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Alumni of EES:
May, 2015
Dr. Damayanti Gurung
Advisor: Cecilia McHugh
Dr. Jessica T Miller
“Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal”
Advisor: Ken Gould – Brooklyn College
Dr. Lesley Patrick
Research Interests: Urban Sustainability, Climate Change, GIS
lpatrick@hunter.cuny.edu
September, 2014
“Mapping Forest Canopy Structure with On-Demand Fusion of Remotely Sensed Data”
Advisor: Sean Aheart
Dr. Kimberly C. Meehan (formerly Handle)
“Paleoecology of Late Cretaceous Methane Cold Seeps of South Dakota, USA.”
Advisor: Neil H. Landman, AMNH
Dr. Steve McFarland
Research Interests: Urban Geography, Cultural Geography, Labor Studies, City Planning
Advisor: Ruth Wilson Gilmore – Graduate Center
Dr. Suzie Stempel
Advisor: Dr. Cheng; Dr. Gould
May, 2014
Dr. Katera Moore
Advisor: Ken Gould
Dr. Edward J. Rice
Research Interests: Ecology, Long Island Sound, Climate Change
Advisor: Gillian Stewart
Dr. David Spataro
dspataro@gc.cuny.edu
Advisor: Cindi Katz
February, 2013
“Public Market to La Mequeta: Shaping Spaces and Subjects of Food Distribution in New York City, 1930-2012”
Advisor- Professor Setha Low – Graduate Center
Dr. George Jose Musa
“Does Geography Matter? Neighborhood Effects on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder of NYC Public School Children After 9/11”
Advisor – Professor William Solecki – Hunter College
Dr. Ryan Ehrhart
“Scaling Food Security: A Political Ecology of Agricultural Policies and Practices in Bukindnon, Philippines”
Advisor – Professor Cindi Katz – Graduate Center
Dr. David Friedman
“Policy Change Sustainability, and Environmental Justice: Applications of the Long Island Markal Model”
Advisor – Professor Yahuda L. Klein – Brooklyn College
“The EI WHA Dam Removal Project and the Dematerialization of Nature”
Advisor – Professor Cindi Katz – Graduate Center
Dr. Rahul Sahajpal
“Developing Geochemical Proxies for a High Resolution Hydroclimate Record in Mono Lake Basin”
Advisor – Professor N. Gary Hemming – Queens College
September, 2012
And Then the Neighborhood Changed: Jewish Intra-Urban Migration and Racial Identity in the Bronx, NY”
Advisor – Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya – Hunter
“West Side Stories: Everyday Life and the Social Space of West Forty-Sixth Street”
Advisor – Professor Cindi Katz – Graduate Center
“The Work of the Urban Commons: Limited-Equity Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Advisor – Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya – Hunter College
Dr. Elana Klein
“Late Pleistocene to Holocene Evolution, Sedimentation Processes, and Anthropogenic Impact of a Coastal System: Raritan and Sandy Hook Bays, New Jersey
Advisor – Professor Cecilia McHugh – Queens College
Dr. Caitlyn Nichols
“Temporal and Spatial Variability of Metal Distributions in Staten Island Marsh-Creek Systems: Does Connectivity to the Arthur Kill Impact Anthropogenic enrichment, Sediment Quality and Toxicity Potential in NY/NJ HE Marsh Habitats?
Advisor – Professor William Wallace – College of Staten Island
Dr. Nicholas Steiner
“Techniques for the Remote Sensing and Ground Measurement of Snow and Ice”
Advisor – Professor Marco Tedesco – City College
May, 2012
Dr. Michael Porter
“The Environmental Justice Implications of New York States and New York City’s Brownfield Policies”
Advisor – Professor William Solecki – Hunter College
Dr. Benjamin Sallemi
“A Life Time Mortality Risk Analysis and Cost Benefit analysis Associated with Asbestos Exposure from the Collapse of the World Trade Cener on 9/11: Does the Cost of US_EPA’s Residential Dust Clean Up In Lower Manhattan Exceed It’s Benefits?”
