ENVIRONMENT - Key Persons


Adam Brynes

Job Titles:
  • Marine Operations Technician

Adam Roddy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Alastair Harborne

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Alessandro M. Catenazzi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Alfredo José Bayuelo Sierra

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist

Alice Gray Read

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Director, Master of Arts in Architecture

Alicia Boymelgreen

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Research Assistant Professor

Amir Khoddamzadeh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Undergraduate Program Director

Andres Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Colombia ) - Sustainable Development Specialist - Water Program, Organization of American States

Anne Mauro

Job Titles:
  • Program Specialist

Anthony John Bellantuono

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Anthony Pereira

Job Titles:
  • Member of the FIU
  • Director, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center

Anupama John

Job Titles:
  • Temporary Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Arif Sadri

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Arif Sarwat

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Arindam Gan Chowdhury

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director, Laboratory for Wind Engineering Research

Aris Papadopoulos

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Expert in Resilience

Arturo Leon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Assefa M. Melesse

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Benjamin Binder

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the Boswell Lab for Marine Ecology and Acoustics / Postdoctoral Associates

Benjamin D'Avanzo

Job Titles:
  • Marine Operations Technician

Biayna Bogosian

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Brad Schonhoff

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Brady John Booton

Job Titles:
  • Marine Operations Technician

Brandon Guell

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Brian Fonseca

Job Titles:
  • Member of the FIU
  • Director, Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy

Brian Van Hook

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Business Development

Camilo Roa Penarete

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

Cara A Rockwell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Research Assistant Professor

Carlos Parra

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Cathy Guinovart

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator of Administrative Services

Cheryl Holder

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Faculty Director of Panther Communities

Christian Cox

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Associate Professor

Christopher Baraloto

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Director, Institute

Ciro Rivera-Casas

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Claire Beveridge

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Clinton Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Cristina Gomes

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor Assistant Director of the Tropical Conservation Institute

Daniel Gann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Danielle DeLeo

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Danielle Ogurcak

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

David Bray

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

David Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

DeEtta Mills

Job Titles:
  • Director of International Forensic Research Institute Associate Professor Chairperson, Department of Biological Sciences

Demian Chapman

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Diana Moanga

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Diego Salazar Amoretti

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dita Alexandra O'Boyle

Job Titles:
  • Education Specialist / Staff

Dolores Dominguez

Job Titles:
  • Grants Associate

Donna Marie Young

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Doug Wartzok

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Dr. David Fairchild

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
  • Research Center /
Dr. David Fairchild (1869-1954) was an American scientist, author, educator and world-renowned botanist who is credited with introducing thousands of plants into modern American culture. An agricultural enthusiast from a young age, Fairchild traveled the world in search of plants that could benefit humanity. He is credited with introducing mangos, kale, avocados, soybeans, pistachios and bamboo to American farmers, among many others. At the age of 22, he created the Section of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction within the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He would work for the USDA for nearly four decades. Fairchild was born in Lansing, Michigan, and raised in Manhattan, Kansas, graduating from Kansas State University in 1888. He married Marian Bell, the youngest daughter of Alexander Graham Bell, in 1905. The couple had two children and lived in Coconut Grove, Florida, until Fairchild's death in 1954.

Ebru Ozer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Eduardo Prata

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Edward Castaneda

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

Elena Solohin

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Elizabeth Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Elliot Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Endowed George Barley

Job Titles:
  • Eminent Scholars Chair Distinguished University Professor

Enrique Villamor

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Director, Environmental Finance & Risk Management, Institute

Eric S. Raslich

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator II

Evelyn E. Gaiser

Job Titles:
  • Leadership / Core Faculty

Fabio Castelli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Italy ) - President Informatics Department, University of Florence

Fernando Nardi

Job Titles:
  • Courtesy Affiliate Professor / Core Faculty / Affiliated Faculty

Francisco Alberto Fernandez-Lima

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Gregory Murad Reis

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Teaching Professor

Hank Becker

Job Titles:
  • Marine Operations Supervisor

Heather Bracken-Grissom

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Assistant Director, Institute

Henry Briceno

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Hong Liu

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ines Triay

Job Titles:
  • Member of the FIU
  • Director, Applied Research Center

James R. Riach

Job Titles:
  • Associate Teaching Professor

James W. Fourqurean

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished University Professor Associate Director

Janelle Goeke

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Jason R. Chandler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Javier Francisco Ortega

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Javier Rodriguez Casariego

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Jay Sah

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate Professor

Jayantha T. Obeysekera

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Sea Level Solutions Center Research Professor

Jennifer Richards

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emerita

Jennifer Schopf Rehage

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jeremy Kiszka

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jeroen Schreel

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Jessica L. McIntosh

Job Titles:
  • Trainer I

Jessie G. Guevara

Job Titles:
  • Director of Program and Institute Operations

Jesus Gomez Carrasquillo

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Jill Leann Schmid

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician I

Joel T. Heinen

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Johannes Krause

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

John F. Cozza

Job Titles:
  • Associate Teaching Professor

John H. Geiger

Job Titles:
  • Associate Teaching Professor

John Kominoski

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Professor

John Meeder

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

John P. Berry

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

John Stuart

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished University Professor

Jose M. Eirin-Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Joseph Cox

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Juliet Wong

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Justin E. Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Karen Bohnsack

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of FIU - Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Operations

Kateel G. Shetty

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

Kathleen Quardokus Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Kemal Akkaya

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kevin J. Grove

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Kevin Lothridge

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Executive Director Global Forensic and Justice Center

Kevin M. Boswell

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Director, Marine Biology Program

