The Environmental Institute

Research Profile

Research interests in wireless sensor networks, distributed sensor data management, low-power networked embedded systems, pervasive computing, wireless and mobile computing, computer networks, distributed systems. Applications for real-time environmental monitoring.

Keywords

Sensing/Networks, Water Resources

Piper R. Gaubatz

Associate Professor
Department: Geosciences

Phone: (413) 545-0768

Email: gaubatz@geo.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research in East Asian urban geography.

Keywords

International Environment

John Gerber

Professor
Department: Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences

Phone: (413) 545-5301

Email: jgerber@psis.umass.edu

Research Profile

Works in the field of sustainable food production, community food systems, and sustainable living.

Keywords

Agriculture, Food Systems

Mwangi wa Githinji

Assistant Professor
Department: Economics

Phone: 413-545-1373

Email: mwangi@econs.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research Interests: Development, Environmental and Marxian Economics

Keywords

Water Resources

David Glassberg

Professor
Department: History

Phone: (413) 545-4252

Email: glassberg@history.umass.edu

Research Profile

Studies the history of popular historical consciousness in America as represented in politics, culture, and the environment. Projects in public history and community watersheds working with the Water Resources Research Center.

Keywords

Urban Sustainability, Water Resources

Julie M. Goddard

Assistant Professor
Department: Food Science

Phone: 413-545-2275

Email: goddard@foodsci.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research interests include Active packaging; Antimicrobial processing surfaces; Polymer surface modification; Bioconjugation onto polymer surfaces.

Keywords

Agriculture, Food Systems

Paul J. Godfrey

Associate Professor
Department: Biology

Phone: (413) 545-4400

Email: pgodfrey@bio.umass.edu

Research Profile

Researches coastal plant ecology, barrier island management, and plant geography.

Keywords

Wetlands

Steve Goodwin

Professor/Dean of the College of Natural Sciences
Department: Microbiology

Phone: (413) 545-2051

Email: sgoodwin@microbio.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research interests include microbial synthesis and degradation of biopolymers, microbial ecology, anaerobic digestion and bioremediation, bioenergetics of microbial growth in extreme environments, microbiology and redox chemistry in groundwater, microbiology of solid waste disposal, and compost microbiology and spore formation.

Keywords

Microbial Ecology, Remediation

Greg Grason

Department: Polymer Science and Engineering

Phone: 413-577-1611

Email: grason@mail.pse.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research interests include statistical mechanics of macromolecular packing; Complex order in frustrated soft molecular systems; Self-assembly of biopolymer aggregates

Keywords

Renewable Energy

Curtice R. Griffin

Professor
Department: Natural Resources Conservation

Phone: (413) 545-2640

Email: cgriffin@nrc.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research interests includes biodiversity conservation, wetland wildlife ecology and management, and integrated natural resources management issues and in development of local, state, national, and international policies relating to wetlands protection, endangered species management, and conservation of biological diversity. Several recent projects in the U.S., Eastern Europe, and South Africa focus on developing new techniques for mapping biological diversity over large geographic scales to provide new tools for resource managers to identify conservation priorities and to develop landscape-level, biodiversity conservation strategies.

Keywords

Biodiversity, International Environment, Natural Resources Management, Water Resources, Wetlands