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Faculty & Staff

UMass Boston's School for the Environment is home to more than 400 environmental science, marine science, urban planning, sustainability, and community development faculty, post-docs, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students. Below you will find contact information for core and research faculty (those whose primary home is the School for the Environment), affiliate faculty (those whose secondary home is the School for the Environment), adjunct faculty (those whose affiliation is outside of the University of Massachusetts Boston), and the School’s staff, including those directly supporting institutes, centers, and facilities.

Core Faculty

• Adenrele Awotona, Professor, Sustainable Urban Development, School for the Environment
• Bob Chen, Interim Dean, School for the Environment
• Ellen Douglas, Associate Dean, Professor of Hydrology, School for the Environment
• John Duff, Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School for the Environment
• Lorena Estrada-Martínez, Assistant Professor of Environment and Public Health, School for the Environment
• Eugene Gallagher, Associate Professor of Benthic Ecology and Statistics, School for the Environment
• Richard Hung, Associate Professor of Economic Development, School for the Environment
• Karen H. Johannesson, Professor of Geochemistry, School for the Environment
• Paul Kirshen, Professor of Climate Adaptation, School for the Environment
• ZhongPing Lee, Professor of Optical Oceanography, School for the Environment
• Georgia Mavrommati, Assistant Professor of Ecological Economics, School for the Environment
• Helen C. Poynton, Associate Professor of Molecular Ecotoxicology, School for the Environment
• Antonio Raciti, Assistant Professor of Ecological Design, School for the Environment
• Kenneth Reardon, Professor of Urban Planning, School for the Environment
• Karen Ricciardi, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies
• Crystal Schaaf, Professor of Remote Sensing/GIS, School for the Environment
• C. Eduardo Siqueira, Associate Professor of Environment and Public Health, School for the Environment
• Elizabeth L. Sweet, Assistant Professor of Equitable and Sustainable Development
• Michael Tlusty, Associate Professor of Sustainability and Food Solutions, School for the Environment
• Juanita Urban-Rich, Associate Professor of Zooplankton Ecology, School for the Environment
• Alan G. Wiig, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
• Zong-Guo Xia, Professor of Geography, School for the Environment

Research and Adjunct Faculty

• Jennifer Bender, Aquaculture Education Coordinator, School for the Environment
• Mark Borrelli, Research Faculty, Center for Coastal Studies
• Robert Bowen, Retired Professor, School for the Environment
• Amy Costa, Research Faculty, Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies
• Steve Curwood, Adjunct Faculty in Environmental Communications
• Paul DiGiacomo, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
• Robyn Hannigan, Adjunct Faculty, Geochemistry
• Beth Kaplin, Research Professor of Biodiversity, School for the Environment
• Scott Kraus, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
• Jonathan Mandelman, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life
• William E. Robinson, Retired Professor of Environmental and Aquatic Toxicology, School for the Environment
• Conevery Bolton Valencius, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
• Jianwei Wei, Research Assistant Professor of Ocean Color Remote Sensing
• Jack Wiggin, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Harbors Institute

Instructional Faculty

• Michael Armstrong, Adjunct Professor, School for the Environment
• Jennifer Bender, Aquaculture Education Coordinator, School for the Environment
• Robert Brock, Adjunct Professor, School for the Environment
• Michael E. Brookfield, Adjunct Professor of Geology, School for the Environment
• Vijaya Jyoti, Lecturer, School for the Environment
• David Merwin, Lecturer, School for the Environment
• Luke Simpson, Adjunct Professor, School for the Environment
• Jun Zhu, Lecturer, School for the Environment
• Douglas Zook, Associate Lecturer, School for the Environment
• Peter Schneider, Lecturer, Office of Environmental Health and Safety 
• Stephanie Wood, Lecturer in Biology and Research Assistant Professor, School for the Environment

Affiliated Faculty

• Jarrett Byrnes, Associate Professor of Biology - Marine Ecology; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function; Climate Change Ecology
• Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Associate Professor of Engineering, College of Science and Mathematics
• Michael Johnson, Professor and Chair, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School
• Benyamin B. Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management
• Jose E. Martinez-Reyes, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and School for the Environment
• Rosalyn Negrón, Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
• Amy Den Ouden, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts
• Amit Patel, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School
• Karen Ricciardi, Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies
• Lisa Rivera, Associate Professor
• Maureen Scully, PhD Program Director, Associate Professor of Management, College of Management
• David Timmons, Associate Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
• Stacy D. VanDeveer, Professor and Chair, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance; McCormack Graduate School
• Roberta L. Wollons, Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts
• J. Cedric Woods, Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies
  Director, Critical Ethnic and Community Studies Program
• Douglas Woodhams, Associate Professor of Biology - Disease Ecology

Staff

• Alan Abend, Assistant Dean, School for the Environment
• Elizabeth Boyle, Undergraduate Program Coordinator, School for the Environment.
• Paula Cameron, Office Manager, School for the Environment
• Rebecca Herst, Director, Sustainable Solutions Lab
• Helenmary Hotz, Director, Academic Labs, School for the Environment
• Schanna James, Business Manager, School for the Environment
• Allison Novelly, Research Analyst, Urban Harbors Institute
• Jolanda Omari, Administrative Assistant, School for the Environment
• Francesco Peri, Research Engineer and Project Manager, School for the Environment
• Kimberly Starbuck, Senior Research Associate, Urban Harbors Institute
• Kristin Uiterwyk, Director, Urban Harbors Institute, School for the Environment
• Yvonne Vaillancourt, Director, Nantucket Field Station, School for the Environment