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(Updated April 2011)
Faculty and Areas
Faculty affilated with the Center for the Environment and the ESE program include over 100 researchers from across campus, all of which are interested in interdisciplinary research and education on environmental topics. Below we show faculty currently affiliated with the program.

There are many unique and emerging issues in environmental sciences that faculty are pursuing. Use the INDURE database to search for faculty that share your research and educational interests.

Faculty (alphabetical) currently (or anticipated to be) mentoring ESE graduate students
Alter

Kirk Alter
Department: Building Construction Management
Area: Sustainable construction
Email: alterk[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Bickham

John Bickham
Department: Center for the Environment and Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: Ecotoxicology, Biodiversity, Population genetics
Email: bickham[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Blatchley

Ernest (Chip) Blatchley
Department: Civil Engineering
Area: Physio/chemical processes of environmental engineering
Email: blatch[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Bown

Gabriel Bowen
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Isotope ratio ecology and hydrology
Email: gjbowen[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Bowling

Laura Bowling
Department: Agronomy
Area: Watershed Hydrology, Hydroclimatology, GIS & Remote Sensing
Email: bowling[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Brouder

Sylvie Brouder
Department: Agronomy
Area: Soil ecology, crop nutrient management, biofuel sources and production impacts on water and soil
Email: sbrouder[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Chaubey

Indrajeet Chaubey
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering / Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Ecohydrology, sediment transport, decision support tools
Email: ichaubey[at]purdue.edu
Website
Cherkauer

Keith Cherkauer
Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Area: Hydrologic Modeling, Surface Water Hydrology, Cold Season Processes, remote sensing
Email: cherkaue@purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Crawford

Melba Crawford
Department: Agronomy and Civil Engineering
Area: Geomatics engineering surveying, environmental engineering, high performance computing
Email: mcrawford[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Dukes

Jeffrey Dukes
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources / Biological Sciences
Area: Ecology; biodiversity and biological invasions; impacts of global environmental change
Email: jsdukes[at]purdue.edu
Website
Engel

Bernie Engel
Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Area: Water Quality, Drainage, Subirrigation, Surface Irrigation and Erosion Control
Email: engelb@purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Filley

Timothy Filley
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Biogeochemistry, carbon and nitrogen cycles, climate change
Email: filley[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Frankenberger

Jane Frankenberger
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Area: Watershed management, water quality, hydrology, GIS
Email: frankenb[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Goforth

Reuben Goforth
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Area: Aquatic ecosystems, GIS, watersheds, land use sustainability
Email: rgoforth[at]purdue.edu
Website
Gramig

Benjamin Gramig
Department: Ag. Economics
Area: Environmental and natural resource economics
Email: bgramig[at]purdue.edu
Website

Grant

Richard Grant
Department: Agronomy
Area: Biogeochemistry, aerosol science, meteorology
Email: rgrant[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE

Handy

Rod Handy
Department: Mechanical Engineering Technology
Area: Industrial hygiene, manufacturing technology
Email: rhandy[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Harbor

Jon Harbor
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change; Glacial Geomorphology; Environmental Education Research
Email: jharbor[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Haviarova

Eva Haviarova
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Area: Sustainable forest industry development, emerging furniture design
Email: ehaviar[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Heber

Al Heber
Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Area: Assessment and mitigation of dust, odor and gas emissions from confined life support facilities
Email: heber[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Hoagland
Lori Hoagland
Department: Horticulture
Area: Soil ecology and functional interactions between soil microbes and crop cultivars, biological approaches to disease and weed suppression, specialty crop systems, agro-ecology
Email: lhoaglan[at]purdue.edu
Website
Jeffrey D. Holland
Jeffrey D. Holland
Department: Entomology
Area: Spatial Ecology & Biodiversity
Email: jdhollan[at]purdue.edu
Website


Hook

Tomas O Höök
Department: Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Email: thook@purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Hoover

William Hoover
Department: Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: Natural resource economics
Email: whoover[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Hua

Inez Hua
Department: Civil Engineering
Area: Environmental chemistry and fate, industrial ecology and sustainability
Email: hua[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Hubbard

Bryan Hubbard
Department: Civil Engineering
Area: Construction, architecture
Email: bhubbard[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Huber

Matt Huber
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Climate change, mechanisms that govern climate
Email: huberm[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Hutzel

Bill Hutzel
Department: Mechanical Engineering Technology
Area: HVAC, building automation and renewable energy systems
Email: hutzelw[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Ileleji

Klein Ileleji
Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Area: Biomass feedstock logistics, processing, particulate flows and handling
Email: ileleji@purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Jafvert

Chad Jafvert
Department: Civil Engineering
Area: aquatic chemistry
Email: jafvert[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Joern

Brad Joern
Department: Agronomy
Area: Nutrient management planning, soil chemistry, plant nutrition
Email: bjoern[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Johnston

Cliff Johnston
Department: Agronomy
Area: Biogeochemistry, mineral physics, nanoscience, soil science, spectroscopy
Email: clays[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Kaplan

Ian Kaplan
Department: Entomology
Area: Insect Ecology, Specialty Crops
Email: ikaplan[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Kladivko

Eileen Kladivko
Department: Agronomy
Area: Soil Physics, Land Management, Preferential flow of chemicals through soils
Email: kladivko[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Kulatunga

Athula Kulatunga
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
Area: Energy management and efficiency, industrial process controls
Email: nkulatun[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Ladisch

