MSU Center for Water Sciences
Faculty Members
A
Evangelyn Alocilja, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
204 Farrall Hall
phone: 517-355-0083
alocilja@msu.edu
Expertise: Development of biosensors, biomimetic sensors, and bioelectronic devices; Applications: Homeland security, food and environmental safety (biosafety), point-of-care diagnostics
B
Sandra Batie, Agricultural Economics
Elton R. Smith Chair in Food & Agricultural Policy
204 Agriculture Hall
phone: 517-353-4705
batie@msu.edu
Expertise: environmental economics, environmental policy
Janice A. Beecher, Institute of Public Utilities Political Science and Law
240 Nisbet Building
phone: 517-355-1876
beecher@msu.edu
ipu.msu.edu
Expertise: Structure and economic regulation of the U.S. water industry; privatization, globalization, and jurisdiction; cost allocation, pricing, affordability, and rate design; political and social considerations in the water sector; comparison of water to energy and other utilities; provisions and implementation of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
Stephen Boyd, Crop and Soil Sciences
532 Plant and Soil Sciences
phone: 517-355-0271x1252
boyds@msu.edu
Expertise: Environmental chemistry and microbiology, Sorption and degradation of organic contaminants, pesticides and metals in soils and sediments, Remediation of contaminated soils, subsoils and sediments
Mary Bremigan, Fisheries and Wildlife
13 Natural Resources
phone: 517-432-3831
bremigan@msu.edu
Expertise: Fisheries management, food web dynamics, recruitment in fishes
Thomas Burton, Zoology
203 Natural Science
phone: 517-353-4475
burtont@msu.edu
Expertise: stream and marsh ecology with emphasis on bioassessment
C
Kendra Spence Cheruvelil, Lyman Briggs School and Fisheries and Wildlife
phone: 517-353-9528
ksc@msu.edu
Expertise: aquatic ecology, freshwater flora and fauna, ecosystem management, conservation, foodwebs, exotic species, limnology
Kuo-Chuan Chou, Animal Science and Food Safety/Toxicology
2209E Anthony Hall
phone: 517-432-1392
chouk@msu.edu
James Cole, Center for Microbial Ecology
2225A BioMed Physical Sciences
phone: 517-353-3842
colej@msu.edu
Expertise: Ribosomal Database Project: Tools and Data for High Throughput rRNA Analysis
Alison M. Cupples, Civil and Environmental Engineering
A129 Research Complex Engineering
phone: 517- 432-3370
cupplesa@msu.edu
Expertise: biological degradation of contaminants such as chlorinated solvents and pesticides, using molecular methods to examine the presence and quantity of microorganisms able to tranform these compounds in situ (soil or water)
D
Tracy Dobson, Fisheries and Wildlife
13 Natural Resources
phone: 517-432-1711
dobson@msu.edu
Expertise: international environmental policy, biodiversity policy, gender and environment, co-management of natural resources, indigenous rights to natural resources
Erin Dreelin, Center for Water Science
301 Manly Miles Building 1405 S. Harrison Rd
phone: 517-353-7746
dreelin@msu.edu
Expertise: stormwater management, low impact development, urban streams
F
Anne Ferguson, Anthropology, Women & International Development Program
206 International Center
phone: 517-353-5040
fergus12@msu.edu
Expertise: areas of development studies, gender, agricultural and environmental change and medical anthropology
G
John Giesy, Zoology and Food Safety / Toxicology
22 Natural Science
phone: 517-353-2000
jgiesy@aol.com
Expertise: ecotoxicologist with interests in many aspects of ecotoxicology, including both the fates and effects of potentially toxic compounds and elements, particularly in the area of ecological risk assessment
H
Steve Hamilton, Kellogg Biological Station
3700 E Gull Lake Drive, Hickory Corners MI49060
phone: 616-671-2231
hamilton@kbs.msu.edu
Expertise: ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry, with particular attention to aquatic environments and the movement of water through landscapes
Syed Hashsham, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A126 Engineering School Complex
phone: 517-355-8241
hashsham@msu.edu
Expertise: environmental molecular biology and mathematical tools to address environmental engineering issues
Dan Hayes, Fisheries and Wildlife
334C Natural Resources
phone: 517-432-3781
hayesdan@msu.edu
Expertise: determining how fish habitat affects their population dynamics
David Hyndman, Department of Geological Sciences
111 Natural Science
phone: 517-353-4442
hyndman@msu.edu
Expertise: physical and chemical processes that influence groundwater flow and solute transport, and the factors that affect seismic and electromagnetic wave propagation
K
Chris Klausmeier, Kellogg Biological Station
3700 E Gull Lake Drive, Hickory Corners MI49060
klausme1@msu.edu
Expertise: general principles that organize ecological communities and ecosystems, phytoplankton and zooplankton, microscopic plants and animals at the base of lake and ocean food webs
David Kramer, James Madison College and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
370 North Case Hall
phone: 517-432-2199
fax: 517-432-1804
dbk@msu.edu
Expertise: resource economics, conservation biology, environmental policy, biodiversity, resilience, social capital
L
Jay Lennon, W. K. Kellogg Biological Station
Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Hickory Corners, MI 49060
phone: (401) 863-7753
ay_Lennon@brown.edu
Expertise: questions related to the spread of invasive species, cultural eutrophication, microbial controls on carbon flow, and most recently, the influence of nutrient supply on the coevolution of marine viruses and their bacterial hosts.