Advisor – Professor Robert Nolan – Graduate Center
February, 2012
Dr. Philippe Amstislavski
“Access to Urban Food Outlets as a Predictor of Diabetes”
Advisor – Professor Juliana Maantay – Lehman College
Dr. Alexandra Tsekeri
“Development and Assessment of a Neural Network Approach for Retrieving Aerosol Properties from Multispectral, Multiangle Polarization Measurements”
Advisor – Professor Barry Gross – City College (Engineering)
May, 2011
Dr. Lee Hachadoorian
“Tiebout Sorting and Jurisdictional Homogeneity: Empirical Validity and Ethical Implications”
Advisor – Professor Jochen Albrecht – Hunter College
Dr. Jingyu Wang
“Phosphorus Transport in the Bronx River: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis”
Advisor – Professor Hari Pant – Lehman College
February, 2011
Dr. Debjani Ghatak
“Cryospheric Teleconnections: The Response of Northern Hemisphere Snow to the Atmospheric and Arctic Sea Ice Variations”
Advisor – Professor Allan Frei – Hunter College
Dr. Cristina Notaro
“The Interfaith Center: The Construction and Consequence of Interfaith Space”
Advisor – Professor Marianna Pavlovskaya – Hunter College
September, 2010
Dr. Shihyan Lee
“Characterizing: Vegetation Structure and Biomass Using Lidar Remote Sensing”
Advisor – Professor Wenge Ni-Meister – Hunter College
Dr. Andrew Maroko
“Chronic: Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Heart Failure in New York City: A Methodological Exploration of Environmental Justice and Health”
Advisor – Professor Julianna Maantay – Lehman College
June, 2010
Dr. Yumiko Iwasaki
“Systematics on Viaphacops Maximova, 1972 from Bolivia and Paleobiogeography of the Subfamily Phacopinae Hawle & Corda, 1847 for the Lower and Middle Devonian, with a Particular Emphasis on the Genus Paciphacops Maximova, 1972”
Advisor – Professor Niles Eldredge – AMNH
Dr. Scott Larson
“Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind: Redevelopment Politics in the Bloomberg Administration:
Advisor – Professor Neil Smith – Graduate Center
Dr. Robert Bradford Stewart
“Toward a Spatial Understanding of Latin American Immigrant worker Population Fatalities”
Advisor – Professor Ines Miyares – Hunter College
Dr. Qiang Yang
“Arsenic in Fractured Bedrock Aquifers in Greater Augusta, Marine USA”
Advisor – Professor Yang Zheng – Queens College
September, 2009
Dr. Ylli Kellici
“An Analysis of the Performance of Public Elementary Schools in New York City During 2001-2005 from a Geographical Perspective”
Advisor – Professor Sean Ahearn – Hunter College
Dr. Hun Bok Jung
“Fate, Reaction and Transport of Groundwater Arsenic During Discharge to Waquoit Bay, USA and Meghna River, Bangladesh”
Advisor – Professor Yan Zheng – Queens College
February, 2009
Dr. Angelos Lampousis
“Electrical Resistivity Imaging Study of Near-Surface Infiltration”
Advisor – Professor Patricia Kenyon – City College
Dr. Philip C. Laporta
“The Stratigraphy and Structure of the Cambrian and Ordovician Chert Bearing Carbonates of the Wallkill River Valley: The Stratigraphic Nature of the Chert and teir Archaeological Potential”
Advisor – Professor Hannes Brueckner – Queens College
Dr. Gordon Gruys Hinshalwood
“Biodegradation of Fuel, Oxygenates in Northeastern United States Aquifers with an Analysis of Underground Storage Tank Leaks”
Advisor – Professor David Locke – Queens College
September, 2008
Dr. Noureddin Amaach
“The Sedimentology, Mineralogy and Metal Contamination of Sediments in the Apex of the New York Bight, NY, USA: An Integrated Laboratory and Field Study of Trace Metal Behavior in an Urban Estuary.
