Affiliated Researchers: Africa

Affiliates are Penn Staters who have a connection to or an interest in the work of the Institute of Energy and the Environment.

Displaying 36 search result(s) for Africa.

Ida Djenontin


Assistant Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Malawi, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Decision Making, Southern Burkina Faso

Andrew Nyblade



Top research keywords: Upper Mantle, Lithosphere, Antarctic Region, Wave Velocity, Craton

Brian Thiede


Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Population Censuses, United States, Climate Change Impacts

Sarah Ivory


Associate Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Vegetation, Holocene, Climate Change, Africa, Vegetation Change

Brian King


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: South Africa, AIDS/HIV, Okavango Delta, Botswana, Diseases

Gregory Jenkins


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Climate Modeling, Western Africa, West Africa, Senegal, Troposphere

Jay Stauffer Jr.


Distinguished Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Cichlid, Cichlidae, Teleostei, Lake Malawi, Africa

Jenni L. Evans


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Tropical Cyclone, Cyclone, Transition, Cyclogenesis, Forecast

Robert Crane


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: General Circulation Model, Sea Ice, Downscaling, Climate, Ice

Michael G. Jacobson


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Landowner, Pennsylvania, Forestry, Agroforestry, Landowners

Thandazile Moyo


Assistant Professor, Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Leaching, Electronic Waste (E-waste), Chalcopyrite, Electrochemistry, Urban Mining

Mare Sarr


Associate Professor, School of International Affairs
Top research keywords: Technological Change, International Transfer Of Technology, Race-ethnicity, Risk Preferences, Rebound Effect

Xun Cao


Professor, Political Science
Top research keywords: China, Democracy, Trade Competition, Chinese, Public Goods

George Young


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Synthetic Aperture Radar, Convection, Weather, Forecast

Erica Smithwick


Distinguished Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Pinus, Carbon Sink, Pennsylvania, Prescribed Fire

Jose D. Fuentes


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Emissions, Isoprene, Amazon, Atmospherics

Jeremy Gernand


Associate Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Pulmonary Toxicity, Dose-response, Occupational Safety And Health, Nanomaterials, Pennsylvania

Ed Rajotte


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Malus, Orchard, Orchards, Apples

Larry Gorenflo


Eleanor R. Stuckeman Chair in Design and Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Mexico, Basin Of Mexico, Settlement Patterns, Biodiversity Conservation, Pre-Hispanic

Ali Memari


Professor and Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Curtain Wall, Curtain Wall Systems, Glazing System, Glazing Systems, Structural Sealant Glazing

Kristin Sznajder


Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Top research keywords: China, Structural Equation Analysis, Prospective Cohort Study, COVID-19, Resilience

Joshua Smyth


Distinguished Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Ecological Momentary Assessment, Health, Mood, Mindfulness, Depression

David Hughes


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Ophiocordyceps, Fungi, Social Insect, Strepsiptera, Host Behavior

Darryl Thomas


Associate Professor, African American Studies
Top research keywords: Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, Cedric J. Robinson, Africa, Eurocentric

Nita Bharti


Associate Professor And Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Measles, Niger, COVID-19, Hendra Virus, Wintering Habitat

Olumide Ogunmodimu


Assistant Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Concentrated Solar Power Technologies, Rheology, Northern Nigeria, Digital Elevation Model, Mechanistic Model

Louis Bengyella


Assistant Research Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Cochliobolus Lunatus, Curvularia Lunata, Conidium, Solanum Tuberosum, Lycopersicon

Steven Greybush


Associate Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Data Assimilation, Atmospherics, Mars, Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF), Martian Atmosphere

Christelle Wauthier


Associate Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Magma, Volcano, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR), Synthetic Aperture Radar, Rift Zone

Christian Huber


Assistant Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Evolution, Genetic Divergence, Genomics, Population Genetics, Genetic Variation

Abiola Ibirogba


Ph.D. Student

Mark Ortiz


Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Robert D. Weaver


Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Innovation Capacity, Pesticides, Relationship Quality, Markets, Price

Andrew Warner



Top research keywords: River, Rivers, Prescription, Freshwater Conservation, Planning

Bronwen Powell


Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Food Security, Nutrition, Wild Food, Dietary Diversity, Forest Foods

Tanya Furman


Associate Vice President and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, The Pennsylvania State University
Top research keywords: Lava, Lithosphere, Magma, Basalt, Magmatism