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Fenda Akiwumi

Fenda Akiwumi

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-2386
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Professor Akiwumi’s research takes a holistic approach to understanding resource utilization in sectors such as water, minerals, and forests. Her ongoing research projects are in Sierra Leone (environmental deterioration, sustainable livelihoods of women, and water conflicts in mining areas).

Norma Alcantar

Norma Alcantar

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-8009
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Professor Alcantar is an expert in surface force measurements and FTIR spectroscopy. Her research interests include interfacial phenomena and chemical characterization of biometric membranes, micellar surfacants, green chemistry materials, nanoparticles, and organic/inorganic thin films.

Kamal Alsharif

Kamal Alsharif

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-4939
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Professor Alsharif’s research focuses on the interdisciplinary approach to the environmental decision-making process and water policy. Furthermore, he is interested in the human interactions with the environment and providing environmental benchmarks.

Roberta Baer

Roberta Baer

Professor

(813) 974-0805
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Professor Baer’s research interests include health and health disparities in Latin America and the United States, with her recent work focusing on cancer and diabetes. She was recently awarded an NSF grant to investigate cultural and class issues in understandings of H1N1 in Mexico and the United States.

Sean Barbeau

Sean Barbeau

Research Associate

(813) 974-7208
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Mr. Barbeau’s work focuses on the research and development of intelligent software for mobile devices, especially GPS-enabled cell phones, to better understand and influence travel behavior and the transportation environment. One project, the Travel Assistance Device, uses cell phones to deliver personalized real-time navigation

Shannon Bassett

Shannon Bassett

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-4031
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Professor Bassett’s research and teaching interests include those of landscape and ecology as architecture and urbanism, as well as sustainable urbanism as an alternative method for development and urbanization in China. She is currently one of three faculty members designing and launching the new Master’s of Urban and Community Design program (MUCD).

Ambar Basu

Ambar Basu

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-2145
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Professor Basu’s research explores the intersection of cultural issues and health communication. It locates culture as organic and fundamental in the framing of communicative patterns, and it examines how meanings are shared and health discourse is negotiated in the global-local context of multiple cultural, political, economic, and development agendas in marginalized spaces.

Mya Breitbart

Mya Breitbart

Assistant Professor

(727) 553-3520
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Professor Breitbart’s laboratory utilizes molecular biological techniques to study viruses present in sewage, reclaimed water, and drinking water. Her research focuses on identifying viruses that can be used as indicators of fecal contamination that will in turn benefit sustainable communities.

Carol Bryant

Carol Bryant

Distinguished University Professor

(813) 974-6686
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Professor Bryant’s research focus lies in mobilizing communities and teaching them how to use social marketing to bring about desired social change under sustainable conditions. Her interest is in social marketing and she has conducted a wide variety of research.

Sandra J. Cadena

Sandra J. Cadena

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-4225
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Professor Cadena’s research interest is in cultural diversity, competency, and health care disparities across cultures and between nations. She also focuses on direct improvement in the quality of human life through humanistic and sustainable societal and nursing activities.

Kiki Caruson

Kiki Caruson

Associate Professor

(813) 974-5646
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Professor Caruson conducts research on issues relating to national security, specifically policies that assess levels of preparedness for natural, technical, and human-made disasters. her research includes the identification of vulnerable populations, hazard analysis, and intergovernmental relations.

Heide Castañeda

Heide Castañeda

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-0786
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Professor Castañeda’s research focuses on migrant and refugee health and its relationship to transnational labor migration. She is also interested in issues of humanitarianism and the role nongovernmental organizations play in providing aid.

Don Chambers

Don Chambers

Associate Professor

(727) 553-3351
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Professor Chambers specializes in using satellite observations such as radar altimetry and satellite gravimetry to better understand ocean dynamics. His primary research focus is quantifying and understanding sea level variability, especially low frequency fluctuations related to climate change.

Kenneth Christensen

Kenneth Christensen

Professor

(813) 974-4761
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Professor Christensen’s research focuses on energy efficiency of computer networks - “green networks.” He has made substantial contributions in technological innovation to reduce the amount of energy used by information and communication technology.

Jennifer Collins

Jennifer Collins

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-4242
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Professor Collins’ research focuses on weather and climate - in particular, hurricane activity - where she examines the environmental factors influencing the interannual variation of hurricane numbers. She also investigates relationships between hurricane activity in the Atlantic versus part of the Northeast Pacific.

Thomas Crisman

Thomas Crisman

Professor

(813) 974-5134
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Professor Crisman is a broadly-trained aquatic ecologist with degrees in zoology and geology. He has more than 40 years of experience on the ecology and ecohydrology of subtropical and tropical lakes, wetlands, and streams globally, especially in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Mediterranean basins, and Near

Jeffrey Cunningham

Jeffrey Cunningham

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-9540
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Professor Cunningham’s research broadly deals with the behavior of chemicals in the environment. This is manifested into several lines of research that fall under the umbrella of sustainability.

Karla Davis-Salazar

Karla Davis-Salazar

Associate Professor

(813) 974-6339
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Trained as an archaeologist, Professor Davis-Salazar’s research has focused on the social, political, and ideological aspects of water management in prehispanic societies, specifically of the Classic Maya.

Delcie Durham

Delcie Durham

Professor

(813) 974-5656
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Professor Durham’s research focuses on environmentally benign design and manufacturing, with a particular emphasis on sustainable product realization through the total product lifecycle. Her research interests include exploring metrics for sustainable engineering design through analogies to the biological cell.

Joanna Dyl

Joanna Dyl

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-3729
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Professor Dyl’s current research focuses on urban environmental history and natural disasters. She is currently working on research for an upcoming book on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its impact on the city and the environment.

Sarina J. Ergas

Sarina J. Ergas

Associate Professor

(813) 974-2386
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Professor Ergas conducts research in the field of environmental biotechnology, including research on domestic and industrial wastewater treatment and reuse, low-impact development technologies for stormwater management, biological drinking water treatment, bioremediation systems, and biological air pollution control.

Kent Fanning

Kent Fanning

Professor

(727) 553-1594
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Professor Fanning’s research focuses on the mechanisms by which water-borne nutrients are consumed, regenerated, and transported, with quantification of those mechanisms being an ultimate goal. Water-borne nutrients are critical to both terrestrial and coastal marine ecosystems.

Allan Feldman

Allan Feldman

Professor

(813) 974-2471
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Professor Feldman’s research focuses on the role that K-12 teachers and students can have in authentic scientific and engineering research projects. Their participation can serve several functions such as improving workforce development for professionals in fields related to sustainability.

Michael W. Fountain

Michael W. Fountain

Director, Center for Entrepreneurship

(813) 974-7900

Professor Fountain serves as the founding director of the University of South Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship. His studies focus on technology entrepreneurship, green and sustainable product innovation, and development of cost-effective delivery systems.

Victor Fung

Victor Fung

Professor

(813) 974-2311
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Professor Fung’s research focuses on the social psychology of music and music education. He has studied music listeners’ preference responses to various types of world music. His research interests lie in the music pedagogical characteristics across different cultures.

Yogi Goswami

Yogi Goswami

Professor

(813) 974-0956
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Professor Goswami has extensive experience in the areas of solar thermal power, solar water desalination, solar photocatalytic detoxification and disinfection, distributed generation, building energy systems, and energy security.

Cheryl Hall

Cheryl Hall

Associate Professor

(813) 974-0819
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Professor Hall’s current research focuses on the ways in which different understandings of freedom, agency, happiness, and sacrifice influence our imagination of the possibilities for creating environmentally sustainable societies.

Pamela Hallock Muller

Pamela Hallock Muller

Professor

(727) 553-1567
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Professor Hallock Muller examines both the geologic record and modern coral reefs. Her research interests include cell biology, coral reef ecology, environmental management, global environmental change, evolution, and paleoceanography.

Sharon Hanna-West

Sharon Hanna-West

Instructor

(813) 974-6893
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Professor Hanna-West is the Exide Distinguished Lecturer of Ethics and Sustainability in the Department of Management and Organization in the College of Business. Her work focuses on engaging key stakeholders in the process of positive change and facilitating a shared strategic vision among business leaders.

Sara Hendricks

Sara Hendricks

Senior Research Associate

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Ms. Hendricks has conducted research in a wide range of topics of interest to the State of Florida, nationally, and internationally. As a member of the research faculty of the Center for Urban Transportation Research, her interests include growth management, intermodal connection between public transit and bicycling, public-private partnerships and other institutional arrangements.

Albert C. Hine

Albert C. Hine

Associate Dean and Professor of Geological Oceanography

(727) 553-1161
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Professor Hine’s research addresses the response of coastal and shelf depositional systems to sea-level fluctuations, climate, western boundary currents, antecedent topography, and sediment supply, including the geologic origin and evolution of submerged paleoshorelines, reefs, shelf sand bodies, open marine marsh systems, barrier islands, and back-burner environments and how they might have interacted with each other in the past.

