Sustainability Studies Directory
Administration Bios

Katherine Aubrecht
Division Head, Sustainability Studies / Associate Professor / Faculty Director, Coastal Environmental Studies
Phone: 631-632-5360
Fax: 631-632-5375
chemical education, sustainable and green chemistry

Nancy Black
Academic Advising Assistant
W0511 Melville Library631-632-9404
Faculty Bios

Arlene Kons Cassidy
Lecturer / Faculty Director, Sustainability Studies

Anthony Dvarskas
Assistant Professor
Environmental economics, ecosystem services and resilience of coastal ecosystems, economics of restoration, natural capital accounting

Donovan Finn
Assistant Professor
community-based planning, disaster recovery, resilience policy, urban design and placemaking

Heidi Hutner
Associate Professor
Environmental literature and film; ecofeminism; environmental justice; feminism; race studies; women’s literature; Restoration and eighteenth-century literature and culture.

Sung-Gheel (Gil) Jang
Assistant Professor / Faculty Director, Geospatial Center
Geospatial Sciences and geographic information systems

Sharon Pochron
Lecturer / Faculty Director, Ecosystems and Human Impact
ecotoxicology and soil ecology

Tara Rider
Lecturer
Maritime and Environmental History, Sustainability

Donna Selch
Lecturer
Remote Sensing and GIS; water quality modeling; hyperspectral remote sensing; object-based image analysis; environmental and vegetation; digital image analysis; coastal changes; unmanned aerial vehicles

David Taylor
Assistant Professor / Faculty Director, EHM
environmental humanities, history of naturalist studies, American Literature, nature writing

Karina Yager
Assistant Professor
Climate change impacts; Remote Sensing; Land-cover and Land-Use Change; Alpine Ecosystems; Andes; Mountain Societies, and Sustainability Studies
Affiliated Faculty Bios

Mirza Beg
Adjunct Lecturer

William Bowman
Lecturer
Ph.D., 2005, Columbia University

Maria Brown
Lecturer
M.S., Long Island University
Adam Charboneau
Adjunct Lecturer


Carl Safina
Endowed Chair
Ocean animals, fisheries, human relationship with nature
Jeong-A Seong
Adjunct Lecturer