Center for Natural Resources
and the Environment

Faculty and staff affiliates:

Yasser Ayad, Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth Science; landscape ecology, urban and regional environments, study of landscape indices.

Julia J. Bartkowiak, Department of Political Science, Sociology and Philosophy; environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, social issues concerning the environment.

Robert Girvan, Department of Political Science, Sociology and Philosophy; natural resources, discrimination, and the environment.

Stanton Green, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences; landscape archaeology, GIS, paleoenvironmental studies, palynology, Irish ecology.

Steven C. Harris, Department of Biology; aquatic insects, biomonitoring, biodiversity studies, caddisfly systematics.

Joan Huber, Department of English; organic farming, recycling.

Patricia M. Kennedy, Department of Communication; environmental, scientific and political communication, environmental journalism, environmental regulation, public opinion.

Andrew C. Keth, Department of Biology; insect ecology, conservation biology, biodiversity, patterns of endemism.

Patrick McGreevy, Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth Science; environmental history, history of attitudes toward nature, environmental perception, literature, art and the environment, environmental tourism, nationalism and nature in the USA, environmental issues in central and eastern Europe, history of technology.

Roger J. McPherson, Department of Biology; population ecology, physiological ecology, endocrine disruptors.

LeGene Quesenberry, Department of Finance; environmental law, rights of indigenous peoples/human rights, environmental terrorism.

Bruce Smith, Director of Science Education; environmental education, field-based science education.

Andrew M. Turner, Department of Biology; aquatic ecology, behavioral ecology, food web interactions.

Anthony J. Vega, Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth Science; climate change and variability, severe weather, air-sea interactions, synoptic climatology, meteorology, forecasting.

Charles E. Williams, CNRE Director, Department of Biology; forest and wetland ecology, environmental history, conservation science, plant-animal interactions.