BSES Faculty (A - L)
REBECCA BARTHELMIE: Transport and transformation of atmospheric pollutants; chemical processes involved in the formation of inorganic and organic aerosols; numerical modeling of gas to particle conversion; atmospheric stability characteristics; offshore and coastal meteorology; wind energy meteorology and climatology.
JAMES BEVER: Ecology and evolution of plants and fungi.
BEN BRABSON: Environmental Physics, Wind Energy and Wind Speed Analysis, Extreme Value Analysis, Long-term changes in insolation from variations in the Earth’s orbit and tilt (the Milankovitch cycles) and their influence on climate change.
SIMON BRASSELL: Biogeochemical responses to climatic and environmental change; abundance and isotopic composition of organic matter in sediments; biological origins and geological fate of organic compounds.
JOHN BROTHERS: Geometric Analysis
CONSTANCE BROWN: Surface-Atmosphere Exchange of terrestrial ecosystems, in particular, forested, transitional/changing and semi-arid ecosystems; Biogeochemical modeling and the assimilation of remotely sensed data; Ecosystem manifestations of change, and climate variability - Linking the pattern to the process. Drought and fire impacts in semi-arid areas, North American Monsoon and cumulus cloud development over semi-arid sky Islands.
KELLY CAYLOR: Ecohydrology (i.e. interface between plant ecology and surface hydrology); Landscape ecology; Surface hydrology; Ecological modeling; Theoretical and spatial ecology
KEITH CLAY: Plant Ecology; Co-evolution; Plant/Fungal Interactions
CHRIS CRAFT: Restoration Ecology; Wetland Restoration; Sediment and Nutrient Retention in Wetlands
CLARA COTTEN: Aquatic Biology; Paleolimnology; Indexing of key species for environmental assesment.
BRUCE DOUGLAS: Rheological properties of rocks; Deformation mechanisms that are active in the brittle and ductile portions of the lithosphere; Development of Tertiary extensional basins
DANILO DRAGONI: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions; exchange of CO2, water vapor and energy between forests and the atmosphere; measuring and modeling spatial and temporal dynamic of plant –environment interactions, with particular focus on transpiration and photosynthesis processes.
TOM EVANS: GIS; Landcover Change Analysis and Modeling; Biocomplexity in Linked Bioecological-Human Systems; Land use and Land Cover Change in South-Central Indiana
GERALD GASTONY: : Evolutionary problems in vascular plants
HENK HAITJEMA: Groundwater flow modeling; Model development of: regional groundwater flow systems, three-dimensional groundwater flow embedded in horizontal flow models (Dupuit-Forchheimer models), multiple fluid flow, and fracture flow.
SPENCER HALL: Interactions between species and their environment at population, community, and ecosystem levels; development of numerical models, use of experimental laboratory and field tests, and surveys of natural systems.
DIANE HENSHEL: Effects of environmental pollutants on developing organisms; Effects of pollutants on the early embryo, in general, with an additional emphasis on the effects of pollutants on the nervous system throughout the embryonic period.
GARY HIEFTJE: Development of spectrochemical measurements and instrumentation
RON HITES: Application of organic analytical chemistry to the understanding of environmental problems; Use of gas chromatographic mass spectrometry for the analysis of trace levels of potentially toxic environmental pollutants; Scale transport of halogenated compounds; Rate of reactions of pollutants with OH and O3; Anthropogenic organic pollutants in the Great Lakes; Enantiomeric ratios of pollutants.
CLAUDIA JOHNSON: Tropical Paleontology; Quantitative analysis of latitudinal trends in species and generic diversity; Evolutionary and extinction patterns of molluscs and corals.
BILL JONES: Water quality assessment; Lake and watershed management; Applied ecology; Aquatic chemistry; Groundwater assessment; Wetland ecology.
ERLE KAUFFMAN: Distribution of communities along an environmental stress gradient during the Cretaceous, systematic revision of the species-subspecies levels for the bivalvia and ammonoidea, Cretaceous climate investigations.
ELLEN KETTERSON: Avian biology; avian migration; mating systems and parental care; hormones and behavior; physiological mechanisms underlying trade-offs in life histories; using hormones to explore adaptation; dominance and aggression; population dynamics during the non-breeding season.
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