UC Merced Sustainability Research Inventory
Sierra Nevada Research Institute (SNRI)
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Aguilar, Andres - Assistant Professor, evolutionary and conservation biology
Ardell, David - Assistant Professor
Bales, Roger - Professor and Director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute
Beman, Michael - Assistant Professor
Berhe, Asmeret - Assistant Professor, soil science and terrestrial biogeochemistry
Campbell, Elliott - Assistant Professor, bioenergy sustainability, atmospheric sciences,
carbon cycle
Chen, Yihsu - Assistant Professor, energy and air pollution, environmental economics
Conklin, Martha - Professor, biogeochemistry, groundwater, K-12 environmental
education
Dawson, Michael - Assistant Professor, evolution and ecology
Dayrat, Benoit - Assistant Professor, ecology
Forman, Henry - Professor, lung-particulate interactions
Frank, Carolin - Assistant Professor, genome evolution in prokaryotes and yeast
Ghezzehei, Teamrat A. - Assistant Professor, flow and transport in the subsurface,
contaminant hydrology
Guo , Qinghua - Assistant Professor, remote sensing, geocomputation, landscape ecology
Harmon, Tom - Professor, contanminant hydrology, environmental sensor development
Hart, Stephen - Professor, terrestrial ecosystems
Hull, Kathleen - Assistant Professor, anthropological archaeology
Innes, Robert - Professor, environmental economics
Kueppers, Lara - Assistant Professor, climate-ecosystem feedbacks, regional climate
change, land-use change
Leppert, Valerie - Associate Professor, electron microscopy, nanomaterials
O'Day, Peggy - Professor, environmental geochemistry
Raymond, Jason - Assistant Professor, environmental genomics
Rogge, Wolfgang - Associate Professor, air pollution
Traina, Samuel - Professor, chemistry of soils and natural waters
Westerling, Tony - Assistant Professor, climate-wildfire connections, environmental
policy
Winston, Roland - Professor, solar energy, non-imaging optics
Wright, Jeff - Professor, water resources systems
UC Merced Energy Research Institute (UCMERI)
Jian-Qiao Sun
Director, UCMERI
Professor
School of Engineering
jqsun@ucmerced.edu
J. Elliott Campbell
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
ecampbell3@ucmerced.edu
Alberto E. Cerpa
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
acerpa@ucmerced.edu
Yihsu Chen
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
ychen26@ucmerced.edu
Raymond Chiao
Professor
School of Natural Sciences
School of Engineering
rchiao@ucmerced.edu
Gerardo C. Diaz
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
gdiaz@ucmerced.edu
Sayantani Ghosh
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
sghosh@ucmerced.edu
Qinghua Guo
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
qguo@ucmerced.edu
Boaz Ilan
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
bilan@ucmerced.edu
David F. Kelley
Professor
School of Natural Sciences
dfkelley@ucmerced.edu
Arnold D. Kim
Associate Professor
School of Natural Sciences
adkim@ucmerced.edu
Jennifer Lu
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
Jennifer.lu@ucmerced.edu
Yanboa Ma
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
yma5@ucmerced.edu
Erik Menke
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
emenke@ucmerced.edu
Mayya Tokman
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
mtokman@ucmerced.edu
Anthony L. Westerling
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
awesterling@ucmerced.edu
UC Solar
Roland Winston
Director, UC Solar
Professor
School of Natural Sciences
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
rwinston@ucmerced.edu
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced
aaberhe@ucmerced.edu
Alberto E. Cerpa
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
acerpa@ucmerced.edu
Carlos F.M. Coimbra
Associate Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
ccoimbra@ucmerced.edu
Gerardo C. Diaz
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
gdiaz@ucmerced.edu
Sayantani Ghosh
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced
sghosh@ucmerced.edu
Qinghua Guo
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
qguo@ucmerced.edu
Dan Hirleman
Dean
School of Engineering
UC Merced
dhirleman@ucmerced.edu
Linda S. Hirst
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced
lhirst@ucmerced.edu
Jennifer Lu
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
Jennifer.lu@ucmerced.edu
Yanboa Ma
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
yma5@ucmerced.edu
Michael F. Modest
Keith and Elinor Shaffer and Betty Lou George Professor of Engineering
School of Engineering
UC Merced
mmodest@ucmerced.edu
Jian-Qiao Sun
Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
jqsun@ucmerced.edu