University of Connecticut
ER-16: Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research

There are several websites that have partial lists of sustainability researchers. One that was used to help compile this list is included below. faculty member Department Boris Bravo-Ureta - Agricultural and Resource Economics Deepak Joglekar - Agricultural and Resource Economics Emilio Pagoulatos - Agricultural and Resource Economics Farhed Shah - Agricultural and Resource Economics Joshua Berning - Agricultural and Resource Economics Kathleen Segerson - Agricultural and Resource Economics Lanse Minkler - Agricultural and Resource Economics Marilyn Altobello - Agricultural and Resource Economics Richard Langlois - Agricultural and Resource Economics Rigoberto Lopez - Agricultural and Resource Economics Robert Pomeroy - Agricultural and Resource Economics Stephen Swallow - Agricultural and Resource Economics Subhash Ray - Agricultural and Resource Economics Susan Randolph - Agricultural and Resource Economics Yizao Liu - Agricultural and Resource Economics Rui Huang - Agricultural and Resource Economics Benjamin L. Campbell - Agricultural and Resource Economics Syma Ebbin - Agricultural and Resource Economics Ronald W. Cotterill - Agricultural and Resource Economics Tsoung-Chao Lee - Agricultural and Resource Economics Aldo Peracchio - Center for Clean Energy Engineering Leonard J. Bonville - Center for Clean Energy Engineering Prabhakar Singh - Center for Clean Energy Engineering Russ Kunz - Center for Clean Energy Engineering Trent Molter - Center for Clean Energy Engineering Christopher Perkins - Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering Can Erkey - Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering Jeffrey McCutcheon - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Atul Verma - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Brian Willis - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering C. Barry Carter - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Daniel Goberman - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering George Rossetti, Jr. - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Harris Marcus - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Leon Shaw - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Leslie Shor - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Mark Aindow - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Mei Wei - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Montgomery Shaw - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Rampi Ramprasad - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Richard Parnas - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering William Mustain - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Yu Lei - Chemical, Materials, and Biomolecular Engineering Robert Birge - Chemistry Guiling Wang - Civil and Environmental Engineering Alexander Agrios - Civil and Environmental Engineering Allison MacKay - Civil and Environmental Engineering Baikun Li - Civil and Environmental Engineering Jeong-Ho Kim - Civil and Environmental Engineering Joseph Bushey - Civil and Environmental Engineering Maria Chrysochoou - Civil and Environmental Engineering Reda Ammar - Computer Sciences and Engineering Sanguthevar Rajasekaran - Computer Sciences and Engineering Cameron Faustman - Department of Animal Science Daniel Fletcher - Department of Animal Science Gary Kazmer - Department of Animal Science Heather White - Department of Animal Science Jenifer Nadeau - Department of Animal Science Kristen Govoni - Department of Animal Science Kumar Venkitanarayanan - Department of Animal Science Michael Darre - Department of Animal Science Richard Mancini - Department of Animal Science Robert Milvae - Department of Animal Science Sarah Reed - Department of Animal Science Sheila Andrew - Department of Animal Science Steve Zinn - Department of Animal Science Thomas Hoagland - Department of Animal Science Xiuchun (Cindy) Tian - Department of Animal Science Sydney Plum - Department of English Bruce Hyde - Department of Extension Cary Chadwick - Department of Extension Chester Arnold - Department of Extension David Dickson - Department of Extension Emily Wilson - Department of Extension Julianna Barrett - Department of Extension Michael Dietz - Department of Extension Thomas Boucher - Department of Extension Chuanrong Zhang - Department of Geology Kenneth Noll - Department of Molecular and Cell Biology I. Khan Mazhar - Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science Sandra L. Bushmich - Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science Milton Levin - Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science Steven J. Geary - Department of Pathobiology and Veterinary Science Mark Boyer - Department of Political Science Shareen Hertel - Department of Political Science Richard P. Hiskes - Department of Political Science Prakash Kashwan - Department of Political Science David L. Richards - Department of Political Science Lyle A. Scruggs - Department of Political Science Adam Fry - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Andrew Bush - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Bernard Goffinet - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Carl Schaefer - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Carl Schlichting - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Charles Henry - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Charles Yarish - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Chris Elphick - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Chris Simon - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cynthia Jones - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology David Wagner - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Donald Les - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Eldridge Adams - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Elizabeth Jockusch - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Eric Schultz - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Felix Coe - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Francis Trainor - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Gene Likens - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology J. Peter Gogarten - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Janine Caira - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Jean Crespi - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology John Silander, Jr. - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Kent Holsinger - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Kentwood Wells - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Kurt Schwenk - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Louise Lewis - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Margaret Rubega - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Mark Urban - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Marta Wells - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Michael Willig - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Nirvana Filoramo - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Paul Lewis - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Paula Philbrick - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Peter Turchin - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Richard Ostfeld - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Robert Colwell - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Robert Thorson - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Robin Chazdon - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Stephen Trumbo - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Terry Webster - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Theodore Taigen - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Nishith Prakash - Economics Eric Donkor - Electrical and Computer Engineering Krishna Pattipati - Electrical and Computer Engineering Mehdi Anwar - Electrical and Computer Engineering Peter Luh - Electrical and Computer Engineering Sung-Yeul Park - Electrical and Computer Engineering Emma Gilligan - History Rachel Jackson - Human Rights Gregory Sotzing - Institute of Materials Science Alan Kosloff - Law Dean Cordiano - Law Jessica Rubin - Law Joseph MacDougald - Law Kurt Strasser - Law Peter Lindseth - Law Richard Parker - Law Robert Birmingham - Law Roger Reynolds - Law Sara Bronin - Law Heidi Dierssen - Marine Sciences Robert Mason - Marine Sciences J. Evan Ward - Marine Sciences Peter Auster - Marine Sciences Robert Whitlatch - Marine Sciences Senjie Lin - Marine Sciences Jamie Vaudrey - Marine Sciences Zhiling Guo - Marine Sciences Amir Faghri - Mechanical Engineering Baki Cetegen - Mechanical Engineering Bi Zhang - Mechanical Engineering Eric Jordan - Mechanical Engineering Hanchen Huang - Mechanical Engineering Jiong Tang - Mechanical Engineering Michael Renfro - Mechanical Engineering Theodore Bergman - Mechanical Engineering Ugur Pasaogullari - Mechanical Engineering Wilson Chiu - Mechanical Engineering Chadwick Rittenhouse - Natural Resources and the Environment Daniel L. Civco - Natural Resources and the Environment David Miller - Natural Resources and the Environment David Schroeder - Natural Resources and the Environment Gary A. Robbins - Natural Resources and the Environment Glenn Warner - Natural Resources and the Environment Howard J Kilpatrick - Natural Resources and the Environment Jason Vokoun - Natural Resources and the Environment John Bartok - Natural Resources and the Environment John C. Volin - Natural Resources and the Environment John Clausen - Natural Resources and the Environment John S. Barclay - Natural Resources and the Environment Mark Rudnicki - Natural Resources and the Environment Min T. Huang - Natural Resources and the Environment Morty Ortega - Natural Resources and the Environment Patricia Bresnahan - Natural Resources and the Environment Richard Anyah - Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Ricard - Natural Resources and the Environment Thijs Bosker - Natural Resources and the Environment Thomas H. Meyer - Natural Resources and the Environment Thomas Worthley - Natural Resources and the Environment Tracy Rittenhouse - Natural Resources and the Environment Xiusheng Yang - Natural Resources and the Environment Jack Ross - PHARMACY PRACTICE Ana Legrand - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Carol A. Auer - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Christian P. Schulthess - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Donna Ellis - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture George Elliott - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Gerald A. Berkowitz - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Jason Henderson - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Jessica Lubell - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture John Alexopoulos - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Julia Kuzovkina - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Karl Guillard - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Kristin E. Schwab - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Mark Brand - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Mark E. Westa - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Peter J. Miniutti - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Richard McAvoy - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Thomas F. Morris - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Yi Li - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Matthew DeBacco - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Paula Stahl - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Huan-zhong Wang - Plants Science and Landscape Architecture Elizabeth Holzer - Sociology Alejandro Villagran - Statistics John Inguagiato - Turfgrass Science

