Affiliated Researchers: Global Environmental Change

Gregory Jenkins

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

Peter Wilf

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Patagonia, Paleocene, South America, Patagonia Argentina, Eocene

Nancy Tuana

DuPont/Class of 1949 Professor, Philosophy
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Ethics, Geoengineering, Epistemic, Epistemology

Pengfei Zhang

Assistant Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Arctic Sea, Temperate Region, Eurasia, North America, Polar Vortex

Marc E. McDill

Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Forest Planning, Pennsylvania, Quercus, Forest Management, Harvest-scheduling Model

Maria Herrmann

Associate Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Estuary, United States, Hypoxia, Chesapeake Bay, Net Ecosystem Production

Margot Kaye

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Pinus, Quercus, Fire Regime, Climate Change, Populus

Carolyn Mahan

Professor, Division of Mathematics & Natural Sciences (Altoona)
Top research keywords: Eastern Chipmunk, Tamias, National Parks, Pennsylvania, Tamias Striatus

David Pollard

Senior Scientist, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Ice Sheet, Ice, Climate, Climate Modeling, Simulation

Kimberly Van Meter

Assistant Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Water Quality, Eutrophication, Groundwater, Mississippi, N Input

Jason Kaye

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Cover Crop, Cover Crops, Pinus, Carbon Dioxide, Ponderosa Pine Forest

Alan Taylor

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Fire Regime, Fire Severity, Coniferous Forests, Mixed Forests, Wildfires

Hester Blum

Professor, English
Top research keywords: Sailors, Omoo, Melville, United States, Nineteenth Century

Katherine Zipp

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: United States, Park Visitors, Bioenergy, Marginal Land, Energy Crop

Leann Andrews

Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Dental Caries, Peru, Iquitos, Floating Community, Juvenile Salmon

Kostas Papakonstantinou

Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Partially Observable Markov Decision Process, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning (deep RL), Markov Decision Process, Lifecycle