 Larry Atkinson, Slover Professor of Oceanography in the College of
Sciences. Research interests: coastal climatology; ocean energy policy;
interdisciplinary research in the coastal waters of southern Chile; and high
resolution observations of the coastal ocean.
 Michael McShane, assistant professor of finance in the College of Business
and Public Administration. Interests: Risk management; decisions of
insurance companies to enter the long-term care insurance market; and the
costs and benefits of the current multi-jurisdictional regulatory system
faced by insurers operating in the US.
 Alan Savitzky, University professor of biological sciences in the College of
Sciences. He directs ODU’s Ph.D. program in ecological sciences. Interests:
evolutionary biology and conservation of amphibians and reptiles, with an
emphasis on the biology of snakes.
 Cindy Tomovic, professor in the Department of STEM Education and
Professional Studies in the Darden College of Education. Climate change
education.
 Poornima Madhavan, assistant professor of psychology in the College of
Sciences, and affiliated with ODU’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis and
Simulation Center. Established the Applied Decision Making Lab at
ODU, which is dedicated to the study of human decision making in
simulated environments such as defense and homeland security, aviation,
and, healthcare and medicine.

Lesley Greene, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Interests:
to elucidate the critical determinants governing protein evolution,
structure, stability and folding.

David Pezza, ODU master’s graduate in civil and environmental
engineering. Former Chief, Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste and
Geotechnical Engineering Branch, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New
England District.
 Jenifer Alonzo, assistant professor of communication and theater arts in
the College of Arts and Letters. Interests include science education via
storytelling.
 Karen Eck, director of research development. Interests: identifying,
facilitating and supporting the formation of multi-investigator,
multidisciplinary, inter-college, and inter-institutional research initiatives.
 Sarah Resnick-Luetke, Social Science Research Center. Polling of all kinds,
data analysis.

Holly Gaff, assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of
Sciences and affiliated with Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
Center. Interests: mathematical modeling and simulation of infectious
diseases; spatial heterogeneity; GIS; tick-borne diseases; nosocomial
infections; ecology of infectious diseases.
 Fred Dobbs, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences in the
College of Sciences. Interests: marine microbial ecology and
biogeochemistry, particularly of benthic systems. His further interests
include symbiotic relationships between invertebrates and microorganisms
and the ecology of microorganisms in ships' ballast water.
 John Klinck, professor of ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences in the
College of Sciences and director of ODU’s Center for Coastal Physical
Oceanography. Interests: the dynamics of a variety of oceanographic
systems including the continental shelf, fjords, submarine canyons,
and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, using both analytical and
numerical dynamical models. His analysis of the eddy resolving model
for the North Atlantic flow considers the most realistic numerical
simulation calculation to date.
 Robert Tuleya, adjunct professor with the Center for Coastal Physical
Oceanography of the ODU College of Sciences. Interests: on contract with
NOAA to improve the GFDL hurricane model and to help develop the next
generation Hurricane Weather and Forecasting (HWRF) model, which is
now used as guidance by the National Hurricane Center. Research on
hurricane intensification with climate change.

Kaleen Lawsure, a Project Scientist at ODU’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis
and Simulation Center. She holds a Bachelors of Science degree in
Geography, and certification in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and
Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments. Research in transportation and
emergency management with rising sea level.

Ariel Pinto, associate professor, Department of Engineering Management
and Systems Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of risk
management in engineered systems, including project risk management,
risk valuation, risk communication, analysis of extreme-and-rare events,
and decision-making under uncertainty.

Alot Verma, Ray Ferrari Professor, Director – Lean Institute, Engineering
Technology Department, His current research interests are in the area of
process optimization and Lean implementation models for job shop and
designed to build environments.