Kevin O'Shea

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Konstantinos Kavallieratos

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Krishnaswamy Jayachandran

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of Agroecology Program
  • Professor Professional Science Master 's in Environmental Policy and Management

Laird H. Kramer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Lauren Kabat

Job Titles:
  • Student, Biological Sciences

Leila S. Lemos

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Leonard Scinto

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Department of Earth and

Leonardo Bobadilla

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Ligia Collado-Vides

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Professor / Core Faculty / Core Faculty / Core Faculty

Lilian Valadares Tose

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Lonny Arnold Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator II

Luca Marazzi

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

M. Hadi Amini

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Mahadev Bhat

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Manuel Barbieri

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Maria C. Donoso

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate Professor

Maria Ilcheva

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor, Operations

Marilys R. Nepomechie

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mario Loyola

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor Director, Environmental Finance & Risk Management / Environmental Finance and Risk Management

Mark A. Finlayson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Mark Bond

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

Mark J. Butler IV

Job Titles:
  • Walter and Rosalie Goldberg Professor of Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Mark Kershaw

Job Titles:
  • Lab Manager II

Mark S. Pidbirny

Job Titles:
  • Marine Services Supervisor

Marlies Tumolo

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist II

Marta D'Elia

Job Titles:
  • Grant Administrator II - Research Development Officer Postdoctoral Associate

Matthew Morris

Job Titles:
  • Master

Matthew Pintar

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Matthew Shirley

Job Titles:
  • Temporary Program Coordinator / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Maureen A Donnelly

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Melissa McCartney

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Michael C. Sukop

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Leadership

Michael Heithaus

Job Titles:
  • Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education Professor

Michael Ross

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Michelle Caputo

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Miguel Marquez

Job Titles:
  • Grants Associate

Milagros Asela Timiraos

Job Titles:
  • Grants Associate

Milena Ceccopieri

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

N. Emel Ganapati

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Director, Laboratory for Social Science Research

Nancy Scanlon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Natalia Soares Quinete

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Nathan Dorn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Nicole Danaher-Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Temporary Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Olivia Rhoades

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Pablo Batista Oliveira

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Pallab Mozumder

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Pamela Fletcher

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Patricia Aquing

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External

Patrick John Vandenabeele

Job Titles:
  • Marine Operations Technician / Staff

Patrick Roman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Paul Reillo

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Tropical Conservation Institute

Paulo Olivas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Pedro A. Peres

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Pedro Greer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Philip K. Stoddard

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Piero R. Gardinali

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Director, Institute

Pilar Cornejo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the External
  • Ecuador ) - Director, Escuela Politecnica Del Litoral

Prajaya Prajapati

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Quentin Felty

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Rachel Zuercher

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Rafael Gonzalez-Collazo

Job Titles:
  • Marine Services Supervisor - Field Operations Center, Freshwater Branch

Randall W. Parkinson

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate Professor

Ravi Gajendran

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Reinaldo Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Research Professor

Richard Olson

Job Titles:
  • Professor Center Director of Extreme Events Research

Rita Teutonico

Job Titles:
  • Administrator Associate Dean of Research Associate Director
  • Staff / Climate and Sea Level / Monitoring and Technology / Pollutants and Contaminants / Water Quality and Security / Wetland Ecology

Robert Burgman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Robert Fidler

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Roberto Olivares

Job Titles:
  • President of the External

Rodrigo Gonzalez Romero

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Rolando Omar Santos Corujo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Rudolf Jaffe

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Ruth Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Sanku Dattamud

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Sarah Eddy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Savannah Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Education Specialist

Scott Graham

Job Titles:
  • Grant Administrator IV Associate Director of Coordination and Strategy for CREST CAChE

Shagufta Gaffar

Job Titles:
  • Temporary Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Shahin Vassigh

Job Titles:
  • Professor Associate Dean of Faculty Development

Shanshan Li

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Shekhar Bhansali

Job Titles:
  • Professor Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Shimon Wdowinski

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor / Leadership

Shu-Ching Chen

Job Titles:
  • Eminent Scholar Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs RFA 3 Co - Lead for CREST CAChE / Affiliated Faculty
  • Eminent Scholar Associate Director for Undergraduate Programs RFA 3 Co - Lead for CREST CAChE / Core Faculty / Affiliated Faculty / Affiliated Faculty

Sian Evans

Job Titles:
  • Associate Teaching Professor

Sonia Underwood

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Stephen Leatherman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Stephen Pires

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Steven Oberbauer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Susan Jacobson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Susan Marie Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Senior Coordinator of Administrative Services

Thomas A. Frankovich

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor

Thomas Potts

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Research Administration for Aquarius Reef Base

Thomas Spiegelhalter

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Tiffany Troxler

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate
  • Associate Professor Associate Director of Science, Sea Level Solutions Center

Todd Crowl

Job Titles:
  • Member of the FIU
  • Executive Director, Institute
  • Institute Director
  • Professor Director, Institute of Environment Director / PI, CREST CAChE

Vanesa Montes

Job Titles:
  • Senior Coordinator Administrative Services

Victoria Suarez-Ulloa

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

William Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William Cunningham

Job Titles:
  • Director, Earth System Processes Division, USGS

William H. Chamberlain

Job Titles:
  • Lab Manager II - Field Operations Center, Marine Branch

William James

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates / Postdoctoral Associates

Yan Ding

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant Professor Director, Center for Aquatic Chemistry and Ecotoxicology

Yannis Papastamatiou

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Yong Cai

Job Titles:
  • Professor Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry RFA 1 Co - Lead for CREST CAChE

Yu Han

Job Titles:
  • Temporary Postdoctoral Associate / Postdoctoral Associates

Yuying Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Zhaohui (Jennifer) Fu

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Geographic Information Systems Center