Affiliated Researchers: North America

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

Displaying 41 search result(s) for North America.

Melissa Gervais


Assistant Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Warming, Self Organizing Map, Sea Surface Temperature, Climate, Atmospheric Correction

Jacob Holland-Lulewicz


Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Radiocarbon, Bayesian Modeling, Southeastern United States, Archaeology, Occupation

Pengfei Zhang


Assistant Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Anticyclones, Monsoons, Sea Ice, Summer, Anticyclone

William Easterling III


Professor, Geography
Top research keywords: Climate Change, Crop, Climate, Erosion Productivity Impact Calculator, Maize

Jesse Kreye


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Fire Behavior, Flammability, Litter, Forest Litter, Fuels (fire Ecology)

Colin Zarzycki


Assistant Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Tropical Cyclone, Climate Modeling, Atmosphere, Simulation, Regional Climate

Samantha Powers


Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management, Division of Social Sciences (Abington)
Top research keywords: Recreation, Pandemics, Social Capital, Staff, Public Perception

Michael Skvarla


Assistant Research Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Cunaxidae, Acari, Mite, Mites, Arkansas River

Sarah Allen



Top research keywords: Eocene, Fossils, Fossil, Paleoecology, Paleoclimate

George Milner


Distinguished Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Skeleton, Cemetery, Dental Calculus, Death, River

Lara Fowler


Senior Lecturer, Penn State Law (University Park)
Top research keywords: Stakeholder, Water Resources Management, Behavioural Change, Neutral Third Party, Social Change

Kim Steiner


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Oak, Quercus, Seedling, Quercus Rubra, Acer Rubrum

Donald Davis


Professor, Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Top research keywords: Ozone, Ailanthus Altissima, Ailanthus, Oak, Prunus Avium

Andrew Nyblade


Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Earth Mantle, Upper Mantle, Cratons, Antarctic Regions, Tanzania

Margarita López-Uribe


Lorenzo L. Langstroth Early Career Professor and Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Bee, Hymenoptera, Apidae, Pollinating Insects

Mark J. Guiltinan


Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Cacao, Theobroma Cacao, Zea Mays, Genes, Endosperm

Margot Kaye


Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Fire History, Deciduous Forests, Pinus Ponderosa, Climate, Pine

Jon Sweetman


Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management

Bernd J. Haupt


Senior Research Associate, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Ocean Circulation, Global Ocean, Ocean, Oceans, Conveyors

Maria Herrmann


Associate Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Chesapeake Bay (US), Estuary, Organic Carbon, Net Ecosystem Production, Ecosystem

Laura Leites


Associate Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Climate, Quercus, Oak, Pseudotsuga Menziesii, Pinus Ponderosa

Kenneth Davis


Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Boundary Layer, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Troposphere, Net Ecosystem Exchange

David A.W. Miller


Associate Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Amphibians, Salamander, Amphibian, Branta Canadensis, Nest

Dave Biddinger


Associate Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Bees, Bee, Malus, Orchards, Orchard

Kurt Vandegrift


Associate Research Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Peromyscus, Ecology, Deer, SARS Virus, Peromyscus Leucopus

Alan Taylor


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

Shelby Fleischer


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Chrysomelidae, Beetle, Coleoptera, Acalymma Vittatum, Potato

Kelli Hoover


Professor, Entomology
Top research keywords: Anoplophora Glabripennis, Coleoptera, Insecta, Larva, Baculoviridae

Tom Richard


Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Manures, Composting, Manure, Compost, Composts

James Schupp


Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Apples, Rootstocks, Fruit Size, Thinning (plants), Cultivars

Tong Qiu


Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Phenology, Climate Change, Urbanization, Climate, Fecundity

Lee Kump


Department Head, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Carbon Isotope, Mass Extinction, Ocean, Permian, Paleocene

Richard Mistrick


Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering, Architectural Engineering
Top research keywords: Lighting, Illuminating, Electric Lighting, Photosensors, Illuminance

Ying Gu


Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Top research keywords: Cellulose Synthase, Arabidopsis, Cellulose, Pollen Tube, Microtubules

Mark Shriver


Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Population, Skin Pigmentation, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism, African Americans, Alleles

Michela Centinari


Associate Professor, Plant Science
Top research keywords: Vineyards, Vines, Vitis, Cover Crops, Fruit

Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz


Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Oxygen Isotopes, Geochemistry, Mounds, Oyster, Midden

Maureen Feineman


Associate Research Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Nicaragua, Volcanoes, Magma, Island Arcs, Eclogite

Marc D. Abrams


Nancy and John Steimer Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Quercus, Oak, Dendroecology, Acer Rubrum, Species Recruitment

Jasna Kovac


Lester Earl And Veronica Casida Career Development Professor Of Food Safety And Associate Professor Of Food Science, Food Science
Top research keywords: Bacillus Cereus, Campylobacter, Campylobacter Jejuni, Milk, Genome