecogeochemical Tracer Techniques

Research Interests

• Lignocellulosic-Based Biofuels and Biomaterials
• Sustainability of Bioenergy Production Systems

Research Interests

• Particulate Separation
• Surface Chemistry
• Process Modelling

Research Interests

• Multi-Robot System Control
• Robot/Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
• Control of Large Scale Stochastic Process
• System Modeling and Optimization
• Design of Automated Material Handling
• System in Smart Factory
• Reinforcement Learning
• Data Analytics

Research Interests

• Wave Energy Converter (WEC) modeling, control, and experimental validation
• Point absorber nonlinear response shaping
• Passive and active vibration control

Research Interests

• Using pollutants as ecological tracers
• Overwintering bioaccumulation and bioamplification
• Energy dynamics in Great Lakes food-webs
• Energetic costs of multiple stressors

Research Interests

• Air and Water Quality
• Atmosphere-biosphere Exchange of Chemicals
• Micrometeorology
• Environmental Analytical Chemistry
• Sustainability

Research Interests

• Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanotechnology
• Microfluidics for cancer research
• Microenvironment platforms to characterize cellular interactions
• Sensors and devices for biomedical sensing and implantable devices

Research Interests

• Image Processing;
• Autonomous Vehicles Perception;
• Mobile Robot Applications;  
• Mechatronics;
• Applied Machine Learning.

Areas of Expertise

• Memory and Memorialization
• Heritage Institutions
• Cultural Landscape
• Welsh Studies
• Historical Geography 
• Cultural Geographies

• What is Sustainable Bioproducts?

Research Interests

• Multiscale, multiphysics modeling of aging in polymers & polymer composites
• Degradation of metallic implants in physiological environment
• Fracture, damage and impact behavior on materials
• Analysis, design and testing of novel multifunctional lightweight polymer composite materials

Research Interests

• Spatial, material, and experiential aspects of social power in industrial communities
• Historical GIS for Community-Engaged Scholarship
• American Vernacular Architecture and Material Culture Studies
• Public History, Historic Preservation, and Museums
• History of Design, Craft, and Production in the United States
• Cultural Landscapes and Historic Architecture of the Keweenaw

Research Interests

• Historical and Industrial Archaeologies
• Heritage and Energy Systems, Sustainability and Development
• Creativity and Work Process
• Remote Sensing, Survey, and Geospatial Sciences
• Heritage, Placemaking, and Culture Building
• Archaeometry and Conservation Sciences
• Community-based scholarship, public science/humanities

Research Interests

• Socio-technological systam transitions
• Technology adoption
• Energy policy
• Energy practices
• Sustainable communities
• Self-provisioning
• Environmental education

Research Interests

• Environmental biotechnology, including in situ bioremediation of contaminated subsurface environments, monitoring and evaluation of the performance of biological treatment processes, development of in situ biological treatment systems for urban storm water runoff, innovative reuse of waste materials, and in situ improvement of soils properties via microbially-mediated processes.

Research Interests

• Acoustics and Vibrations
  • Thermoacoustics
  • Carbon Nanotube Speaker Design and Fabrication
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Active Noise Control
• Image and Signal Processing
• Autonomous Vehicles

Areas of Expertise

• Energy and Environmental Policy
• Comparative and International Energy Law
• U.S. Energy Law
• U.S. Environmental Law
• Russian Energy and Environmental Law
• Energy Geopolitics

Areas of Interest

• Power Systems
• Distributed Energy Resources
• Optimization
• Interconnected Critical Infrastructure Systems

Specialties

• Gene Silencing
• RNA Interference (RNAi)
• MicroRNA (miRNA) and miRNA Eveolution
• RNA Silencing in Plant Germ Extract and Drosophila Embryo Lysate.
• Fungal RNAi and microRNA
• MicroRNA Technologies: Small Tandem Target mimic (STTM) and MicroRNA Array
• Plant Electrophysiology in Plant microRNA STTM lines and Venus flytrap.
• Wild Blueberry Improvement

Research Interests

• Environmental Microbiology
• Next-generation sequencing technology and bioinformatics/computational biology
• Microbial physiology and biochemistry
• Microbes as sensors for the environmental impacts of oil and gas production
• Microbially-mediated remediation of crude oil contamination
• Sustainability and plastic biodegradation

Research Interests

• Industrial and Urban Archaeology
• Historical GIS
• Deindustrialization
• Industrial Landscapes
• The Archaeology of Brownfields
• Spatial Analysis of Historical Industrial Pollutants
• Big Data Approaches to Archaeology
• Publicly-engaged Scholarship

Specialties

• Design of curriculum for Next Generation Science Standards in the middle (6-8) and high school (9-12) gradebands
• Design and evaluation of inquiry-based curriculum for grades 6-12
• Environmental and place-based education
• Integration of Next Generation Science Standards into place-based educational frameworks
• Design and implementation of professional learning for STEM educators
• Coaching and facilitation of teacher leaders
• Earth science, water resource, and natural hazards education
• Project Management

Research Interests

• Environmental cycles of major and trace elements
• Sediment diagenesis and stratigraphy
• Chemistry of natural organic matter
• Wetland biogeochemistry
• Environmental impact and fate of pollutants
• Influence of organisms on the chemical environment
• Role of chemical environment in controlling populations

Research Interests

• Microbial Ecology
• Biogeochemistry
• Limnology
• Cryosphere 

Research Interests

• Seismic source mechanisms of tectonic and volcanic earthquakes
• Mantle and crustal-scale seismic tomography
• The relationship of seismic anisotropy to fluids and strain
• Active-source investigations of magmatic systems
• Triggering of earthquakes by magmatic and hydrous fluid migration
• Relationship between shallow syneruptive volcanic earthquakes and degassing

Areas of Expertise

• software usability & accessibility
• gerontechnology
• smart & connected communities
• communication in software development
• agile development methods
• applied formal methods
• computing ethics
• sustainable computing
• computer science & software engineering education

Specialties

• K-12 NGSS curricular design
• Professional development for STEM educators
• Place-based environmental education

Research Interests

• Integrated water resources planning
• Hydrologic modeling and forecasting
• Flood risk management
• Climate change mitigation and adaptation planning
• Food-Energy-Water Nexus
• Systems optimization under uncertainty
• Sustainable development engineering

Research Interests

• Applications in Remote Sensing and Imaging Systems

Research Interests

• Water resources
• Uncertainty analysis
• Flood frequency and analysis of extreme events
• Impacts of climate and land use changes

Research Interests 

• Additive manufacturing
• Advanced materials for electrochemical applications
• Nanotechnology
• Renewable energy conversion and storage
• Clean fuel production

Areas of Interest

• Canadian Energy and Environmental Issues
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Oil Sands Development
• Forest Policy
• Canadian Studies
• Policy Innovation Labs
• Policy Design

Research Interests

• Hydrodynamic modeling
• Regional climate modeling
• Coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics
• Data assimilation and machine learning
• Biophysical processes in the Great Lakes
• Estuary and coastal ocean processes