Science and Engineering Faculty Refereed Journal Publications 2002-2006
Science and Engineering Faculty and their Research Interests
Larry D. Byers, Ph.D., Princeton, 1972, Professor. Discipline: Biochemistry. Research Topics: Enzyme Mechanisms and Inhibitors.
Mark Fink, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1983, Professor. Discipline: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Polymer Materials. Research Topics: Organometallic, Main Group and Organosilicon Chemistry.
Michael Herman, Ph.D., Chicago, 1980, Professor. Discipline: Theoretical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Theoretical, Polymers.
Brent Koplitz, Ph.D., Princeton, 1985, Professor and Department Chair. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Lasers, and Materials.
Joel Mague, Ph.D., MIT, 1965, Professor. Director, X-ray Crystallography Laboratory. Discipline: Inorganic, Organometallic Chemistry. Research Topics: Inorganic, Organometallic, X-ray Crystallography.
Gary McPherson, Ph.D., Illinois, 1969, Professor and Senior Associate Dean. Discipline: Analytical Chemistry. Research Topics: Spectroscopy of Self-Assembled Systems.
Robert Pascal, Ph.D., Rice University, 1980, Professor and Bernard Villars Baus Chair in Chemistry. Discipline: Biochemistry, physical organic chemistry.
Russell Schmehl, Ph.D., North Carolina, 1980, Professor. Discipline: Inorganic Chemistry. Research Topics: Photochemistry, Electrochemistry, Light Harvesting, Sensors.
Mark Sulkes, Ph.D., Cornell, 1978, Professor. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Laser Spectroscopy, Molecular Beams.
Alexander L. Burin, Ph.D., Moscow Institute for Physics and Engineering, 1989, Associate Professor. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Charge Transfer and Current-Induced magnetism.
Harry Ensley, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976, Associate Professor. Discipline: Organic Chemistry. Research Topics: Organic.
James P. Donahue, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1998, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Inorganic Chemistry. Research Topics: Transition Metal Thiolate Chemistry – Inorganic.
Scott Michael Grayson, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Organic, Polymer Materials and Biochemistry. Research Topics: Organic, Material, and Biochemistry.
Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2005, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Bio-Organic Chemistry. Research Topics: Nanobiotechnology, Molecular Recognition, Self-Assembly.
Igor V. Rubtsov, Ph.D., Institute for Chemical Physics, 1992, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical Chemistry.
Heiko Jacobsen, Ph.D., University of Calgary, Canada, 1996, Professor of Practice. Discipline: Computational Inorganic Chemistry.
Carol Zhang, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1997, Professor of Practice. Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, design and synthesis of molecules of therapeutical interest.
Howard W. Mielke, Ph.D., Michigan, 1972, Research Professor. (Appointed in Center for Bioenvironmental Research). Urban environmental health disparities from the accumulation of metals.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Karen Johannesson, Ph.D., Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, 1993, Professor. Low temperature aqueous geochemistry and biogeochemistry, emphasizing trace element speciation, chemical hydrogeology and biogeochemical cycling of trace elements in the environment.
Ronald L. Parsley, Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1969, Professor. Paleontology: paleobiology, paleoecology, and evolution of lower Paleozoic primitive Echinodermata; Paleozoic faunas in general.
Nancye H. Dawers, Ph.D., Columbia, 1997, Associate Professor. Structural Geology, Neotectonics; Fault growth and interaction using scaling relations in evolving fault populations.
George C. Flowers, Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1979, Associate Professor. Theoretical geochemistry, sedimentary geochemistry, and environmental geochemistry of estuarine sediments.
Stephen A. Nelson, Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1979, Associate Professor and Department Chair. Igneous petrology, Volcanology, relationship between volcanism and tectonism, particularly in Mexico; mechanisms of explosive volcanism.
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Ph.D., Utrecht University, 1993, Associate Professor. Quaternary geology, Fluvial and deltaic sedimentology, Nonmarine sequence stratigraphy, Sea-level change, Applied geochronology, Paleoclimatology.
Nicole M. Gasparini, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003, Assistant Professor. Fluvial geomorphology, landscape evolution, sediment delivery from hillslopes to rivers, interactions between climate and tectonics through erosion, impacts of climate change and land-use on river networks.
Brad E. Rosenheim, Ph.D., University of Miami, 2005, Assistant Professor. Analysis of very recent geologic records of ocean circulation parameters (temperature, oxygen isotopes, salinity, minor elements, and 14C) in relation to global climate change.
Kyle Straub, Ph.D., MIT, 2007, Assistant Professor. Sediment transport.
Gerhard Piringer, Ph.D., Tulane University, 2000, Professor of Practice. Soil and groundwater remediation with nanoparticles; life-cycle assessment and industrial ecology; anaerobic biodegradation.
Richard Campanella, M.S., Louisiana State University, 1993, Research Assistant Professor and CBR Assistant Director. Geography/Mapping Sciences. (Appointed in Center for Bioenvironmental Research)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Henry L. Bart, Jr., Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1985, Professor. Systematics, taxonomy, ecology, life history, and ecotoxicology of stream fishes.
Steven P. Darwin, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 1976, Professor. Plant systematics.
David C. Heins, Ph.D., Tulane University, 1979, Professor and Department Chair. Ecology and life-history evolution of North American fishes.
John McLachlan, Ph.D., George Washington University, 1971, Professor of Pharmacology, Albert J. Weatherhead, III and Celia Scott Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of Center for Bioenvironmental Research Director. Joint appointment with Center for Bioenvironmental Research and Department of Pharmacology.
Thomas W. Sherry, Ph.D., California, Los Angeles, 1981, Professor. Population ecology, habitat selection, and conservation of birds.
Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998, Associate Professor and Ken and Ruth Arnold Early Career Professorship in Earth and Ecological Science. Tropical ecosystems, physiological ecology, global change biology.
Michael J. Blum, Ph.D., Duke University, 2002, Assistant Professor. Ecological genetics of freshwater fishes and coastal marsh plants.
Jordan Karubian, Associate Professor. (appointment begins spring 2010)
Cori Richards-Zawacki, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2007, Assistant Professor. Evolution, ecology and conservation of amphibians.
Caz Taylor, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2004, Assistant Professor. Population biology of migratory and invasive species and wetlands ecology.
John H. Caruso, Ph.D., Tulane University, 1977, Professor of Practice. Systematics and distribution of deep-sea fishes, especially chaunacid and lophiid angler fishes.