Ramón Borges-Méndez focuses on food systems, inequality, labor economics, migration, and globalization. Read about his recent work in his native Puerto Rico.

Professor Cynthia Caron serves as a co-PI working with group of faculty and students updating USAID Climate Risk Profiles.

Professor Tim Downs works with a team of interdisciplinary faculty in partnership with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on a three-year NSF-funded study in Mexico bringing a multi-pronged approach to climate impacts.

Professor Anita Fabos works with migrants and refugees both locally and globally and considers the impacts of climate change on migration to urban areas.

Professor Karen Frey monitors arctic conditions, and is lead author of NOAA’s “Arctic Ocean Primary Productivity: The response of marine algae to climate warming and sea ice decline”.

Professor Eman Lasheen’s research lies at the intersection of international development and climate change planning, with a special interest in urban resilience, food and water policies, sustainable development, and environmental justice.

Professor James McCarthy’s research and teaching center on questions of environmental governance: how people lay claim to and struggle over their environments; how human societies regulate their relationships with their environments and with what consequences.

Professor James Murphy is a founding member of the Geography of Sustainability Transitions (GeoST) research group, a global community of scholars striving to understand the geographical drivers of, and obstacles to, more sustainable futures.

Professor Morgan Ruelle leads research to determine whether Ethiopian farmers’ traditional practice of planting and harvesting multi-species grain mixtures could offer climate-resilient solutions to global food insecurity.

Professor Chris Williams studies natural climate solutions, and climate action through decarbonization planning and implementation.

Dr. Dana Bauer is an interdisciplinary researcher with particular interests in conservation and sustainability. She applies economic and ecological theory towards the assessment of ecosystem services and the analysis of policies and programs that aim to protect them.