Science Faculty
BY CSM DEPARTMENTS:
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Expertise |
| Biology |
| Steven Ackerman |
Molecular biology |
| Kamaljit Bawa |
Forest ecology and genetics |
| Gregory Beck |
Immunology; evolution |
| Solange Brault |
Population dynamics; conservation |
| Kenneth Campbell |
Endoctinology; cell physiology |
| Adan Colon Carmona |
Physiology and molecular biology of plants; expression of cyclins in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Jeffrey Dukes |
Terrestrial Ecology. Global warming consequences, impacts of invasive species. |
| John Ebersole |
Marine ecology; icthyology |
| Ron Etter |
Population dynamics; population genetics |
| Robert Guimond |
Physiology |
| William Hagar |
Photosynthesis; environmental monitoring |
| Linda Huang |
Cell Biology: Signal Transduction and Regulation of Cell Morphology |
| Richard Kesseli |
Population
genetics; molecular evolution; evolution and genetic bases of
host-pathogen interactions; evolution and genetic bases of sex
determination; conservation genetics. |
| Kenneth Kleene |
Developmental molecular biology |
| Alexia Pollack |
Neuropharmacology and immunocytochemistry: role of dopamine in regulating motor behavior of rats |
| Michael Rex |
Marine ecology; biodiversity |
| Michael Shiaris |
Microbial ecology; biodegradation of organic pollutants |
| Rachel Skvirsky |
Molecular genetics; microbiology; membrane mechanisms for protein transport |
| Robert Stevenson |
Comparative animal physiology |
| Manickham Sugumaran |
Protein chemistry; enzymology; insect biochemistry |
| Ying Tan |
Molecular systematics; the evolution of color vision in primates; bioinformatics |
| Alexey Veraksa |
Cell signaling and gene regulation in development |
| Brian White |
Science
education; investigation of students' changing conceptions of science
(especially biology); development and evaluation of teaching materials
including computer software. |
| H. Garrison Wilkes |
Plant genetics and evolution |
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| Chemistry |
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| Engineering |
| Greg Sun |
Semiconductor devices; opto-electronics |
| Tomas Materdey |
Quantum statistical physics; Wigner function; numerical
electromagnetics; dielectric waveguides; and active-learning in science
and engineering. |
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| Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences |
| Robert Bowen |
Environmental policy and management |
| Robert Chen |
Organic geochemistry; marine organic chemistry |
| Ellen Douglas |
Hydrology; hydromorphology; water resource management
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| John Duff |
Natural Resources Law and Policy |
| Eugene Gallagher |
Benthic ecology; polychaete biology; succession, serology and predator-prey relationships |
| Curtis Olsen |
Dispersal
and fate of contaminants in linked watershed and coastal environments;
biogeochemical and environmental tracers (radionuclides and stable
isotopes); environmental remediation and management. |
| William Robinson |
Functional
mechanisms in aquatic toxicology, particularly those processes involved
in metal uptake, depuration, sequestration and internal transport. |
| Juanita Urban-Rich |
Zooplankton processes in environments ranging from coastal waters to the open ocean and from tropical to polar regions |
| Gordon Wallace |
Aquatic and atmospheric chemistry |
| Meng Zhou |
Small
and mesoscale physical processes and their effects on spatiotemporal
variability of chemical and biological processes in aquatic ecosystems
by using observation tools, numerical models and mathematical theories |
| Anamarija Frankic |
Coastal Ecosystem Management; applications in aquaculture, marine protected areas, and tourism/ecotourism |
| David Terkla |
Environmental economics |
| David Tenenbaum |
Geographic information science; hydrology
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| Deborah Metzel |
Social geography, specializing in the geography of human services and people with disabilities |
| John Looney |
Physical oceanography |
| David Merwin |
Geo-spatial processing techniques, natural resource applications |
| Yong Quian Tian |
GIS based modeling of groundwater and surface water, agricultural applications |
| Allen Gontz |
Coastal geology and stratigraphy; shallow marine geophysics
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| Computer Science |
| Ethan Bolker |
Combinatorial analysis; queuing theory; performance modeling |
| William Campbell |
Programming languages and their implementation; compilers |
| Peter Fejer |
Logic; theoretical computer science |
| Robert A. Morris |
Text processing; document preparation systems |
| Kenneth Newman |
Software engineering; algebra |
| Elizabeth O'Neil |
Database systems |
| Patrick O'Neil |
Database systems |
| Marc Pomplun |
Combining
psychophysical investigations such as eye-movement studies with
modeling and simulating components of human vision; developing advanced
active computer vision systems |
| Dan Simovici |
Database systems; theoretical computer science; data mining |
| Jun Suzuki |
Autonomous
and adaptive distributed systems; Cognitive middleware for autonomic
network systems; Reflective and reconfigurable network systems;
Self-organizing overlay networks; Biologically-inspired designs for
software adaptation; Object-oriented and aspect-oriented programming
languages; Model-driven software development;Object-oriented modeling
languages, software patterns and frameworks |
| Duc Tran |
Networks and distributed systems |
| Bob Wilson |
Embedded system, network product, and communication protocol software development and testing.
The Internet, TCP/IP protocol software, and object-oriented programming using either Java or C++. |
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| Mathematics |
| Ethan Bolker |
Combinatorics, geometry. Performance modeling of computer systems. Mathematics for lay audiences |
| Hans Herda |
Mathematical Geology |
| Steven Jackson |
Combinatorics, commutative algebra, invariant theory, representation theory |
| Timothy Killingback |
Mathematical biology, evolutionary dynamics, dynamical Systems, and game theory |
| Maura Mast |
Differential geometry; spectral geometry |
| Kenneth Newman |
Algebra |
| Alfred Noel |
Representation of Lie groups |
| Karen Ricciardi |
Combinatorial optimization; optimal groundwater remediation design subject to uncertainty; optimal algorithms for solving differential equations numerically |
| Dennis Wortman |
Functional analysis |
| Catalin Zara |
Differential geometry; symplectic manifolds with Hamiltonian group actions; combinatorial aspects of equivariant cohomology and K-theory |
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| Physics |
| Stephen Arnason |
The interface between the disciplines of materials science, condensed matter physics, and electrical engineering |
| Edward Ginsberg |
Theoretical elementary particle physics |
| Kurt Jacobs |
Quantum feedback control, the quantum-to-classical transition and quantum information theory |
| Benjamin Mollow |
Theoretical quantum optics |
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Theoretical Many-Body Physics: cold atomic gases; quantum non-equilibrium dynamics; integrable systems; chaos in classical fields; scattering in restricted geometries |
| D. V. G. L. N. Rao |
Experimental laser research; nonlinear optics |
| Greg Sun |
Semiconductor devices; opto-electronics
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| Bala Sundaram |
Quantum and classical chaos, the quantum-to-classical transition and applications of nonlinear dynamics in biology and cognitive science |
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