Experts by Expertise: Climate Change

John D. Atkinson

Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, air and water pollution control, materials science and engineering, adsorption, life-cycle assessment

Phone: 716-645-4001

Email: atkjdw@buffalo.edu

Ian Bradley

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering 

Expertise: wastewater treatment, algae, algal blooms in the Great Lakes and elsewhere

Phone: 716-645-4004

Email: ianbradl@buffalo.edu

Irus Braverman

Professor of Law

Expertise: laws governing animals, zoos, wildlife, coral reefs, extinction and climate change law, law and society, law and conservation, law and the environment, environmental justice in Israel/Palestine

Phone: 716-645-3030

Email: irusb@buffalo.edu

Jason Briner

Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, sea level rise, glaciers, ice sheets, Greenland Ice Sheet, Arctic environmental change

Phone: 716-645-4326

Email: jbriner@buffalo.edu

Holly Buck

Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: environmental policy, climate change policy, geoengineering, carbon capture, climate adaptation, environmental justice

Phone: 716-645-0135

Email: hbuck2@buffalo.edu

Susan Spierre Clark

Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: climate change and sustainable development; resilient infrastructure; power outages due to extreme events; sustainability education; community resilience

Phone: 716-645-1403

Email: sclark1@buffalo.edu

Beata Csatho

Chair of Geology

Expertise: climate change, sea level rise, Greenland Ice Sheet, Antarctic ice loss, glaciers, remote sensing, using satellite data and laser altimetry to measure the Earth

Phone: 716-645-4325

Email: bcsatho@buffalo.edu

Negar Elhami-Khorasani

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: structural fire engineering, wildfires in wildland-urban interface communities, fire following earthquake, multi-hazard engineering, disaster resilience

Phone: 716-645-3019

Email: negarkho@buffalo.edu

Stuart M. Evans

Assistant Professor of Geography

Expertise: climate change, dust and dust storms, weather, atmospheric science, precipitation, monsoons, lake effect snow

Phone: 716-645-0491

Email: stuartev@buffalo.edu

Trevor Krabbenhoft

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: fish ecology (especially in rivers and lakes), genomics, evolutionary biology, invasive species, climate change, Great Lakes

Phone: 716-645-4934

Email: tkrabben@buffalo.edu

Howard Lasker

Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans

Phone: 716-645-4870

Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu

Y. Chris Li

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: electrochemistry, waste conversion, transforming greenhouse gases into useful products, chemistry of CO2, plastics

Phone: 716-645-4285

Email: yuguangl@buffalo.edu

Charlotte Lindqvist

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: evolutionary biology, evolution of polar bears, hybridization of polar bears and brown bears, genomics

Phone: 716-645-4986

Email: cl243@buffalo.edu

Sayanti Mukherjee

Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expertise: resilient sociotechnical systems, predictive analytics, risk-informed decision-making, public health and health care, electrical grid and energy, climate change impact assessment

Phone: 716-645-4699

Email: sayantim@buffalo.edu

Sophie Nowicki

Empire Innovation Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, ice sheet modeling, Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, glaciers, sea level rise

Phone: 716-645-4335

Email: sophien@buffalo.edu

Contact: Nowicki can also be reached through Charlotte Hsu in University Communications at 716-645-4655 or chsu22@buffalo.edu

Kristin Poinar

Assistant Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet modeling, sea level rise, Antarctica, Great Lakes ice cover

Phone: 716-645-4286

Email: kpoinar@buffalo.edu

Nicholas Rajkovich

Associate Professor of Architecture

Expertise: climate change and cities, adaptation to climate change, building resiliency, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate refuge cities

Phone: 716-829-6910

Email: rajkovic@buffalo.edu

Chris S. Renschler

Professor of Geography

Expertise: flooding, soil erosion, watersheds, hurricanes, radioactive fallout, disaster preparedness and response, natural resources management, GIS

Phone: 716-645-0480

Email: rensch@buffalo.edu

Adam Rome

Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: environmental movement in the U.S., environmental history, Earth Day, sustainable business, suburban sprawl

Phone: 716-645-8665

Email: adamrome@buffalo.edu

Elizabeth K. Thomas

Assistant Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Arctic ice sheets, precipitation, lake effect snow, sea level rise, monsoons

Phone: 716-645-4329

Email: ekthomas@buffalo.edu