Faculty Name E-mail Research Interests Balkwill, David Biomedical Sciences david.balkwill@med.fsu.edu the study of microorganisms surviving in extreme environments Burnett, William Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science wburnett@fsu.edu naturally-occurring radioisotopes as tracers of geophysical phenomena in the earth, marine, and environmental sciences Chan Hilton, Amy B. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering abchan@eng.fsu.edu optimization, evolutionary computation and artificial intelligence, environmental systems analysis, contaminant fate and transport and simulation modeling, tools for enhanced student learning Chanton, Jeff Oceanography jchanton@fsu.edu permafrost decomposition and methane emissions, stable isotope analysis of food webs, using bacteria to reduce methane release from landfills, methane hydrates and using stable isotopes to constrain ecosystem respiration Chen, Gang Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering gchen@eng.fsu.edu microbial and chemical movement and reactions in porous media, environmental biotechnology, surface chemistry, and sustainable design and engineering Cherrier, Jennifer Biogeochemical Oceanography jennifer.cherrier@famu.edu sources, sinks, and transformations of dissolved organic matter (DOM); factors regulating microbial carbon and nitrogen remineralization and assimilation processes; tracing DOM flow using stable and radiocarbon abundance measurements Coleman, Felicia Biology coleman@bio.fsu.edu interactions of physical and biological processes that affect population dynamics in reef fish Cooper, William T. Chemistry and Biochemistry cooper@chem.fsu.edu environmental and geochemical applications of mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy; the biogeochemistry of organic compounds in surface and subsurface aquatic environments Cross, Timothy Chemistry and Biochemistry cross@magnet.fsu.edu understanding how biological macromolecules, specifically membrane proteins, carry out their function Dalal, Naresh Chemistry and Biochemistry ndalal@chem.fsu.edu study of physical properties of solid-state materials, development of new materials, understanding of structure-property relationships, obtaining guidelines for developing new materials, and development of novel applications or improvement of existing instrumental methods Humayun, Munir Geological Sciences humayun@magnet.fsu.edu cosmochemistry, laser ablation microanalysis, geochemistry of the platinum group elements, and isotope systematics Kostka, Joel Oceanography jkostka@fsu.edu Geomicrobiology; metal, carbon, and nitrogen cycling in marine/aquatic sediments Landing, William Oceanography wlanding@fsu.edu chemical, biological, and physical processes which affect trace element distributions and behavior in marine and freshwater environments Marshall, Alan G. Chemistry and Biochemistry marshall@magnet.fsu.edu ultrahigh-resolution mass spectral determination of elemental compositions of individual organic components in complex mixtures of petrochemical or environmental origin Miller, Thomas Biological Science miller@bio.fsu.edu interactions between coastal terrestrial vegetation and coastal processes Salters, Vincent Geological Sciences and NHMFL salters@magnet.fsu.edu trace element and isotope geochemistry with the aim of using trace element fractionations to date and quantify processes and isotopes of interest are those that can be measured by solid source mass spectrometry: Sr, Nd, Pb, Hf, Th, Os, Hg Wang, Yang Geological Sciences ywang@magnet.fsu.edu biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients