Net electricity generation from conventional hydro-power peaked in 1997 at 356 billion kWh, then steadily declined through 2001, and has since remained relatively stable. In 2009, hydro-power generation was 272 billion kWh - 24% lower than in 1997.
Faculty Affiliates
To see a full list of CSS associated researchers, including faculty affiliates, see the researcher list
| First Name | Last Name | School | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sara | Adlerstein Gonzalez | School of Natural Resources and Environment | My main interest in research is to understand ecological processes and population dynamics of aquatic organisms at the ecosystem level, in particular those aspects that are relevant to resource management. Recently I have been investigating spatial and temporal scales needed to study the spatial distribution of fish abundance and obtain indices of abundance of fish populations in marine and freshwater ecosystems. Since fish, as other aquatic organisms, cannot be directly observed large scale population studies must rely on analysis of data from scientific surveys or commercial operations. The analysis of this information requires specialized statistical modeling. Currently my focus is in the Great Lakes. |
| Peter | Adriaens | College of Engineering: Civil and Environmental Engineering | Areas of remediation design, microbial sensing, and sustainable industrial practice. |
| Dionissios | Assanis | College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering | automotive powertrain control; biofuels; control of combustion processes; design methodology and tribology; diesel; hybrid vehicles; propulsion |
| Arvind | Atreya | College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering | Combustion generated pollutants, energy and environment, industrial energy conservation and pollution prevention, and management for sustainable manufacturing |
| Stuart | Batterman | School of Public Health: Enivornmental Health Sciences & College of Engineering: Water Resources and Environmental Engineering | Exposure assessment, human health risk and environmental impact assessment, and innovative measurement techniques for air pollutants |
| Kathleen | Bergen | School of Natural Resources and Environment | I am an ecologist who combines field and geospatial data and methods to study the pattern and process of ecological systems. I also strive to build bridges between science and social science. What motivates my work is recognition of the complexity of the relationship of humans and ecological systems. These relationships and their emergent properties can be studied at different spatial scales and levels of organization. Knowledge gained from field studies, geospatial data, and analysis can be used to build models that help scientists and to understand the implications of human actions on the social and natural systems of which they are a part. |
| Rosina | Bierbaum | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Global change, air and water quality, endangered species, biodiversity, ecosystem management, endocrine disruptors, environmental monitoring, natural hazards, and energy research and development |
| Mary Anne | Carroll | College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, & Chemistry | Instrument development and field measurements focusing on the impacts of global change on atmospheric oxidant photochemistry and atmosphere-biosphere interactions |
| Bill | Currie | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Ecosystem Modeling, Terrestrial Ecology, Biogeochemistry, Ecosystem Responses to Environmental Change Related to Energy Production |
| John | DeCicco | School of Natural Resources and the Environment | Energy and climate policy, with a focus on transportation vehicles and fuels. Technology assessment, policy and economic analysis. |
| Raymond | DeYoung | School of Natural Resources and Environment, Environmental Psychology and Conservation Behavior | Psychology of environmental stewardship; and the relationship among the concepts of self-interest, competence and psychological well-being |
| Jim | Diana | School of Natural Resources and the Environment: Sea Grant | Behavior and ecology of many temperate fishes, including muskellunge, brown trout, lake sturgeon, yellow perch, largemouth bass, and alewives. Extensive aquaculture systems in Southeast Asia, as well as expansion of aquaculture in Michigan. Conservation of natural resources, either through work on endangered species such as the Paiute trout and lake sturgeon, or through the understanding of ecologically sensitive aquaculture practice. Great Lakes ecology and restoration. |
| Zoran | Filipi | College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering | His research interests include advanced engine concepts, integration and optimization of powertrain systems, hybrid propulsion and plug-in hybrids. |
| Thomas | Gladwin | Stephen M. Ross School of Business & School of Natural Resources and Environment | Environmentalism and globalism in relation to the behavior of industrial corporations |
| Gloria | Helfand | School of Natural Resources and Environment | The incentives associated with pollution policies in a variety of contexts, the distributional effects of environmental programs, policy analysis, and a range of environmental issues |