Hui Li, Crop and Soil Sciences
584C Plant and Soil Sciences
phone: 517-353-0271 / 1146
lihui@msu.edu
Shu-Guang Li, Civil and Environmental Engineering
A133 Engineering Research Complex
phone: 517-432-1929
lishug@msu.edu
Expertise: methods for characterizing groundwater contamination at hazardous waste sites, with emphasis on the integration of simulation models and field data
Elena Litchman, Kellogg Biological Station
3700 E Gull Lake Drive, Hickory Corners MI49060
litchman@msu.edu
Expertise: aquatic ecology, community ecology, limnology, phytoplankton ecology, physiology and evolution, biogeochemical impacts of phytoplankton, global change
Dave Long, Department of Geological Sciences
141 Natural Science
phone: 517-353-9618
long@msu.edu
Expertise: understanding and modeling the geochemical (bio/inorganic/isotopic) state and evolution of aquatic systems
David P. Lursch, Remote Sensing & GIS Research and Outreach Services and Department of Geography
Senior Research Specialist
212 Geography Building
phone: 517-355-4897
fax: 517-353-1821
http://www.rsgis.msu.edu/
Expertise: glacial geomorphologoy, remote sensing, GIS, agricultural and natural resource management, mesoscale hydrogeology
M
Linda Mansfield, Large Animal Clinical Sciences
B43 Food Safety
phone: 517-432-3100 / 119
mansfie4@msu.edu
Expertise: understand the infectious process whereby parasites gain access to and cause disease in their hosts
Phanikumar Mantha, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geological Sciences
A130 Engineering Research Complex
phone: 517-432-0851
phani@msu.edu
Expertise: reactive transport and the fate of contaminants in surface water and groundwater, bioremediation, subsurface characterization, and environmental and geophysical fluid dynamics including limnologic and riverine hydrodynamics, turbulent flows, and flows through porous media
Terence Marsh, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
6171 Biomed Physics Sciences
phone: 517-355-6463 / 1597
marsht@msu.edu
Expertise: new approach for generating profiles of microbial communities referred to as terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP)
Susan Masten, Civil and Environmental Engineering
A132 Engineering Research Complex
phone: 517-353-8539
masten@msu.edu
Expertise: use of chemical oxidants for the remediation of soils, water, and leachates contaminated with hazardous organic chemicals
Brian Maurer, Fisheries and Wildlife
42B Natural Resources
phone: 517-353-9478
maurerb@msu.edu
Expertise: macroecology, biogeography, quantitative ecology
Victoria McGuffin, Chemistry
318 Chemistry
phone: 517-355-9715 / 244
mcguffin@msu.edu
Expertise: theory and practice of capillary liquid chromatography and electrophoresis, particularly the direct on-column examination of retention and dispersion processes by laser-based techniques
Richard Merritt, Zoology
245 Natural Science
phone: 517-355-4665
merrittr@msu.edu
Expertise: ecology, immature aquatic insects, feeding behavior of filter feeding aquatic insects, biomonitoring of streams and rivers
Joseph Messina, Geography
206 Geography Building
phone: 517-432-4752
jpm@msu.edu
Expertise: landscape and human ecology, landscape epidemiology, computational pattern metrics, computer simulations, complexity theory
N
William Northcott, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
218 Farrall Hall
phone: 517-432-7702
northco2@msu.edu
Expertise: watershed hydrology, agricultural drainage, non-point source pollution, geographic information systems
P
Nigel Paneth, Human Medicine and Epidemiology
B636 W Fee Hall
phone: 517-353-8623 / 112
paneth@msu.edu
Expertise: causes and prevention of childhood neurodevelopmental handicap, especially cerebral palsy
Scott Peacor, Fisheries and Wildlife
10D Natural Resources
phone: 517-353-1910
peacor@msu.edu
Expertise: the study of aquatic ecosystems and the development of mathematical frameworks to understand species interactions and their consequences to food web structure and dynamics
Hellen Pollard, Anthropology
E25 E McDonel Hall
phone: 517-353-3135
pollardh@msu.edu
Expertise: human ecology and the emergence and evolution of social, political and economic inequality
Q
Jiaguo Qi, Geography
208 Geography Building
phone: 517-432-4753
qi@msu.edu
Expertise: application of remote sensing, GIS, and spatial analysis tools to natural resources management
R
Joan Rose, Fisheries and Wildlife
13 Natural Resources
phone: 517-432-4412
rosejo@msu.edu
Expertise: water quality, wastewater microbiology, public health
Robert Roth, Pharmacy and Toxicology and Food Safety / Toxicology
212 Food Safety
phone: 517-353-9841
rothr@msu.edu
Expertise: mechanisms of lung and liver injury from toxic chemicals, role of blood neutrophils, platelets and coagulation in organ injury
S