Michael Ladisch
Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Area: Bioprocess engineering as it applies to bioproducts, biorecovery, and bionanotechnology
Email: ladisch@purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Lasker

Greg Lasker
Department: Building Construction Management
Area: Best Practices in Life Sciences, Research and Advanced Manufacturing Facilities
Email: glasker[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Lee

Linda Lee
Department: Agronomy and Center for the Environment
Area: Environmental chemistry
Email: lslee[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Lee

Seunghae Lee
Department: Visual & Performing Arts (Interior Design)
Area: Sustainable interior design, LEED building certification
Email: lee30[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
McNie

Elizabeth McNie
Department: Political Science and Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Climate services and improving the utility of climate science information for decision makers
Email: emcnie[at]purdue.edu
Website
Meilan

Rick Meilan
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Area: Molecular Tree Physiology, phytoremediation, biofuels
Email: rmeilan[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Michalski

Greg Michalski
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Biogeochemistry, nitrogen cycling, air/water pollution, modeling isotopes
Email: gmichals[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Michler

Charles Michler
Department: Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: Hardwood tree genetics, herbicide resistance
Email: michler[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Mohtar

Rabi Mohtar
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Area: Hydrological/soils modeling
Email: mohtar[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Mosier

Nate Mosier
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Area: Renewable resources engineering
Email: mosiern[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Ni

Jiqin Ni
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Area: Bioenergy, Environmental and Natural Resources
Email: jiqin[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Nies

Loring (Larry) Nies
Department: Civil Engineering
Area: Life cycle analysis, sustainability, nanotech impacts, bioremediation
Email: nies[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Niyogi

Dev Niyogi
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences / Agronomy
Area: Climate change, Hydrological extremes, Satellite Remote Sensing, Severe weather, Air Quality, Indian Monsoons, Land use land cover changes, Urbanization and agricultural intensification impacts
Email: climate[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Owens

Philip Owens
Department: Agronomy
Area: Soil Geomorphology/Pedology, Hydropedology
Email: prowens[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Pijanowski

Bryan Pijanowski
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Area: Landscape ecology, biogeography, GIS, Ornithology
Email: bpijanow[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Pope

Phil Pope
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Area: Impacts of forest practices on long-term soil productivity and nutrient fluxes
Email: ppope[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Porterfield

Marshall Porterfield
Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Area: Physiological sensing technologies for research applications in biology, agriculture, and medicine
Email: porterf@purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Prokopy

Linda Prokopy
Department: Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: Social dimensions of watershed management
Email: lprokopy[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Rabenold
Kerry Rabenold
Department: Biological Sciences
Area: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Email: rabenold[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE

Rao

Suresh Rao
Department: Civil Engineering / Agronomy
Area: hydrology, contaminant transport, sustainability
Email: pscr[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Rapp

Randy Rapp
Department: Building Construction Management
Area: Disaster Restoration and Reconstruction Management
Email: rrapp[at]purdue.edu
Website
Sadof Cliff Sadof
Department: Entomology
Area: Biological control, landscape entomology, prevent spread of invasive species, sustainable ag
Email: csadof[at]purdue.edu
Website



Schwab

Paul Schwab
Department: Agronomy
Area: Fate and transport of contaminants in soil
Email: pschwab[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Sepulveda

Maria Sepulveda
Department: Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: Ecotoxicology and aquatic organisms
Email: mssepulv[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Shao

Guofan Shao
Department: Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: GIS, large scale land use, international issues
Email: shao[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Snyder

Lori Snyder
Department: Agronomy
Area: Crop Production, Sustainable Agriculture, Tropical Agriculture
Email: ljsnyder[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE

Stott

Diane Stott
Department: Agronomy
Area: Soil Biochemistry
Email: Diane.Stott[at]ars.usda.gov
Website | INDURE
Tao

Bernard Tao
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering / Food Science
Area: Renewable resource utilization, polymer coating, plant lipids, biosensors
Email: tao[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Troy
Cary Troy
Department: Civil Engineering
Area: Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence and mixing in natural water bodies, hydrological engineering.
Email: troy[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE

Turco

Ron Turco
Department: Agronomy
Area: Remediation technologies, microbiology, microbial ecology
Email: rturco[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Volenec

Jeff Volenec
Department: Agronomy
Area: Biofuels, ecology and evolutionary biology
Email: jvolenec[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
West

Terry West
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Engineering geology
Email: twest[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Xiu

Dongbin Xiu
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Stochastic modeling in Engineering Applications; High-order and Spectral Methods for PDE; Multiscale Simulations; Large-scale, Interdisciplinary Computations of Complex Systems
Email: dxiu[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Zhang

Hao Zhang
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources / Statistics
Area: Analysis of spatial and space-time data as it relates to climatology, geophysics, natural resources, agriculture, economics
Email: zhanghao[at]purdue.edu
Website
Zhao

Fu Zhao
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Area: Sustainable manufacturing processes, life cycle analysis
Email: fzhao[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE
Zhuang

Qianlai Zhuang
Department: Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Area: Interactions among atmosphere, biosphere, and human dimension in the context of climate change, chemical element cycles, and policy-making
Email: qzhuang[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE

Faculty Spotlight
Brouder

Professor Brouder received the 2010 Spirit of Land-Grant Mission Award recognizing her accomplishments in the College of Agriculture working to integrate the university’s land-grant mission of discovery, Extension and learning. Website

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