About Ecology and Environmental Science

Substantial external funding and state of the art equipment enable cutting edge research in ecological and environmental understanding of processes at the organism and ecosystem level in a world of changing climate, urbanization, human impacts, and invasive species.

Ecology and Environmental Science Faculty

Dr. Ruchi Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor
Office: SR G72
Email: r.bhattacharya14@csuohio.edu
Expertise: biogeochemistry, paleolimnology, computational geoscience
 

Dr. Andrea Corbett

Associate College Lecturer
Office: SI 214
Email: a.corbett@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Plant ecology - plant competition, root-soil dynamics, community ecology, community diversity, secondary succession in old-fields, invasive species, solar tracking in arctic flowers
 

Dr. Brice Grunert

Assistant Professor
Office: SR G70
Email: b.grunert@csuohio.edu
Expertise: remote sensing, GIS, geospatial datasets, ecosystem processes
 

Dr. Meagan Harless

Associate College Lecturer
Office: SI 233
Email: m.harless@csuohio.edu
Expertise: herpetology; community ecology; ecotoxicology of pollutants in freshwater systems; conservation biology; parasitology in amphibians
 

Dr. Robert A. Krebs

Professor
Office: SR G74
Email: r.krebs@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Evolutionary biology - historical changes in freshwater mussel (Unionidae) distributions; models of genetic changes associated with colonization and isolation in refugia; mussel conservation
 

Dr. Zihan Lin

Assistant Professor
Office: SI 229
Email: z.lin88@csuohio.edu
Expertise: environmental-health nexus, geospatial data science, urban green space
 

Dr. Kevin Mueller

Associate Professor
Office: SR G73
Email: k.mueller89@csuohio.edu
Expertise: global change ecology; biodiversity; biogeochemistry; plant functional traits; land management; urban ecology; environmental pollution; paleoclimate & paleoecology; plant lipids & biomarkers (chemical fossils)  
 

Dr. Emily Rauschert

Associate Professor
Office: SR G66
Email: e.rauschert@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Plant ecology - population and spatial dynamics, dispersal, species coexistence, biological invasions and biotic homogenization
 
 

Dr. Dennis Sampson

Associate College Lecturer
Office: SI 211
Email: d.a.sampson@csuohio.edu
Expertise: infectious disease microbiology, plant mating systems, plant stress physiology
 

Dr. John Van Stan

Associate Professor
Office: SR G75
Email: j.vanstan@csuohio.edu
Expertise: environmental science and geography, landscape ecology, wetlands, environmental science & policy
 

Dr. B. Michael Walton

Associate Professor
Office: SR 279,280
Email: b.walton@csuohio.edu
Expertise: ecological physiology and evolutionary biology: studies of behavioral energetics, whole-organism performance, and the relationship of these variables to growth and survival in natural populations of reptiles and amphibians
 

Dr. Julie Wolin

Associate Professor
Office: SR G67
Email: j.wolin@csuohio.edu
Expertise: Environmental science - diatom assemblage analysis applied to current environmental impact studies and to paleolimnological reconstructions
 

Dr. Fasong Yuan

Professor
Office: SI 228
Email: f.yuan06@csuohio.edu
Expertise: geology and environmental science: geochemical and isotopic tracers to investigate physical processes occurring in lakes and rivers, aqueous and environmental geochemistry to assess anthropogenic disturbances, environmental indicators for modern and ancient aquatic systems