Steven I. Safferman, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering
202 Farrall Hall
phone: 517-432-0812
fax: 517-432-2892
Safferma@msu.edu
Expertise: nutrient management
Tao Sang, Department of Plant Biology
237 Plant Biology
phone: 517-355-4689
sang@msu.edu
http://www.msu.edu/~sang
Expertise: rice, oryza, annual, perennial, adaptation, genetics
Orlando Sarnelle, Fisheries and Wildlife
163A Natural Resources
phone: 517-353-4819
sarnelle@msu.edu
Expertise: algal toxins, plankton ecology, biological limnology
Kim Scribner, Fisheries and Wildlife
13 Natural Resources
phone: 517-353-3288
scribne3@msu.edu
Expertise: population ecology, ecological genetics, conservation biology, fish recruitment, fisheries management , aquaculture, landscape genetics, behavioral ecology
Pat Soranno, Fisheries and Wildlife
9B Natural Resources Building
phone: 517-432-4330
soranno@msu.edu
Expertise: the effects of land use on lake nutrients and biological communities, development of a landscape-context paradigm for lake ecosystems, the application of landscape-context paradigm to lake classification, assessment and management
R. Jan Stevenson, Zoology
203 Natural Science
phone: 517-432-8083
rjstev@msu.edu
Expertise: algal taxonomy and ecology to test ecological theory and to develop approaches for solving environmental problems
Greg Swain, Chemistry
314 Chemistry
phone: 517-355-9715 / 229
swain@chemistry.msu.edu
Expertise: analytical chemistry and materials science, electroanalytical chemistry, electrochemical reaction mechanisms, new electrode materials, spectroscopic and microscopic probes of solid-liquid interfaces, flow injection analysis and separation science coupled with electrochemical detection
T
Brian Teppen, Crop and Soil Sciences
538 Plant and Soil Sciences
phone: 517-355-0271 / 1254
teppen@msu.edu
Expertise: soil chemist with a passion for understanding molecular-scale structures of soil colloids and their interfaces with environmental solutions
J. Tiedje, Crop and Soil Sciences
540E Plant and Soil Sciences
phone: 517-355-0271 / 1287
tiedjej@msu.edu
Expertise: understand the ecology, physiology and biochemistry of microbial processes important in nature and of value to industry
Merritt Turetsky, Fisheries and Wildlife & Plant Biology
166 Plant Biology
phone: 517-353-5554
mrt@msu.edu
Expertise: mechanisms that regulate ecosystem development and long-term carbon sequestration, and ecosystem recovery from stresses and disturbances such as climate change, enhanced N deposition, and fire
U
Brad Upham, National Food Safety Center
243 Food Safety
phone: 517-432-4115
upham@msu.edu
Expertise: determining the cellular mechanisms by which nutrition, oxidative stress, and environmental & food borne contaminants affect cell proliferative, differentiation and apoptotic processess that ultimately cumulates into states of human diseases such as cancer
V
Remke L. Van Dam
Assistant Professor of Applied Geophysics
206 Natural Science
phone: 517-432-9177
rvd@msu.edu
Expertise: application and improvement of near-surface geophysical methods for hydrological and engineering problems, issues of environmental change, and archeology
Tony Voice, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A125 Engineering Research Complex
phone: 517-353-9718
voice@msu.edu
Expertise: environmental engineering, waste management
W
Robert Walker, Geography
234 Geography Building
phone: 517-432-7058
rwalker@msu.edu
Expertise: deforestation, GIS systems, environmental impacts
Thomas Whittam, National Food Safety Center
194 Food Safety
phone: 517-432-3100 / 178
whittam@msu.edu
Expertise: study of the genetic structure of natural populations of bacteria using molecular polymorphisms and the development of statistical methods for assessing recombination
Lois Wolfson, Institute of Water Research and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
101 Manly Miles
phone: 517-353-9222
wolfson1@msu.edu
Expertise: lake ecology, lake management, wetlands ecology
X
Irene Xagoraraki, Civil and Environmental Engineering
A136 Research Complex Engineering
phone: 517-353-8539
fax: 517-355-0250
zagorara@egr.msu.edu
Expertise: detection, removal and inactivation of emerging biological and chemical contaminants in drinking water
Y
Catherine Yansa, Geography
227 Geography Building
phone: 517-353-3910
yansa@msu.edu
Expertise: quaternary paleoenvironments (paleobotany, specifically pollen and plant macrofossil analyses), plant geography, people-environment, paleoethnobotany
Vince Young, Department of Internal Medicine/Infectious Diseases Division and Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
B42 Food Safety
phone: 517-432-3100x118
youngvi@msu.edu
Expertise: role of what would traditionally be considered "pathogenic bacteria" in gastrointestinal illness.
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