Advisor – Professor Stephen Aja – Brooklyn College
Dr. Robert H.S. Applebaum
“Paleoclimate Signal from the Late Eocene New Jersey Continental Slope: A Multi-Proxy Approach”
Advisor – Professor Cecilia McHugh – Queens College
Dr. Jun Tu
“Assessing the Impact of Long-Term Land Use Changes on Water Quality in Eastern Massachusetts”
Advisor – Professor Zong-Guo Xia – Lehman College
May, 2008
Dr. Hyo Jin Ahn
“Urban Surface Temperature Retrieval From Space Through Emissivity Classification”
Advisor – Professor Karl Szekielda – Hunter College
Dr. Marzie A. Jafari
“Using A Geographic Information System to Develop A Marketing Geographic Segmentation Model for Continuing Education Programs”
Advisor – Professor Julianna Maantay – Lehman College
Dr. Jacob L. Mey, IV
“The Uranium Series Disgenesis and the Morphology of Drowned Barbadian Paleo-Reefs”
Advisor – Professor N. Gary Hemming – Queens College
February, 2008
Dr. Bolortsetseg Minjin
“Descriptions of Three New Specimens of Cimolodontans and a Phylogenetic Study of the Postcranial Anatomy of Multituberculata (Mammalia, Synapsida)”
Advisor – Professor Jin Meng – American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Diomaris Padilla
“Characterization of Biomass Burning: Fourier Transform Infrared Analysis of Wood and Vegetation Combustion Products”
Advisor – Professor Jeffrey Steiner – City College
September, 2006
Dr. Karin Block
“A Refined Multiple Injections Model for the Palisades Sill, New York and New Jersey”
Advisor – Professor Jeffrey Steiner – City College
Dr. Ratan Dhar
“Mobilization of Arsenic in Groundwater of Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta (GBD) Aquifers of Bangladesh”
Advisor – Professor Yan Zheng – Queens College
Dr. Paul Feinberg
“Nature, Distribution and Extent of PCB Contamination seen in Extant Molluscs of the Hudson River Estuary, New York”
Advisor – Professor Frederick C. Shaw – Lehman College
February, 2006
Dr. Donald Edward Clark
“A Subsurface Fracture Analysis of the Beekmantown Group Carbonates of Eastern New York State”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
Dr. Farnosh Saeedi
“Dinoflagellate Stratigraphy and Facies of the Late Cretaceous-Early Paleogene (K/Pg Boundary) Interval at the Bass River Site New Jersey, ODP 174X”
Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College
May, 2005
Dr. Sue C. Grady
“Low Birthweight and the Contribution of Residential Segregation: New York City, 2000”
Advisor – Professor Sara McLafferty – Hunter College
Dr. Frederick Stumm
“Delineation of the Fractured-Rock and Unconsolidated Overburden Ground-Water Flow Systems, on the Southern Part of Manhattan, New York, Through Use of Advanced Borehole-Geophysical Techniques”
Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College
February, 2005
Dr. Jacques N. Khoury
“Behavioral and Subcellular Approach to Understanding Metal Toxicity in Fiddler Crabs”
Advisor – Professor William Wallace – College of Staten Island
September, 2004
Dr. Constantinos Theophilides
“Quantitative Support for a Theory of West Nile Virus Transmission Using Spatio-Temporal Modeling”
Advisor – Professor Sean Ahearn – Hunter College
Dr. Susana Palamarczuk
“Organic-Walled Microplankton in the Jaguel Formation (Upper Maastrichtian-Danian) Neuquen Province, Argentina”
Advisor – Professor John Chamberlain – Brooklyn College
February, 2004
Dr. Arona Diouf
“Depositional Processes and Geological Significance of Biogenic Magnetite and Fe-Sulfide from Iron Bacteria at Anthony’s Nose, Westchester County, New York: A Proposed Method of Biogenic Iron Remediation from Water Systems Using Applied Magnetic Fields”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
Dr. Elizabeth Rudolph
“Distribution and Geochemistry of Shells of Extant Molluscs of the Hudson Estuary, New York”
Advisor – Professor Jeffrey Steiner – City College
September, 2003
Dr. Deborah Bruce
“Delineation of the Coastal Aquifer of Israel Based on the Analysis of Carbon-14 and Tritium”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
May, 2003
Dr. Douglas A. Williamson
“Evaluating the Effects of Closed-Circuit Television on Crime in Public Housing: An Application of GIS and Spatial Statistics”
Advisor – Professor Sara McLafferty – Hunter College
May, 2002
Dr. William Hansen
“A Spatial and Statistical Investigation of Dioxin-Furan Contamination in the Sediments of the Hudson-Raritan Estuary”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
Dr. Charles Hillenbrand
“Groundwater-Risk Analysis of New York Utilizing GIS Technology”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
Dr. Scott Chesman
“Brooklyn Injection Gneiss Complex: Geochemical and Tectonic Synthesis”
Advisor – Professor Jeffrey C. Steiner – City College
February, 2002
Dr. Roland Scal
“Sandstone Petrography and Authigenic Tourmaline from Lower to Early Middle Devonian Units of the Appalachian Basin, New York to West Virginia”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
