The University of Toledo

Department of Environmental Sciences faculty have expertise in many areas, including: Earth surface processes, hydrogeology, aquatic ecosystems, land and water remediation, environmental conservation, ecosystem ecology, and global environmental change. Follow the links below to view full faculty profiles.

• Land subsidence
• Toxic algal blooms
• Groundwater resources

• Invasion, Landscape, and Watershed Ecology
• Modeling Dispersal Mechanisms
• Predicting Habitat Suitability

• limnology of large lake ecosystems
• pelagic zooplankton and phytoplankton community ecology
• impact of invasive species on lake ecosystems

• Invertebrate Paleontology/Paleoecology
• Non-marine Mollusca
• History of the Building Stone
  and Clay Minerals Industry
• History of Geology

• Carbon and Water Cycle
• Ecosystem Science
• Ecological Modeling
• Conservation Biology

• sedimentology
• tidal environments
• cyclostratigraphy
• mathematical applications in sedimentary geology

• Undergraduate Learning and Engagement
• Undergraduate Field-Based Research
• Eastern North American Community Ecology

• Geomorphology
• Glacial and Quaternary Geology
• Quaternary History of the Great Lakes

• Environmental Microbiology
• Bioremediation, Phytoremediation
• Natural Attenuation
• Microbial Physiology, Genetics

• Pulse Stability in Wetlands
• Human Impacts on Rivers and Streams
• Paleolimnological Approaches to Restoration

• Plant Physiological Ecology
• Biochemistry
• Global Environmental Change
• Heat-Shock Proteins

• Coastal and Marine Geology
• Oceanography
• Quaternary Geology

• General Hydrogeology
• Hydrogeologic Field Methods
• Numerical Groundwater Modeling

• Aquatic Ecology
• Invertebrate-Fish Predator-Prey Interactions
• Organism-Habitat Modification
• Introduced Species

• Systems Ecology

• Environmental and ecological statistics
• Bayesian hierarchical models
• Water quality and watershed modeling
• Stream ecosystem response to disturbance

• Environmental transmission of pathogens
• Public health impact of land-application of municipal biosolids
• Environmental prevalence and
  fate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

• Conservation Genetics
• Invasive species genetic strategies
• Evolutionary biology, biogeography

• Environmental Geochemistry of Sediments and Water
• Fate and Transport of Hazardous Contaminants

• Environmental Geophysics
• Geologic Hazards Mitigation
• Earthquake Seismology
• Geological, Geophysical and Environmental Investigations in Central America

• Soil Ecology
• Ecosystem Ecology
• Plant-Soil Interactions
• Biogeochemistry