Research Areas:

• Community and physiological ecology of soil microorganisms
• Ecosystem processes in forest and agricultural systems
• Symbiotic relationships between microbes and plants

Research Areas:

• urban ecological design
• vegetative roofs
• bioretention
• ecological services

Research Areas:

• Oxidative stress in neuronal degenerative disease

Research Areas:

• Urban ecology with a focus on ecological integrity of streams within wetlands, aquatic macroinvertebrates, water quality, and stream substrate composition
• Pitcher plant invertebrate community dynamics

Research Areas:

• Evolution of bivalved mollusk morphology, mating systems, and gender-associated mitochondrial DNA genomes

Research Areas:

• Behavioral and evolutionary ecology of insect mating behavior, group formation, movement, and sexual selection.
• Evolution of sex differences in meiotic recombination rates.

Research Areas:

• Ecological roles of microbial organisms in the global cycling of essential nutrients
• Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of bacterial communities in aquatic ecosystems
• Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics in aquatic ecosystems

Research Areas:

• Molecular evolution of genes and genomes, large-scale analyses of genomic sequences, adaptive evolution of host-parasite interactions

Research Areas:

• Urban Conservation
• Natural Resource Management
• Sedimentation from Urban Site
• Urban Resource Management

Research Areas:

• Environmental Mineralogy
• Environmental Geochemistry
• Medical Geology