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Paolo D'Odorico wearing a blue shirt, with unfocused greenery in background

Paolo D'Odorico

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrology, ecohydrology, water resources, Water and Society, environmental science, Drylands, Desertification

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture, arid landscapes, visualization, urban design, urbanism

Isha Ray

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

water and development, sanitation and development, gender and technology and society

Manuela Girotto's photo

Manuela Girotto

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

hydrologic response, natural and human driven processes, remote sensing, sea level change, snow hydrology

Dennis Baldocchi

Dennis Baldocchi

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

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

Vincent H. Resh

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

ecology, water resources, pollution, monitoring, water-borne diseases

Working with cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

David Zilberman

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

marketing, biotechnology, water, risk management, biofuels, natural resources, agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation, the bioeconomy

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

environmental and resource economics, remote sensing, climate change, water resources, health effects of air pollution

David Sedlak standing in pool with sculpture to his right.

David L. Sedlak

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fate and transport of and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, water reuse and water recycling, urban water infrastructure, engineered treatment wetlands

Joseph S. Shapiro

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

Dept of Economics

trade and the environment, water pollution, Clean Water Act, air pollution, climate change

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

wastewater based epidemiology, water and wastewater treatment, water reuse, detection and inactivation of pathogens in water and sludge, appropriate technologies

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

drinking water, fuel-efficient stoves, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, developing countries, buildings energy efficiency

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

disease transmission, water, public health surveillance, zoonotic infectious disease, community-acquired antimicrobial resistance

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

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Megan Mills-Novoa

Dept of Energy & Resources Group

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

climate change adaption, energy transitions, political ecology of global change, critical development studies, water justice, participatory mixed methods, Latin America

environmental law, energy law, natural resources law, health law and policy, Indian Nations and Indigenous peoples, state and local government

Alison Post

Dept of Political Science

regulation, infrastructure, water and sanitation, urban politics, urban politics and policy, comparative political economy, community-engaged research / scholarship, impact evaluations requested by governments/NGOs

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Dept of Art Practice

art, digital media installations, photography, data science, new technology, video games

ARE PhD students and Sofia Villas-Boas

Sofia Villas-Boas

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making

Michael Mascarenhas

Michael Mascarenhas

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies

Mathias Kondolf wearing hat and holding notebook at the Bill Williams River in Arizona

G. Mathias Kondolf

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

environmental planning, fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, flood risk management, river restoration, urban rivers, environmental impact assessment, river corridor management, sediment management, hydropower, strategic dam planning, integrating energy planning and river management

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

Picture of Professor Merchant

Sabeeha Merchant

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella