Sections
Faculty
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.
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).
Joseph W. Dorsey
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy
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Joseph Dorsey’s teaching focuses on environmental policy and its implications at local, regional, national and global levels. He has interdisciplinary training in the fields of human ecology, urban and regional planning, international studies, and environmental sociology. His research interests include brownfield redevelopment and greenfield protection, resource use and environmental degradation in developed and developing nations; corporate environmental decision making for pollution management effectiveness and eco-efficiency; and empowering communities to participate more effectively in sustainable development initiatives. He has a public health and human nutrition background from a previous career and has been an environmental consultant.
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.
Sharon Hanna-West
Instructor
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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.
Carl Herndl
Director, Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Program, Department of English
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Professor Herndl is a faulty member of the Patel Center for Global Solutions and directs the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition in the English department. His expertise is in the rhetoric of science, and he studies the public discourse on sustainability and sustainable technology development. Before coming to USF, he participated in a number interdisciplinary research teams working on sustainable agroecosystem management and sustainable biofuel systems. He was also a faculty affiliate of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has authored white papers for new research centers at Iowa State University, lead workshops at the National Conference on Science Policy and the Environment, co-authored research proposals in sustainable agriculture, published articles in edited collections and in rhetoric journals, and coauthored articles in refereed science journals. In 1996 he published Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America, and he is currently editing The Green Reader an undergraduate textbook on writing and sustainability for Oxford University Press. Beside work in resilience, sustainability and community participation in science and technology development, he is currently writing about materialist rhetorical theory and object-oriented ontology in science studies.
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.
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.
Frank Muller-Karger
College of Marine Science and Director, International Ocean Institute
(727) 553-3335
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Frank E. Muller-Karger is a biological oceanographer (Professor) at the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, where he directs the International Ocean Institute-USA (IOI-USA)and the Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS). Frank is of Hispanic descent via Puerto Rico, and while born in the U.S. he grew up in Venezuela . Muller-Karger conducts oceanographic research using satellite remote sensing, large data sets, networking, and high-speed computing. This research helps in the location and monitoring of large-scale phenomena, understanding climate control and climate change, and in the interpretation of numerical models of the ocean. The focus of his present work is to assess the importance of continental margins, including areas of upwelling, river discharge, and coral reefs in the global carbon budget, using satellites that measure ocean color and sea surface temperature. Muller-Karger has worked hard to educate K-12 teachers in the region about the use of new technologies in oceanography through targeted workshops sponsored by NASA. He has also given lectures at various national educator societies. Muller-Karger was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. He has served on the Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council/National Academies and on various NRC committees. Muller-Karger previously received the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Award for Outstanding Contributions and the NASA Administrator Award for Exceptional Contribution and Service for supporting development of satellite technologies for ocean observation. He served as Dean of the School for Marine Science and Technology or SMAST at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2007-2009). He has B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in marine science and a Masters degree in management and has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications. He speaks fluent Spanish and German.
Mark Rains
Associate Professor
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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.
Stephen L. Reich
Program Director, Center for Urban Transportation Research
(813) 974-6435
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Mr. Reich has over thirty years of national and international executive management experience in both the public and private transport sectors. Since 2000 he has been with the University of South Florida’s, Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) managing a program area in a university transportation center focusing on providing technical assistance and research to public transportation agencies.
Prior to joining USF Mr. Reich was senior vice president for a global tier-one automotive safety supplier. He was appointed by Governor William Donald Schaefer as Executive Secretary of the Maryland Transportation Authority in 1993 serving in that capacity until 1997. There he provided innovative financing opportunities for the state of Maryland including a major financing for Baltimore Washington International airport that was named one of Governing Magazine’s Top Ten Municipal Deals in 1994. Before being appointed to the Transportation Authority position, Mr. Reich had a 14 year career with the Maryland Department of Transportation serving in a variety of positions including Assistant Deputy Secretary and Deputy Director, Office of Transportation Planning.
Mr. Reich has a B.S. in Geography and Environmental Planning from Towson University and is a graduate of the Maryland Department of Transportation’s Executive Development Program.
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.
Maya Trotz
Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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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.
Daniel Yeh
Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Professor Yeh’s research and teaching interests are related to water treatment, wastewater reuse and nutrient recovery, bio-energy (methane and algae biofuel) from wastes, rainwater harvesting, desalination, green building net-zero water strategies, sustainable urban water management, and adapting the infrastructure of coastal cities to climate change.