Affiliated Researchers: Sustainability

Robert Mathers

Professor, Penn State New Kensington
Top research keywords: Polymerization, Hydrophobicity, Self Assembly, Copolymer, Monomer

Tonya Peeples

Harold and Inge Marcus Dean, College of Engineering
Top research keywords: Bioconversion, Aqueous Two-phase System, Engineering Students, Methanocaldococcus Jannaschii, Extremophiles

Chaopeng Shen

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Streamflow, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Soil Moisture, Long Short-term Memory

Ming Xiao

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Subgrade, Permafrost, Pavement, Subbase, Experimental Investigation

Susan Brantley

Dr. Hubert Barnes and Dr. Mary Barnes Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Regolith, Shale Hills, Pennsylvania, Critical Zone Observatory, Shale

Seong Kim

Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Surface (Surface Science), Sum Frequency Generation, Silicon, Film, Silicon Dioxide

Tanya Furman

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

Sarah Princiotta

Assistant Professor, Biology, Penn State Schuylkill
Top research keywords: Mixotroph, Chrysophyta, Food Web, Mixotrophic, Chrysophytes

Cibin Raj

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Soil And Water Assessment Tool, Water Assessment Tool, Soil Investigation, Watersheds, Biofuel

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, Bacillus Cereus Group, Listeria Monocytogenes, Ethiopia, B.cereus

William Burgos

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Iron Oxide, Fe(II), Bioreduction, Low PH, U(VI)

Edward Dudley

Professor, Food Science
Top research keywords: Escherichia Coli, Serotype, Escherichia Coli O157:H7, Escherichia Coli O157, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)

Enrique Gomez

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Block Copolymer, Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), Conjugated Polymer, Organic Solar Cells, Conjugated Polymers

Ali Borhan

Professor, Chemical Engineering
Top research keywords: Surfactant, Axisymmetric, Solid Surface, Bond Number, Fluid Viscosity

Elizabeth W. Boyer

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: United States, Atmospherics, United States Of America, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Headwater

Tania Slawecki

Research Associate, Materials Research Institute (MRI)
Top research keywords: Microwaves, Microwave, Shear, Shearing, Magnetrons

Sagan Friant

Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Top research keywords: Infectious Diseases, Primates, Red-capped Mangabeys, Biodiversity, Bushmeat

Andrew Nyblade

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

Jennifer Wagner

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering Design and Innovation
Top research keywords: DNA Testing, Ethical Considerations, United States, Genomic Medicine, Direct-to-consumer

Max Lloyd

Assistant Professor, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Isotopic Composition, Clumped Isotopes, Calcite, Wood, Dolomite

John (Jay) Regan

Professor of Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Microbial Fuel Cell, Biofilm, Reactor, Air-cathode Microbial Fuel Cell, Acetate

Kathryn Brasier

Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, USA, Agriculture, Stakeholder Engagement, Discourse

Xingchao Chen

Assistant Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Thermodynamics, Convective System, Mesoscale Convective Systems, China, Tropical Cyclone

Zuleima Karpyn

Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research; Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)
Top research keywords: Relative Permeability, Well Flooding, Wettability, Oil Recovery, Multiphase Flow

Anil Kumar Chaudhary

Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education
Top research keywords: Water Conservation, Program Evaluation, Extension Program, Florida, Landscape Irrigation

Raymond Najjar

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Chesapeake Bay, Climate Change, Atmospherics, Carbon Dioxide, United States

Jon Sweetman

Assistant Research Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Canada, Wetlands, Cladocerans, Prairie Wetlands, Ponds

Christelle Wauthier

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

Lee Kump

The John Leone Dean in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and Professor of Geosciences, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Atmospherics, Carbon 14, Permian, Mass Extinction, Eocene

Miquela Ingalls

Assistant Professor in Geosciences, Geosciences
Top research keywords: Carbonate, Tibet, Stable Isotope, Tibetan Plateau, Isotopic Composition

Heather Preisendanz

Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Top research keywords: Pennsylvania, Agricultural Fields, Wastewater, Estrogen, Polyfluoroalkyl Substances

Asher Rosinger

Associate Professor, Biobehavioral Health
Top research keywords: Water Insecurity, Tsimane, Household Water Insecurity, Food Insecurity, Hydration Status

Claude dePamphilis

Professor, Biology
Top research keywords: Angiosperm, Angiosperms, Parasitic Plants, Parasitic Plant, Cladistics

Steven Greybush

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

Li Li

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Top research keywords: Reactive Transport, Carbon Dioxide, Solute, Dissolved Organic Carbon, Streamflow

Natasha Miles

Associate Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Emissions, Carbon Dioxide, Indianapolis, Atmospherics, Methane

Sanjib Sharma

Assistant Research Professor, Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
Top research keywords: Forecast, Streamflow, Flood Hazard, Prediction, River Basin

Estelle Couradeau

Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Cyanobacteria, Biological Soil Crust, Microorganism, Microbialites, Microbialite

Mary Ann Bruns

Professor, Ecosystem Science and Management
Top research keywords: Soil, Manure, Dairy Manure, Odorants, Bacteria

Kenneth Davis

Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science
Top research keywords: Carbon Dioxide, Atmospherics, Emissions, Methane, Boundary Layer