William Hogarth

William Hogarth

Interim Dean and Professor of Marine Science

(727) 553-3542
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Professor Hogarth’s administrative and research experience has focused on a wide range of environmental, scientific, and marine policy issues. He has held leadership positions with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

David Hollander

David Hollander

Associate Professor

(727) 553-1019
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Professor Hollander’s research focuses on evaluating the influence that anthropogenic and natural climate and environmental change have on the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other biolimiting elements in both modern and ancient lacustrine and marine settings.

Chuanmin Hu

Chuanmin Hu

Associate Professor

(727) 553-3987
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Professor Hu’s research is focused on addressing coastal ocean problems using primarily optics. These topics include river-ocean interactions (transport and transform of particulate and dissolved matters), carbon cycling, algai blooms, coral reef environmental health and ecosystem connectivity, climate change, and anthropogenic influence on coastal/estuarine water quality.

Ricardo Izurieta

Ricardo Izurieta

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-8913
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Dr. Izurieta is an expert in tropical and infectious diseases. He specializes in vector-borne and water-borne diseases as well as ecological changes and emerging diseases. His research focuses on improving water and sanitation in rural areas to prevent and control water-borne diseases and gastrointestinal infections.

David Jacobson

David Jacobson

Professor

(813) 974-2893
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Professor Jacobson’s research focuses on areas related to immigration and citizenship, international institutions and law, human rights, and women’s status in global conflict. His work concerns sustainability in two areas: the sustainability of communities in the context of social change and the implications of climate change for human institutions.

John Jermier

John Jermier

Professor

(813) 974-1752
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Professor Jermier’s interests are focused on the role of business in the environmental movement. Many believe business can play the leading role in the contemporary environmental movement - voluntarily changing practices to move from villain to hero. Professor Jermier’s research is aimed at determining what business has and can accomplish with respect to protecting and restoring the natural environment.

John Kuhn

John Kuhn

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-6498
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Professor Kuhn’s interests pertain to examining forms of fuels and chemicals from renewable sources and electrochemical conversion of hydrogen and alcohols. His approach is to design materials for these specific applications. The purpose of this merger is to use the morphological control obtained by synthetic chemistry to demonstrate catalytic phenomena by reducing the polydisperity of active sites.

Margarethe Kusenbach

Margarethe Kusenbach

Associate Professor

(813) 974-2595
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Professor Kusenbach’s research interests include urban and community sociology and social aspects of disasters. She is conducting research on the vulnerability of communities to disasters and their general resilience. She is also interested in understanding how the built urban environment affects social life and community, and the intersection of natural and social systems.

Boo Kwa

Boo Kwa

Department Chair and Professor of Global Health

(813) 974-6635
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Professor Kwa’s current research focus is on parasitic diseases in Honduras and the risk of infection to civilian and and military relief personnel living in that country. Previously, Professor Kwa’s research focused on a number of parasitic infections, including filariasis, taeniasis/cysticercosis, and sparaganosis.

Shawn Landry

Shawn Landry

Associate Research Faculty and Director of the Florida Center

(813) 974-4031
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Professor Landry’s research focuses on understanding the socio-ecological factors influencing spatial and temporal heterogeneity of the urban forest. He is also interested in modeling and mapping the urban environment through the use of information technology to assist citizens and local governments in making informed decisions related to water resource management and community development.

Michael J. Lynch

Michael J. Lynch

Professor

(813) 974-8148
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Professor Lynch has been researching environmental issues for more than 20 years. His research has addressed environmental justice in the United Stated, the distribution of hazardous waste sites and chemical accidents, global warming, behavioral toxins and their effects on behavior, environmental law and regulation, and penalty outcomes in environmental crime prosecutions.

Robert M. MacLeod

Robert M. MacLeod

Professor and Director of the School of Architecture and Community Design

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Professor MacLeod’s interests lie in exploring urbanism in the post-war American city. This constitutes the “unfinished” project of the post-industrial city, the city of sprawl. He is also interested in the emergence of the Asian Mega-City, he emergent building types, public space issues, and ecological concerns.

David Mann

David Mann

Assistant Professor

(727) 553-1192
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Professor Mann studies marine bioacoustics with a focus on hearing an sound production in fishes and marine mammals. Laboratory studies utilize neurophysiological techniques to investigate the neural mechanisms of hearing and sound production. SCUBA diving with underwater video is used to identify and study sounds produced by fishes during courtship and spawning.

Vikas Mehta

Vikas Mehta

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-4031
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Professor Mehta’s research interests include the social and sensorial dimensions of architecture and urban design with an emphasis on aspects of human behavior and perceptions, especially as they relate to the design of public space.

