Affiliated Faculty
ND-GAIN is a program within the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative (ND-ECI). With more than 50 affiliated faculty, ND-ECI draws on a breath of scholarly expertise in science, engineering, social sciences and the humanities:
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Ellis Adjei Adams
Keough School of Global Affairs
Interests: Environmental policy; water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); water policy and governance; gender, water, and development; cities; political ecology; sub-Saharan Africa
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Elizabeth Archie
Biological Sciences
Interests: Animal Behavior, Disease Ecology & Population Genetics
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Melissa Berke
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Climate Variability using Organic Geochemical Biomarkers
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Kyle Bibby
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Water Quality and Public Health Protection
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Diogo Bolster
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Flow & Transport in Heterogeneous Porous Media & Risk Analysis
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Steve Buechler
Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Interests: Mathematical & Computational Biology
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Stefano Castruccio
Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Interests: spatio-temporal statistical models for environmental applications
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Dominic Chaloner
Biological Sciences
Interests: Influence of Pacific Salmon on Stream Ecosystems
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Nitesh Chawla
Computer Science and Engineering
Interests: Network Science, Big Data & Climate Data Science
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Annie Gilbert Coleman
American Studies
Interests: Landscapes and Environmental History, Sports Studies, American West
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Michael Cramer
Biological Sciences
Interests: Mammalian Ecology and Behavior
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Paola Crippa
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Air Quality and Climate Modeling, Wind Energy
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Kyle Doudrick
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Sustainable Water Treatment Technologies
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Alexander Dowling
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Interests: Systems Engineering, Optimization, Multi-stakeholder Decision Making, Separations for Environmental Applications
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Jeff Feder
Biological Sciences
Interests: Ecological Genetics & Evolution
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Michael Ferdig
Biological Sciences
Interests: Genetics & Genomics of Drug Resistance & Virulence in the Malaria Parasite
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Harindra Fernando
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Environmental & Industrial Flows in Oceanic & Atmospheric Systems
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Donna Glowacki
Anthropology
Interests: Archaeology, US Southwest, Social, Political and Religious Change During Environmental Challenges
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Holly Goodson
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Interests: Molecular, Cell Biology & Biophysics
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Emily Grubert
Keough School of Global Affairs
Interests: Just Energy Transitions, Decarbonization
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Alan Hamlet
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Integrated Modeling of Climate, Hydrology & Built Environment
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Scott Howard
Electrical Engineering
Interests: Biomedical Photonics
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Don Howard
Philosophy
Interests: Philosophy of Science, Ethics of Science & Technology
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Bruce Huber
The Law School
Interests: Environmental Law, Natural Resources Law, Property, and Energy Law
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Debra Javeline
Political Science
Interests: Mass Political Behavior & Politics of Climate Change Adaptation
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Stuart Jones
Biological Sciences
Interests: Aquatic Microbial & Ecosystem Ecology
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Tracy Kijewski-Correa
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Modern Civil Infrastructure & Natural Hazard Assessment & Mitigation
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Cristian Koepfli
Biological Sciences
Interests: Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases
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Santosh Kumar
Keough School of Global Affairs
Interests: Development Economics, Global Health Economics, Child Nutrition, Impact Evaluation, India
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Gary Lamberti
Biological Sciences
Interests: Stream & Wetland Ecology
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Mike Lemmon
Electrical Engineering
Interests: Large-Scale Sensor-Actuator Networks
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Richard Marcantonio
Management & Organization
Interests: Environmental Management; Environmental Peacebuilding; Regeneration and Livelihoods; Pollution and Human Health; Environmental Risk Modeling; Integral Human Ecology
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Wade McGillis
Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Interests: Ocean, estuary, and river ecosystems, water quality, and acidification; GHG and air-quality emissions from populated regions
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Jason McLachlan
Biological Sciences
Interests: Forest Ecology & Plant Population Ecology, Statistical Modeling & Paleoecology
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Jessica McManus Warnell
Management, Mendoza College of Business
Interests: Business ethics, Sustainable business, Women and inclusive leadership, Business and culture in Japan
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David Medvigy
Biological Sciences
Interests: Terrestrial Ecology, Plant Physiology, Climate-Vegetation Interactions
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Sisi Meng
Economics
Interests: Environmental and natural resource economics; climate change; natural hazards; geographical information system
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Daniel Miller
Keough School of Global Affairs
Interests: Environmental Policy, Governance, Biodiversity Conservation, Forests, Sustainable Development
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Sean Moore
Biological Sciences
Interests: Epidemiology and Ecology of Infectious Disease
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Robert Nerenberg
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Biological Nitrogen Removal, Microbial Fuel Cells & Biofilm
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Cara Ocobock
Anthropology
Interests: Human Physiology, Climate Change (for me specifically in the Arctic...Finland), Biocultural Resilience, Cold Climate Adaptations, Anthropology of Sports
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Rahul Oka
Anthropology
Interests: Rise/Demise of Urbanism, Ancient Trade and Political Economies, Climate, Conflict, and Migration, Conflict/Refugee Economies, Relief and Development, Modeling of Macroprocess
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Graham Peaslee
Physics
Interests: Ion Beam Analysis, Environmental Contaminants
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Alex Perkins
Biological Sciences
Interests: Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Population Biology
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Michael Pfrender
Biological Sciences
Interests: Evolutionary & Ecological Genomics
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David Richter
Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Interests: Air-sea Interaction, Hurricanes and Tropical Cyclones, Cloud and Fog Microphysics, Dust Emmission
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Adrian Rocha
Biological Sciences
Interests: Ecosystem Ecology & Spatial/Temporal Scales
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Jason Rohr
Biological Sciences
Interests: Disease ecology, climate change, ecotoxicology, water quality, sustainable development, biodiversity loss
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Jeanne Romero-Severson
Biological Sciences
Interests: Quantitative & Population Genetics
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Mark Schurr
Anthropology
Interests: North American Archaeology & Archaeological Chemistry
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Roy Scranton
English
Interests: Environmental Humanities, Climate Change Adaptation, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Literary Journalism, War Writing, 20th-century American Literature
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Ryan Sensenig
Biological Studies
Interests: Savanna & Grassland Ecology, Restoration Ecology, Fire Ecology, Tallgrass Prairie Restoration, Grazing & Allometric Scaling
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David Severson
Biological Sciences
Interests: Mosquito Genetics & Genomics
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Jennifer Tank
Biological Sciences
Interests: Ecology of Streams & Rivers
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Julian Torres-Dowdall
Biological Sciences
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Elliott Visconsi
English & Law
Interests: English & American Literature, Shakespeare, Milton, the Restoration & First Amendment Law
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Jian-Xun Wang
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Interests: Scientific Machine Learning, Data Assimilation, Bayesian Inference, CFD, Uncertainty Quantification, Optimization, Turbulence
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Joannes Westerink
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Interests: Coastal Hydrodynamic Processes & Risk Mitigation
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Danielle Wood
College of Engineering; Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative
Interests: Evaluation and learning in complex settings; resilience/sustainability planning, decision-support, and collaborative governance
