Sustainability Research Directory

Umesh Korde, PhD, focuses on wave energy, ocean sensing, wave-body interactions; complex systems dynamics, resilience; applications spanning multiple disciplines, from energy-systems resilience to climate change.

Bruce D. Marsh, PhD, has research interests in all aspects (from basic geology to crystallization kinetics, and fluid mechanics) of the generation, migration, and eruption of magma.

Mac McComas is the senior program manager at Johns Hopkins' 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC), the hub for innovative, interdisciplinary, academic urban research at Hopkins, and the project manager at the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative. Mac is interested in urban issues related to climate change, sustainability, entrepreneurship, economic development, access to opportunity, education, transportation, housing, public policy, and infrastructure.

Tyrel M. McQueen, PhD, and his research group aim to achieve the next generation of materials revolutions by combining the development of new synthetic techniques with advances in measurement and analysis methods to discover, design, and control materials with exotic electronic states of matter.

Danielle Nachman, PhD, is a geochemist with a focus on fate and trace detection of contaminants in complex environmental systems, and technologies for remediation of drinking water and soils. Her recent work has centered on removal and destruction of PFAS in drinking water, wastewater, and soil, and replacement of PFAS in aqueous film forming foams (AFFF) for firefighting.

Tom Özden-Schilling, PhD, examines how the tools and practices of ecological research, geology, and venture finance transform inter-generational relationships in rural areas.