Robert Askins Professor of Biology, Center Director: An animal ecologist and ornithologist whose research focuses on ecology and conservation of migratory birds in both their temperate-zone breeding areas and their tropical wintering areas.

Robert Baldwin Associate Professor of Art History: special interests in the social history of Renaissance and Baroque art (1400-1700) exploring the intersection of class and gender with political, social, moral and aesthetic values.

Anne Bernhard Assistant Professor of Biology: A biologist who is interested in the role of microbes in marine and estuarine ecosystems, and their interactions with other organisms as well as with their environment.

MaryAnne Borrelli Associate Professor of Government with special interests in environmental policy and politics in the United States.

Beverly Chomiak Senior Lecturer in Physics, Astronomy, Geophysics and Environmental Studies with special interests in high-grade metamorphic rocks and metamorphosed ore deposits, particularly stratabound and volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits.

Jane Dawson Associate Professor of Government: A political scientist who is currently examining how environmentalism may be linked to a variety of subgroup identities across a broad spectrum of political settings and the implications of this linkage for the achievement of domestic and international environmental policy objectives.

Ann S. Devlin Professor of Psychology with expertise in environmental psychology, particularly in the creation of more humanistic environments in housing for the elderly and psychiatric hospitals.

James Downs, Assistant Professor of History. A historian of the United States with special interest in the medical dimensions of emancipation and how the federal government responded to the subsequent outbreak of sickness and destitution.

Glenn Dreyer Director of the Arboretum, Center Executive Director: A botanist who has interests in the interface between ecology and horticulture.

William Frasure Professor of Government: A political scientist interested in the political behavior of public and private interest groups, businesses and government agencies as they interact on environmental issues.

Pam Hine, Senior Lecturer in Botany

Chad Jones, Assistant Professor of Botany with special interests in plant ecology, plant succession, invasive species, GIS and ecological modeling.

Colleen Kaczmarek, Lecturer in General and Organic Chemistry, Kaczmarek's interests lie in developing programs in chemical education and in bringing chemistry to the local school communities.

Manuel Lizarralde Associate Professor of Ethnobiology: An ethnobotanist whose research focuses on indigenous peoples knowledge and use of rainforest plants, indigenous rights and live histories.

Stephen H. Loomis, Professor of Biology: A former Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Loomis believes that cryobiolgy, especially natural freezing tolerance, is a perfect topic for research at an undergraduate institution.

Arlan Mantz Professor of Physics: Special interests in optics; his work includes development of new laser-based techniques to monitor trace atmospheric chemical species with both specificity and high sensitivity.

Peter Siver Professor of Botany: A limnologist/phycologist who studies the current and historic ecology of lakes and ponds using techniques from electron microscopy to geographic information systems.

Douglas Thompson Professor of Physics, Center Associate Director: A geologist whose special interests are geomorphology, hydrology and natural hazards.

Derek Turner Associate Professor of Philosophy: A philosopher whose research interests lie in philosophy of biology, especially in natural history, evolutionary biology, systematics, and biological teleology.

Gerald Visgilio Professor of Economics, An economist concerned with the applications of economic theory to environmental problems and natural resource use.

Diana Whitelaw Center Associate Director: Interested in conservation of natural resources through integrated programs of research, education and stewardship, with a particular emphasis on the protection of coastal, estuarine and tidal marsh ecosystems.

Marc Zimmer Professor of Chemistry: A computational/inorganic chemist who is studying the molecular basis of bacterial methane production and fertilizer breakdown by nitrogen volitization.

Advisory Board:

Wendy Blake-Coleman '75
Office of Environmental Information, US EPA
John Cook, Vice President, Northeast/Caribbean, The Nature Conservancy
David Foster '77, Director, Harvard Forest, Professor, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Ralph Lewis, Connecticut State Geologist (Retired)
Helen Mathieson '52, Connecticut College, Board of Trustees (Retired)
Edward Monahan, Director, Connecticut Sea Grant College Program (Retired)