UCI Faculty with Environment and Sustainability Interest
The following resource will give you a sense of the depth and breadth of UC Irvine faculty commitment to environmental and sustainability-related research. Together, the Office of Administrative and Business Services and Sustainability Initiative update the catalog each spring. Visit www.sustainability.uci.edu to access the 2014 catalog.
| Name | Title | Home Department | Research Type | More Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Rignot | Professor | Earth System Science | glaciology, climate change, radar remote sensing, ice sheet modeling, interferometry, radio echo sounding, ice-ocean interactions | More about Eric Rignot |
| Stephen G. Ritchie | Professor | Civil & Environmental Engineering | transportation systems engineering | More about Stephen G. Ritchie |
| Michael Robinson-Dorn | Clinical Professor of Law | Law | law related to climate change, natural resources, pollution control and transboundary resource and environmental issues | More about Michael Robinson-Dorn |
| Michael R. Rose | Professor | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | experimental evolution, aging, biological immortality, drosophila, human evolution, evolution of sex | More about Michael R. Rose |
| Diego Rosso | Assistant Professor | Civil & Environmental Engineering | environmental process engineering, water and wastewater engineering, carbon and energy footprints, energy conservation | More about Diego Rosso |
| Ann K. Sakai | Professor | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | plant population biology and conservation biology, plant breeding systems, population biology of invasive species | More about Ann K. Sakai |
| Eric S. Saltzman | Professor | Earth System Science | atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemistry, air-sea exchange | More about Eric S. Saltzman |
| Scott Samuelsen | Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Environmental Engineering | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | energy, combustion, fuel cells, hydrogen, distributed generation, alternative fuels, gas turbine engines, coal, oil, natural gas, air pollution | More about Scott Samuelsen |
| Brett Sanders | Professor ad Chair | Civil & Environmental Engineering | urban flooding, sea level rise and coastal flooding, storm water management | More about Brett Sanders |
| Suzanne Sandmeyer | Professor | Chemical Engineering & Materials Science | creating platform chemicals through the bioengineering of microorganisms, in particular Saccharomyces cerevisiae; using genomics, bioinformatics and molecular biology to enhance the ability to produce important hydrocarbons from yeast | More about Suzanne Sandmeyer |
| Jean-Daniel Saphores | Assistant Professor | Civil & Environmental Engineering | environmental and natural resource economics and policy, urban economics, sustainability | More about Jean-Daniel Saphores |
| Barbara Sarnecka | Assistant Professor | Cognitive Sciences | closing the achievement gap between Latino students from low-income backgrounds and students from higher-income backgrounds | More about |
| Jan Scherfig | Professor Emeritus | Civil & Environmental Engineering | water reclamation, waste treatment processes, environmental engineering | More about Jan Scherfig |
| Peter L. Schnall | Professor | Medicine | the role of occupational stress in causing hypertension and cardiovascular disease | More about Peter L. Schnall |
| Evan Schofer | Professor | Sociology | globalization, political participation, education, environmentalism, economic growth, and economic inequality | More about Evan Schofer |