Associated Resources

Earth and Environment

Description

Situated in California’s San Joaquin Valley, UC Merced is in a unique position to study the environmental issues that face the state, from the mountains to the farmlands to the coastal population centers. Environmental scientists and engineers at UC Merced can answer questions about water supply and quality, soils and air quality, as well as environmental health effects of pollution. Several faculty members are also experts in global climate change and its effects on phenomena from sea life to forest fires.

Associated Faculty

  • Anthony Westerling (Effect of climate change on wildfires)
  • Sam Traina (Soils, sediments and water; Sierra Nevada Research Institute)
  • Peggy ODay (Water quality; water pollution; heavy metals; pesticides)
  • Mónica Medina (Effect of climate change on marine species; genomics of marine invertebrates)
  • Lara Kueppers (Climate change and ecology; carbon cycling and climate change; regional climate models)
  • Henry Jay Forman (Antioxidants; lung health; asthma; environmental health; air quality; effects of smoking)
  • Philip B. Duffy (Climate modeling, regional climate change, societal impacts of climate change)
  • Michael N Dawson (Marine biodiversity; evolution; ecological genetics; climate change)
  • Martha H. Conklin (Water quality; K-12 environmental science education)
  • Alberto Cerpa (Sensor networks, environmental sensing, energy-smart infrastructure, wireless communications)
  • François Blanchette (Mathematical approaches to environmental problems involving fluids and sediments)
  • Roger C. Bales (Climate change and water resources; water from the Sierra Nevada; causes of climate change)
  • Stephen C. Hart (Ecology; soils; biogeochemistry; forestry; climate change)
  • Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (soil chemistry; critical zone; climate change; land use; land degradation; environmental impacts of landmines)
  • Elliott Campbell (Sustainability, biofuels, land use, crop index insurance)
  • Jason Raymond (origin and evolution of life; microbiology; evolutionary biology and genomics; ecology and biogeochemistry of hot springs)
  • J Michael Beman (ocean pollution and acidification, marine microbiology and microbial ecology, global biogeochemical cycles)