100+ faculty members from across multiple institutions are involved in research projects and programs that are accelerating climate action around the world.
Johanna Wandel's research focuses are adaptation to climate change and community-based vulnerability assessments.
Michael Waite's focuses are turbulence in rotating stratified fluids, vortices in stratified fluids, mesoscale atmospheric dynamics, and tropical convection.
Wesley Van Wychen's research includes remote sensing (satellite imagery) and field data to observe variability in glaciers and glacier motion; the application of SAR remote sensing datasets to observe ocean processes (currents, sea ice) and monitor human activities (detection of oil spills); data management and long-term data preservation; and historical climate data rescue projects.
Andrew Trant's areas of research include ecological legacies associated with people occupying sites for millennia, biodiversity as a critical component for understanding how ecosystem function and biogeography.
Bryan Tolson's research interests include hydrologic model calibration, hydrology, water resources planning and management, environmental and water resources, environmental simulation model development, environmental decision-making, parallel computing, multi-objective optimization, and soft computing.
Jason Thistlethwaite looks at innovative strategies designed to reduce the economic impacts of extreme weather and climate change within the financial sector.
Chao Tan areas of research are green energy, bioenergy, air pollution control, air cleaning, indoor air quality, sustainable buildings, aerosol, nanosafety, alternative fuels, energy harvesting/bio-energy, power systems, nanotechnology, renewable energy, nano-instrumentation, value-added recovery, hydrothermal conversion, hydrogen production, biomass and waste management, nanoaerosol filtration, nanoaerosol measurement, nanoaerosol generation and characterization, post-combustion air cleaning, acidic gas absorption, diesel engine emission abatement, mass, transfer between gas-liquid system, and chemical reaction kinetics.
Imre Szeman's main areas of research are in environmental communication, energy justice, critical theory, and cultural studies.
Larry Swatuk looks at the political ecology of natural resources governance and management, with a particular focus on water in Africa.
Maria Strack's research interests include the interactions between ecology, hydrology, biogeochemistry and soil properties in wetland ecosystems, peatland greenhouse gas fluxes in both natural and disturbed ecosystem, and peatland methane dynamics including both fluxes and subsurface storage.