Faculty
![Ruchi Bhattacharya](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/09/ruchi-bhattacharya_img.png?itok=SgNs-v4y)
Ruchi Bhattacharya | r.bhattacharya14@csuohio.edu
Assistant Professor, Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
![Nilufer Dural](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/niluferdural.png?itok=MYVqBEOQ)
Nilufer 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
![Brice Grunert](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/bricegrunert.png?itok=Ow4ZFpUz)
Brice Grunert | b.grunert@csuohio.edu
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
![Tom Hilde](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/tomhilde.png?itok=85mKJlUW)
Tom Hilde | t.hilde@csuohio.edu
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
![Ung Tae Kim](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/ungtaekim.png?itok=1O8tgbll)
Ung 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
![Zihan Lin](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/09/z_lin88-1.png?itok=_-Gg2gLF)
Zihan Lin | z.lin88@csuohio.edu
Assistant Professor, Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
![Kevin Mueller](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/kevinmueller.png?itok=pMHqV3WS)
Kevin 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 Rauschert](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2024/09/01/emily.jpg?itok=zewFdOsw)
Emily 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
![Heidi Gorovitz Robertson](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/heidigorovitzrobertson.png?itok=Q1kHQ-g0)
Heidi Gorovitz Robertson | h.robertson@csuohio.edu
Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Professor of Environmental Studies and Director, JD/MA Environmental 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
![Meghan Rubado](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/meghanrubado.png?itok=nngk7qxl)
Meghan Rubado | m.rubado@csuohio.edu
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
![Bernard Walton](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/bernardwalton.png?itok=uMU8rVDh)
Bernard 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 ecosystem
![Julie Wolin](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/juliewolin.png?itok=Kp_cWygT)
Julie 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 Yuan](/sites/default/files/styles/1_1_small/public/2025/01/08/fasongyuan.png?itok=6aWdkPGy)
Fasong 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