September, 2001
Dr. Chunzeng Wang
“Nature and Evolution of the Norumbega Fault System in the Great Pond-Grand Lake Stream Area, Eastern Maine”
Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College
Dr. James O. Brown
“Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Givetian Hamilton Group in Pennsylvania and New York”
Advisor – Professor John Chamberlain – Brooklyn College
May, 2001
Dr. Rosa Brignoni
“Efficient of the Table Chlorinator in the Inactivation of Pathogenic Organisms in Drinking Water”
Advisor – Professor Arthur M. Langer – Brooklyn College
Dr. Richard L. Newman
“The Urban Lakes of New York City”
Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College
February, 2001
Dr. Mohamed Ahmed
“The Impact of Toxic Waste Dumping on the Submarine Environment: New York Bight, New York”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
September, 2000
Dr. Virgilio Minino
“The Migration of Hydrocarbon Constituents from a Containment Tank”
Advisor – Professor Arthur Langer – Brooklyn College
May, 2000
Dr. Fatemeh Ashkan
“Magnitude and Extent of Trace Metal Contamination in Hudson River Estuary Surficial Bottom Sediment”
Advisor – Professor William H. Harris – Brooklyn College
Dr. Andrew J. Coleman
“Tertiary Tectonics of the Hispaniola Fault Zone in the Northwestern Piedmont of the Cordillera Central Dominican Republic”
Advisor – Professor Margaret A. Winslow – City College
Dr. Paul C. Gargiulo
“Utility Poles, Preservatives and Soil Contamination”
Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College
September, 1999
Dr. Marjorie J. Clarke
“Testing the Effectiveness of Supermarket-Based Environmental Shopping Campaigns in Changing Consumer Behavior in New York City”
Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College
May, 1999
Dr. Thomas Shaw
“Early-Middle Ordovician Lithostratigraphy, Biostratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Illinois Basin”
Advisor – Professor B. Charolette Schreiber – Queens College
February, 1999
Dr. Yuri Gorokhovich
“Turbidity Modeling in Streams Using a Geographic Information System (GIS)”
Advisor – Professor Victor Goldsmith – Hunter College
Dr. Shruti Philips
“Carbonate Diagenesis and Dolomitization of Cambro-Ordovician (Sauk Sequence) Platform Strata in Central New York”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
Dr. Karen Mulcahy
“Spatial Data Sets and Map Projections: An Analysis of Distortion”
Advisor – Professor Keith Clarke – Hunter College
May, 1998
Dr. Phil Stoffer
“Stratigraphy of the Upper Pierre Shale and Fox Hills Formation (Campanian and Maastrichtian; Late Cretaceous) in the Badlands National Park Region, South Dakota: Implicatoins for Eustatic Changes in Sea Level, Tectonism, and Marine Paleoecology of the Western Interior Seaway”
Advisor – Professor John A. Chamberlain – Brooklyn College
February, 1998
Dr. Paula Messina
“The Sliding Rocks of Racetract Playa, Death Valley National Park, California: Physical and Spatial Influences on Surface Processes”
Advisor – Professor Keith Clarke – Hunter College
Dr. Mossabah M. Kolkas
“Subsurface Brine Disposal in the Sauk Sequence of Central and Western New York: Implications for New Salt-Cavern Gas Storage Reservoirs”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
Dr. John Hopeck
“Stratigraphy and Structural Geology of the Wytopitlock and Springfield Fifteen-Minute Quadrangles, Eastern Maine”
Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College
September, 1997
Dr. Rajesh Sharma
“Geophysical and Geochemical Studies on Mafic Dike Swarms of Western India and their Applications to Deccan Flood Volcanism”
Advisor – Professor Somdev Bhattacharji – Brooklyn College
May, 1997
Dr. Martin Becker
“Sr87/Sr86 Isotopic Age Determination of Upper Cretaceous Santonian, Campanian and Masstrichtian Chondrichthyan Teeth of the Atlantic and Eastern Gulf Coastal Plains: Implementations for Sea Level Cyclicity and Macrofossil Time-Averaging in Depositional Sequence Lag Deposits”
Advisor – Professor John A. Chamberlain – Brooklyn College
February, 1997
Dr. Hany Doss
“Structural Evolution of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea: Results from Detailed Analysis of Seamarc II Side-Scan Sonar Data”
Advisor – Professor Kathleen Crane – Hunter College
September, 1996
Dr. Stanley Schleifer
“A Study of the Evolution of the Proterzoic Cuddapah Basin, South India”
Advisor – Professor Somdev Bhattacharji – Brooklyn College
February, 1996
Dr. Joan Perlin
“Magma Supply and its Rise Axis Expressions: Time Constraints for Magma Supply on the East Pacific Rise and Juan De Fuca Ridge”
Advisor – Professor Kathleen Crane – Hunter College
September, 1995
Dr. Nilgun Okay
“Thermal Development of Plateaus and Rejuvenation of the Crust Along the Transtensional Volcanic Margins of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea”
