Faculty and Areas

Faculty affilated with the Center for the Environment and the ESE program include over 100 researchers from across campus, all of which are interested in interdisciplinary research and education on environmental topics. Below we show faculty currently affiliated with the program. There are many unique and emerging issues in environmental sciences that faculty are pursuing.

 

Faculty (alphabetical) currently (or anticipated to be) mentoring ESE graduate students

	Kirk Alter Department: Building Construction Management Area: Sustainable construction Email: alterk@purdue.edu Website
	Ernest (Chip) Blatchley Department: Civil Engineering Area: Physio/chemical processes of environmental engineering Email: blatch@purdue.edu Website
	Laura Bowling Department: Agronomy Area: Watershed Hydrology, Hydroclimatology, GIS & Remote Sensing Email: bowling@purdue.edu Website
	Vince Bralts Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Water Resources Engineering, Irrigation Email: bralts@purdue.edu Website
	Sylvie Brouder Department: Agronomy Area: Soil ecology, crop nutrient management, biofuel sources and production impacts on water and soil Email: sbrouder@purdue.edu Website
	Indrajeet Chaubey Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering / Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Ecohydrology, sediment transport, decision support tools Email: ichaubey@purdue.edu Website
	Keith Cherkauer Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Hydrologic Modeling, Surface Water Hydrology, Cold Season Processes, remote sensing Email: cherkaue@purdue.edu Website
	Melba Crawford Department: Agronomy and Civil Engineering Area: Geomatics engineering surveying, environmental engineering, high performance computing Email: mcrawford@purdue.edu Website
	Jeffrey Dukes Department: Forestry and Natural Resources / Biological Sciences Area: Ecology; biodiversity and biological invasions; impacts of global environmental change Email: jsdukes@purdue.edu Website
	Bernie Engel Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Water Quality, Drainage, Subirrigation, Surface Irrigation and Erosion Control Email: engelb@purdue.edu Website
	Songlin Fei Department: Forestry and Natural Resources Area: Sustaining Hardwood Ecosystems (SHE) Email: sfei@purdue.edu Website
	Timothy Filley Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Biogeochemistry, carbon and nitrogen cycles, climate change Email: filley@purdue.edu Website
	Dennis Flanagan Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Soil Erosion Mechanics, Prediction, and Control, Water Quality 1 Email: flanagan@purdue.edu Website
	Jane Frankenberger Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering Area: Watershed management, water quality, hydrology, GIS Email: frankenb@purdue.edu Website
	Reuben Goforth Department: Forestry and Natural Resources Area: Aquatic ecosystems, GIS, watersheds, land use sustainability Email: rgoforth@purdue.edu Website
	Benjamin Gramig Department: Ag. Economics Area: Environmental and natural resource economics Email: bgramig@purdue.edu Website
	Richard Grant Department: Agronomy Area: Biogeochemistry, aerosol science, meteorology Email: rgrant@purdue.edu Website
	Jon Harbor Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change; Glacial Geomorphology; Environmental Education Research Email: jharbor@purdue.edu Website
	Eva Haviarova Department: Forestry and Natural Resources Area: Sustainable forest industry development, emerging furniture design Email: ehaviar@purdue.edu Website
	Al Heber Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Assessment and mitigation of dust, odor and gas emissions from confined life support facilities Email: heber@purdue.edu Website
	Lori Hoagland Department: Horticulture Area: Soil ecology and functional interactions between soil microbes and crop cultivars, biological approaches to disease and weed suppression, specialty crop systems, agro-ecology Email: lhoaglan@purdue.edu Website
	Jeffrey D. Holland Department: Entomology Area: Spatial Ecology & Biodiversity Email: jdhollan@purdue.edu Website
	Tomas O Hook Department: Forestry & Natural Resources Area: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Email: thook@purdue.edu Website
	William Hoover Department: Forestry & Natural Resources Area: Natural resource economics Email: whoover@purdue.edu Website
	Inez Hua Department: Civil Engineering Area: Environmental chemistry and fate, industrial ecology and sustainability Email: hua@purdue.edu Website
	Bryan Hubbard Department: Civil Engineering Area: Construction, architecture Email: bhubbard@purdue.edu Website
	Matt Huber Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Climate change, mechanisms that govern climate Email: huberm@purdue.edu Website
	Bill Hutzel Department: Mechanical Engineering Technology Area: HVAC, building automation and renewable energy systems Email: hutzelw@purdue.edu Website
	Klein Ileleji Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Biomass feedstock logistics, processing, particulate flows and handling Email: ileleji@purdue.edu Website
	Douglass Jacobs Department: Forestry and Natural Resources Area: Forest Restoration, Ecophysiology Email: djacobs@purdue.edu Website
	Chad Jafvert Department: Civil Engineering Area: aquatic chemistry Email: jafvert@purdue.edu Website
	Brad Joern Department: Agronomy Area: Nutrient management planning, soil chemistry, plant nutrition Email: bjoern@purdue.edu Website
	Cliff Johnston Department: Agronomy Area: Biogeochemistry, mineral physics, nanoscience, soil science, spectroscopy Email: clays@purdue.edu Website
	Ian Kaplan Department: Entomology Area: Insect Ecology, Specialty Crops Email: ikaplan@purdue.edu Website
	Eileen Kladivko Department: Agronomy Area: Soil Physics, Land Management, Preferential flow of chemicals through soils Email: kladivko@purdue.edu Website
