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Primary research areas in Environmental Sciences & Engineering
Research in environmental sciences and engineering ranges from atmospheric sciences to microbiology, climate, oceanography, environmental chemistry, water management, and international environmental policy.
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Modeling
- Climate Dynamics and Physical Oceanography
- Energy and Technology
- Engineering and Economic Development
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Microbiology
- Geomechanics
- Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics
Areas of Focus
- Experimental and modeling studies in the stratosphere and troposphere of chemical and aerosol processes
- Regional and global air pollution
- Exchange of carbon dioxide and reactive gases with the biosphere
- Effects of changes in atmospheric composition on climate
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Senior Research Fellows
Areas of Focus
- Study of climate changes due to a rich set of nonlinear, chaotic interactions of the oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere
- El-Niño's dynamics and chaos
- Large-scale oceanic circulation: the thermohaline circulation, climate stability and variability, ocean and climate modeling
- Paleo-climate dynamics: glacial-interglacial oscillations and Heinrich events
- Combining oceanographic data and models through four dimensional variational data assimilation using the adjoint method
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Areas of Focus
- Study of new, more efficient, and greener sources of energy
Researchers
Areas of Focus
- Consequences of population on natural resources development
- Improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment
- Development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development
- Relationship between transportation, land use, and environment in the developing world
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Areas of Focus
- Understanding and quantifying the chemistry of surfaces in environmental chemical systems
- Phase transitions of atmospheric particles
- Dissolution and precipitation of minerals in aquatic environments
- Chemical oxidation reactions and hydrophobic-to-hydrophilic aging of atmospheric organic aerosol particles
- Atmospheric nanoparticles
- Mineral surface photoelectrochemistry to reduce inorganic carbon and form the prebiotic soup
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Areas of Focus
- Role of microorganisms both in causing environmental deterioration and in processes in which ecological degradation is controlled
- Investigation of the microbial ecology of both natural and polluted environments
- Assessment of the dominant microflora and its function in the maintenance of equilibrium in both natural and artificial environments
Researchers
Areas of Focus
- Problem of stressing, deformation, fluid permeation, fracture and flow as they arise in the earth sciences and in civil and environmental engineering
- Lithospheric stressing
- Mechanics and physics of earthquakes
- Hydrologic processes
- Granular flows
- Pore-fluid interactions in the deformation and failure of earth materials
Researchers
Areas of Focus
- Understanding and predicting atmosphere turbulence
- Origin of cyclones and the vacillation of jet streams
- Improving weather forecasting by developing statistically optimal forecast initialization methods while climate prediction is being improved by applying stochastic dynamics theory to make better statistical predictions
- Determining the sensitivity of the atmospheric system to natural and antropogenic disturbances