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Michael Frenklach

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation

Rosemarie de la Rosa

Rosemarie de la Rosa

School of Public Health

pollutant exposure

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, motor vehicle emissions, ozone, sustainable transportation, air quality, emission inventory, photochemical air quality modeling

Joseph S. Shapiro

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

Dept of Economics

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

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Courtney Desiree Morris

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black women's social movement, state violence and authoritarianism, racial formations in Latin American, racial formations in the Caribbean, racial formations in the U.S., feminist and queer theory, environmental ethics, Black visual culture and aestetics

Allen Goldstein

Allen Goldstein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, air pollution, environmental science, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, indoor air quality

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Vincent H. Resh

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

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

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

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

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

Meredith Fowlie

Meredith Fowlie

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

energy markets, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, air pollution

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

planetary science, theoretical astrophysics, dynamics, planet formation, circumstellar disks

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

Ajay Pillarisetti setting at desk with computer monitor and microphone in background

Ajay Pillarisetti

School of Public Health

energy use, health effects of air pollution, climate change, exposure assessment, global health, health impacts of energy use, heat and health, air pollution measurement, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Lu Liang gave a talk

Lu Liang

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

geospatial science, urban environment modeling, low-cost monitoring, air pollution, agricultural irrigation mapping

Maximilian Auffhammer

Maximilian Auffhammer

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

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

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Ronald C. Cohen

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, greenhouse gases, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, ozone, nitrogen oxides, CO2, clouds, Atmospheric Aerosol

Prof. Jessica Lu and the Keck Observatory Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics System.

Jessica Lu

Dept of Astronomy

black holes, star and cluster formation, galactic centers, adaptive optics, astronomy, instrumentation, infrared instrumentation, astrometry

Joshua Apte in back of vehicle looking at laptop

Joshua Apte

School of Public Health

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

air pollution, Atmospheric Aerosol, exposure assessment, risk assessment, environmental justice, environmental engineering, environmental sensors, climate change mitigation, environmental issues in developing countries

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

Reinhard Genzel

Dept of Physics

physics, existence and formation of black holes in galactic nuclei, the nature of the power source, the evolution of (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies, gas dynamics, the fueling of active galactic nuclei, the properties evolution of starburst galaxies

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental microbiology, biodegradation of environmental contaminants, microbial carbon cycling, molecular tools for microbial ecology, metagenomics, biological hazardous waste treatment, bioremediation of groundwater pollutants

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, Biomineralization, bacterial organelles, Magnetic Nanoparticles