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First Name Last Name Title Department Contact Information Expertise areas
Defne Apul Assistant Professor Civil Engineering Defne.Apul@utoledo.edu Fate and transport of chemicals in water and soils and environmental risk assessment, characterization and beneficial use of waste materials including aqueous geochemistry of leaching and especially the interactions of metals with sorptive surfaces
Jonathan Bossenbroek Assistant Professor Environmental Sciences jonathan.bossenbroek@utoledo.edu Invasion Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Watershed Ecology, Modeling Dispersal Mechanisms, Predicting Habitat Suitability
Thomas Bridgeman Assistant Professor Environmental Studies Thomas.Bridgeman@utoledo.edu Water quality, Great Lakes research, hypoxia, algal blooms, invasive species
Diane Britton Professor History diane.britton@utoledo.edu Public History; Gilded Age; ethnic America
V. Max Brown Associate Professor Environmental Studies vernon.brown@utoledo.edu Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Archeological Geology, and Computer Applications in Geology
Frank J Calzonetti Vice Provost For Research Office of  Research & Sponsored Programs Fcalzon@UTNet.Utoledo.edu
Mark Camp Associate Professor Environmental Studies mark.camp@utoledo.edu Invertebrate Paleontology, Paleoecology, Quaternary Studies, Geology of National Parks and State Parklands, and History of Geology
Alfred Cave Professor History alfred.cave@utoledo.edu Ethnohistory of colonial America; Jacksonian America
Jiquan Chen Professor Environmental Sciences jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu Landscape analysis, ecosystem management, conservation biology, global warming and carbon cycling, and ecological modeling at multiple scales
Barbara Chesney Associate Professor and Chair Sociology and Anthropology Barbara.Chesney@utoledo.edu Medical Sociology; Social Psychology
Kevin Czajkowski Associate Professor Geography and Planning kevin.czajkowski@utoledo.edu Remote sensing, application of remote sensing  and GIS to environmental problems, and land/atmosphere interactions
Isabel Escobar Associate Professor Chemical and Environmental Engineering isabel.escobar@utoledo.edu Biological stability of drinking water, with emphasis on improving finished water biostability using membrane filtration, pollution prevention, drinking water treatment/monitoring
Timothy Fisher Professor Environmental Studies timothy.fisher@utoledo.edu Geomorphology, Glacial and Quaternary Geology, and Quaternary History of the Great Lakes
Charles Glaab Professor Emeritus History charles.glaab@utoledo.edu American urban history; Progressivism
Stephen Goldman Professor Emeritus Environmental Sciences stephen.goldman@utoledo.edu Plant genetics, genetic engineering in plants, and phytoremediation
Hans Gottgens Professor Environmental Sciences johan.gottgens@utoledo.edu Aquatic ecology, in particular pulse stability in lakes and wetlands, pollution control, paleolimnological approaches to restoration, and the cycling and accumulation of mercury in aquatic environments
Scott Heckathorn Associate Professor Environmental Studies scott.heckathorn@utoledo.edu Plant Physiological Ecology,Biochemistry, Global Environmental Change, Heat-Shock Proteins
Ruth Herndon Associate Professor History ruth.herndon@utoledo.edu Colonial and revolutionary U.S.; marginalized peoples of New England
Robert Hopperton Professor College of Law robert.hopperton@utoledo.edu Property and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Law of Takings with regard to Zoning and Regulation of Property
Dong-Shik Kim Assistant Professor Chemical and Environmental Engineering dong.kim@utoledo.edu Experimental and theoretical studies on the mechanisms of biomass production and distribution in the subsurface
David Krantz Associate Professor Environmental Sciences david.krantz@utoledo.edu Quaternary geology and geological oceanography of continental margins,  sea-level and climate histories of the coastal plain and shelf, hydrogeology of the Mid-Atlantic coastal plain, nutrient transport
