UMBC Environmental Research & Achievement News & Updates!

David Lansing, Assistant Professor in Geography and Environmental Systems, has received a notification of a grant award in collaboration with UMD College Park from USDA entitled "Watershed Diagnostics for improved Adoption of Management Practices: Integrating Biophysical and Social Factors".

1/2/13 Garth Lindner and Molly Van Appledorn,, PhD students in Geography and Environmental Systems, have received funding from Maryland Sea Grant toward their PhD research. Dr.

Lisa DeRose joined CUERE as a staff research assistant beginning 11/26/12.  She holds BS and MS degrees in Geology.  We are very excited to have her join the CUERE team.

  10/1/12 Dr. Dawn Biehler, Assistant Professor in Geography and Environmental Systems, is a co-PI on a NSF  Coupled Natural and Human Systems grant entitled "Urban Disamenities and Pests: Coupled Dynamics of Urban Mosquito Ecology and Human Systems Across Socioeconomically Diverse Communities". This project will test whether urban social and economic decay and urban infestations of mosquitoes feedback upon one another and, if so, how to break this vicious cycle.  A link to the complete project summary can be found here http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1211797

10/1/12 The Baltimore Ecosystem Annual Science meeting will be held on October 24-25.  Details can be found on the project web site. http://www.beslter.org/bes_am_asp_2012/bes_am_reg_intro.html

  8/23/12  Dr. Chris Hennigan has joined the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering as an Assistant Professor.  He holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech and recently completed a post-doctoral position at Carnegie Mellon in the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies. Dr. Hennigan's research interests include air quality, atmospheric chemistry, and climate change. More detail can be found at his web site  http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hennigan/

7/1/12  Dr. Andrew Miller (GES) and Dr. Upal Ghosh (CBEE) have both received promotion to the rank of full professor.

Tanvi Gadhia

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