Affiliated Faculty & Staff

Please link on the form below to request your addition to CIRCA’s Affiliated Faculty & Staff page and indicate your areas of expertise related to CIRCA’s mission. Affiliated faculty agree to have their information posted on this page as a way to demonstrate the multidisciplinary expertise that UConn can leverage to tackle resilience problems and strategies. Affiliated faculty & staff will consult with CIRCA as needed and receive our monthly Resilience Roundup newsletter to stay informed about climate related programs, grants, events, and community engagement opportunities.

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Name	Title	Department
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Geography\|Health\|Social Sciences	Thelma Abu	Assistant Professor in Human and Environment Interactions	Department of Geography
Affiliated Faculty & Staff\|CIRCA Executive Committee\|Directors of Applied Research	climate adaptation and resilience\|Coastal and Ocean Engineering\|Coastal Ocean Observations\|Meteorology\|Precipitation and Floods\|Remote Sensing	Emmanouil Anagnostou	CIRCA Director of Applied Research, Professor	Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation \| Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Meteorology\|Numerical Modeling	Marina Astitha	Associate Dept Head & Associate Professor	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	GIS\|Qualitative Methods\|Sustainable Cities\|Transportation\|Urban Ecology	Carol Atkinson-Palumbo	Associate Professor	Department of Geography
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Marine Science	Peter Auster	Research Professor Emeritus	National Undersea Research Center
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal Policy and Planning\|Coastal Structure Design and Wave Interaction\|Coastal Vulnerability\|Community Engagement	Juliana Barrett	Associate Extension Educator	Connecticut Sea Grant, Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR), Extension
Affiliated Faculty & Staff		Zofia Baumann	Associate Research Professor	UConn Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal Structure Design and Wave Interaction\|Numerical Modeling	Frank Bohlen	Emeritus Professor	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff		Kara Bonsack	Graphic and Website Developer	Center for Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR), Extension
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Economics\|Equity\|Real Estate\|Sustainable Cities\|Transportation	Jeffrey Cohen	Professor and Kinnard Scholar in Real Estate	Department of Finance
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Ecology	Chris Elphick	Associate Professor	Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	climate adaptation and resilience\|Health\|Social Sciences	Zoey England	Chief of Staff	UConn Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	GIS\|Marine Science\|Numerical Modeling\|Ocean Wave Modeling	Todd Fake	IT/Research Support	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	climate adaptation and resilience\|Community Resilience Planning and Design\|Landscape Architecture\|Urban Ecology	Alexander Felson	Professor	The University of Melbourne, Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Marine Science	William Fitzgerald	Distinguished Emeritus Professor	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	climate adaptation and resilience\|Climatology\|Community Resilience Planning and Design\|Heat Vulnerability\|Multi-Scalar Decision-Making	Mariana Fragomeni	Assistant Professor	Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Transportation	Norman Garrick	Professor Emeritus	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal Structure Design and Wave Interaction\|Data Analysis\|Marine Science\|Remote Sensing	Kay Howard-Strobel	Research Staff	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Biogeochemistry\|climate adaptation and resilience\|Coastal Ocean Observations	Michael Hren	Associate Professor	Department of Earth Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	climate adaptation and resilience\|Coastal Policy and Planning\|Drinking Water\|Multi-Scalar Decision-Making\|Policy and Planning\|Wastewater	Christine Kirchhoff	Assistant Professor	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Ecology\|Natural Resources\|Sea Level Rise	Beth Lawrence	Assistant Professor	Department of Natural Resources and the Environment
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	climate adaptation and resilience\|Communications\|Health	Carolyn Lin	Professor	Department of Communication
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Fluid Dynamics\|Heat Vulnerability\|Physical Oceanography	Chang Liu	Assistant Professor	School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering
Affiliated Faculty & Staff\|CIRCA Executive Committee\|Directors of Applied Research	climate adaptation and resilience\|Coastal Policy and Planning\|Environmental Law\|Sea Level Rise	Joseph MacDougald	CIRCA Director of Applied Research \| Professor-in-Residence	School of Law
