Researcher |
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The recycling of carbon dioxide emissions by biological sources; the use of coal to produce gas for conversion in solid oxide fuel cells; electrostatic precipitation using novel wet membrane collectors; combustion of solid fuels and slurries; and particulate emissions from coal and waste combustion. |
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Co-Author of The Ecology of Hope, a book of case studies about communities across the nation that are living sustainably. |
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Electrochemistry; fuel cells and battery technology; and the application of electrochemistry to generate hydrogen from coal and ammonia. |
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Constructing computable general equilibrium models and using them to explore the impacts of various environmental and resource problems in both developed and developing countries. |
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Historical geography and environmental history; examining environmental problems using a historical perspective; natural resource conservation; American environmentalism; public lands; the interaction of nature and society; and the effect of coal mining on Appalachia’s forest and water resources. |
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Environmental economics, researching economic growth and the environment, the economics of water resources and the link between climate forecasts and economic activity. He also does both theoretical and applied research on environmental issues in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Brazil. |
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Biogeochemistry, landscape ecology, and environmental restoration in an effort to understand the issues surrounding resource utilization and ecosystem services on both local and global scales. |
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Urban- and regional-scale air-quality monitoring; emission inventory assessments; and photochemical, dispersion, and radiative transfer modeling. |
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Scaling ecology, ecological modeling, aquatic biomonitoring and estuarine ecology. |
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Mechanistic controls of plant litter decomposition by linking the functioning of soil microbial communities and plant biochemistry to ecosystem-level processes. |
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Theoretical Condensed Matter, Computational Methodology for Electronic Structure, and Theory of Topologically Disordered Materials. |
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Eastern North American forests, especially the patterns that emerge from the interactions of the physical environment, biotic processes and disturbance. |
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Physical geography, geomorphology, and fluvial geomorphology; environmental geology and geohydrology; human impacts on fluvial processes and landforms; interdisciplinary studies in river ecology and management; and GIS and Spatial Data Visualization. |
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Insect physiological ecology; chemical ecology of insect-plant interactions; nutritional physiology; and environmental toxicology and responses of aquatic macroinvertebrates to acid mine drainage. |
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Nature-society studies, such as agricultural systems, land degradation, cultural change and landscape modification. |
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The geochemistry and hydrogeology of geothermal systems, including diffuse soil degassing and heat flow studies; environmental problems associated with mining and resource exploitation. In Ohio, the chemistry, fluid flow and mass transfer associated with acid mine drainage from coal mines. |
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The institutionalization of collaborative dispute resolution processes in natural resource management; and the organizational and political dimensions of ecosystem management. |
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Author of Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water 1945-1972. The book examines how the legislative branch acted on water quality issues more than the executive branch, and intertwines the history of the federal water pollution program. It incorporates all of the legislation for clean water and other monumental environmental laws. |
Morrone, Michele
Environmental
Health Sciences,
Environmental Studies
morrone@ohio.edu |
Environmental and occupational health and safety; public perception of environmental risk; the role of the environmental health scientist in policy decision making; risk and uncertainty in decision making; and underserved audiences and environmental education. |
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Flue-gas scrubbing; colloid and surface science; separations; fluidization; and coal liquefaction. |
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The biodegradation of TNT and other nitroaromatic compounds; acid mine drainage treatment; iron nanoparticles for the cleanup of groundwater pollution; phytoremediation; sediment transport in streams; and the use of molecular tools to identify bacterial communities in the environment. |
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Changing state of human-impacted rivers, particularly the effects of changes in water and sediment regimes, with implications for river management and regulation. |
Stuart, Ben
Civil Engineering
stuart@ohio.edu |
Reduction and treatment of acid mine drainage; bioremediation and pollution prevention strategies; bacterial movement in soils; and biological treatment of hazardous wastes. |
Thoma, Roger
Researcher,
Institute for Local Gov't. and Rural Development
thoma@ohio.edu |
Great Lakes Wetlands Project |
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Freshwater algal ecology and evolution; and systematics and biogeography of freshwater red algae and the impacts of acid mine drainage on stream periphyton communities in southeastern Ohio. |
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Stock structure in Ohio River walleye using mtDNA and microsatellite DNA variation; population genetics and systematics in the least brook lamprey; population genetic structure in the stonecat; social and genetic structure in small mammals; and conservation genetics. |
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Combustion and fire sciences, specifically direct numerical simulation of laminar flame-vortex interaction; environmental analyses of formation and elimination of hazardous combustion by-products; quantitative evaluation of solid fuels including coal and bio-charcoal sources. |
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Finding a better understanding of the chemistry of the troposphere in North America; the way human activities affect this chemistry; and the effects of atmospheric chemistry on human endeavors. |
