Center for the Environment - Harvard University

RESEARCH AREAS

Ecology & Biodiversity

FACULTY
Peter S. Ashton	The dynamics and productivity of primary forests in different habitats, especially tropical Asia; breeding systems, population biology.
Colleen M. Cavanaugh	Symbioses of bacteria in marine invertebrates from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, methane seeps, and coastal reducing sediments.
William C. Clark	Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology.
Brian D. Farrell	The influence of spatial and temporal variation in the availability of habitats or other resources on speciation and the rate of evolution of inter-specific interactions.
Richard Forman	Landscape and regional ecology, road ecology, land-use planning, and linking science with spatial pattern to mesh nature and people.
Robert France	Ecology and conservation biology; landscape architecture, land-use planning and environmental theory.
Hopi Hoekstra	Evolutionary genetics of natural populations of mammals; specific focus on ecological genetics and genomics.
Noel Michele Holbrook	Long distance transport physiology in plants; root physiology; biomechanics of growth and development.
Sheila Jasanoff	Science and the courts; environmental regulation and risk management; comparative public policy; social studies of science and technology; and science and technology policy.
Calestous Juma	Biodiversity and sustainable development; science and technology policy.
Niall G. Kirkwood	Technology and its relationship to design in the built environment; landscape detail technologies, the durability of built landscapes, and the reuse of former industrial or disturbed land.
Roberto Kolter	Biofilms and the ways in which interspecies interactions influence microbial development in communities; comparative genomics.
Henry Lee	Electricity and water privatization, environmental management, global climate change, and the political economy of energy.
Jonathan B. Losos	Behavioral and evolutionary ecology of lizards.
James J. McCarthy	Biological oceanography, phytoplankton ecology, nitrogen nutrition of phytoplankton.
Paul R. Moorcroft	Terrestrial ecosystem dynamics and the response of terrestrial ecosystems to global change.
Chris Paciorek	Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling for environmental health applications, including exposure estimation and modeling health outcomes.
Naomi E. Pierce	Behavioral ecology and the evolution of species interactions; genetic mechanisms and biochemical signaling pathways underlying three-way interactions between plants, pathogens, and insects.
Noreen Tuross	Application of biogeochemical techniques, including immunology and mass spectrometry, to archaeological questions; human impacts on the land, paleodiet, migration and seasonality.
John Wakeley	Theoretical population genetics; the forces that produce and maintain genetic variation in natural populations.
Edward O. Wilson	Biodiversity and climate change; biogeography; sociobiology; religion and environmental protection.
Stephen Wofsy	Chemistry of the atmosphere on global and regional scales, including stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry.
Richard Wrangham	Analysis of primary nutrients of primate food, as well as the analysis of secondary compounds.

Ecology & Biodiversity-Related Programs at Harvard

Harvard Forest
Harvard University Herbaria
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (FAS)
Project for Reclamation Excellence (GSD)