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As of Fall 2007 (Updated 12/21/07)

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Terence Agbeyegbe, Professor, Ph.D., University of Essex
Hunter College, (212) 772-5405; tagbeyeg@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Energy and environmental economics.

Sean C. Ahearn, Professor, Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information (CARSI)
Hunter College, (212) 772-5327; sca@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Remote sensing, Environmental assessment.

Samir A. Ahmed, Professor, Ph.D., University College of London
City College, (212) 650-7250; ahmed@ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental optics, Remote sensing.

Stephen U. Aja, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Washington State
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000x2881; suaja@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental geochemistry, Clay mineralogy.

Jochen Albrecht, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Vechta, Germany
Hunter College, (212) 772-5221; jochen@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Geographic Information Science.

Teresa J. Bandosz, Professor, Ph.D., Technical University of Cracow, Poland
City College, (212) 650-6017; tbandosz@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental chemistry, Material science, Waste management, Pollutant removal.

Jeffrey Bird, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Queens College, (718) 997-3332; jbird@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Soil biogeochemistry and ecosystem ecology.

Bruce P. Braun, Professor, Ph.D., University of British Columbia
Graduate Center, (212) 817-8251; bbraun@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: Society-environment relations, Science and technology studies, Materialism and philosophy, Biopolitics.

Patrick W.G. Brock, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Leeds, England
Queens College, (718) 997-3328; patrick.brock@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Field geology, Igneous and metamorphic petrology, Structural geology, Geomorphology.

Hannes K. Brueckner, Professor, Ph.D., Yale University
Queens College, (718) 997-3303; hannes@ldeo.columbia.edu
Interests: Senior Research Associate, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Structural geology, Geotectonics, Isotope geology, Geochemistry.

Frank S. Buonaiuto,Jr., Assistant Professor, Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook
Hunter College, (212) 772-5325; frank.buonaiuto@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Coastal processes, Sediment transport.

Anthony Carpi, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
John Jay College, (212) 237-8944; acarpi@jjay.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry, Global Pollutant Transport Phenomenon.

John A. Chamberlain,Jr., Professor, Ph.D., University of Rochester
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000x2885; johnc@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Paleobiology, Functional morphology, Biostratigraphy.

Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000 x 2647; zcheng@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Geochemistry of environmentally significant trace metals; environmental monitoring, remediation technology and mitigation strategy; chemical and isotopic signatures in geologic records.

Nicholas K. Coch, Professor, Ph.D., Yale University
Queens College, (718) 997-3326, (718) 997-3352 (Fax); nicholas.coch@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Sedimentology, Coastal and estuarine geology, Environmental geology, Geomorphology, Stratigraphy.

Harold C. Connolly, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Kingsborough Community College, (718) 368-5776, (718) 368-4876 (Fax); hconnolly@kbcc.cuny.edu
Interests: Planetary geology, Geoscience.

Constantin Cranganu, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000x2878; cranganu@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Geophysics, Basin analysis, Rock/fluid properties.

Eric Delson, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Herbert H. Lehman College, (718) 960-8850, (212) 817-8028 (GC), (212) 769-5992 (AMNH); eedlc@cunyvm.cuny.edu, delson@amnh.org
Interests: Paleoanthropology, Primate paleontology and primatology, Miocene, Evolutionary biology.

Timothy T. Eaton, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Queens College, (718) 997-3327; tim.eaton@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Hydrology, Geochemistry.

Niles Eldredge, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Curator, American Museum of Natural History, (212) 769-5723; epunkeek@amnh.org
Interests: Paleontology.

John J. Flynn, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
American Museum of Natural History, (212) 769-5806; jflynn@amnh.org
Interests: Vertebrate paleontology, Fossil mammals.

Joshua Fogel, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Yeshiva University
Editor-in-chief: Internet Journal of Mental Health
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000 x2676; {click here to send}
Interests: Urban public health, mental health, epidemiology, biostatistics, race/ethnicity, culture, and business.

Allan Frei, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Hunter College, (212) 772-5322; afrei@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Climatology and global climate change.

Stanley Gedzelman, Professor, Ph.D., MIT
City College, (212) 650-6470; stan@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Meteorology and climatology.

Philip Gersmehl, Professor, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Hunter College, (212) 650-3534; pgersmeh@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Geographic Education.

Hongmian Gong, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Georgia
Hunter College, (212) 772-4658; gong@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Urban geography, Geographic Information Systems.

Cyrena A. Goodrich, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
Kingsborough Community College, (718) 368-5779; cgoodrich@kingsborough.edu
Interests: Geological and chemical evolution of the terrestrial planets and asteroids.

Kenneth Gould, Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000 x1765; kgould@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental sociology, ecotourism and development, ecodisasters.

Jean Grassman, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000 x 2752; grassman@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental health and occupational health, measurement of human exposure through biological monitoring, detection of the effects of dioxins and persistent foodborne contaminants.

Daniel Habib, Professor, Ph.D., Penn State
Queens College, (718) 997-3300; daniel.habib@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Palynology, Biostratigraphy, Sedimentology of organic matter.