| Ian | Hiskens | College of Engineering: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | Dr. Hiskens' research focuses on power system analysis, in particular the modelling, dynamics and control of large-scale, networked, nonlinear systems. |
| Olivier | Jolliet | School of Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences | Life cycle impact assessment, risk assessment of chemicals, prediction of the intake fraction for indoor air emissions, and new material and technological solutions for sustainability |
| Douglas | Kelbaugh | A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning | Urban design, architecture, community planning, and sustainability |
| Stephen | Kesler | College of Literature, Science, and the Arts: Geological Sciences | Environmental geochemistry related to the recovery and use of minerals |
| Jong-Jin | Kim | A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning | Environmental technology, green buildings, and sustainable building materials |
| Lidia | Kostyniuk | University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute | transportation safety and travel behavior: driver behavior, older drivers, use of restraint systems, risky driving behaviors, motorcycles, and crash involvement |
| William | Lanen | Stephen M. Ross School of Business: Accounting | Performance measurement, management control systems in firms in transitional economies, environmental accounting |
| John | Lee | College of Engineering: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences | Nuclear reactor theory, reactor core physics and design analysis, reactor kinetics, fuel cycle analysis, reactor safety analysis, power plant simulation and control. |
| Jonathan | Levine | A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning: Urban Planning | Transportation and land use planning, public transit planning and evaluation, public economics |
| Victor | Li | College of Engineering: Civil and Environmental Engineering, & Materials Science and Engineering | Sustainable infrastructure development, hazard mitigation and environmental improvement through materials technology |
| Xiaoxia (Nina) | Lin | Chemical Engineering | Biological switching, microbial symbiosis, metabolic modeling and engineering, bioenergy, systems biology, synthetic biology |
| Suljo | Linic | Chemical Engineering | Fuel cells, chiral synthesis, carbon catalysis, catalysis at nano-scales, fundamentals of surface activity and selectivity. |
| Nancy | Love | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | My research focuses on environmental biotechnology and water quality with an emphasis on engineered treatment systems. My specific interests focus on the fate of chemical stressors in these systems (e.g., toxins, pharmaceuticals, trace contaminants), the use of technologies to sense and remove these chemicals, antibiotic resistance, and on resource recovery from wastewater. |
| Tom | Lyon | School of Natural Resources and Environment & Ross School of Business | Corporate environmental strategy, government regulation of business, industrial organization, energy and the environment |
| Adam | Matzger | College of Literature, Science & the Arts: Department of Chemistry | Organic polymers and Organic Materials; Energy Science; Materials Chemistry; Optics and Imaging; Organic Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Sensor Science; Surface Chemistry; Sustainable Chemistry |
| Michael | Moore | School of Natural Resources and Environment: Environmental Economics | Economic analysis of environmental and natural resource policies; economic aspects of biodiversity and species conservation; and consumption of environmentally-friendly products |
| Joan | Nassauer | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Human preferences and behavior in relation alternative landscape patterns and management.regimes and associated ecosystem services. Design techniques for contributing to transdisciplinary research and policy development. |
| Mojitaba (Moji) | Navvab | A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning: Architecture | Daylight, electric light, architectural technology, building energy efficiency, energy modeling and simulation, environmental control systems, and PV systems |
| Scott | Noesen | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Integrate sustainable thinking and processes into all phases of business and non-profit institution activities. |
| Lynda | Oswald | Stephen M. Ross School of Business: Business Law | Property and environmental law issues, particularly issues relating to land use law, regulatory takings, and environmental liability |
| Panos | Papalambros | Mechanical Engineering | Design optimization; large scale system synthesis; automotive systems design, including hybrid vehicles; eco-design; product design. |
| Huei | Peng | College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering | Vehicle dynamics and control; electromechanical systems; optimal control; human driver modeling; vehicle active safety systems; control of hybrid and fuel cell vehicles; energy system design and control for mobile robots. |
