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Alex Filippenko

Dept of Astronomy

supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, expansion of the universe

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

Jasmin Brooks Stephens

Dept of Psychology

suicide prevention, racial trauma, Black youth, mental health, culturally responsive interventions

Tadiwa Madenga

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

African and Black diaspora literature, gender and sexuality, print culture, Festival and Carnival Studies

Ramon Weber

Dept of Architecture

computational design, sustainability, structural modeling, generative design, embodied carbon

Bethanie Edwards

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

oceanography, chemical oceanography, environmental microbiology, molecular tools for microbial ecology, mass spectrometry, lipidomics, lipid metabolism, marine biogeochemistry, microbial carbon cycling, ocean carbon cycle dynamics

Shifrah Aron-Dine

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

environmental economics, macroeconomics, climate risk, financial markets, carbon policy

Martin White

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

cosmology, formation of structure in the universe, dark energy, expansion of the universe, cosmic microwave background, quasars, redshift surveys

Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration

Todd Dawson

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Integrative Biology

physiological plant ecology, evolutionary plant ecology, ecosystem processes, adaptations of plants, carbon, water, nitrogen

Lok Siu

Dept of Ethnic Studies

diaspora, transnational migration, un/belonging and citizenship, racial/ethnic/gender formation, food, ethnography, Chinese diaspora, hemispheric Asian American studies

James W. Rector

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geoarchaeology, geophysics, acoustics, Seismology, machine learning, energy, carbon capture and storage, oil and gas

Dennis Baldocchi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biometeorology, climate change and ecosystems, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, agricultural meteorology, ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, evaporation, ecohydrology

Maximilian Auffhammer

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

climate change, social cost of carbon, econometrics, air pollution, environmental economics, energy economics, species conservation

Omar M. Yaghi

Dept of Chemistry

Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air

Whendee Silver

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change, global change, greenhouse gases, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, grasslands, tropical forests, carbon sequestration, environmental sensing

John Coates in lab with equipment in background

John D. Coates

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry

John Battles pointing out changes in forest composition during a field trip at Blodgett Forest Research Station.

John J. Battles

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

forest ecology, sustainability, ecosystem dynamics, disturbance ecology, tree demography, carbon ecology and storage, data science, Sierra Nevada, northern forest

Rizvana Bradley

Dept of Film and Media

aesthetic theory, art history, Black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media

Raphael Bousso

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Franco Zunino

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials

Trevor Keenan

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, natural climate solutions, Dynamic Vegetation, carbon cycle, ecophysiology, land-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemistry, micrometeorology, remote sensing, mathematics and data science

Burkhard Militzer

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method

Dr. Reyes in front of book shelves in the library

Laurent Reyes

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

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