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Academic focus: Global biodiversity and ecoinformatics Research summary: My research addresses the accelerating biodiversity crisis by developing scalable, data-driven approaches to guide global conservation and sustainability efforts. My lab...
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Academic focus: Robotics and artificial intelligence in agriculture, controlled environment agriculture (CEA) Research summary: My research focuses on developing smart cyber-physical systems that integrate cutting-edge robotics, computer vision...
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Academic focus: Urban ecology Research summary: I am an urban ecologist attempting to understand the processes and patterns that form urban plant and animal communities. Across systems, plants, insects, fish and birds, my lab uses data collected...
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Academic focus: Mechanistic understanding of cognition Research summary: I am fascinated by how the brain represents a model of the world and how it can use this to plan and decide what to do. This structuring of knowledge and information...
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Academic focus: Crop ecophysiology under environmental change Research summary: My research focuses on developing fundamental, mechanistic understanding of how CO2 and water move through the complex internal spaces inside leaves during...
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Academic focus: Field crops pathology Research summary: We study diseases of major field crops in New York state with one goal: better decisions for growers. We ask how pathogen populations change under selection from host resistance, fungicides...
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Academic focus: I will be the lecturer for Genetics BIOMG 2800, which introduces students to basic principles in genetics and genomics, and provides an in-depth presentation of both classic and modern genetics mechanisms. I strive to inspire...
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Academic focus: Environmental anthropology; ocean and environmental justice Research summary: Situated at the intersection of the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities, I am a holistic scholar focusing on research, pedagogy and...
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Academic focus: Physical oceanography, air-sea interaction Research summary: I am an oceanographer who uses observational data to study the physical processes that drive fluxes of heat, momentum and biogeochemical tracers in the ocean. My work...
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Academic focus: Environmental change in terrestrial and aquatic systems Research summary: My research integrates geophysical methods with computational approaches to study environmental and ecological change across terrestrial and aquatic...
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Academic focus: Forest governance and livelihoods, community-based natural resource management, social-ecological systems, conservation social science, environmental justice Research summary: I lead the Forests, Livelihoods, Institutions and...
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Academic focus: Regulation and function of transposable elements, small RNA biology, chromatin biology Research summary: My research focuses on how transposons – genetic elements that are able to jump around and propagate in our genome and...
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Academic focus: Sustainability of livestock and food production systems Research summary: I study the role of animals in sustainable food systems at the farm, ranch, region, landscape and supply chain scale. My lab combines modeling and field...
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Academic focus: Seed pathology, integrated pest management and seed microbiomes Research summary: My research bridges science and practice in crop production, with a focus on seed germination, disease diagnostics and management, seed microbiome...
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Academic focus: Causality and robustness in statistics and data science Research summary: I study how we can make statistical and machine learning methods more reliable for understanding cause-and-effect relationships in the real world. My work...
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Academic focus: Evolutionary ecology Research summary: Our research group seeks to understand the interplay between evolutionary processes and ecological patterns. We mainly work with plants and insects but dabble in microbes, too. Our interests...
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Academic focus: Plant microbiomes Research summary: Plants coexist with dynamic and complex microbial communities. I study how host genetics and environmental stressors collectively influence microbiome composition and function. By studying crop...
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Academic focus: Vegetable physiology and climate resilience Research summary: I conduct research in vegetable physiology with a strong focus on enhancing climate resilience. My research centers on understanding how environmental stressors such...
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Academic focus: Bacterial signal transduction and biofilm formation Research summary: I study how a group of critically understudied bacteria, non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM), produce biofilms. Biofilms occur when bacteria attach to surfaces...
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