Our Faculty
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
roger bales
Critical-zone science; water resources; climate applications
Email: rbales@ucmerced.edu
asmeret asefaw berhe
Terrestrial biogeochemistry; soil science; soil organic matter dynamics
Email: aaberhe@ucmerced.edu
j. michael beman
Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems
Email: mbeman@ucmerced.edu
marc beutel
Surface water quality; mercury and nitrogen cycling; treatment wetlands
Email: mbeutel@ucmerced.edu
jessica blois
Terrestrial paleoecology; niche modeling; phylogeography and phylochronology
Email: jblois@ucmerced.edu
Elliott Campbell
Sustainable bioenergy assessment, ecological design and atmospheric sciences and engineering
Email: ecampbell3@ucmerced.edu
Abel Chuang
Thermal management and electrochemistry; loop heat pipes and fuel cells
Email: abel.chuang@ucmerced.edu
martha conklin
Biogeochemistry; surface water/ground water interactions; chemical processes in snow
Email: mconklin@ucmerced.edu
michael dawson
Ecological genetics and evolution; stasis and change in marine and terrestrial systems
Email: mdawson@ucmerced.edu
gerardo diaz
Energy conversion systems; dynamic simulation and control of thermal systems
Email: gdiaz@ucmerced.edu
reza ehsani
Automation, robotics, and intelligent machines for agriculture; developing sensors and systems with applications in agriculture, food industry; precision agriculture and horticulture, mechanization and mechanical harvesting systems
Email: rehsani@ucmerced.edu
marie-odile fortier
Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology development; Energy systems modeling Increasing geographic specificity in LCA; Climate change mitigation strategies; Renewable energy systems
Email: mfortier2@ucmerced.edu
carolin frank
Microbial genome evolution; community ecology of endophytes
Email: cfrank3@ucmerced.edu
teamrat ghezzehei
Soil physics,agroecology, soil systems modeling, sustainability
Email: taghezzehei@ucmerced.edu
thomas harmon
Fluid flows and mass fluxes in natural and engineered environments
Email: tharmon@ucmerced.edu
stephen hart
Terrestrial microbial and ecosystem ecology; climate change in forest ecosystems
Email: shart4@ucmerced.edu
erin hestir
Aquatic ecosystems under threat from competing pressures to meet societal needs for water and food security while sustaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services; expertise in geospatial analytics, hyperspectral and satellite remote sensing, and sensor networks in inland and coastal waters and wetlands
Email: ehestir@ucmerced.edu
jeffrey jenkins
Natural resource management; public lands and protected areas
Email: jeff.jenkins@ucmerced.edu
catherine keske
Applied economics in mountainous and semi-arctic ecosystems; Coupled natural and human systems; Sustainable resource management
Email: ckeske@ucmerced.edu
sora kim
Paleoecology; climate change; environmental reconstruction; stable isotope biogeochemistry
Email: skim380@ucmerced.edu
Sarah kurtz
Understanding and improving solar panel performance, facilitating the energy transition
Email: skurtz@ucmerced.edu
valerie leppert
Air particulate matter; environmental nanophases; energy nanomaterials
Email: vleppert@ucmerced.edu
yanbao ma
Energy transport and thermal management in energy systems; water desalination
Email: yma5@ucmerced.edu
Mark Matsumoto
Water and wastewater treatment, hazardous waste site remediation
Email: mmatsumoto@ucmerced.edu
JosUE Medellin-Azuara
Large scale hydro-economic modeling for water management and policy analysis
Email: jmedellin-azuara@ucmerced.edu
emily moran
Ecological and evolutionary responses of plants to environmental change
Email: emoran5@ucmerced.edu
colleen naughton
Global food and water security; life cycle assessment; geographic information systems
Email: cnaughton2@ucmerced.edu
peggy o'day
Environmental geochemistry; cycling and transport of inorganic contaminates
Email: poday@ucmerced.edu
Alexander Petersen
Data-oriented, focusing on the evolution of large multiscale socio-economic systems by applying concepts and methods from complex systems, statistical physics, management and innovation science to address broad problems calling on multi-disciplinary collaboration
Email: apetersen3@ucmerced.edu
wolfgang rogge
Air pollution engineering and science; fate and transport of air pollutants
Email: wrogge@ucmerced.edu
rebecca ryals
Agroecology; Climate Change; Soil Health; Ecological Sanitation; Carbon Sequestration; Greenhouse Gas Dynamics
Email: rryals@ucmerced.edu
jason sexton
Land adaption and species range limits; biological response to global change
Email: jsexton2@ucmerced.edu
samuel traina
Chemical transformations of pollutants; chemical speciation and toxicity
Email: straina@ucmerced.edu
joshua viers
Professor Viers is a watershed scientist with expertise in resource management and environmental decision making. His areas of watershed science research include: Agroecology and conservation agriculture planning and implementation, climatic and hydrological change vulnerability assessment and adaptation strategies, ecosystem service and biodiversity inventory, assessment and restoration, geospatial technologies (geographic information systems/remote sensing); Informatics; database design and data mining, water and watershed management; water footprinting
Email: jviers@ucmerced.edu
a. leroy westerling
Applied climatology, climate-ecosystem-wildfire interactions, statistical modeling for seasonal forecasts, paleofire reconstructions, and climate change impact assessments, resource management and policy.
Email: lwesterling@ucmerced.edu
roland winston
Solar power and renewable energy; elementary particle physics
Email: rwinston@ucmerced.edu
Xuan Zhang
Research aims to gain a predictive and mechanistic understanding of the sources, chemistry, and environmental impact of gaseous and particulate pollutants in the air. Prof. Zhang's research provides a causative link of the chemical signature of air pollution with its climate interactions and adverse health impact in a rapidly changing global environment.
Email: xzhang87@ucmerced.edu
Contact
martha conklin
Environmental Systems Graduate Program Chair
Email: ESChair@ucmerced.edu
Website: es.ucmerced.edu