Current Students
Fredesvinda Bonotan Dura (Environmental and Geological Sciences)
Research Interests: bioenvironmental chemistry, coasts and estuaries, water quality management
Advisor: Dr. Brett Branco
Campus Affiliation: Brooklyn College
fbdura@yahoo.com and fdura@gc.cuny.edu
Brian A Brigham (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Nutrient Cycling, greenhouse gas production, and microbial composition in wetland systems.
Advisor: Gregory O'Mullan and Jeffrey Bird
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Queens College
bbrigham@gc.cuny.edu, babrigham@gmail.com
Elizabeth Chesebrough (Environmental & Geological Science; Lehman College)
Research Interests: Watershed management, system dynamics, mountain glaciers, climate change, developing nations.
Advisor: Yuri Gorokhovich
echesebrough@gc.cuny.edu
Richard Cohen (Environmental & Geological Science; Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Climate, Energy Use, Modelling
rcohen57@optonline.net
Elisabeth E.M. Contreras (Environmental & Geological Science; John Jay College)
Research Interests: Environmental Toxicology, specifically mercury in the environment
elisabeth.contreras@gmail.com
Rui Ding (Environmental & Geological Science; City College)
Research Interests: Organic pollutants in the environment
dingrui0332@hotmail.com
Fredesvinda Bonotan Dura (Environmental & Geological Science; Brooklyn College, NYC College of Technology)
Research Interests: Water Pollution and its Control, Eutrophication, Sustainability Assessment
Advisor: Brett Branco
fdura@gc.cuny.edu
Heather Glickman (Environmental & Geological Science; Hunter College)
Research Interests: Aerosols and Climate
Hglickman@gc.cuny.edu
Paula Gural (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: River and Estuary Ecology am currently working on a carbonate outcrop in Dutchess Co. NY. It formed ~ 500 My ago in shallow marine environment when the North American continent was located ~ 30o south of the equator. I am focusing my study on the environments of deposition, later structural deformation, U-PB in carbonates to date defomational events,provenance as determined by zircons, and biogenic components.
Advisor: Hannes Brueckner
paulagural@aol.com
Damayanti Gurung (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: River and Estuary Ecology
Advisor: Cecilia McHugh
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Queens College
saligramdi@yahoo.com
Kimberly C. Handle
Research Interests: Paleoecology and paleodiversity of late Cretaceous, Methane, Cold seeps of the Western Interior Basin, South Dakota
Advisor: Neil H. Landman, AMNH
Campus affiliation(s): American Museum of Natural History, Instructor at Brooklyn College and at Hunter College
Dustin Herlich (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Nutrient Cycling, Bioacumulation and Remediation
dherlich@gc.cuny.edu
Charuta Kulkarni (Environmental & Geological Science; Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Quaternary Geology, Geoarchaeology, Climate Change.
Advisor: Arthur Bankoff
ckulkarni@gc.cuny.edu
Jihyun Kyung (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Climate Change, Carbon and Nutrient Cycling of Soil and Vegetation
jkyung@gc.cuny.edu, kjihyun987@naver.com
Annesia Lamb (Environmental & Geological Science; Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Analyzing nutrients and dynamics of freshwater and marine systems.
Advisor: Brett Branco
annesialamb@gmail.com
Angelo Lampousis (Environmental & Geological Science; City College)
Research Interests: Hydrogeophysics, agriculture
ALampousis@gc.cuny.edu
Ying Liu (Environmental & Geological Science; Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Biogeochemistry, Environmental Analysis
liuliulibra@hotmail.com
Jacob Louis Mey (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University)
Research Interests: Paleo climate and sea level, quality of climate proxy data used in paleoclimate reconstructions, uranium series disequilibrium, bathymetry and geospatial analysis of paleo reef morphology
Website
mey@ldeo.columbia.edu
Bolortsetseg Minjin (Environmental & Geological Science; American Museum of Natural History)
Research Interests: Vertebrate Paleontology
bolormin@amnh.org
Katie Ryan-Mishkin (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Geochemistry, sedimentology, environmental geology with
special interests in paleoclimate, paleoseismicity, and estuarine dynamics
Advisor: Cecilia McHugh
Campus Affiliation: Instructor at Queens College
kmishkin 'at' gc 'dot' cuny 'dot' edu
Lilja Nielsen (Environmental & Geological Science; Graduate Center)
Research Interests: Environmental Toxicology with special interest in endocrine disrupting compounds. Current research investigating the toxicological effects of mercury.
LNielsen@gc.cuny.edu
Diomaris Padilla (Environmental & Geological Science; City College)
Research Interests: Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences
diomarisp@hotmail.com
Lesley Patrick (Environmental & Geological Science; Hunter College)
Research Interests: Urban Sustainability, Climate Change, GIS
lpatrick@hunter.cuny.edu
Edward J. Rice (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Ecology, Long Island Sound, Climate Change
Advisor: Gillian Stewart
Website
erice@gc.cuny.edu, ricedward@gmail.com
Maddalena Romano (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Paleoclimatology/Paleooceanography, Global Climate Change, Geology, GIS
mromano1@gc.cuny.edu
Rahul Sahajpal (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Sediment and Aqueous Geochemistry
Advisor: N.G. Hemming
rsahajpal 'at' qc 'dot' cuny 'dot' edu
Fernanda Santos (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Black carbon degradation and atmospheric deposition in soils; Roots degradation; belowground carbon cycling; soil ecology; Stable isotopes tracer techniques; molecular markers, GIS application.
Advisor: Jeffrey Bird
fsantos100 'at' qc 'dot' cuny 'dot' edu
Joseph D. Sapienza (Environmental & Geological Science; Graduate Center)
Research Interests: Hydrology and Geology
jossums@optonline.net
Nicholas Steiner (Environmental & Geological Science; City College)
Research Interests: Urban Aerosols, Remote Sensing, Ocean Color
NSteiner@gc.cuny.edu
Suzie Stempel (Environmental & Geological Science; Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Gowanus Canal, Environmental Geochemistry, Environmental Policy, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Justice, Public Science.
Advisor: Dr. Cheng; Dr. Gould
SStempel@gc.cuny.edu
David Stolarz (Environmental & Geological Science; Hunter College)
Research Interests: GIS, Remote Sensing, Economics, Human Geography, Coastal Processes, Political Science
Website
dstolarz@geo.hunter.cuny.edu
Hanii Takahashi (Environmental & Geological Science; City College)
Research Interests: Tropical Overshooting Convection, Satellite Remote sensing of Clouds
Advisor: Johnny Luo
htakahashi@gc.cuny.edu, hanii.takahashi@gmail.com
Angelika Winner (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: Aqueous environmental geo-biochemistry, Influence of microorganisms on water chemistry/quality, Water quality and climate change, Water quality and water privatization
Advisor: Jeffrey Bird
htakahashi@gc.cuny.edu
Kamila Wisniewska (Environmental & Geological Science; Hunter College)
Research Interests: Climate Change, Ocean/Atmosphere Interactions, Ocean Models.
Advisor: Haydee Salmun
kamila827@yahoo.com
Xiyan Xu (Environmental & Geological Science; Queens College)
Research Interests: vegetation-atmosphere interaction in the atmospheric boundary layer and seeking numerical solutions to the scalar transfer over forested hills.
Advisor: Chuixiang Yi
Website
xxu1@gc.cuny.edu
Natalia Zakharova (Environmental & Geological Science; Brooklyn College)
Research Interests: Applied Geophysics, Petrophysics
nzakharova@gc.cuny.edu