Ann Krause Assistant Professor Environmental Studies ann.krause@utoledo.edu Systems Ecology, Network Theory and Methodology, Food Web Ecology in the Laurentian Great Lakes, Coupling Human and Natural Systems for Sustainable Ecosystems
Ashok Kumar Professor and Chair Civil Engineering ashok.kumar@utoledo.edu Basic and industrial problems in the fields of air quality modeling, risk assessment and application of computers
Peter Lindquist Associate Professor Geography and Planning peter.lindquist@utoledo.edu GIS
David Liu Assistant Professor Geography and Planning davidweiguo.liu@utoledo.edu Remote sensing and geographical analysis, including land cover/use monitoring, simulation and prediction, transportation pattern analysis and environmental public health analysis
Ronald Lora Professor Emeritus History Ronald.Lora@utoledo.edu American intellectual history; recent political and cultural
James Martin-Hayden Associate Professsor Environmental Sciences james.martin-hayden@utoledo.edu Physical and chemical processes in groundwater flow and subsurface contaminant transporthydraulic and geochemical interactions, recharge dynamics of and geochemical/contaminant controls
Christine Mayer Assistant Professor Environmental Studies christine.mayer@utoledo.edu Aquatic Ecology, Invertebrate-Fish Predator-Prey Interactions, Organism-Habitat Modification, Introduced Species
Frank Merritt Professor College of Law frank.merritt@utoledo.edu Principal Researcher on Grant from Ohio Lake Erie Commission on Model Zoning Law for Headwater Protection
Seamus Metress Professor Sociology and Anthropology seamus.metress@utoledo.edu Great Lakes region; race & ethnicity
Daryl Moorhead Professor Environmental Sciences daryl.moorhead@utoledo.edu Mathematical modeling of ecological systems, extreme environments and global change
David Nemeth Professor  Geography and Planning David.Nemeth@utoledo.edu Cultural and environmental geography 
Michael W. Phillips Professor and Chair Environmental Sciences michael.phillips@utoledo.edu Mineralogy, Crystallography, Crystal Chemistry, Geology
Stacy Philpott Assistant Professor Environmental Studies stacy.philpott@utoledo.edu Insect Community Ecology, Role of Biodiversity and Habitat Complexity in Trophic Interactions and Ecosystems, Linkages between Agroecology and Conservation
Brian Randolph Professor Civil Engineering brian.randolph@utoledo.edu Subsurface instrumentation; geosynthetics; laboratory soil testing and equipment development; flow modeling; environmental geotechnology, statistical methods for the unsaturated flow of groundwater, geologic system reliability, hazardous waste disposal
Neil Reid Associate Professor Geography and Planning neil.reid@utoledo.edu Urban and economic geography
Robert Smith Professor History robert.smith5@utoledo.edu American diplomatic history
Alison Spongberg Associate Professor Environmental Sciences alison.spongberg@utoledo.edu Environmental geochemistry of sediments and water, and fate and transport of hazardous contaminants
Carol Stepien Professor Environmental Studies carol.stepien@utoledo.edu Conservation Genetics of Native Fish and Aquatic Invertebrates, and Strategies of Invasive Species
Donald Stierman Associate Professor Environmental Sciences donald.stierman@utoledo.edu Interactions between human activities and geological processes, assessing and mitigating geological hazards, and mapping archaeological sites, non-invasive methods for characterizing and mapping materials concealed beneath the earth’s surface
David Stothers Professor Sociology and Anthropology david.stothers@utoledo.edu Northeast, Great Lakes, and Arctic/Subarctic Archeology, Prehistoric Ceramics and Northeastern Agriculture, Prehistoric Northeast Social and Political Organization
Elliot Tramer Professor Emeritus Environmental Studies etramer@uoft02.utoledo.edu Ornithology; Population Dynamics of Vertebrates and Higher Plants
Michael Weintraub Assistant Professor Environmental Studies michael.weintraub@utoledo.edu Soil Ecology, Ecosystem Ecology, Plant-Soil Interactions, Biogeochemistry