UMass Boston

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.

Dean

• Carol Thornber, Dean for School for the Environment

Core Faculty

• Sowmya Balachandran, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development
• Laura Castro-Diaz, Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
• Bob Chen, Professor, School for the Environment
• John Duff, Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, School for the Environment
• Lorena Estrada-Martínez, Associate Professor of Environment and Public Health, School for the Environment
• Jesse Farmer, Assistant Professor of Geology & Paleoclimate, 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
• Greg Koman, Assistant Professor of Physical Oceanography, School for the Environment
• Georgia Mavrommati, Associate Professor of Ecological Economics, School for the Environment
• Helen C. Poynton, Professor of Molecular Ecotoxicology, School for the Environment
• Antonio Raciti, Associate Professor of Community Planning and Ecological Design, Department of Urban Planning and Community Development, School for the Environment
• Karen Ricciardi, Associate Professor of Mathematics, School for the Environment
• Elizabeth L. Sweet, Associate Professor of Equitable and Sustainable Development, Associate Dean for School for the Environment.
• Carol Thornber, Dean for School for the Environment
• 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
• Zong-Guo Xia, Professor of Geography, School for the Environment

Research and Adjunct Faculty

• Mark Borrelli, Research Faculty, Center for Coastal Studies
• Robert Bowen, Retired Professor, School for the Environment
• Robert Brock, Adjunct Faculty, 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
• Beth Kaplin, Research Professor of Biodiversity, School for the Environment
• ZhongPing Lee, Emeritus Professor of Optical Oceanography, School for the Environment
• John Mandelman, Vice President and Chief Scientist, Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life
• C. Eduardo Siqueira, Professor of Environment and Public Health, School for the Environment
• Luke Simpson, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
• Robert Stevenson, Associate Professor U of M
• Jianwei Wei, Research Assistant Professor of Ocean Color Remote Sensing
• Timothy Werner, Research & Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment
• Jack Wiggin, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Urban Planning and Community Development, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Harbors Institute
• Stephanie Wood, Lecturer in Biology and Research Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
• Douglas Zook, Adjunct Faculty, School for the Environment

Instructional Faculty

• Vijaya Jyoti, Lecturer, School for the Environment
• David Merwin, Senior Lecturer, School for the Environment
• Justin Drew, Lecturer, School for the Environment
• Peter Schneider, Lecturer, Office of Environmental Health and Safety 
• Christopher White, Research Professor & Lecturer, School for the Environment

Affiliated Faculty

• Jarrett Byrnes, Associate Professor of Biology - Marine Ecology; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function; Climate Change Ecology
• Pamela DiBona, Director MassBays
• Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli, Associate Professor of Engineering, College of Science and Mathematics
• Michael Johnson, Professor, MPA Graduate Program Director, 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
• Alexander More, Associate Professor, Urban Public Health, Manning College of Nursing
• 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, Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Public Policy PhD Program, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, McCormack Graduate School
• Enrique Ramos, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Community Development
• 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
• Roberta L. Wollons, Professor of History, College of Liberal Arts
• Stephanie Wood, Lecturer in Biology and Research Assistant Professor, School for the Environment
• 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
• Bala Balachandran, Director, Sustainable Solutions Lab
• Jennifer Bender, Associate Lecturer and Aquaculture Education Coordinator, School for the Environment
• Elizabeth Boyle, Director, Academic Achievement Service Centre, School for the Environment.
• Aimee Bonanno, Education Program Manager, School for the Environment
• Paula Cameron, Office Manager, School for the Environment
• Jill Carr, Coastal Data Scientist, Mass Bays, School for the Environment
• Helenmary Hotz, Director, Academic Labs, School for the Environment
• Schanna James, Business Manager, School for the Environment
• Allison Novelly, Research Analyst, Urban Harbors Institute
• 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
• Prassede Vella, Senior Scientist, MassBays National Estuary Partnership School for the Environment