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Overview

TEI Working Groups provide a framework to encourage faculty to work together to develop multidisciplinary approaches to complex environmental issues. Working Groups involve both natural and social scientists and encourage intellectual leadership and dialogue within specific environmental thematic areas. Working Groups also provide a mechanism for integration and communication of information on complex issues and a venue for sharing information among faculty and researchers. Participants may discuss and identify environmental research needs, identify and develop collaborative opportunities, develop working papers, and disseminate information through lectures, seminars, publications, forums and conferences. Working groups will also provide direction and leadership to related activities including the Environmental Lecture Series, the MA Water Resources Research Center Annual Conference, and the Annual Contaminated Soils and Water Conference.

TEI first explored the Working Group concept through the Environmental Fellowship Program funded by DOE, which focused on three themes: climate change, contaminants (specifically phytoremediation), and methods of environmental modeling. As this project nears completion, TEI plans to build on the strengths of the working group and will soon be issuing a broad invitation to faculty to participate in discussing three new proposed Working Groups.

Faculty Working Group - Climate Change

For more information about the activities of the Climate Change Faculty Working Group or to join the group please contact TEI .

Name	Department	Research Interests
David Ahlfeld	Civil and Environmental Engineering	Climate Change impacts on hydrological processes and water resource systems
Erin Baker	Mechanical and Industrial Engineering	Operations research methods, energy and policy
Jeffrey Blanchard	Microbiology	Bioinformatics, evolutionary biology change effects on cyanobacteria
Raymond Bradley	Geosciences	Climate variability across time scales
Persaram Batra	Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mt. Holyoke	Climate modeling, paleoclimate, human dimensions
Robert DeConto	Geosciences	Climate dynamics, mechanisms of past, present and future climate variability and change
Sarah Dorner	MA WRRC, Public Health	Water resources, modeling fate and transport of pathogenic microorganisms
Drew Guswa	Engineering, Smith College	Hydrology, groundwater flow and modeling
Peter M. Haas	Political Science	International environmental policies and cooperation, global governance
Pallab Mozumder	The Environmental Institute	Behavioral Responses to Climate Change, Resilience and Adaptive Management, Water Resources Management. (Web Site)
Andreas Muschinski	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Meteorology, clear-air turbulence, stratified shear flows, renewable energy, remote sensing, weather forecasting
Craig Nicolson	Natural Resources Conservation	Arctic environment, human dimensions
Mathias Vuille	Geosciences	Paleoclimate, climate dynamics, climate modeling

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