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Disaster Science and Management
Sadik C. Artunc. School of Landscape Architecture. Regional design, design implementation, recreation and tourism, visual management.
John J. (Jack) Beggs. Department of Sociology. Industrial, race/ethnic/minority relations; stratification.
Evan M. Berman. Public Administration Institute. Productivity in public & nonprofit organizations, leadership, ethics & values, human resource management, public-private relations.
David Brown. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Climate variability, global change, spatial analysis, North America.
C.S. “Steve” Cai. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Bridge Dynamics/Aerodynamics and Vibration Control, Bridge Analysis and Performance Evaluation, Application of Composite Materials/new Materials, Development of New Structural System and Design Methodology, Pre-stressed Concrete Structures.
Craig Colten. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Historical, environmental, North America, Louisiana.
Peter Chen. Department of Computer Science. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, database systems, logic programming, systems security.
Dydia DeLyser. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Historical, cultural, landscape and social memory, gender, qualitative methods, social science. writing.
Jay D. Edwards. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Sociocultural, vernacular architecture, Louisiana and the South, Caribbean.
Mark Gasiorowski. Department of Political Science. Comparative politics and international politics, political economy, Third World politics, specialization in the Middle East.
M. E. "Betsy" Garrison. School of Human Ecology. Family processes and children’s development; family resource management.
Stephanie H. Gray. Department of Communication Studies.
Ivor Van Heerden. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Natural hazards.
Patrick Hesp. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Coastal geomorphology, Aeolian geomorphology and dune dynamics, coastal management.
Janice M. Hinson. Educational Leadership, Research & Counseling. Educational Technology.
Aixin Hou. Department of Environmental Studies. Microbial ecology of natural systems; microbial processes and controlling factors of carbon and nitrogen cycling; molecular microbiology; heavy metals toxicology in soils and sediments; microbial ecology of extreme environments.
Shih-Ang Hsu. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Coastal and marine meteorology, air-sea interaction.
Jeanne S. Hurlbert. Department of Sociology. Stratification; network analysis; labor markets.
Carole L. Jurkiewicz. Public Administration Institute. Public sector ethics, organizational values, generational differences in motivation, leader/employee performance, and healthcare administrative effectiveness.
Barry Keim. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Climatic change and variability, synoptic climatology, probable maximum precipitation, extreme climatic events, hydroclimatology, human dimensions of global change.
Peter Kelle. Information Systems and Decision Sciences. Enterprise systems, Operations management; Supply chain management, Enterprise systems.
Mary Lou Kelley. Department of Psychology. Behavioral assessment and treatment of children and adolescents including family routines, treatment efficacy, daily stress, and violence exposure; ADHD; home and school interventions for children with externalizing problems; and the psychological effects of violence exposure.
C. Barrett Kennedy. School of Architecture. Heritage conservation, community revitalization, Web-based training, computer applications in design and planning.
Richard H. Kesel. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Geomorphology, soils, quaternary, climatic change.
John Kiefer. Department of Political Science, University of New Orleans. Public administration and policy issues that impact disasters and homeland security.
Nina Siu-Ngan Lam. Department of Environmental Studies. Computer cartography, GIS, remote sensing, quantitative methods, China.
Shirley Laska. Department of Sociology, University of New Orleans. Environmental/disaster sociologist; community processes that enhance resiliency to natural hazards.
Michael Leitner. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Spatial analysis and GIS, computer cartography, Europe.
Marc L. Levitan. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Wind engineering, hurricane engineering, structural engineering, wind effects on structures, design for hurricanes and natural hazards.
Anthony J. Lewis. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Remote sensing, physical geography, geoscience applications of radar imagery.
Kam-biu Liu. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Biogeography, palynology, Quaternary, North America, China, Ecuador.
John Lowry. Department of Geography, University of New Orleans. Hazards, cartography and, geographic education.
Mary Manhein. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Osteology, forensic anthropology.
Isabelle Maret. Urban and Regional Planning, University of New Orleans. Urban and regional planning, geographic information systems.
Kent Mathewson. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Cultural, historical, Latin America, history of geography.
Brian D. Marx. Department of Experimental statistics. Signal regression, generalized linear models, ill-conditioned data.
Steven Namikas. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Coastal geomorphology, hazards, physical geography.
Dimitris Nikitopoulos. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Experimental and numerical fluid dynamics, two-phase flow and micro-fluidics.
Edward B. Overton. Department of Environmental Studies. Development of field deployable analytical instrumentation, development of ultrafast and small GC instruments and instrument applications; technology transfer and commercialization; evaluation and interpretation of analytical, chemical, physical and toxicological data; evaluation of data from chemical spills and remediation recommendations.
John Pardue. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Suzanne Pawlowski.
John C. Pine. Department of Environmental Studies. Environmental hazards analysisand risk assessment, legal issues in emergency management, and emergency management.
Carol Plummer. School of Social Work. Child abuse & neglect; child welfare.
Ralph Portier. Department of Environmental Studies. Fate and effect of carcinogens in fresh water and marine environments; bioremediation; genetic engineering of marine microorganisms; and design of immobilized microbe bioreactors.
Kevin Robbins. Department of Geography and Anthropology – Southern Regional Climate Center. Agricultural climatology, network-integrated data management and delivery systems.
Robert Rohli. Department of Geography and Anthropology. Climatology, applied meteorology, water resources, quantitative methods.
Lawrence J. Rouse, Jr. Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Remote sensing, physical oceanography.
Erno Sajo. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Nuclear science, medical physics.
Julie A. Schroeder. School of Social Work. Addictions evaluation research, criminal justice issues, capital mitigation, disaster services, crisis intervention.
James Van Scotter.
Bruce G. Sharky. School of Landscape Architecture. Professional practice, site design, international programs.
Andrew Sluyter. Department of Geography and Anthropology.
David Sobek. Department of Political Science. International conflict.
Greg Stone. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Coastal morphodynamics and coastal zone management.
Nan D. Walker. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. Satellite oceanography ocean climatology, physical oceanography.
Lei Wang. Department of Geography and Anthropology. GIS, quantitative methods, terrain and hydrological analysis, remote sensing.
Lin Bing Wang. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Image techniques in pavement and geomaterials, microstructure visualization, pavement testing, numerical simulation.
Carolyn Ware. Department of English. Louisiana folklore, women’s folklore.
Mike Wascom. Department of Environmental Studies. Environmental and natural resources law; land-use regulation; ocean and coastal resource law, international law.
Fredrick Weil. Department of Sociology. Political Sociology, democracy, social change.
Richard D. White, Jr. Public Administration Institute.
Chester G. Wilmot. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Transportation planning, travel demand forecasting, prioritization.
Vincent L. Wilson. Department of Environmental Studies. Genetic toxicology with emphasis on mechanisms of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis; molecular genetics of environmental exposures and human disease.
Peter R. Wolensky. Department of Mathematics. Control theory.
Brian Wolshon. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Traffic and transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems, flow analysis.
Peter Yaukey. Department of Geography, University of New Orleans. Avian ecology, biogeography, climatology, and quantitative methods.