Center for Research on the Urban Environment

CRUE Faculty

CRUE FACULTY AND STAFF
Professor and Director, Ph.D. program
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

Interests: decision-making and problem solving in regional analysis and planning for economic development and energy technology and policy
Nilufer DuralNilufer Dural (n.dural@csuohio.edu)
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Washkewicz College of Engineering
 
Interests: adsorption and transport of pollutants in soil; mass transfer; separation processes
Assistant Professor
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
 
Interests: energy justice; energy policy and transition research;
residential energy assistance and weatherization opportunites
 
Assistant Professor
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
 
Interests: the Great Lakes and other aquatic ecosystems; terrestrial-aquatic interactions;
water quality; carbon cycling; remote sensing; data science; 
 
Assistant Professor
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
 
Interests: scenario planning; geodesign; GIS and other planning/decision support tools; 
green infrastructure; disaster resilient cities
Professor & Director, Master of Environmental Studies program
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
 
Interests: negotiation and conflict management in planning and environmental disputes; social-environmental systems resilience; Legacy cities
Professor 
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
 
Interests: collaborative governance and decision making; urban resilience; public planning and management networks; and regional sustainability

Ung KimUng Tae Kim (u.kim@csuohio.edu)
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Washkewicz College of Engineering

Interests: water resources engineering problems based on climate change, rainfall-runoff process, inverse modeling, subsurface transport, machine-learning, and numerical optimization

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
 
Interests: population loss and migration in the Rust Belt and Frost Belt; environmental impact of residential mobility patterns
Kevin MuellerKevin Mueller (k.mueller89@csuohio.edu)
Assistant Professor
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
 
Interests: ecosystem services in urban landscapes;
plant functional ecology; biogeochemistry; 
forest management; impacts of climate change  
Emily RauschertEmily Rauschert (e.rauschert@csuohio.edu)
Associate Professor
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
 
Interests:  ecological restoration, invasive species dynamics; biotic homogenization;
urban community ecology; plant ecology
Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law,
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Professor of Environmental Studies and Director  JD/MA Environ. Studies Dual Degree Program, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
 
Interests: regulation of shale oil & gas production in OH; public access to private land for recreation; EPA policy and rulemaking; BP/Gulf Coast oil spill; demographic issues in the distribution of environmental risk
Assistant Professor
Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
 
Interests:  provision of efficient, equitable, and high-quality services by local governments; 
policymaking under sustained population loss 
Associate Professor
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
 
Interests:  ecohydrology (specifcally: wet plants and the role they play in Earth's energy balance, nutrient cycles, and landscape ecology); science art and communication; philosophy

Bernard WaltonBernard Walton (b.walton@csuohio.edu)                Associate Professor
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences

Interests: the role of predators in the functioning of the forest-floor; social and ecological interactions within parks and other greenspaces in urban ecosystems

Julie WolinJulie Wolin (j.wolin@csuohio.edu)
Associate Professor
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences

Interests: understanding urban and urbanizing environments and the effects of human activities on freshwater and wetland ecosystems

Fasong YuanFasong Yuan (f.yuan06@csuohio.edu)
Professor
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences

Interests: cycling and transport of nutrients in watersheds, including carbon and sulfur; forms of phosphorus in sediments of Lake Erie and their role in eutrophication