Participating Faculty and Staff listed by category with links to their Department Faculty Web Page

Business/Economics

Gary A. Campbell (gacampbe@mtu.edu)

School of Business and Economics

Research Interests: Natural resources and mineral economics

http://www.sbe.mtu.edu/gacampbe/

Gregory A. Graman (gagman@mtu.edu)

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

School of Business and Economics

http://www.sbe.mtu.edu/gagraman/

Dana M. Johnson (dana@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Operations Management, School of Business and Economics

Research Interests: Operations management, lean manufacturing, quality engineering and management, environmental management systems (ISO-14000)

http://www.sbe.mtu.edu/dana/

Mark C. Roberts (mroberts@mtu.edu)

Professor of Mineral Economics, School of Business and Economics

Research Interests: Natural resource, Energy, and Mineral Economics

www.sbe.mtu.edu/mroberts/index.html

Christa L. Walck (cwalck@mtu.edu)

Dean and Professor of Organizational Behavior and Sustainability Corporate Social Responsibility, School of Business and Economics

Research Interests: Place studies, sustainability and organizations, organizational change

http://www.sbe.mtu.edu/pages/Faculty/FacultyProfiles.html#cwalck

Computer Science and Engineering

Leonard J. Bohmann (ljbohman@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests: electric power systems including electric energy, wind, PV, fuel cells, micro-hydr4o, integration into the electric grid

http://www.ece.mtu.edu/pages/faculty/Bohmann.html

Yu Cai (cai@mtu.edu)

Assistant Professor of Computer Networks and Systems Administration, School of Technology

Research Interests: network protocols, network security

http://www.tech.mtu.edu/~cai

Phillip R. Merkey (merk@mtu.edu)

Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sci. and Computer Science,

Director of the Computational Sci. and Engrg. Research Institute

Research Interests: High Performance Computing; Discrete Math

http://www.math.mtu.edu/~merk/

Educational Opportunity

Chris Anderson (csanders@mtu.edu)

Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity

Shalini Suryanarayana (shalini@mtu.edu)

Executive Director of Educational Opportunity

Research Interests: Campus Sustainability

http://www.edopp.mtu.edu/personnel.html

Education/Outreach

Joan Shumaker Chadde (jchadde@mtu.edu)

Education Program Coordinator Center for Science Environmental Outreach Western Upper Peninsula for Science, Math, and Environmental Education

Research Interests: educational programs for children, teachers, and community

http://wupcenter.mtu.edu/wupc/joan_chadde.html

Sheryl A. Sorby (Sheryl@mtu.edu)

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Innovative education methods and spatial visualization

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/sas.html

Environmental Systems

Martin T. Auer (mtauer@mtu.edu)

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: surface water quality engineering and water quality modeling

http://techalive.mtu.edu/gradfaculty/mtauer/index.htm

Nancy A. Auer (naauer@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Biological Science

Research Interests: Lake sturgeon ecology, invasive species, larval fish identification and ecology, ocean fishery resources

http://www.bio.mtu.edu/faculty/auer.htm

Susan T. Bagley, (stbagley@mtu.edu)

Professor of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: environmental microbiology, microbiology, microbial bioprocessing, microbial bioremediation, particularly of organic contaminants (and mutagenic and/or toxic metabolic by-products), mutagenicity of environmental pollutants (with particular focus on particles-associated and vapor phase components of diesel exhaust), and control of microbial contaminants in metal working fluids.

Http://www.bio.mtu.edu/faculty/bagley.htm

Brian D. Barkdoll (barkdoll@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research interests: environmental water resources

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/bdb.html

David J. Flaspohler (djflaspo@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Research Interests: Conservation biology, ornithology, ecology

http://forest.mtu.edu/faculty/flaspohler/

John S. Gierke (jsierke@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Geological Geological & Mining Engineering & Sciences and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: subsurface remediation, groundwater exploration, groundwater and watershed protection, Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~jsgierke/

Jacqualine B. Grant (jbgrant@mtu.edu)

Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Technology

Research Interests: Conservation biology, herpetology, functional connectivity, road ecology

http://forest.mtu.edu/faculty/grant/index.html

Sarah A. Green (sgreen@mtu.edu)

Professor and Department Chair of Chemistry Department

Research Interests: Carbon cycle, environmental chemistry, Lake Superior, photochemistry, free radicals, fluorescence

http://www.chemistry.mtu.edu/pages/faculty.php?fac=green

Veronica W. Griffis (vgriffis@mtu.edu)

Donald and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: flood frequency analsyis and the analysis of other extreme events, uncertainty analysis, and impacts of climate variability, climate change, and land use changes,statistics

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/griffis.html

Kathleen E. Halvorsen (kehalvor@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Natural Resource Policy, Department of Social Science and School of Forest Resources and Environmental Technology

Research Interests: sociology of natural resources, policy processes: forest, water and energy policies

http://www.ss.mtu.edu/people/kehalvor.htm

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: photocatalysis; physical and chemical processes for the recovery or destruction of organic compounds from air and water streams in industrial processes and the environment; water resuse

