Rutgers Climate Institute

  • Broccoli, Anthony J.

    • Title: Distinguished Professor and Co-Director, Rutgers Climate Institute
    • Department / Research Program: Environmental Sciences; Rutgers Climate Institute
    • Email: broccoli@envsci.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-5749
    • Detailed Profile: http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~broccoli
    • Research Areas: Climate dynamics, climate modeling
    • Energy Research Focus: My research group studies the dynamics of the climate system. We use numerical models of the climate system to study changes in climate, both past and future, with a goal of better understanding the mechanisms responsible for such changes.

  • Falkowski, Paul G.

    • Title: Bennett L. Smith Chair in Business and Natural Resources; Distinguished Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Rutgers Energy Institute, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Marine and Coastal Sciences, Institute of Earth, Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences
    • Email: falko@marine.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-2436
    • Detailed Profile: https://marine.rutgers.edu/main/paul-falkowski
    • Research Areas: Algal Biofuels, Novel Catalysts, Energy Efficiency
    • Energy Research Focus: Optimizing the production of algal feedstocks for biofuels and secondary metabolites. Designing and optimizing biologically inspired catalyses’ for hydrogen production and nitrogen fixation. Analyses of long term changes in technology that increase energy efficiency. http://ebme.marine.rutgers.edu/

    Environmental Biophysics and Molecular Ecology Laboratory

  • Guo, Qizhong (George)

    • Title: Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Email: Qguo@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-2983
    • Detailed Profile: https://cee.rutgers.edu/fac/qizhong-george-guo
    • Research Areas: Hydropower, Technology Development, Energy Resiliency
    • Energy Research Focus: Develop and evaluate innovative technologies for harvesting energy from natural and engineered water systems. Apply these technologies to enhance the energy resiliency in response to emergency and future change.

  • Guran, Serpil

    • Title: Director
    • Department / Research Program: School of Environmental and Biological Sciences EcoComplex
    • Email: guran@aesop.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 609-499-3600 ext.4225
    • Detailed Profile: http://ecocomplex.rutgers.edu/
    • Research Areas: Advanced biofuels, Low-carbon drop-in fuels, Thermochemical Catalytic Conversion of sustainable biomass and waste in to low-carbon energy forms, Carbon foot print of fuels. LCA.
    • Energy Research Focus: Catalytic Pyrolysis of unrecycled plastic waste and waste biomass into drop-in diesel and other fuels; Assessment of Biomass Energy Potential in New Jersey; Assessment of food-waste to low-carbon distributed energy generation potential of New Jersey’s hurricane prone counties for sustainability and resiliency.

  • Herb, Jeanne

    • Title: Executive Director
    • Department / Research Program: Environmental Analysis and Communications Group; Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
    • Email: jherb@ejb.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-2725
    • Detailed Profile: http://eac.rutgers.edu/jeanne-herb-associate-director/
    • Research Areas: Climate Change, public policy, participatory decision-making, science communication, environmental justice, community engagement, vulnerable populations.
    • Energy Research Focus: Framing science informed clean energy and climate change public policy. Engaging a variety of decision-makers and stakeholders in science-informed policy development.

  • Kopp, Robert

    • Title: Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences; Director,Rutgers Institute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences
    • Department / Research Program: Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Email: robert.kopp@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 732-200-2705
    • Detailed Profile: http://www.bobkopp.net/
    • Research Areas: Policy, Economics, Integrated Assessment
    • Energy Research Focus: Climate and energy decision-making under uncertainty

  • Leichenko, Robin

    • Title: Professor & Co-Director
    • Department / Research Program: Geography and Rutgers Climate Institute
    • Email: robin.leichenko@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-4056
    • Detailed Profile: https://climatechange.rutgers.edu/people/affiliates/leichenko-robin
    • Research Areas: Vulnerability, adaptation, economics, equity
    • Energy Research Focus: Understanding Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation of energy infrastructure to climate change. Exploring social drivers of energy usage and triggers for social transformation.

  • Lipoti, Jill

    • Title: Assistant Teaching Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Human Ecology
    • Email: jal226@sebs.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 609-384-1232
    • Detailed Profile: http://humanecology.rutgers.edu/faculty.asp?fid=121
    • Research Areas: Sustainability, Water Monitoring, Food Waste, Radiation Emergency Response and Recovery, Sustainable Waste Management.
    • Energy Research Focus: Energy Research Focus: Sustainability, Interrelationships between energy, economy, environment and social systems.

  • Miller, Kenneth G.

    • Title: Distinguished Professor & Graduate Program Director
    • Department / Research Program: Earth and Planetary Sciences and Institute of Earth, Oceans, and Atomosperhic Sciences
    • Email: kgm@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-3622
    • Detailed Profile: https://geology.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/people-list/19-faculty/242-kenneth-g-miller
    • Research Areas: Carbon Capture and Sequestration
    • Energy Research Focus: Evaluation of the storage capacity of onshore and offshore U.S. east coast saline aquifers for carbon dioxide

  • Pray, Carl E.

    • Title: Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
    • Email: pray@aesop.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-9121
    • Detailed Profile: http://www.dafre.rutgers.edu/faculty.html
    • Research Areas: Biotechnology, Biofuels
    • Energy Research Focus: Science and technology policy with specific interests in biotechnology applied to agriculture, food and biofuels; Food and agricultural policy; Economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries.

  • Reinfelder, Ying Fan

  • Robock, Alan

    • Title: Dinstinguished Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Environmental Sciences
    • Email: robock@envsci.rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-932-5751
    • Detailed Profile: http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock/
    • Research Areas: Climate Change, Climate Modeling, Geoengineering, Nuclear Winter
    • Energy Research Focus: My research involves many aspects of climate change. I conduct both observational analyses and climate model simulations. My current research focuses on geoengineering (also called climate engineering or climate intervention), climatic effects of nuclear weapons, and the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate.

  • Shwom, Rachael

    • Title: Director and Associate Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Rutgers Energy Institute; Human Ecology
    • Email: rachael.shwom@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-9235
    • Detailed Profile: http://shwomrac.tumblr.com/
    • Research Areas: Energy efficiency, Energy consumption, Political and social dimensions of energy transitions, Risk governance
    • Energy Research Focus: I study how different groups of people in society make sense of and seek to address energy and environmental problems at the organizational and household level.

  • Sigman, Hilary

  • Wang, Ruoqian (Roger)

    • Title: Assistant Professor
    • Department / Research Program: Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • Email: rq.wang@rutgers.edu
    • Phone: 848-445-4288
    • Detailed Profile: https://cee.rutgers.edu/fac/ruo-qian-roger-wang
    • Research Areas: Offshore Wind, Marine, and Solar Energy, Micro-hydropower, Energy-Water-Food Nexus, and Coastal Engineering
    • Energy Research Focus: Developing numerical models to connect big data and decision-making in coastal engineering, natural hazards, water resources and renewable energy systems.