Advisor – Professor Kathleen Crane – Hunter College
Dr. Stacey Verardo
“Late Pleistocene Heat Advection in the Agulhas Current Region”
Advisor – Professor Andrew McIntyre – Queens College
September, 1994
Dr. Joel Blickstein
“The Acidification of a Long Island, New York Forest”
Advisor – Professor David Locke – Queens College
May, 1994
Dr. Huan Li
“Dinoflagellate Response to Sea Level Change in the Cretaceous Western Interior”
Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College
Dr. Mohamed El-Tabakh
“Early Rift-Basin Deposition: Triassic-Jurassic Sedimentation and Subsequent Diagenesis in the Newark Basin, New Jersey”
Advisor – Professor B. Charlotte Schreiber – Queens College
February, 1994
Dr. Adam Hutter
“Using 220 Rn/222 Rn Ratios as Indicators of Soil Gas Transport”
Advisor – Professor Anthony Prave – City College
Dr. Baiying Guo
“Diagenesis: Cementation, Dolomitization, and Dedolomitization, Including Petrophysical Characteristics of Carbonate Rocks”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
September, 1993
Dr. Edward Modica
“Hydraulic Relationships Between Shallow Groundwater Subsystems Discharging to Surface Water Bodies and Underlying Regional Systems”
Advisor – Professor O. Lehn Franke – City College
May, 1993
Dr. Pamela Brock
“Geology of Parts of the Peach Lake and Brewster Quadrangles, Southeastern New York and Adjacent Connecticut, and Basement Blocks of the North-Central Appalachians”
Advisor – Professor Allan Ludman – Queens College
Dr. Ali Kaya
“Depositional Environments, Diagenesis, and Burial History of the Antelope Valley Limestone (Lower-Middle Ordovician) in the Great Basin, Central Nevada”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
“Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Framework of the Upper Middle Devonian Mahantango Formation in Pennsylvania and New York”
Advisor – Professor Anthony Prave – City College
“Petrophysical Characteristics of a Carbonate Reservoir: The Red River Formation (Upper Ordovician) Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota:
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
February, 1993
Dr. Zong-Guo Xia
“The Uses and Limitations of Fractal Geometry in Terrane Modeling”
Advisor – Professor Keith Clarke – Hunter College
September, 1992
Dr. Eugeniusz Majewski: “Thermodynamics of Linear Defects in Rocks and its Application to an Earthquake Rebound Theory”
Advisor – Professor Surendra K. Saxena – Brooklyn College
Dr. Jianzhong Zhang
“Melting of Mantle Minerals at High Pressures: Experimental Study and Thermodynamic Evaluation”
Advisor – Professor Surenda K. Saxena – Brooklyn College
May, 1992
Dr. Golam Sarwar: “Geology of Vanished Strata: The Post-Devonian of New York State”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
Dr. Peter Hofmann: “Sedimentary Facies, Organic Facies, and Hydrocarbon Generation in Evaporites Sediments of the Mulhouse Basin, France”
Advisor – Professor B. Charolette Schreiber – Queens College
February, 1992
Dr. David Verardo: “Late Pleistocene Biogenic Flux in the Tropical Atlantic, A Response to Climate Change”
Advisor – Professor Andrew McIntyre – Queens College
September, 1991
Dr. Michael Weisberg: “Petrologic-Geochemical Studies of Chondritic Meteorites: Implications from New Types of Chondrites”
Advisor – Professor Cherukupalli E. Nehru – Brooklyn College
September, 1990
Dr. Robert van Pelt: “Dinoflagellate and Organic Facies Stratigraphy of the Twin Creek Limestone (Jurassic) in Western Wyoming and Northeastern Utah U.S.A.”
Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College
May, 1990
Dr. Joachim Amthor: “Diagenesis and Related Petrophysical Characteristics of Ellenburger Group Carbonates (Lower Ordovician), West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
September, 1989
Dr. Nilanjan Chatterjee: “An Internally Consistent Thermodynamic Data Base on Minerals: Application to the Earth’s Crust and Upper Mantle”
Advisor – Professor Surenda K. Saxena – Brooklyn College
Dr. Ying-wei Fei: “Thermochemical-Thermophysical Data and Phases in the Mg-Fe-Si-O System: A Synthesis of Theory and Experimental Data and Computation of Phase Equilibrium”
Advisor – Professor Surenda K. Saxena – Brooklyn College
May, 1989
Dr. Faye Melas: “Facies Analysis and Petrophysical Characteristics of the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Conecuh Embayment, Alabama-Florida”
Advisor – Professor Gerald M. Friedman – Brooklyn College
February, 1989
Dr. Julia Sykes-Nord: “Thermodynamics of Pyroxene Solid Solution: Synthesis of Theory and Experiments”
Advisor – Professor Surendra K. Saxena – Brooklyn College
May, 1987
Dr. Yoram Eshet: “Palynological Aspects of the Permo-Triassic Sequence in the Subsurface of Israel”
Advisor – Professor Daniel Habib – Queens College
