Members
 Michael Allen, Research Associate, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
michael.allen@rutgers.edu 732-932-9631 Area of Expertise: Ecological monitoring and technologies, migratory birds and bats _________________________________________________________________
Area of Expertise: Environmental policy, oceanography _________________________________________________________________
o.bilgen@rutgers.edu 848-445-5869 Area of Expertise: Research on wind and hydrokinetic turbines, energy harvesting devices, and aerial systems such as drones, ornithopters, etc.; specializes in fully coupled system modeling, design optimization, and experimental model validation _________________________________________________________________
sarahbor@hsrl.rutgers.edu 856-391-7672 Area of Expertise: Applied fisheries research, shellfish ecology _________________________________________________________________ |
 Margaret Brennan-Tonetta, Director, Resource and Economic Development and Senior Associate Director, NJAES (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
mbrennan@rutgers.edu 848-932-3776 Co-chair, Rutgers Offshore Wind Energy Collaborative Area of Expertise: Economic development and entrepreneurship, impact assessment, bioenergy economics and policy _________________________________________________________________ |
 Laurent Burlion, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
laurent.burlion@rutgers.edu 848-445-2046 Area of Expertise: Nonlinear control systems, safe control of UAVs, spacecraft attitude control, flight control and protection _________________________________________________________________ |
 David Bushek, Director and Professor, Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (Rutgers-New Brunswick and HSRL)
bushek@hsrl.rutgers.edu 856-785-0074 x4327 Area of Expertise: Host-parasite interactions in bivalve molluscs, ecological impacts of bivalves _________________________________________________________________ |
 Matt Campo, Senior Research Specialist, Bloustein School (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
mcampo@ejb.rutgers.edu 848-932-2704 Area of Expertise: Transportation planning and modeling, business strategy, real estate investment and market analysis, risk assessment modeling _________________________________________________________________ |
 Wendie Cohick, Dean of Research and Graduate Education, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and Senior Associate Director and Director of Research, NJAES (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
cohick@njaes.rutgers.edu 848-932-6319 Area of Expertise: Research development and strategy _________________________________________________________________
coleman@marine.rutgers.edu 848-932-3410 Area of Expertise: Project management, spatio-temporal data science, marine science and technology, climate change issues affecting coastal communities _________________________________________________________________
crowley@marine.rutgers.edu 848-932-3287 Area of Expertise: Marine technology, data management and quality control _________________________________________________________________ |
 Alberto Cuitiño, Dean of Engineering, School of Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
cuitino@soe.rutgers.edu 848-445-2248 Area of Expertise: Material modeling and simulations, dislocation mechanics, fracture in metal single crystals, granular materials, mechanical behavior of solid foams and folding patterns in thin films _________________________________________________________________ |
 Stephen Danley, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration (Rutgers-Camden)
sd694@camden.rutgers.edu 856-225-6343 Area of Expertise: Public policy and administration
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lori.dars@rutgers.edu 848-932-4481 Area of Expertise: Entrepreneurship, innovation, business development _________________________________________________________________
v.demetracopoulou@rutgers.edu 848-445-2797 Area of Expertise: Construction management, contracting and delivery mechanisms _________________________________________________________________ |
 Edward DeMauro, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
edward.demauro@rutgers.edu 848-445-4763 Area of Expertise: Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, compressible flow _________________________________________________________________ |
 F. Javier Diez-Garias, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
f.javier.diez@rutgers.edu 848-445-3665 Area of Expertise: Experimental thermal and fluid sciences, fire safety, sprays, microfluidics, flow diagnostics, turbulence, combustion and energy _________________________________________________________________ |
 German Drazer, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
german.drazer@rutgers.edu 848-445-5400 Area of Expertise: Transport phenomena, fluid mechanics and statistical physics, stochastic processes to investigate the transport of suspended particles in complex systems _________________________________________________________________ |
 Sean Duffy, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology (Rutgers-Camden)
seduffy@scarletmail.rutgers.edu 856-225-6204 Area of Expertise: Environmental psychology _________________________________________________________________ |
 Marika Dunn, Executive Director of Research Development, Office for Research (University-wide)
mdunn@rutgers.edu 848-445-3152 Area of Expertise: Research development and strategy _________________________________________________________________
Kendrin Dyitt, 4-H Agent for Atlantic County and Assistant Professor, Department of 4-H Youth Development (Rutgers-New Brunswick) dyitt@njaes.rutgers.edu 609-625-0056 Area of Expertise: STEM educational programming for rural, urban, and coastal communities; publicly engaged/community engaged scholarship _________________________________________________________________ |