Clifford R. Merz

Clifford R. Merz

Program Director of the Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System

(727) 553-3729
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Professor Merz’s research focuses on providing advance severe weather warning to coastal regions through close interaction with local and regional offices of emergency management divisions. His research interests include a better understanding of the water/energy nexus and enhancing the technical knowledge and application of renewable energy and water purification techniques to isolated regions.

James Mihelcic

James Mihelcic

Professor

(813) 974-2011
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Professor Mihelcic’s research focuses on the impact of global stressors (e.g., population, urbanization, land use, water scarcity, and climate) on issues of water, sanitation, and health. He studies how regional and global stressors impact sustainable solutions. He directs a master’s international program that allows students to combine overseas research with service in the Peace Corps.

Eric Morgan

Eric Morgan

Visiting Assistant Professor

(813) 974-3702
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Broadly conceived, Professor Morgan’s research explores the role of the United States in the developing world, focusing on citizen activism and social equity in the international arena. His research concentrates on the participation of Americans in the global struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the influence of citizen activism, race, and decolonization in international politics.

George Nolas

George Nolas

Professor

(813) 974-2233
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Professor Nolas conducts research that examines how the world will meet its future energy needs in an environmentally responsible manner. His laboratory is involved in the synthesis and physical properties investigations of new and novel materials for energy-related technologies, including thermoelectrics and photovoltaics.

Fraser Ottanelli

Fraser Ottanelli

Professor and Chair of History

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Professor Ottanelli’s research focuses on the intricate interaction between the experiences of work, migration, class-based activism, and the formation of multi-ethnic states.

Ernst Peebles

Ernst Peebles

Associate Professor

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Professor Peebles’ principal interest focuses on spatio-temporal interactions between coastal fishes and their prey. He has found that they spawning effort of zooplanktivorous fishes may actively adapt to the local zooplankton supply. This relationship has helped to explain variations in coastal-pelagic fish stocks in various places around the world.

Mark Rains

Mark Rains

Associate Professor

(813) 974-3310
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An ecohydrologist, Professor Rains has nearly 20 years of experience in the public and private sectors in the science, policy, and management of water and water-dependent resources in coupled human-natural systems. His research is focused on the roles that hydrological processes play in governing ecosystem structure and function.

Philip Reeder

Philip Reeder

Associate Professor

(813) 974-4292
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Professor Reeder is currently pursuing research that revolves around three multifaceted themes: environmental change, paleo-climate, and landscape evolution; environmental education, sustainability, and the human role in environmental change; and paleoenvironments, geoarchaeology, and cultural landscape evolution.

Stanley Russell

Stanley Russell

Professor and Director of SACD Design/Build Program

(813) 974-4031
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Professor Russell is currently conducting research on building materials and methods, renewable energy sources, and mechanical systems used in the production of Zero Energy Houses (ZEH). His research involves surveying the techniques that have already been tested and various systems that will make a more efficient and affordable ZEH.

Jeffrey Ryan

Jeffrey Ryan

Professor and Chair

(813) 974-1598
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Professor Ryan’s research interests include metamorphic geology, volcanology, and geochemistry. He examines chemical exchanges and reactions that are recorded in rocks and associated fluids, which connect to the development of mineral resources and to the nature of volcanic and earthquake hazards.

Martin Schönfeld

Martin Schönfeld

Professor

(813) 974-5698
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Professor Schönfeld is an artist and a philosopher of nature. He studies the matrix of environmental realities and the patterns of survival, sustainability, and cultural evolution. Professor Schönfeld explores designs for our post-carbon and post-consumerist futures.

Aarti Sharma

Aarti Sharma

Instructor

(813) 974-4354
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Professor Sharma is an Instructor of Strategic Management and Sustainable Enterprise. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on strategic management, sustainable enterprise, and climate change business strategies. She pursues management and sustainability policy research in three domains: interorganizational strategies and behaviors on sustainability, individual and managerial orientation toward corporate sustainability.

Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart

Professor

(813) 974-8749
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Professor Stewart’s research interests are in hydrology, environmental geophysics, mathematical modeling of hydrologic systems, and water resource management. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in hydrology, mathematical modeling, global climate change, and oceanography.

James Stock

James Stock

Professor

(813) 974-6173
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Reverse logistics is the focus of the majority of Professor Stock’s research. Reverse logistics deals with all aspects of product returns, including remanufacturing, repairing, and refurbishing of products, packaging reuse, recycling, minimization and substitution, and environmental and energy implications of reverse logistics.

Elizabeth Strom

Elizabeth Strom

Associate Professor

(813) 974-3439
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Professor Strom’s research has focused on urban planning decisions pertaining to the city of Berlin after Germany’s reunification. Ongoing work examines arts, culture, and urban development in U.S. cities, as well as the causes and consequences of mortgage foreclosures in Florida.