| Thomas | Princen | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Ecological and social sustainability, over consumption, sufficiency, ecological economy, institutional design, business and environment, and transnational relations |
| Barry | Rabe | Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy: Public Policy & College of Literature, Science and the Arts: Environment | Political feasibility of pollution prevention and subnational governmental capacity to anticipate policy challenges posed by global warming |
| Lutgarde | Raskin | College of Engineering: Civil and Environmental Engineering | Professor Raskin works on a variety of biological water and wastewater treatment processes. |
| Richard | Robertson | College of Engineering: Department of Materials Science & Engineering | Current research interests range from the molecular dynamics of mechanical relaxation of polymers to the high-speed, low-cost manufacturing of fiber composite structures and includes fracture processes in polymers and composites and failure analysis. Related to mechanical relaxation is the physical aging of polymer glasses. The nature of molecular motion in polymer glasses and the parameters that control the kinetics of physical aging are being studied. The goal is to be able to predict aging rates at normal service temperatures where experimental measurements would take too long. Current study of fracture processes ranges from fundamental studies of the mechanisms of crack propagation in brittle materials to the use of fracture in fiber composite structures for crash energy absorption. Research into high-speed, low-cost fiber composite structure manufacturing involves several problems of the "liquid molding" process, in which liquid resin is injected into a closed mold containing a fiber preform. The problems being studied are the design and manufacture of the fiber preform and the displacement of air and the wetting of the fibers by the injected resin. A related problem being studied is the repair of such composite structures after damage |
| Phillip | Savage | College of Engineering: Chemical Engineering | Green chemistry and engineering, elucidation and analysis of reaction pathways, kinetics, and mechanisms in environmentally significant systems |
| Johannes | Schwank | College of Engineering: Chemical Engineering | Fundamental and applied research in heterogeneous catalysis, thin films, and chemical sensors |
| Carl | Simon | School of Public Policy: Mathematics and Economics | His research interests center around mathematical models which involve natural dynamics or motion over time. |
| Steven | Skerlos | College of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering | Environmental and Sustainable Technology (EAST) systems; life cycle product and process optimization; and pollution prevention in manufacturing |
| Jing | Sun | Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering | Control system development and optimization for marine and automotive propulsion systems, with in-depth experience and expertise on system modeling, identification, control algorithm development and integration, control system rapid prototyping and experimental validation. Modeling, control and optimization of fuel cell systems and fuel cell based combined heat and power (CHP) systems, emphasis on transient management for mobile applications. Adaptive control theory, with focus on algorithm and tool development aiming at improved transient performance and convergence properties. Advanced control methodologies, including optimal control and nonlinear control, and their applications to marine and automotive systems. Methodologies and tools for developing and managing complex dynamic control systems with interactive subsystems and constraints. |
| Levi | Thompson | College of Engineering: Chemical Engineering | Fuel processing catalysts, fuel cells, and nanostructured films |
| Henry | Wang | College of Engineering: Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering | Ecologically compatible bio-manufacturing processes |
| Gary | Was | College of Engineering: Materials Science and Engineering | Major research interests center on radiation materials science and environmental effects on metals, including stress corrosion cracking, high temperature corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement. Current work in the area of stress corrosion cracking focuses on the determination of the mechanism of intergranular cracking in austenitic alloys in high temperature aqueous solutions with emphasis on the role of grain boundary structure, chemistry and deformation. Ion irradiation and stress corrosion cracking are linked through an investigation of the mechanism of irradiation in the assisted stress corrosion cracking of core components in nuclear reactors, by using proton irradiation to study the effects of neutron irradiation. Other current projects are on stress corrosion cracking in supercritical water, oxidtion of nickel-base alloys in very high temperature, impure He gas and irradiation creep of pyrolytic carbon. |
| Julia | Wondolleck | School of Natural Resources and Environment | Environmental Dispute Resolution, Collaborative Ecosystem Management |
| Michaela | Zint | School of Natural Resources and Environment & School of Education | Environmental and sustainability education, and risk communication |