Affiliated Researchers: Local Environment

Edward C. Jaenicke

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Diet Quality, Local Food, United States, Willingness To Pay, Food Retailers

Xun Cao

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

Timothy W. Kelsey

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Economic And Social Development, Pennsylvania, Agriculture, Marcellus Shale, United States

Noel Habashy

Assistant Teaching Professor, Office of International Programs
Top research keywords: Community Member, Economic And Social Development, Community Members, International Service Learning, Service-learning Courses

Sagan Friant

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Zoonotic Disease, Nigerians, Rodents, Infectious Diseases, Disease Ecology

Ruairidh Sawers

Associate Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Maize, Zea Mays, Zea, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Allele

Martina Vecchi

Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Food, Lab Experiment, Local Food, Food Choice, Socioeconomic Status

Andrew Mowen

Professor, Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Top research keywords: Urban Parks, Recreation Services, Park Service, USA, Physical Activity

William F. Elmendorf

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Urban Forest, Arborists, Foresters, USA, Pennsylvania

Ángel Ferrero-Serrano

Assistant Research Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Heterotrimeric G Protein, G Protein, Rice, Wild Type, RGA1

Juliet Pinto

Associate Professor, Journalism
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Journalism, Latin America, News Coverage, Latin America (LATAM)

Maurie Kelly

Top research keywords: Urban Area, Resources, Urban Planning, Criminal Justice, Love

Allyson Muth

Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Landowners, Natural Resource, Forestry, USA, High Grading

Guoray Cai

Associate Professor, College of Information Sciences and Technology
Top research keywords: Collaboration, Decision-Making, Geographic Information, Crisis Management, Visual Analytics

Lacy Alexander

Professor, Kinesiology
Top research keywords: Vasodilatation, Nitric Oxide, Cutaneous Vasodilation, Vasodilation, Reflex

Robert Crane

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

Emily Rosenman

Associate Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Geography, Economic Geography, Finance, Crisis, Politics

Mehrdad Mahdavi

Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Harmony Search, Optimization Problem, Convex Optimization, Random Projection, Neural Network

Jesse Lasky

Associate Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Genomics, Arabidopsis Thaliana, Local Adaptation, Genetics, Genetic Divergence

Sarah Allen

Top research keywords: Flora, Fossil Record, Western North America, Paleoecology, Paullinieae

Lee Ahern

Associate Professor, Advertising and Public Relations
Top research keywords: Advertising, USA, Communication Campaign, Narrative, Government Policy

Konstantinos Alexopoulos

Assistant Research Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Catalyst, HZSM-5, Microkinetic Modeling, Density Functional Theory, Chemical Kinetics Characteristics

Autumn Sabo

Assistant Professor of Biology, Penn State Beaver
Top research keywords: Deer, Deer Herbivory, White-tailed Deer, Plant Community, Understory

Samantha Powers

Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, Division of Social Sciences (Abington)
Top research keywords: USA, Outdoor Recreation, Urban Parks, Local Parks, Campus Recreation

Kathy Kelley

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Consumer Preferences, Wine, Pennsylvania, USA, Edible Flowers

Travis Flohr

Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Top research keywords: Environmental Justice, Geodesign, Urban Forest, Data Pipeline, Street Trees

Andrea Argüelles

Associate Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Top research keywords: Ultrasonic Testing, Attenuation, Stainless Steel, Polycrystal, Ultrasonic Attenuation

Donghyun Rim

Associate Professor, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Ultrafine Particles, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Indoor Environment, Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation, Human Exposure

Andrew Carleton

Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Southern Hemisphere, Climate, Sea Ice, Cold Air, Vortex

Elizabeth Ransom

Associate Professor, School of International Affairs
Top research keywords: Economic And Social Development, Uganda, Food Systems, Botswana, Food Insecurity

Anthony Kwasnica

Professor, Risk Management
Top research keywords: Auctions, Ascending Auctions, Seller, Sealed-bid Auction, Double Auction

Nathan Keim

Associate Research Professor, Physics
Top research keywords: Amorphous Solids, Transient Memory, Memory Formation, Disordered Solids, Mechanical Properties

Anthony Richardella

Top research keywords: Topological Insulator, Thin Films, Film, Bismuth Telluride, Heterojunction

Mark J. Guiltinan

Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Theobroma Cacao, Cacao, Somatic Embryogenesis, Glycogen Branching Enzyme, Starch Branching Enzyme

Matthew Fantle

Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Isotopic Composition, Crystallization, Calcium Isotopes, Carbonate, Diagenesis

Anne Pisor

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Climate Change Adaptation, Long-distance Relationships, Long Distance, Moral Judgment, Adaptation

Emily Pakhtigian

Assistant Professor in School of Public Policy, School of Public Policy
Top research keywords: Public Health, Coal-fired Power Plant, Cholera, Nepal, Bangladesh

Zi-Kui Liu

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Top research keywords: Alloy, First-principles Calculations, Density, Thermodynamics Modeling, Thermodynamic Modeling

Ottar Bjornstad

Distinguished Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Population Dynamics, Measles, Density Dependence, Vaccination, Metapopulation

Carolyn Lowry

Assistant Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Cover Crop, Cover Crops, Weeds, Vicia, Vetch