ECI Affiliates
Susan Alcock
Director of Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology, Professor of Classics
susan_alcock@brown.edu
Material culture of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia
Linda Amaral Zettler
Assistant Research Scientist, Marine Biological Laboratory
amaral@mbl.edu
Patterns of microbial diversity and adaptation in extreme and marine environments
Douglas Anderson
Professor of Anthropology and Director, Laboratory for Circumpolar Studies
douglas_anderson@brown.edu
Archaeology, ethnography, hunter-gatherer ecology, environmental management in taditional societies, ethnonationalism, North America, Circum Arctic, Southeast Asia
Mark Bertness
Chair, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Mark_Bertness@Brown.edu
Ecology and conservation biology of shoreline systems, particularly salt marshes and rocky shores; organization and dynamics of natural communities
Christopher Bull
Senior Research Engineer, Division of Engineering
cbull@brown.edu
Alternative transportation, sustainable design, neural recording and stimulation systems, and experimental mechanics
Zoe Cardon
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
zcardon@mbl.edu
How interactions among organisms and soils shape, and are shaped by, terrestrial biogeochemistry
Lynn Carlson
Systems Manager/Project Facilitator, Geological Sciences
Lynn_Carlson@Brown.edu
Geographic Information Systems
Steven Clemens
Associate Professor, Geological Sciences
Steven_Clemens@brown.edu
Use of the marine and terrestrial geologic record to understand the history and dynamics of global climate and environmental change
Christopher Deacutis
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Environmental Studies
Christopher_Deacutis@Brown.edu
Impacts of invasive species on marine communities; impacts of anthropogenic pollutants on the marine environment ; hypoxia and other eutrophication impacts in estuaries, especially Narragansett Bay
Linda Deegan
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
ldeegan@mbl.edu
Relationships between ecosystem dynamics and animal populations, especially in aquatic and marine ecosystems
Erika Edwards
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
erika_edwards@brown.edu
The Edwards Lab
Plant evolution and function, especially in arid environments
Andrew Foster
Director, Population Studies Training Center
Professor, Economics; Professor of Community Health
Andrew_Foster@Brown.edu
Economic growth in rural India, exploring such issues as growth in the non-farm economy, the effects of local democratization, groundwater usage, forest cover, household structure, inequality, and schooling
Baylor Fox-Kemper (arriving in January)
Geological Sciences
Understanding and modeling the physics of oceans and climate
Anne Giblin
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
agiblin@mbl.edu
Cycling of elements in the environment, especially the biogeochemistry of nitrogen, sulfur, iron, and phosphorus
Meredith Hastings
Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences
Assistant Professor, Environmental Change Initiative
Meredith_Hastings@Brown.edu
Atmospheric transformation, transport, and deposition of nitrogen emissions (as from fossil fuel burning)
Timothy Herbert
Professor and Chair, Geological Sciences
Timothy_Herbert@Brown.edu
Understanding how the earth's climatic system, particularly the ocean, adjusts itself to perturbation on various timescales
John Hermance
Professor of Geological Sciences
John_Hermance@Brown.edu
Environmental geophysics and hydrology
Yongsong Huang
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Yongsong_Huang@Brown.edu
Development and application of organic isotope geochemistry to problems in the environment, paleoclimate, paleohydrology, and astrobiology
Julie Huber
Assistant Scientist, Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
jhuber@mbl.edu
Microbial ecology of deep-sea crustal habitats
Caroline Karp
Senior Lecturer, Center for Environmental Studies
Caroline_Karp@brown.edu
Coastal and marine watershed management, water law and urban environmental policy
Heather Leslie
Assistant Professor, Center for Environmental Studies and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Heather_Leslie@brown.edu
Ecology and conservation science of coastal and marine systems; ecosystem-based management
John Logan
Professor, Sociology
Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences(S4)
John_Logan@brown.edu
Social impacts of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, neighborhood change and individual mobility in U.S. cities from 1880 to1920, social change in China, especially impacts of market transition
Mark Lurie
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Mark_Lurie@Brown.edu
Social epidemiology, conservation medicine, the role of migration in the spread of HIV in South Africa
Catherine Lutz
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International
Studies
Chair, Department of Anthropology
Research Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies
Catherine_Lutz@Brown.edu
Cultural and political economic factors driving motorization rates and car dependence
Amanda Lynch
Director, Environmental Change Initiative
Professor of Geological Sciences
Amanda_Lynch(at)brown.edu
Application of climate and meteorological research to concrete problems of policy relevance
John Bradley Marston
Professor of Physics
John_Marston@Brown.edu
Research at the intersection of theoretical physics, climate modeling, and energy
Stephen McGarvey
Professor of Epidemiology
Stephen_McGarvey@Brown.EDU
Human population biology and international health
Jerry Melillo
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
jmelillo@mbl.edu
Human activities and the biogeochemistry of terrestrial ecosystems
Douglass Morse
Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
d_morse@brown.edu
Behavioral ecology: foraging, life history variables, and sexual selection
David Murray
Environmental Science and Technical Manager, Center for Environmental Studies
dmurray@brown.edu
Local-scale studies of water quality in Narragansett Bay, and studies of chemicals linked to environmental contamination
John Mustard
Professor, Geological Sciences
Professor, Center for Environmental Studies
john_mustard@Brown.edu
Land Use-Land Cover Change research and applications of remote sensing in environmental science
Sriniketh Nagavarapu
Assistant Professor, Center for Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor, Economics
ssn@brown.edu
Environmental and labor economics, primarily in developing countries; linkages between individual decision-making, environmental forces, and poverty alleviation
Christopher Neill
Director, The Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
cneill@mbl.edu
Effects of changes in land use and other human activities on the structure of ecosystems and the ways that ecosystems cycle nutrients and organic matter
Stephen Porder
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Assistant Professor, Environmental Change Initiative
Stephen_Porder@Brown.edu
Global biogeochemistry with regional emphasis on tropical forests, the interface between geology and ecology, land use change and agriculture in tropical ecosystems
Warren Prell
Professor, Geological Science
Warren_Prell@Brown.edu
Global-scale paleoceanography and local-scale estuarine oceanography
Donald Pryor
Visiting Lecturer, Center for Environmental Studies
Donald_Pryor@brown.edu
Issues related to Narragansett Bay including nutrient pollution, habitat restoration, and climate change
David Rand
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
David_Rand@Brown.edu
Molecular ecology and evolution, co-evolution of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and speciation
Edward Rastetter
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
erastett@mbl.edu
Ecosystem modeling, ecosystem stoichiometry, particularly the constraints imposed by carbon-nutrient interactions on ecosystem productivity and carbon accumulation
Jeremy Rich
Assistant Professor (Research), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jeremy_Rich@brown.edu
Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry -- especially nitrogen cycling in estuarine and marine environments, molecular techniques to unravel the relationship between microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes
Timmons Roberts
Director, Center for Environmental Studies
Professor, Sociology
j_timmons_roberts@brown.edu
Climate change equity and adaptation
James Russell
Associate Professor, Geological Sciences
James_Russell@brown.edu
Patterns and causes of natural climate variability using paleoclimate records, climate history of the tropics, paleoclimate reconstructions using lake sediments
Dov Sax
Assistant Professor of Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dov_Sax@brown.edu
Biogeography, assisted migration, species movements, climate change and biodiversity
Johanna Schmitt
Adjunct Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University
Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
jschmitt@ucdavis.edu
Ecological and genomic mechanisms of plastic responses and evolutionary adaptation to environmental change
Gaius Shaver
Senior Scientist, The Ecosystems Center,
Marine Biological Laboratory
gshaver@mbl.edu
Plant growth and nutrition, and in the role of plants in ecosystem element cycles
Kate Smith
David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Katherine_Smith@Brown.edu
The Smith Lab
Conservation Medicine; Disease Ecology; Biogeography; Global Environmental Change
Jianwu (Jim) Tang
Assistant Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
jtang@mbl.edu
Terrestrial ecosystem ecology, soil biogeochemistry, and global change ecology, with a focus on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles
Kurt Teichert
Environmental Stewardship Initiatives Manager, Center for Environmental Studies
Kurt_Teichert@brown.edu
Sustainable design and environmental stewardship
Joseph Vallino
Associate Scientist, The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
jvallino@mbl.edu
Modeling and experimental investigation of microbial processing of organic and inorganic materials, primarily in estuarine and coastal systems.
Leah VanWey
Associate Professor, Sociology
Associate Professor, Environmental Change Initiative
Leah_VanWey@brown.edu
Small landholder decision making in developing countries. Landholder decisions affect deforestation and land management choices with a strong influence on the terrestrial carbon sink.
Thompson Webb
Professor Emeritus, Geological Sciences
Thompson_Webb_III@Brown.edu
Paleoecology and paleoclimatology. Pollen and lake sediment records of climate change. Records of land-falling hurricanes, vegetation change in North America
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Director, Center for Environmental Health and Technology
Human health effects of environmental pollution; air pollution; cardiovascular epidemiology; epidemiologic methods
Michael White
Professor, Sociology
Michael_White@brown.edu
Population and the environment, ethnic residential segregation, migration, historical infant mortality, and immigration
Jessica Whiteside
Assistant Professor, Geological Sciences
Jessica_Whiteside@brown.edu
Paleobiological and biogeochemical research on responses to abrupt, sometimes catastrophic climate change in the context of cyclical processes and long-term trends in evolution
Jon Witman
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jon_Witman@Brown.edu
Population and community ecology, oceanography, and marine biology. Ocean acidification, coral adaptation