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Arctic Climate Change\|Marine Science	Cara Manning	Assistant Professor	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Maritime Studies	Matthew McKenzie	Associate Professor	Department of History
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal Vulnerability\|Community Engagement\|Community Resilience Planning and Design\|Landscape Architecture\|Natural Hazard and Flood Mitigation\|Sustainable Cities	Peter Miniutti	Associate Professor, Administrative Coordinator for LA @ UConn, Director of Community Research and Design Collaborative	Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
Affiliated Faculty & Staff\|CIRCA Executive Committee\|Directors of Applied Research\|Institute Staff	climate adaptation and resilience\|Coastal Ocean Observations\|Coastal Policy and Planning\|Coastal Structure Design and Wave Interaction\|Coastal Vulnerability\|Data Analysis\|Fluid Dynamics\|Marine Science\|Natural Hazard and Flood Mitigation\|Numerical Modeling\|Ocean Wave Modeling\|Physical Oceanography\|Policy and Planning\|Sea Level Rise	James O'Donnell	CIRCA Executive Director, Professor	Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation \| Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal and Ocean Engineering\|Coastal Structure Design and Wave Interaction\|Fluid Dynamics\|Living Shorelines\|Marine Science\|Ocean Wave Modeling\|Physical Oceanography	Jennifer O’Donnell	Associate Research Professor	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Natural Resources	Jason Parent	Assistant Professor	Department of Natural Resources Science at the University of Rhode Island
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Numerical Modeling\|Statistics	Nalini Ravishanker	Professor and Undergraduate Program Director	Department of Statistics
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal Ocean Observations\|Marine Science	Tracy Romano	Professor in Residence	Department of Marine Sciences \| Mystic Aquarium
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Communications\|Geography\|Marine Science\|Multi-Scalar Decision-Making\|Qualitative Methods	Miriah Russo Kelly	Assistant Professor	SCSU Department of Environment, Geography & Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Health	Paula Schenck	Director Indoor Environments and Health Programs	Clinical Instructor Community Medicine and Health Care, University of Connecticut Health Center
Affiliated Faculty & Staff\|CIRCA Executive Committee\|Directors of Applied Research	Geography\|Heat Vulnerability\|Numerical Modeling\|Precipitation and Floods	Anji Seth	CIRCA Director of Applied Research, Associate Professor	Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation \| Department of Geography
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Economics	Farhed Shah	Associate Professor	Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal and Ocean Engineering	Xinyi Shen	Assistant Research Professor	Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Economics\|Multi-Scalar Decision-Making	Mike Shor	Associate Professor	Department of Economics
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Anthropology\|Conservation\|Environmental Justice	Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet	Assistant Professor of Environment and Human Interactions	Department of Anthropology
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Marine Science	Sandra Shumway	Research Professor	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Analytical Chemistry	James Stuart	Professor Emeritus	Department of Chemistry, Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering (CESE)
Affiliated Faculty & Staff\|CIRCA Executive Committee\|Directors of Applied Research	Coastal Policy and Planning\|Economics\|Natural Resources	Stephen Swallow	CIRCA Applied Research Director, Professor	Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation \| Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Economics\|Natural Resources\|water	Charles Towe	Associate Professor	Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal Ocean Observations\|Coastal Structure Design and Wave Interaction\|Coastal Vulnerability\|Marine Science	Jamie Vaudrey	Assistant Research Professor	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal and Ocean Engineering\|Numerical Modeling	Guiling Wang	Professor	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal Ocean Observations\|Marine Science	J. Evan Ward	Professor and Head of Marine Sciences	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Marine Science\|Numerical Modeling\|Ocean Wave Modeling\|Physical Oceanography	Michael Whitney	Associate Professor	Department of Marine Sciences
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	GIS\|Remote Sensing	Emily Wilson	Geospatial Educator	Center For Land Use Education and Research (CLEAR), Extension
Affiliated Faculty & Staff	Coastal and Ocean Engineering\|Fluid Dynamics\|Multi-Scalar Decision-Making\|Natural Hazard and Flood Mitigation	Wei Zhang	Assistant Professor	Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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