Center for the Environment - Harvard University

RESEARCH AREAS

Ecology & Biodiversity

FACULTY
Lawrence Buell	Rethinking U. S. literature in a globalizing world; discourses of literature and environment.
Colleen M. Cavanaugh	Chemosynthesis and symbiosis, especially characterization of metabolic and genetic capabilities of symbionts, evolutionary relationships with free-living bacteria, and co-evolution of host and symbiont.
Eric Chivian	Human health consequences of habitat degradation, species loss, and ecosystem disruption.
George M. Church	New genomic and proteomic measurement and modeling methods for biomedical and ecological systems.
William C. Clark	Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology.
Scott V. Edwards	Molecular evolution, systematics, phylogeography, comparative genomics and behavioral evolution of birds and non-avian reptiles.
Brian D. Farrell	Interaction between insects and plants, specifically the interplay of adaptation and historical contingency in ecological and taxonomic diversification.
Richard T.T. Forman	Landscape ecology; road ecology; urban-region ecology and planning; conservation; patch-corridor matrix model; changing land mosaics; land-use planning.
David R. Foster	Plant ecology, landscape dynamics, conservation, and long-term studies of forest ecosystems.
Robert France	Ecology and conservation biology; landscape architecture, land-use planning and environmental theory.
Peter Girguis	Microbially-mediated carbon and nitrogen cycling in hydrocarbon-based and hydrothermal vent ecosystems; microbial fuel cells.
James Hanken	Evolution of morphology; developmental biology; systematics, taxonomy and conservation biology; biodiversity informatics.
Colleen Hansel	Environmental chemistry; environmental microbiology; risk analysis and public health.
Hopi Hoekstra	Evolutionary genetics of natural populations of mammals; specific focus on ecological genetics and genomics.
Noel Michele Holbrook	Long-distance transport physiology in plants; root physiology; water relations associated with flowering and flower production; biomechanics of growth and development; factors controlling uptake and movement of water in tropical trees.
Calestous Juma	Biodiversity and sustainable development; science and technology policy.
Niall G. Kirkwood	Technology and its relationship to design in the built environment, including urban brownfields, municipal landfills, the regeneration of Superfund sites, decommissioned military bases, and closed nuclear research facilities.
Roy Kishony	System-level architecture of genetic networks and the interplay between their design and the evolutionary process.
Roberto Kolter	Biofilm physiology; interspecies interactions; microbial ecology and evolution.
Marc Lipsitch	Transmission dynamics and within-host population biology of infectious disease.
Jonathan B. Losos	Maintenance of biodiversity; behavioral and evolutionary ecology; lizards.
Christopher Marx	Experimental evolution of microbes to explore the systems-level function and optimization of complex biological networks.
James J. McCarthy	Marine nitrogen cycling; coastal and offshore plankton productivity; biological-physical interactions in the sea; effects of climate change on marine systems.
Paul R. Moorcroft	Ecological dynamics of terrestrial plant communities and ecosystems; biosphere-atmosphere interactions; mechanistic models of animal movement.
Chris Paciorek	Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling for environmental health applications; Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling for ecological applications.
Ann Pearson	Carbon isotope biogeochemistry; global organic carbon cycle; microbial metabolism in anoxic marine systems; sources of carbon to marine sediments.
Naomi E. Pierce	Behavioral ecology and the evolution of species interactions; genetic mechanisms and biochemical signaling pathways underlying three-way interactions between plants, pathogens, and insects.
Ann Pringle	Ecology of asexuality; mutualism; mutualism and invasion; fitness of filamentous fungi.
Peter P. Rogers	Consequences of population on natural resources development; conflict resolution in international river basins; improved methods for managing natural resources and the environment; impact of global change on water resources; development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development.
James Shine	Transport, fate, and effects of contaminants in aquatic ecosystems.
Robert N. Stavins	Environmental economics, natural resource economics, and related public policy; innovation and diffusion of technology; market-based strategies for future climate policy; international climate agreements.
Noreen Tuross	Application of biogeochemical techniques, including immunology and mass spectrometry, to archaeological questions; human impacts on the land, paleodiet, migration and seasonality.
John Wakeley	Theoretical population genetics; the forces that produce and maintain genetic variation in natural populations.
Martin Weitzman	Environmental and natural resource economics; green accounting; economics of biodiversity.
Edward O. Wilson	Entomology, specifically ants and social insects; biodiversity; conservation; natural history.
Richard Wrangham	Non-invasive investigation of primate physiology; ecology and biodiversity of wild Bornean orangutans and East African chimpanzees.

Ecology & Biodiversity-Related Programs at Harvard

Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HKS)
Harvard Forest
Harvard University Herbaria
Microbial Sciences Initiative
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS)
Project for Reclamation Excellence (GSD)