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aziz.ezzat@rutgers.edu 848-445-3625 Area of Expertise: AI/ML for renewable energy forecasting and operations, asset & system prognostics and diagnostics, operations & maintenance, operations research and engineering ______________________________________________________________
lauren.feldman@rutgers.edu 848-932-8783 Area of Expertise: Climate change communication, partisan media and misinformation, comedy and social change ______________________________________________________________ |
 Scott Glenn, Distinguished Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
glenn@marine.rutgers.edu 848-932-3339 Area of Expertise: Autonomous ocean observing technologies, oceanography _________________________________________________________________ |
 Behzad Golparvar, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Area of Expertise: Data-driven tools for environmental applications using data science, machine learning, and computer vision _________________________________________________________________ |
 Thomas Grothues, Research Associate Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
grothues@marine.rutgers.edu 609-249-8802 Area of Expertise: Physical factors that determine the abundance and distribution of marine organisms _________________________________________________________________ |
 Nenad Gucunski, Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
gucunski@soe.rutgers.edu 848-445-2232 Area of Expertise: Seismic methods and nondestructive evaluation techniques, dynamic soil structure interaction, numerical modeling _________________________________________________________________
yuebin.guo@rutgers.edu 848-445-2225 Area of Expertise: Extreme manufacturing/3D printing of wind turbine blades and advanced drivetrains, wind manufacturing and supply chain _________________________________________________________________
zguo@rutgers.edu 848-445-2024 Area of Expertise: Heat transfer analyses and enhancement methodologies, thermal management and rapid cooling, ultrashort pulsed laser advanced micro/nano manufacturing, BioNano sensing and ultra-precise measurement techniques, thermal and solar radiation, interfacial and nanoscale heat transfer, energy storage and nanofluid _________________________________________________________________ |
 Serpil Guran, Director, Clean Energy Innovation Center, Rutgers EcoComplex (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
sg795@njaes.rutgers.edu 609-499-3600 x4225 Area of Expertise: Research, development and assessment of sustainable biofuels, innovative waste recycling technologies, and life cycle analysis of clean energy, alternative fuel production and sustainable food systems _________________________________________________________________
jherb@ejb.rutgers.edu 848-932-2725 Area of Expertise: Framing science informed clean energy and climate change public policy, engaging a variety of decision-makers and stakeholders in science-informed policy development _________________________________________________________________
denise.hien@smithers.rutgers.edu 848-445-0749 Area of Expertise: Research development and strategy _________________________________________________________________ |
 David Hughes, Professor, Department of Anthropology (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
dahughes@rutgers.edu 732-932-9629 Area of Expertise: Anthropological impacts of land-based wind _________________________________________________________________ |
 Moshen Jafari, Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
jafari@soe.rutgers.edu 848-445-3627 Area of Expertise: Automation sciences with applications in energy, transportation, and manufacturing _________________________________________________________________
mnk65@envsci.rutgers.edu 848-932-5739 Area of Expertise: Environmental policy
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licklein@rutgers.edu 848-445-2096 Area of Expertise: The synthesis and processing of ceramics and glasses using the sol-gel process _________________________________________________________________ |
 Josh Kohut, Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
kohut@marine.rutgers.edu 848-932-3496 Co-chair, Rutgers Offshore Wind Energy Collaborative Area of Expertise: Physical oceanography _________________________________________________________________ |
 Robert Kopp, Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Co-Director, Office of Climate Action (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
robert.kopp@rutgers.edu 732-200-2705 Area of Expertise: Climate policy _________________________________________________________________ |
 Richard Lathrop, Director, Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spacial Analysis and Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
lathrop@rutgers.edu 732-932-1580 Area of Expertise: Landscape ecology and remote sensing _________________________________________________________________
ksl102@scarletmail.rutgers.edu Area of Expertise: Environmental law
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 Julie Lockwood, Director, Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute and Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
julie.lockwood@rutgers.edu 848-932-9336 Area of Expertise: Wildlife conservation; invasive species _________________________________________________________________
Area of Expertise: Ocean modeling, microplastics, experiential learning _________________________________________________________________ |
 Kevin Lyons, Co-Director, Office of Climate Action; Associate Director, Rutgers Energy Institute; and Associate Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management (Rutgers-Newark)
