Environmental Studies Faculty
Environmental Science Advisor, Program Chair:Rhawn Denniston (Geology), 202 Norton Geology, (319) 895-4306
Environmental Policy & Values Advisor:
Craig Allin (Politics), 307 South Hall, (319) 895-4278
Marine Science Advisor:
Ben Greenstein (Geology), 102 Norton Geology, (319) 895-4307
Additional Program Faculty
| Kara Beauchamp (Physics) Bob Black (Biology) Marty Condon (Biology) A'amer Farooqi (Economics & Business) |
Glenn Freeman (English) Leslie Hankins (English) Andy McCollum (Biology) Mary Olson (Sociology) |
Craig Teague (Chemistry) Emily Walsh (Geology) Jim White (Philosophy) |
For office and phone numbers, please refer to department pages or the Cornell directory
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| Rhawn Denniston, Associate Professor of Geology, teaches Climate Change, Environmental Geology, Geology of a Region (in New Zealand), Physical Geology, and other environmental studies courses. With Cornell students, he studies stalagmites and ancient coral to understand prehistoric climate conditions in various regions of the world, including Portugal, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Great Basin of the Western United States, and the Ozarks. Rhawn and his students have co-authored a number of articles in leading journals including Geology and Quaternary Research. Ph.D., University of Iowa; M.S., University of New Mexico; B.A., Hamilton College Personal Pages |
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| Craig Allin, Professor of Politics, teaches Wilderness Politics at the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota, as well as Environmental Politics, Urban Politics, and American Politics. He is the author of The Politics of Wilderness Protection, and is currently working on a second book, tentatively entitled Wilderness Wars: Protecting Nature in National Parks and Wilderness Areas. While researching his second book, he has traveled more than 60,000 miles and spent more than 500 hours interviewing federal land managers, legislators, academicians, and interest group representatives. Ph.D. and M.A., Princeton University; B.A., Grinnell College Personal Pages | Vita |
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| Ben Greenstein, Professor of Geology, advises the marine science concentration for which he teaches Marine Science, Inverterbrate Paleontology, Modern and Ancient Carbonate Systems of the Bahamas, and other courses. He is currently engaged in a three-year comparative study of modern and Pleisocene reef coral community composition in coastal Western Australia, which has resulted in an article in the international journal Global Change Biology. He also collaborates with students and biology faculty on joint studies of fire coral in the Bahamas. Ph.D. and M.S., University of Cincinnati; B.A., University of Rochester Personal Pages |
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| Kara Beauchamp, Associate Professor of Physics, teaches the elective course Energy and the Environment. Her collaborative research with students and other Cornell physics faculty involves the fabrication and analysis of dye-sensitized organic solar cells. She also collects and studies anemometer data to develop improved wind energy models and has installed solar panels at a student apartment building. She is the president of the Iowa Renewable Energy Association. Ph.D., University of Minnesota; B.A., Carleton College Research Page |
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| Bob Black, Professor of Biology, teaches Ecology, Vertebrate Zoology, and Ornithology. He also co-teaches Environmental Ethics with Philosophy Professor Jim White, and frequently takes classes to the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota. He has on-going research collaborations on the ecology and conservation of a threatened terrestrial turtle (ornate box turtle), the ecology and evolution of fire corals, and the fall migration of raptors in eastern Iowa. Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook; B.S., Lawrence University Personal Pages |
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Marty Condon, Associate Professor of Biology, teaches Evolution, Molecular Evolution, Plant Morphology and Plant Systematics. For courses and research, she takes students to field stations in Minnesota, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Peru, as well as the Missouri Botanical Garden. Marty collaborates with professional and student researchers in various institutions and countries to study the evolution and ecology of plant-animal relationships, particularly the interactions between fruit flies of the genus Blepharoneura and tropical cucurbits. Ph.D., University of Texas; B.S. University of Michigan |
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| A'amer Farooqi, Professor of Economics and Business, teaches the elective course International Economics. His teaching and research interests include environmental issues as they relate to economic growth in developing countries. Ph.D. and M.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., Ohio State University; B.A., Denison University |  |
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| Glenn Freeman, Assistant Professor of English, teaches American Nature Writers at the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota. In 2007, he published a book of poems, Keeping the Tigers Behind Us. His poems have also appeared in Poetry, The Cimarron Review, The Lullwater Review, and Talking River Review. Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville; M.F.A., Vermont College; B.A., Goddard College |  |
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| Leslie Kathleen Hankins, Professor of English, teaches the elective course Modern American Literature: Encountering the Wilderness in Literature and the Visual Arts at the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota. She is currently researching modernism and the wilderness, focusing on Canadian painter and journal-writer Emily Carr. Ph.D. and M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; B.A., Duke University |  |
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Steven Hemelt, Assistant Professor of Politics, teaches courses in public policy and in 2010 will co-teach Intro to Environmental Studies. Hemelt joined the Cornell faculty in 2009, and his doctoral dissertation, “Essays in Education Policy: Accountability, Achievement, and Access," won the 2009 Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Dissertation Award. Ph.D., M.A., and B.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
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| Andy McCollum, Associate Professor of Biology, teaches Animal Behavior, Entomology, Ecology, and Conservation Biology, and frequently takes classes to the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota. He is involved in collaborative research projects on the phenotypic plasticity of tadpoles, and on the ecology and conservation of threatened and endangered species including the ornate box turtle in Iowa and the leatherback sea turtle in Costa Rica. Ph.D. Duke University; B.A. North Carolina State University |  |
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| Mary Olson, Professor of Sociology, includes Native American issues in her courses and research, and she recently organized a Cornell seminar on fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest led by the manager of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. Ph.D. and M.A., University of Wisconsin (Madison); B.A., University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh) |  |
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Craig Teague, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, teaches Environmental Chemistry and Chemical Principles I & II. He conducts research with students to better understand the behavior of polyoxometalates, a class of materials that show potential for mitigating heavy metals and nuclear waste in the environment. Research techniques include the use of atomic force microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; B.S., Missouri State University Pesonal Pages
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Emily Walsh, Assistant Professor of Geology, teaches the core courses Physical Geology and Investigations in Geology, as well as the field-based Geology of the National Parks. Her research focuses on the formation of mountain ranges and the mechanisms involved in subduction zones. In particular, she and her students study the metamorphic reactions, geochronology and deformation of ultrahigh-pressure rocks from Western Norway to better understand the tectonic history of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Ph.D, University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A., Middlebury College |
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Jim White, Professor of Philosophy, co-teaches Environmental Ethics with Biology Professor Bob Black, frequently at the Wilderness Field Station in northern Minnesota. Jim's research interests include the theory of evolution and its philosophical implications, the philosophy of mind, the problem of free will, and the relationship between science, religion, and philosophy. Ph.D. and B.A., University of Virginia |
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