Peter Miniutty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, led a multidisciplinary team that developed a business and transportation model for goods delivery for the new Storrs Center (Storrs, CT). The model focused on the organization of sustainable transport models that will be environmentally friendly and economically stimulating. The model is designed to be applicable in the future to larger settings in CT. http://www.ctls.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/08-02.pdf http://www.ctls.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/08-02.pdf Dr. Baikun Li (Civil and Environmental Engineering) runs a bioenergy production-wastewater treatment group at UConn. They work on hydrogen production and microbial fuel cells through anaerobic wastewater treatment. Their research focuses on developing efficient processes to generate clean sustainable energy through wastewater treatment. Recent Publication: Jiang, D., and B. Li. 2010. Power recovery with multi-anode/cathode microbial fuel cells suitable for future large-scale applications. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 35:8683-8689. Li, X., B. Hu, S. Suib, Y. Lei, and B. Li. 2010. Manganese dioxide as a new cathode catalyst in microbial fuel cells. Journal of Power Sources 195:2586-2591. http://www.cese.uconn.edu/publications.html http://www.engr.uconn.edu/cee/research/wre/15-research/38-nick.html Robert Pomeroy, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, worked with USAID to develop ecosystem approaches to fisheries management in the Coral Triangle (Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Timor-Lest). Their approach balances societal objectives and biotic, abiotic, and human components of ecosystems and their interactions in a meaningful ecological way. http://www.are.uconn.edu/documents/eafm_fact_sheet.pdf Robert Johnston, Ag. and Resource Economics, Eric Schultz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; and Kathleen Segerson, Department of Economics, completed this project on accurately valuing natural resources. Since environmental restoration projects are often costly, this study uses survey techniques to estimate people values. Eventually, the project assigns values to projects like fish restoration projects that reflect the ecological importance that is often neglected in typical economic valuation. http://www.cese.uconn.edu/pdf/valuing.pdf

Figure of 527 total engaged in research is from the Office of Institutional Research at UConn.