George E. Harlow, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University
Curator, American Museum of Natural History, (212) 769-5378; gharlow@amnh.org
Interests: Mineralogy, Crystallography, Meteorites.

Roger A. Hart, Professor, Ph.D., Clark University
Children's Environments Research Group (CERG)
Graduate Center, (212) 817-1887; rhart@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental policy, planning and design and the rights and well being of children and youth; participatory research and development.

David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., St. Johns College, England
Graduate Center, (212) 817-7211; dharvey@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: Social theory, Urban political economy and urbanization.

Charles A. Heatwole, Professor, Ph.D., Michigan State
Hunter College, (212) 772-5323; cah@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Urban and environmental geography.

N. Gary Hemming, Associate Professor, Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook
Queens College, (718) 997-3335; gary.hemming@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Health and environmental studies, Global climate, Ocean chemistry.

George R. Hendrey, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
Queens College, (718) 997-3325; george.hendrey@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Ecology.

Edward Hindman, Professor, Ph.D., Washington State
City College, (212) 650-6469; hindman@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Meteorology and climatology.

Mohamed Bibibker Ibrahim, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Alberta, Canada
Hunter College, (212) 772-5267; mibrahim@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Drought management and North African ecosystems.

Urs Jans, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
City College, (212) 650-8369; ujans@ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental chemistry.

Cindi Katz, Professor, Ph.D., Clark University
Graduate Center, (212) 817-8728; ckatz@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: Production and reproduction of space, place and nature, critical social theory, qualitative methodology and the politics of research, social reproduction and everyday life, children and the environment, political ecology.

Patricia Kenyon, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University
City College, (212) 650-6472; pkenyon@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Tectonophysics, Magma migration, Environmental and engineering geophysics.

Reza M. Khanbilvardi, Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
City College, (212) 650-8009; khanbilvardi@ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Geohydrology, Water resources, Environmental planning.

Yehuda L. Klein, Executive Officer, Ph.D., California at Berkeley
Graduate Center, (212) 817-8240; yklein@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental economics, input-output.

Athanasios Koutavas, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
College of Staten Island, (718) 982-2972; koutavas@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Interests: Paleoclimate and Global Change.

Neil H. Landman, Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale University
Associate Curator, American Museum of Natural History, (212) 769-5712; landman@amnh.org
Interests: Systematics, Ontogeny, and evolution of late cretaceous ammonoids and modern Nautilus; phylogeny of the ammonoidea.

Arthur M. Langer, Science Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-4793, (212) 817-8123 (GC); alanger@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental and health effects of minerals, Geochemistry.

Irene S. Leung, Professor, Ph.D., California at Berkeley
Herbert H. Lehman College, (718) 960-8572; leung@lehman.cuny.edu
Interests: Mineralogy, Petrology, Crystal chemistry, X-ray mineralogy.

David J. Leveson, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000x2879; dleveson@aol.com
Interests: The history and philosophy of geology, Geology and the urban environment.

Allan Ludman, Professor, Ph.D., Penn State
Queens College, (718) 997-3324; allan.ludman@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Field geology, Metamorphic petrology, Tectonics.

Z. Johnny Luo, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
City College, (212) 650-7000 x. 23858; luo@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Upper-tropospheric water vapor, clouds and convection; Satellite remote sensing and application in weather and climate; Global climate model (GCM) diagnostics and evaluations.

Juliana Maantay, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Herbert H. Lehman College, (718) 960-8574; maantay@lehman.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental geography, Geographic Information Systems, Urban Health Geography

Shayesteh Mahani, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Arizona
City College, (212) 650-8440; mahani@ce.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Hydrological modeling, satellite and air-borne remote sensing.

Steven Markowitz, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeon
Queens College, (718) 670-4184; markowitz@cbns.qc.edu
Interests: Environmental health.

John Marra, Professor, Ph.D., Dalhousie University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000 x2594; jfm7780@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Biological oceanography.

Edmond A. Mathez, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Washington University at Seattle
Curator, American Museum of Natural History, (212) 769-5379; mathez@amnh.org
Interests: Petrology, Mineralogy.

Cecilia M. McHugh, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Queens College, (718) 997-3322; cecilia.mchugh@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Sedimentary petrology, Marine geology, Sedimentology.

Jin Meng, Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
American Museum of Natural History, (212) 496-3337; jmeng@amnh.org
Interests: Vertebrate paleontology.

Ines A. Miyares, Professor, Ph.D., Arizona State University
Hunter College, (212) 772-5265/5443; imiyares@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Population, Social geography.

Alfredo Morabia, Professor, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
Queens College, (718) 670-4226; alfredo.morabia@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Epidemiology.

Fred Moshary, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
City College, (212) 650-7251; moshary@ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Remote sensing.

Cherukupalli E. Nehru, Professor, Ph.D., Madras, India
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000x2886; nehru@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Igneous and metamorphic petrology, Experimental petrology and mineralogy, Meteoritics, Mineral exploration, Environmental geology.

Wenge Ni-Meister, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Boston University
Hunter College, (212) 772-5321; wenge.ni-meister@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Remote sensing, Biogeography.

