Research Interests: Environmental and Analytical Chemistry: Fate and transport of emerging contaminants and endocrine disrupting chemicals; treatment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in wastewater; environmental impacts of engineered nanomaterials; bioaccumulation of brominated flame retardants.
Research Topics: Attitudes and Persuasion; Responses to Pro-Environmental and Health Messages; Motivated Reasoning; Adoption of Sustainable Energy Sources and Technologies Related to Energy use and Sustainability.
Research Topics: Environmental ethics, religion and ecology, climate change and disasters, environmental and climate justice, indigenous environmentalism and sustainability, posthumanism, relational cosmopolitics, spiritual and political ecology, new materialism, interspecies relations, science and technology, environmental humanities, decolonizing methodologies, participatory action research.
Research Topics: Current projects include (1) pollen-based reconstruction of late Pleistocene-early Holocene vegetation change in northern lower Michigan, (2) development of sediment magnetic chronologies as proxies of Late Quaternary paleoclimate change in the lower Great Lakes and Northeast, (3) predictive modeling of early historic vegetation in the forest tension zone of Michigan, and (4) multi-proxy analysis of the Hypsithermal-Neoglacial transition (6000 - 3500 BP) in New York and its relationship to Late Archaic cultural dynamics.
Research Topics: Evolutionary Anthropology; Physical Anthropology; Cultural Transmission; Human Evolution; Social Learning; Lithic Analysis; Experiments
