The Environmental Institute

Research Profile

Research interests include multilevel governance and the role of science in international and environmental regimes, the management of transboundary and global environmental threats, international political economy and the conflicts associated with globalization.

Keywords

Environmental Policy, International Environment, Water Resources

James A. Hafner

Professor
Department: Geosciences

Phone: (413) 545-0778

Email: hafner@geo.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research focuses on processes of rural social and economic change in the context of development. Project focus is Southeast Asia and includes studies of traditional water transport systems, the impacts of highway development on the development process, population ecology and rural poverty, new models and strategies for participatory and integrated rural development, and political ecology of forest use and access in Thailand.

Keywords

International Environment

Elisabeth M. Hamin

Assistant Professor
Department: Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

Phone:

Email: emhamin@larp.umass.edu

Research Profile

Researches growth management policy and regionalism at the local, state, and regional level and the interrelationships among residents, working landscapes, and protected areas.

Keywords

Urban Sustainability

Susan Han

Associate Professor
Department: Plant, Soil, and Insect Sciences

Phone: (413) 545-5228

Email: susanh@umext.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research focus on greenhouse production of floricultural crops as well as postharvest handling of cut flowers and potted plants such as studies on the mechanism by which ethylene induces the flowering of bromeliads and the physiological changes associated with leaf yellowing in lilies and other crops.

Keywords

Plant/Pest Management

Allen R. Hanson

Professor
Department: Computer Science

Phone: (413) 545-2746

Email: hanson@cs.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research in computer vision and visual information processing, including knowledge-based image understanding, analysis of motion sequences, autonomous vehicle navigation, and parallel architectures for computer vision. Research on databases for visual image processing, photo-interpretation of aerial images, biomedical image analysis, automated robotic manufacturing and assembly, real-time control of intelligent vehicles, and development environments for vision research. Applications for environmental sensing and monitoring.

Keywords

Sensing/Networks

Douglas Hardy

Research Professor
Department: Geosciences

Phone: (413) 545-0659

Email: dhardy@geo.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research focus on climate and glaciers at high elevations in the Tropics, to better understand causal mechanisms driving environmental and climate change.

Keywords

Climate Change

Jeanne Hardy

Assistant Professor
Department: Chemistry

Phone: 413-545-3486

Email: hardy@chem.umass.edu

Research Profile

We aim to understand and exploit allosteric regulation by designing allosteric binding sites for alternative small molecules. We redesign both known and novel allosteric sites to be controlled by the small molecule of our choice. In the figure at the right a novel allosteric site cavity in caspase-7 (red) is occupied by a small molecule we chose based on its size, solubility and exceptional drug-like properties (yellow sticks). Redesigning this novel allosteric site to bind to an alternative small molecule will allow us to regulate caspase-7 activity independently of all other caspases.

Keywords

Renewable Energy

Alexander Haro

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department: Natural Resources Conservation

Phone: (413) 863-3806

Email: haro@nrc.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research interests include behavior and biology of diadromous fishes, fish passage biology and engineering, and animal migration. Current research involves biotic and abiotic influences on fish migration, design and performance of traditional and experimental fish passage structures, development of new technologies for assessment of fish behavior and passage.

Keywords

Marine Resources, Natural Resources Management

Krista Harper

Assistant Professor
Department: Anthropology

Phone: (413) 577-0661

Email: kharper@anthro.umass.edu

Research Profile

Conducts ethnographic research in Hungary, Portugal, and the United States. Projects include a study of environmental activists in Hungary and examination of the links between racism, environment, and health in Hungarian Romani "Gypsy" communities.

Keywords

Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Environmental Policy, International Environment

Robin A. Harrington

Professor
Department: Natural Resources Conservation

Phone: (413) 577-0204

Email: rharring@nrc.umass.edu

Research Profile

Research focus is on understanding plant response to environmental constraints and the importance of resource availability in limiting species distributions along environmental gradients and the ecology of invasive plant species.

Keywords

Biodiversity, Green Communities, Plant/Pest Management