Robert P. Nolan, Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., CUNY
Graduate Center, (212) 817-8248; rnolan@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: Interaction of minerals and biological membranes.

Rupal Oza, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Hunter College, (212) 650-3035; rupal.oza@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Feminist geographical theory, Globalization and gender, Gender and Nationalism, Globalization and labor migration, Religious Nationalism, Regional specialization: South Asia and United States.

Hari K. Pant, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Dalhousie University Halifax, N.S, Canada
Herbert H. Lehman College, (718) 960-5859; hari.pant@lehman.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental science/physical geology.

Marianna E. Pavlovskaya, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Clark University
Hunter College, (212) 772-5320; mpavlov@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Urban geography, social theory, post-socialism, feminist geography, GIS (geographic information systems), critical GIS

Stephen Pekar, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
Queens College, (718) 997-3305; stephen.pekar@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Climate Change.

Deborah Popper, Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
College of Staten Island, (718) 982-2907; popper@mail.csi.cuny.edu
Interests: Rural studies, regional geography of the American West. the Buffalo Commons.

Wayne G. Powell, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Queen's University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000x2883; wpowell@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Burgess Shale taphonomy, metamorphosed ore deposits, and geoscience education

Federica Raia, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
City College, (212) 650-6499; raia@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Earth Science, Education, Geochemistry.

Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Hunter College, (212) 772-5594; laxmi@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Urban planning, Participatory GIS, Built environmental-human behavior interactions.

Jennifer Richmond-Bryant, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Hunter College, (212) 481-7580; jrichmon@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Urban public health, air dispersion modeling.

Alfred L. Rosenberger, Professor, Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-2696; alfredr@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Primate evolution.

Randye L. Rutberg, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Hunter College, (212) 772-5326; rrutberg@geo.everest.hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Modern and paleo-climate changes, Modern carbon cycling, Isotope geochemistry.

Haydee Salmun, Associate Professor, Ph.D., John Hopkins University
Hunter College, (212) 772-5224; hsalmun@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Oceanography, Hydrology, Climate.

Martin Paul Schreibman, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., New York University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5631/2; martins@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Interests: Comparative Endocrinology, Aquatic Resources.

Joni Seager, Professor, Ph.D., Clark University
Hunter College, (212) 650-3591; jseager@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Feminist Environmentalism and Geography, International Environmental Policy, Global Political Economy, International Status of Women.

David E. Seidemann, Professor, Ph.D., Yale University
Brooklyn College, (718) 951-5000x2882; dsebc@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Interests: Geochemistry, Environmental Geology.

John E. Seley, Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Center, (212) 817-8723; jseley@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: GIS, Urban Planning.

Heather Sloan, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Paris 6
Herbert H. Lehman College, (718) 960-8008; heather.sloan@lehman.cuny.edu
Interests: Marine geophysics.

Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor, Ph.D., John Hopkins University
The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics
Graduate Center, (212) 817-1877; nsmith@gc.cuny.edu
Interests: Urban, Social theory, Political economy.

William D. Solecki, Professor, Ph.D., Rutgers University
The Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC)
Hunter College, (212) 772-5268; wsolecki@hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental hazards, Land use.

Jeffrey Steiner, Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University
City College, (212) 650-6498; steiner@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Experimental geochemistry, Grantic petrology, Remote sensing.

Gillian Meg Stewart, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook, Marine Sciences Research Cntr.
Queens College, (718) 997-3104; gillian.stewart@qc.cuny,edu
Interests: Oceanography, Biogeochemistry, Plankton ecology, Natural radionuclide tracers.

Karl-Heinz Szekielda, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Univ. of Aix-Marsetille, France
Hunter College, (212) 772-4019; karlscek@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
Interests: Remote sensing technologies and interpretation.

John R. Waldman, Professor, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Queens College, (718) 997-3603; john.waldman@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Marine environmental science.

William G. Wallace, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook
Center for Environmental Science/ Staten Island, (718) 982-3876; wallace@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
Interests: Marine invertebrate ecology.

Michael Weisberg, Associate Professor, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Kingsborough Community College, (718) 368-5769; mweisberg@kbcc.cuny.edu
Interests: Geochemistry of meteorites.

Megan B. Wiley, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford University
City College, (212) 650-8066; mwiley@ce.cuny.edu
Interests: Environmental Engineering, Plumes Analysis.

Margaret Ann Winslow, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
City College, (212) 650-6471; winslow@scisun.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Structural geology, Basin analysis, Neotectonics.

Zong-Guo Xia, Professor, Ph.D., CUNY, Graduate Center
Herbert H.Lehman College, (718) 960-8683, (718) 960-8584 (Fax); zxia@lehman.cuny.edu
Interests: Geographic Information Science, China.

Chuixiang Yi, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Nanjing University
Queens College, (718) 997-3366; chuixiang.yi@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Micrometeorology, biosphere-atmosphere interactions.

Pengfei Zhang, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Utah
City College, (212) 650-5609; pzhang@sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Interests: Hydrology, Environmental geology.

Yan Zheng, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University
Queens College, (718) 997-3329; yan.zheng@qc.cuny.edu
Interests: Marine geochemistry.

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