klyons@business.rutgers.edu 973-353-3347 Area of Expertise: Developing and integrating global environmental, social, economic, ethical criteria and data into supply chain/procurement systems and processes _________________________________________________________________
Janice McDonnell, 4-H STEM Agent and Associate Professor, Department of 4-H Youth Development (Rutgers-New Brunswick) mcdonnell@njaes.rutgers.edu 848-932-3285 Area of Expertise: STEM educational programming for rural, urban, and coastal communities; publicly engaged/community engaged scholarship _________________________________________________________________ |
 Richard A. Michelfelder, Associate Professor, School of Business (Rutgers-Camden)
richmich@camden.rutgers.edu 856-225-6919 Area of Expertise: Electric, gas and water public utility economics and finance/ regulation; renewable/green energy; statistical methods/robust estimation; stock, bond and energy commodity markets _________________________________________________________________ |
 Robert Mieth, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Area of Expertise: Stochastic optimization, data methods, and system modeling for clean power systems and electricity markets _________________________________________________________________ |
 Travis Miles, Assistant Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
tnmiles@marine.rutgers.edu 732-932-6555 Area of Expertise: Physical oceanography _________________________________________________________________
kgm@eps.rutgers.edu 732-445-3622 Area of Expertise: Paleoceanography, sea level rise, sequence stratigraphy _________________________________________________________________ |
 Jim Morris, Associate Vice President, Center for Continuing Professional Development, Continuing Education, Division of Continuing Studies (University-wide)
jmorris@docs.rutgers.edu 848-932-4706 Area of Expertise: Business development, career planning, marketing and public relations, budgeting and pricing, educational program development and delivery in classroom and distance learning environments _________________________________________________________________
cammor@camden.rutgers.edu 856-225-2949 Area of Expertise: Corporate engagement and research administration _________________________________________________________________ |
 Jason Morson, Associate Research Scientist, Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (Rutgers-New Brunswick and HSRL)
jmorson@hsrl.rutgers.edu 856-785-0074 x4316 Area of Expertise: Population and community ecology, stock assessment, and fisheries management _________________________________________________________________ |
 Daphne Munroe, Associate Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick and HSRL)
dmunroe@hsrl.rutgers.edu 856-785-0074 x4325 Area of Expertise: Ecology of marine larvae and coastal population dynamics _________________________________________________________________
efthymios.nikolopoulos@rutgers.edu Area of Expertise: Monitoring and modeling of hydroclimatic extremes and hazards _________________________________________________________________
Area of Expertise: Urban environmental planning _________________________________________________________________ |
 Sean O’Malley, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Physics (Rutgers-Camden)
omallese@camden.rutgers.edu 856-225-6159 Area of Expertise: Synchrotron-based x-ray diffraction of novel device structures, time-resolved photoluminescence of Group-III Nitrides, Pulsed Laser Deposition of Nano-Scale Multiferroics ________________________________________________________________
Area of Expertise: Program management, community organizing _________________________________________________________________ |
 Victoria Ramenzoni, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
victoria.ramenzoni@rutgers.edu Area of Expertise: Environmental anthropology as it relates to human behavioral ecology, coastal communities, and marine and coastal policies _________________________________________________________________
Area of Expertise: Transport phenomena, materials science, energy conversion/storage, microelectronics _________________________________________________________________ |
 Chelsie Riche, Assistant Director, Student Success and Experiential Education, University Academic Affairs (University-wide)
Area of Expertise: Student engagement, innovative strategies
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riman@rutgers.edu 848-445-4946 Area of Expertise: Materials synthesis and processing of ceramics _________________________________________________________________ |
 David Robinson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Geography and New Jersey State Climatologist, Office of the New Jersey State Climatologist (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
david.robinson@rutgers.edu 848-445-4741 Area of Expertise: Climatology _________________________________________________________________
mrodgers@business.rutgers.edu 973-353-1287 Area of Expertise: Power systems planning, simulation-based optimization, quantitative methods to assess the impact of supply chain disruptions and risk on operational performance _________________________________________________________________ |
 Grace Saba, Associate Professor, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
saba@marine.rutgers.edu 848-932-3466 Area of Expertise: Coastal marine organismal ecology and physiology _________________________________________________________________ |
 Brian Schilling, Director, Rutgers Cooperative Extension and Senior Associate Director, NJAES (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
brian.schilling@rutgers.edu 848-932-3591 Area of Expertise: Agricultural policy
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oscar@marine.rutgers.edu 848-932-3265 Area of Expertise: Biological oceanography, physiology and ecology of phytoplankton _________________________________________________________________ |
