SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Energy Policy, Electricity Technology Innovation Policy, Applied Econometrics, and Policy Instruments

Aquatic and terrestrial habitats, working closely with the Indiana Clean Lakes Program, water resources and water quality, implementing sustainability initiatives on campus and community.

Wetland restoration and ecosystem development, wetlands and water quality, wetlands and climate change, including carbon sequestration and peat accretion

Service learning, hydrogen storage materials, recruitment, retention and graduation of under-represented students in the Science Technology Engineer and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines

Forestry, particularly community and urban forest management practices and issues; forest resources policy and state government management; collaborative forestry; silviculture and growth and development of Central Hardwood forest stands

Government reform, energy and the environment, and the future of the automobile in both developed and developing countries

Groundwater flow modeling, including regional groundwater flow systems, conjunctive surface water and groundwater flow modeling, three-dimensional groundwater flow, and saltwater intrusion problems. Emphasis on application of analytic functions to modeling groundwater flow, specifically the analytic element method

Applying organic analytical chemistry techniques to the analysis of trace levels of toxic pollutants, such as polybrominated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls and pesticides, with a focus on understanding the behavior of these compounds in the atmosphere and in the Great Lakes

Implementation of integrated pest management programs in schools and daycare facilities’

Bioremediation, environmental microbiology, and biogeochemistry with a focus on the microbial reduction of iron oxides and nitrate, microbial iron oxidation, biotransformation of metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons, and combined microbial:geochemical interactions

Applying interdisciplinary approaches to understand how thermal and photochemical reactions on surfaces affect the fate of pollutants in the environment and impact global climate

Urban poverty, economic development, social welfare policy, low-income housing policy, civil society and government performance

Public policy process and evaluation, with substantive interests in environmental and energy policy, research methodology, bureaucratic behavior, and democratic influences in policy making.

Aquatic biogeochemistry, water resources, nutrient and carbon cycling in streams and rivers, water quality and nutrient standards

Environmental Toxicology, Environmental Genomics, Comparative Physiology

Environmental Indicators; fish and crayfish assemblage structure; and reproductive biology and early life history of fishes; aquatic ecology

Mediation, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, public input processes

Characterization of the chemical mechanisms in the atmosphere that influence regional air quality and global climate change

Development of growth simulation models for sustainable management of indigenous community forests, experimental designs in tropical forestry research, service-learning research, classroom action research on student active learning via group research projects in undergraduate introductory statistical techniques courses, and how pre-service teachers conceptualize mathematics (philosophically) indexed with their beliefs and conceptions about mathematics learning and teaching.

Environmental biogeochemistry, climate change, aquatic chemistry, limnology