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/dwh.html

Gretchen L. Hein (glhein@mtu.edu)

Lecturer of Engineering Fundamentals

Research Interests: Undergraduate engineering education; underrepresented groups in engineering

http://geneng.mtu.edu/gretchenhein.html

Casey J. Huckins (cjhuckin@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: aquatic ecology, community ecology, ecology and biology of fish

http://www.bio.mtu.edu/faculty/huckins.htm

http://www.bio.mtu.edu/fisheco2/index.html

Jacqueline E. Huntoon (jeh@mtu.edu)

Professor of Geology and Dean of the Graduate School

Research Interests: Thermal modeling of sedimentary basins, sediment transport, petroleum geology, sustainability educational initiatives

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/profile/jeh.htm

Neil J. Hutzler (hutzler@mtu.edu)

Chair and Professor of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: groundwater contaminant transport, biological and physical processes for aquifer and soil restoration, risk assessments, management of household wastewaters, hazardous waste management, and water distribution system analysis.

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/njh.html

W. Charles Kerfoot (wkerfoot@mtu.edu)

Professor of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Aquatic Ecology; Paleoecology; Director, Lake Superior Ecosystem Research Center

http://www.bio.mtu.edu/~wkerfoot/index.html

Yue Li (yueli@mtu.edu)

Donald and Rose Ann Tomas Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: life cycle analysis; probabilistic design; natural and man-made hazard mitigation; structural monitoring and condition assessment; bridge engineering; performance-based engineering; earthquake, wind, and wood engineering

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/yueli.html

Ann L. Maclean (amaclean@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Remote Sensing/GIS, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Research Interests: GIS, Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis, Land Use Planning

http://forest.mtu.edu/faculty/maclean/

Alex S. Mayer (asmayer@mtu.edu)

Professor of Geological and Environmental Engineering and Director, Michigan Tech Center for Water and Society

Research Interests: Hydrology, Water Resources Management

http://www.geo.mtu.edu/%7Easmayer/

James R. Mihelcic (jm41@mtu.edu)

Professor of Biological Processes and Sustainability/Industrial Ecology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of Master's International Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: biological processes applied to natural and engineered systems; green engineering and sustainability; and engineering of the developing world; education sustainability initiatives

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/jrm.html

Kurtis G. Paterson (paterson@mtu.ed)

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Education Initiatives; Urban and Indoor Air Quality, Specifically Estimating Public Health Impacts

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/kgp.html

Judith A. Perlinger (jperl@mtu.ed)

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Air and Water Quality

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/~jperl/

Thomas G. Pypker (tgpypker@mtu.ed)

Assistant Professor, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Research Interests: Forest Hydrology, Micrometeorology, Ecohydrology, Carbon Cycling, Stable Isotopes

http://forest.mtu.edu/faculty/pypker/index.html

Lawrence L. Sutter (llsutter@mtu.ed)

Professor and Director, Michigan Tech Transportation Institute

Research Interests: Materials Characterizations, Portland Cement, Portland Cement Concrete, Concrete Durability, Coal Fly Ash, Industrial Residual Utilization

Noel R. Urban (nurban@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: water quality; Environmental cycles of major and trace elements; sediment diagenesis and stratigraphy; chemistry of natural organic matter; wetland biogeochemistry; environmental impact and fate of pollutants; influence of organisms on the chemical environment; role of chemical environment in controlling populations

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/nru.html

David W. Watkins (dwatkins@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Water resources planning and management; systems analysis and optimization methods; decision support systems; hydrologic statistics; planning under uncertainty

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/dww.html

Zhanping You (zyou@mtu.edu)

Donald and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Pavements and transportation materials, mechanical testing and constitutive modeling of asphalt binders and mixtures, analysis and control of thermal and reflective cracking in asphalt pavement and overlays, micromechanics, finite element analysis, discrete element analysis, constitutive model development; pavement fracture, instrumentation

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/Zhanping_You.htm

Heather L. Youngs (hlyoungs@mtu.edu)

Assistant Professor of Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Departent of Biological Sciences

Research Interests: Biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, structure/function studies, directed evolution (bioremediation using peroxidases), peptide chemistry (enzyme inhibitors, biosensors), plant biochemistry (biomass manipulation)

http://www.bio.mtu.edu/faculty/youngs.htm

Manufacturing/Chemical Processing and Products/Life Cycle Considerations

Jaime A. Camelio (jcamelio@mtu.edu)

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Research Interests: Remanufacturing, decision making under uncertainty, optimal design.

http://www.me.mtu.edu/~jcamelio

Gerard T. Caneba (caneba@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Polymers and Composites, Nanotechnology, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Phase Separation Kinetics and Thermodynamics, Nonlinear Dynamics, Polymerization Reaction Processes

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/chem_eng/faculty/gtcaneba.htm

Sarah A. Green

Professor and Department Chair of Chemistry

Research Interests: Carbon Cycle, Environmental Chemistry, Lake Superior Photochemistry, Free radicals, Fluorescence

www.chemistry.mtu.edu/pages/faculty/faculty.php?fac=sgreen

Patricia A. Heiden (paheiden@mtu.edu)