 James Schope, Assistant Extension Specialist, Department of Environmental Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
james.schope@rutgers.edu 848-932-9800 Area of Expertise: Coastal processes, climate change adaptation _________________________________________________________________
dsilver@rutgers.edu 732-445-5546 Area of Expertise: Data visualization, graduate science education, workforce development _________________________________________________________________
Marissa Staffen, 4-H Agent for Essex County and Assistant Professor, Department of 4-H Youth Development (Rutgers-New Brunswick) marissa.staffen@rutgers.edu 415-218-7403 Area of Expertise: STEM educational programming primarily focused on topics of environmental sciences including climate change, urban agriculture, food systems, and workforce development; publicly engaged/community engaged scholarship _________________________________________________________________
kevin.st.martin@rutgers.edu 848-445-3634 Area of Expertise: Economic geography, diverse economies, political ecology, community and commons, critical cartographies, GIS _________________________________________________________________
Mitaali Taskar, Research Project Assistant, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick) Area of Expertise: STEM educational programming for coastal communities; publicly engaged/community engaged scholarship ________________________________________________________________
trappe@soe.rutgers.edu 848-932-0909 Co-chair, Rutgers Offshore Wind Energy Collaborative Area of Expertise: Multimedia security, wireless security, wireless networking, cryptography; research development and strategy _______________________________________________________________
Area of Expertise: Workforce development ______________________________________________________________
rq.wang@rutgers.edu 848-445-4288 Area of Expertise: Developing numerical models to connect big data and decision-making in civil and environmental engineering systems ______________________________________________________________
Area of Expertise: Charitable giving, strategic philanthropy ________________________________________________________________
zemeckis@njaes.rutgers.edu 732-349-1152 Area of Expertise: Educational programming and applied research in fisheries, aquaculture, coastal resource management, and climate change issues affecting coastal communities; publicly engaged/community engaged scholarship _________________________________________________________________ |
Janine Barr, Unit Administrator/Specialist, Environmental Analysis and Communications Group, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Onur Bilgen, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Sarah Borsetti, Fisheries Specialist, Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory (Rutgers-New Brunswick and HSRL)
Kaycee Coleman, Research Project Coordinator, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Michael Crowley, Technical Director, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Lori Dars, Associate Director, Economic Development and Innovation, Rutgers NJAES (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Vassiliki Demetracopoulou, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Ahmed Aziz Ezzat, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Lauren Feldman, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Yuebin Guo, Henry Rutgers Professor of Advanced Manufacturing, New Jersey Advanced Manufacturing Initiative (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Zhixiong (James) Guo, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Jeanne Herb, Executive Director, Environmental Analysis and Communications Group at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Denise Hien, Senior Vice Provost for Research, Chancellor’s Office; Center Director and Helen E. Chaney Endowed Chair in Alcohol Studies; Professor, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Marjorie Kaplan, Senior Associate Director, Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Lisa Klein, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Kevin Leach, Wind Institute Graduate Fellow and J.D. candidate, Rutgers Law (Rutgers-Newark)
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Kenneth Miller, Distinguished Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Camie Morrison, Director, Corporate Engagement and Compliance, Research Office (Rutgers-Camden)
Efthymios (Thymios) Nikolopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Angela Oberg, Chief Climate Officer and Senior Director, Office of Climate Action (University-wide)
Katie Parrish, Program Coordinator, Office of Climate Action (University-wide)
Amin Reihani, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Richard E. Riman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Mark Rodgers, Assistant Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management (Rutgers-Newark)
Oscar Schofield, Distinguished Professor and Department Chair, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Deborah Silver, Executive Director, Professional Science Master’s Program and Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Kevin St. Martin, Professor, Department of Geography (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Wade Trappe, 
Todd Vachon, Assistant Professor, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations and Director, Labor Education Action Research Network (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Ruo-Qian (Roger) Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering (Rutgers-New Brunswick)
Nathaniel Wright, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration (Rutgers-Camden)
Douglas Zemeckis, Marine Extension Agent for Ocean, Atlantic and Monmouth Counties and Co-County Extension Department Head – Ocean County (Rutgers-New Brunswick)