Public & Environmental Health
This research area focuses on the relationships between people and their environment. It involves studying the environmental transport pathways that result in human exposure to contaminants and developing strategies to protect human health and the environment.
Areas of interest
- Public and Ecological Health Impacts
- Climate Change
- Nonpoint Source Pollution
- Water Quality
- Fate and Transport of Pollutants in the Environment
- Agricultural Air Quality
Faculty
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Jonathan Czuba, P.E. , bioAssociate Professor, Assistant Department Head, Undergraduate Program Director : River and floodplain processes and restoration; sediment transport; ecohydraulics and ecomorphodynamics
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Anna Duraj-Thatte , bioAssistant Professor: Engineered Living Materials, Synthetic Biology, Biomaterials, Therapeutics
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W. Cully Hession, P.E. , bioProfessor and Graduate Program Director: Ecological engineering, influence of human activities on streams, stream channel & floodplain interactions, techniques for measuring and improving in-stream habitat, and development of technologies and strategies for successful stream restoration
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Leigh-Anne Krometis , bioProfessor and Turner Faculty Fellow: Public health; waterborne disease; stormwater management
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Jactone Ogejo, P.E. , bioAssociate Professor and Extension Specialist: Animal manure and other organic bioresidues management and utilization; characterization and mitigation of aerial pollutants from sources in animal feeding operations
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Julie Shortridge , bioAssociate Professor and Extension Specialist: Water resources engineering and management; Climate change impacts and adaptation; Risk and decision analysis in water systems
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Venkat Sridhar, P.E. , bioAssociate Professor: River basin modeling, climate impacts on hydrology and water resources, water and energy budgets, land-atmosphere interaction
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Tess Wynn Thompson , bioAssociate Professor: Ecological engineering; stream and wetlands restoration; urban stormwater management