Professor of Chemistry

Research Interests: Polymer synthesis and modification, biopolymers and biocomposites, environmentally benign synthesis and processing, electrospinning nanofibers, nanocomposites, nanoparticles, controlled release, polymer durability.

http://www.chemistry.mtu.edu/pages/faculty/faculty.php?fac=paheiden

Joseph H. Holles (jhholles@mtu.edu)

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Nanoscale Materials Design and Synthesis for Catalytic Applications

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/chem_eng/faculty/jhholles.htm

Richard E. Honrath (reh@mtu.ed)

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: atmospheric chemistry of nitrogen oxides and ozone; global and regional atmospheric impacts of anthropogenic and biomass-burning pollutants, especially in remote areas; snow photochemistry

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/~reh/

S. Komar Kawatra (skkawatr@mtu.edu)

Professor and Interim Department Chair of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Agglomeration, Ash Analyzer, Pelletization, Particulate & Mineral Processing

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/chem_eng/faculty/kawatra.htm

Jason M. Keith (jmkeith@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Heat Mass Transfer, Fuel Cells, Pollution Control, Alternative Energy

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/chem_eng/faculty/jmkeith.htm

Julia A. King (jaking@mtu.edu)

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Resaerch Interests: Polymers, Composites

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/%7Ejaking/jaking.htm

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/org/ctc/

Jeffrey D. Naber (jnaber@mtu.ed)

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics

Research Interests: Alternative fuels and combustion for power generation with a focus on IC engines operating on ethanol, biodiesels, syngas, and hydrogen

http://www.me.mtu.edu/meem/facultybio/naber.html

http://www.me.mtu.edu/research/AICE/

William W. Predebon (wwpredeb@mtu.ed)

Professor and Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics

Research Interests: Ceramics, Impact Phenomena, Computer Simulation of Impact Dynamics

http://www.me.mtu.edu/meem/facultybio/predebon.html

Tony N. Rogers (tnrogers@mtu.ed)

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Environmental Thermodynamics, Process Analysis, Biominetics, Graphitized Carbon Foams

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/chem_eng/faculty/tnrogers.htm

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/org/ctc/

David R. Shonnard (drshonnar@mtu.edu)               

Professor of Chemical Engineering/SFI Deputy Director

Research interests are in the areas of environmentally-conscious chemical process design, life-cycle assessment, environmental transport processes, and bioengineering. 

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/~drshonna/deptbio/drshonnard.htm

John W. Sutherland (jwsuther@mtu.edu)

Henes Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering/SFI Director

Research Interests: Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing, Quality, Machining, Sustainability

http://www.me.mtu.edu/~jwsuther/

Song-Lin (Jason) Yang (slyang@mtu.edu)

Professor Mechanical Engineering—Engineering Mechanics

Research Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Emission control; Engine Modeling and Simulation

http://www.me.mtu.edu/meem/facultybio/yang.html

Qiong Zhang (qiong@mtu)

Senior Research Engineer of Civil and Environental Engineering/
SFI Operations Manager

Research Interests: Life-cycle Analysis

http://www.cee.mtu.edu/people/zhang.htm

David A. Zei (zei@mtu.edu)

Technical Staff Assistant for Chemical Engineering

Research Insterests: Physical Property Research, Environmental Qualities Research

http://www.chem.mtu.edu/chem_eng/faculty/staff/zei.htm

Public Policy/Societal Systems

Randy R. Freisinger (rfreisi@mtu.edu)

Professor Department of the Humanities

Research Interests: Composition studies, Poetics, and Creative Writing

http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~rfreisi/index.html

Hugh S. Gorman (hsgorman@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and History,
Department of Social Sciences

Research Interests: relationship between environmental regulations, industrial practices, and socially defined environmental objectives

www.social.mtu.edu/people/hsgorman.htm

Denise M. Heikinen (dmheikin@mtu.edu)

Instructor, Department of Humanities/Administrative Associate SFI

Research Interests: Communication, Ecological Footprints

Susan R. Martin (srmartin@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Archaeology, Department of Social Science

Research Interests: Heritage management, Public Archaeology, Prehistoric Technologies, and Native American Political/Resources issues, World Cultural Diversity, Physical Anthropology, Introduction to Archaeology, and American Indian Political Issues, Prehistoric Copper and it's uses by the native people of the Lake Superior region

http://www.social.mtu.edu/people/srmartin.htm

Barry D. Solomon (bdsolomo@mtu.edu)

Professor of Geography and Environmental Policy,
Deptartment of Social Sciences

Research Interests: Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis, Emissions Trading, Ecological Economics

http://www.social.mtu.edu/people/bdsolomo.htm

Craig Waddell (cwadell@mtu.edu)

Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Department of Humanities

Research Interests: classical rhetoric; public participation; building community in local, national, and global contexts; global poverty; communicating health, environmental, and natural-hazard risks; journalism; and qualitative research methods

www.hu.mtu.edu/~cwaddell/home.html