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(Updated April 2009)
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. You may download a list of affiliated faculty to help in your search [excel], [pdf]. Below we show faculty currently mentoring one or more ESE graduate students.

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


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


Shannon Amberg
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Area: Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Email: ambergs[at]purdue.edu
Website


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


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


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


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


Sylive 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Kevin Gurney
Department: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences / Agronomy
Area: Carbon Inverse Modeling, Vulcan, Hestia, Climate Variability, Carbon Science Policy
Email: kgurney[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


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


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


Al Heber
Department: Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Area: Assessment and mitigation of dust, odor and gas emissions from confined life support facilities
Email: heber@purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


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


Thomas Housley
Department: Agronomy
Area: Crops, translocation and carbon partitioning in plants
Email: thousley[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Brad Lee
Department: Agronomy
Area: GIS, Soils and Land Use
Email: bdlee[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Dev Niyogi
Department: Earth and Atospheric Sciences / Agronomy
Area: Land surface processes, climate change, terrestrial ecosystem and atmosphere, carbon cycle, climate informatics, Hydrometeorology, PBL and Mesoscale Processes
Email: climate[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


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


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


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


Linda Prokopy
Department: Forestry & Natural Resources
Area: Social dimensions of watershed management
Email: lprokopy[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


Randy Rapp
Department: Building Construction Management
Area: Disaster Restoration and Reconstruction Management
Email: rrapp[at]purdue.edu
Website


Helen Rowe
Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Area: Restoration ecology, sustainable land use systems
Email: ivy[at]purdue.edu
Website


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


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


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


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


Bernard Tao
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering / Food Science
Area: Renewable resource utilization, polymer coating, plant lipids, biosensors
Email: tao[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


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


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


Mike Whitt
Department: Mechanical Engineering Technology
Area: Hemodynamics, and pharmaceutical process and medical device design
Email: mwhitt[at]purdue.edu
Website | INDURE


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


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


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


Qianlai Zhuang
Department: Earth and Atmospheric 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

Tomas O Höök, Assistant Professor, Forestry and Natural Resources.
Dr. Höök's research focuses on environmental questions at the interface between applied and basic ecology utilizing aquatic organisms and ecosystems. Website

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