	Athula Kulatunga Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Area: Energy management and efficiency, industrial process controls Email: nkulatun@purdue.edu Website
	Michael Ladisch Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Bioprocess engineering as it applies to bioproducts, biorecovery, and bionanotechnology Email: ladisch@purdue.edu Website
	Greg Lasker Department: Building Construction Management Area: Best Practices in Life Sciences, Research and Advanced Manufacturing Facilities Email: glasker@purdue.edu Website
	Linda Lee Department: Agronomy and Center for the Environment Area: Environmental chemistry Email: lslee@purdue.edu Website
	John Lumkes Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Machine systems and fluid power Email: lumkes@purdue.edu Website
	Elizabeth McNie Department: Political Science and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Climate services and improving the utility of climate science information for decision makers Email: emcnie@purdue.edu Website
	Rick Meilan Department: Forestry and Natural Resources Area: Molecular Tree Physiology, phytoremediation, biofuels Email: rmeilan@purdue.edu Website
	Greg Michalski Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Biogeochemistry, nitrogen cycling, air/water pollution, modeling isotopes Email: gmichals@purdue.edu Website
	Michael Mickelbart Department: Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Area: Plant Physiology Email: mmickelb@purdue.edu Website
	Charles Michler Department: Forestry & Natural Resources Area: Hardwood tree genetics, herbicide resistance Email: michler@purdue.edu Website
	Rabi Mohtar Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering Area: Hydrological/soils modeling Email: mohtar@purdue.edu Website
	Nate Mosier Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering Area: Renewable resources engineering Email: mosiern@purdue.edu Website
	Jiqin Ni Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering Area: Bioenergy, Environmental and Natural Resources Email: jiqin@purdue.edu Website
	Loring (Larry) Nies Department: Civil Engineering Area: Life cycle analysis, sustainability, nanotech impacts, bioremediation Email: nies@purdue.edu Website
	Dev Niyogi Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences / Agronomy Area: Climate change, Hydrological extremes, Satellite Remote Sensing, Severe weather, Air Quality, Indian Monsoons, Land use land cover changes, Urbanization and agricultural intensification impacts Email: climate@purdue.edu Website
	Philip Owens Department: Agronomy Area: Soil Geomorphology/Pedology, Hydropedology Email: prowens@purdue.edu Website
	Bryan Pijanowski Department: Forestry and Natural Resources Area: Landscape ecology, biogeography, GIS, Ornithology Email: bpijanow@purdue.edu Website
	Phil Pope Department: Forestry and Natural Resources Area: Impacts of forest practices on long-term soil productivity and nutrient fluxes Email: ppope@purdue.edu Website
	Marshall Porterfield Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering Area: Physiological sensing technologies for research applications in biology, agriculture, and medicine Email: porterf@purdue.edu Website
	Linda Prokopy Department: Forestry & Natural Resources Area: Social dimensions of watershed management Email: lprokopy@purdue.edu Website
	Kerry Rabenold Department: Biological Sciences Area: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Email: rabenold@purdue.edu Website
	Suresh Rao Department: Civil Engineering / Agronomy Area: hydrology, contaminant transport, sustainability Email: pscr@purdue.edu Website
	Randy Rapp Department: Building Construction Management Area: Disaster Restoration and Reconstruction Management Email: rrapp@purdue.edu Website
	Leigh Raymond Department: Political Science Area: Public Policy, Public Administration and Environmental Politics Email: lraymond@purdue.edu Website
	Cliff Sadof Department: Entomology Area: Biological control, landscape entomology, prevent spread of invasive species, sustainable ag Email: csadof@purdue.edu Website
	Maria Sepulveda Department: Forestry & Natural Resources Area: Ecotoxicology and aquatic organisms Email: mssepulv@purdue.edu Website
	Guofan Shao Department: Forestry & Natural Resources Area: GIS, large scale land use, international issues Email: shao@purdue.edu Website
	Darrell Schulze Department: Agronomy Area: Soil mineralogy, chemistry, pedology Email: dschulze@purdue.edu Website
	Diane Stott Department: Agronomy Area: Soil Biochemistry Email: Diane.Stott@ars.usda.gov Website
	Bernard Tao Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering / Food Science Area: Renewable resource utilization, polymer coating, plant lipids, biosensors Email: tao@purdue.edu Website
	Cary Troy Department: Civil Engineering Area: Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence and mixing in natural water bodies, hydrological engineering. Email: troy@purdue.edu Website
	Ron Turco Department: Agronomy Area: Remediation technologies, microbiology, microbial ecology Email: rturco@purdue.edu Website
	Jeff Volenec Department: Agronomy Area: Biofuels, ecology and evolutionary biology Email: jvolenec@purdue.edu Website
	Terry West Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Engineering geology Email: twest@purdue.edu Website
	Hao Zhang Department: Forestry and Natural Resources / Statistics Area: Analysis of spatial and space-time data as it relates to climatology, geophysics, natural resources, agriculture, economics Email: zhanghao@purdue.edu Website
	Fu Zhao Department: Mechanical Engineering Area: Sustainable manufacturing processes, life cycle analysis Email: fzhao@purdue.edu Website
	Qianlai Zhuang Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Area: Interactions among atmosphere, biosphere, and human dimension in the context of climate change, chemical element cycles, and policy-making Email: qzhuang@purdue.edu Website