Amy Stuart

Amy Stuart

Associate Professor

(813) 974-6632
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Professor Stuart’s research interests are primarily related to air pollution and its impacts on human health and the environment. Through her work, Professor Stuart seeks to understand the multi-scale interactions of air pollutants with the natural and built environments, and to elucidate the effects of these interactions on public health and on sustainability.

Dawood H. Sulton

Dawood H. Sulton

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-9390
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Professor Sultan’s expertise focuses on demography, development, and health outcomes. His current research interests include examining the behavioral, socioeconomic, and structural determinants of nutrition, health outcomes, and access to and use of healthcare services.

Aydin Sunol

Aydin Sunol

Professor

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Professor Sunol’s research interests lie in green engineering and chemistry, sustainability in the chemical industry, systems engineering, and greener energy conversion processes. Recent projects include design of environmentally-friendly pathways for the development of novel materials, value-added products, and efficient fuel systems.

Graham Tobin

Graham Tobin

Professor

(813) 974-4932
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Professor Tobin’s research interests in natural hazards, water resources policy, and environmental contamination focus on sustainability concerns of human vulnerability, community resilience, social networks, and health conditions in hazardous environments.

Maya Trotz

Maya Trotz

Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

(813) 974-3310
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Professor Trotz’s research, teaching and service are at the nexus of geochemistry/water quality and global/community sustainability. Her interests are interdisciplinary and forge non-traditional university partnerships. Current research projects include the development of mineral oxide-dependent treatment technologies for contaminant remediation.

Thomas R. Unnasch

Thomas R. Unnasch

Professor

(813) 974-0507
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Professor Unnasch’s research interests focus on vector-borne disease, specifically issues relating to the ecology of arboviral transmission in Florida, with a special interest in how anthropogenic changes might affect the dynamics of viral transmission.

Philip Van Beynen

Philip Van Beynen

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-3026
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Professor Van Beynen’s research interests lie in examining how environmental indices can holistically measure human/environment interaction. He has created an index to measure disturbance in karst environments and is currently investigating an index for sustainable use of karst landscapes.

Edward Van Vleet

Edward Van Vleet

Professor

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Professor Van Vleet’s research has focused on the biogeochemical cycling of natural and anthropogenic organic compounds in the marine environment. He investigates how these organic compounds can be used as molecular markers to study other cycles and pathways occurring in the oceans.

Robert Weisberg

Robert Weisberg

Distinguished University Professor

(727) 553-1568
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Professor Weisberg is an experimental physical oceanographer engaged in ocean circulation and ocean-atmosphere interaction studies in the tropics, on continental shelves, and in estuaries. His research presently emphasizes the West Florida Continental Shelf (WFS) and the interactions that occur between the shelf and the deep-ocean and between the shelf and the estuaries.

Linda Whiteford

Linda Whiteford

Professor and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives

(813) 974-8394
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Professor Whiteford’s research focuses on sustainable practices and global policies that shape water-based and water-borne infectious and contagious diseases. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and other funding organizations and she has been a consultant for the World Health Organization, the World Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, and other multilateral funders.

Kristine Williams

Kristine Williams

Director of the Planning and Corridor Management Program

(813) 974-980
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Ms. Williams’ research interests are sustainable transportation, community design, public involvement and land use, and environmental policy. She coauthored the Access Manual (TRB 2003) and has assisted numerous state, regional, and local government agencies in developing transportation corridor management plans and policies.

Rebecca Zarger

Rebecca Zarger

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-2416
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Professor Zarger is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research at the interface between environmental anthropology and the anthropology of education and childhood. Her work over the last decade has explored the ways environmental knowledge and meanings are learned, taught, and transformed in Q’eqchi’ and Mopan Maya communities in Belize.

Qiong (Jane) Zhang

Qiong (Jane) Zhang

Assistant Professor

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Professor Zhang’s research and teaching interests lie in green engineering, sustainability, life cycle assessment, water/energy nexus, coupled nature-human system modeling, environmental fate and transport modeling, and water supply and treatment

Yu Zhang

Yu Zhang

Assistant Professor

(813) 974-5846
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Professor Zhang’s research interests include air transportation, transportation network modeling and operations, transportation economics, multimodal transportation and intermodal connectivity, and transportation sustainability. Professor Zhang dedicates her research effort in planning a seamlessly integrated and sustainable transportation system.

Wei Zhang

Wei Zhang

Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Professor Zhang’s research interests include the studies of traditional cultures, religions, and medicines and their intellectual, cultural, and social relevance to the contemporary globalizing world. Her publications include the dialogues of modern and traditional thinkers and Eastern and Western cultures.