Experts by Expertise: Climate Change

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8/16/21
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
8/19/21
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
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
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
10/21/22
Michel Bruneau

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: disaster resilience, multi-hazard engineering, design of infrastructure to resist extreme events, earthquake engineering, design of steel structures, structural engineering
Phone: (716) 645-3398
Email: bruneau@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
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
11/8/21
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
8/17/21
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
8/19/21
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
8/19/21
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
9/24/21
Howard Lasker

Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans
Phone: 716-645-4870
Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
9/30/22
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
7/20/22
Pauline Mendola

Professor and Chair of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Expertise: chronic diseases in pregnancy; environmental factors impacting reproductive and pediatric health; health effects of air pollution and extreme temperatures

Phone: 716-829-5356
Email: pmendola@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
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
9/16/21
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
8/19/21
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
1/24/23
Nicholas Rajkovich

Associate Professor of Architecture

Expertise: climate change and cities; climate adaptation in the Great Lakes region; energy efficiency; renewable energy; climate refuge cities
Phone: 716-829-6910
Email: rajkovic@buffalo.edu
8/17/21
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
8/16/21
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
9/20/22
Inho Suk

Associate Professor of Accounting and Law
Expertise: corporate voluntary disclosures; accounting fraud; environmental, social and governance (ESG) accounting; mergers and acquisitions (consolidation) accounting; executive and employee turnover; accounting-marketing interface
Contact: Inho Suk can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
10/25/21
Kang Sun

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: air pollution, greenhouse gases, climate change, remote sensing, molecular spectroscopy

Phone: 716-645-6167
Email: kangsun@buffalo.edu
11/21/22
Elizabeth K. Thomas

Associate 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
9/20/22
Aditya Vedantam
Assistant Professor of Operations Management and Strategy
Expertise: sustainability in operations and supply chains; clean energy technologies; recycling; recycled content claims, including for plastics; apparel and other resale markets; eco-certifications

Contact: Aditya Vedantam can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.