EECS
Sallie (Penny) W. Chisholm
Professor of Environmental Studies; Professor of Biology Home Phone: (617) 253-1771 Personal Email: chisholm@mit.edu Interest Areas: biological oceanography, microbial ecology Website WebsiteMicrobial oceanography: the role of marine phytoplankton in the ocean’s “metabolism”; the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus as a model to study marine ecology from the genome level to the whole ocean.
Philip M. Gschwend
Ford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-1638 Personal Email: pmgschwe@mit.edu Interest Areas: environmental organic chemistry Website WebsiteEnvironmental organic chemistry: phase exchanges and transformation processes; the modeling of fates of organic pollutants; the roles of colloids and black carbons; and passive sampling for site evaluation.
Harry F. Hemond
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-1637 Personal Email: hfhemond@mit.edu Interest Areas: biogeochemistry, renewable energy Website WebsiteEarth’s biochemical cycles and development of novel observational systems to study those cycles; methods to interact sustainably with the natural environment.
Heidi Nepf
Professor, Margaret MacVicar Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-8622 Personal Email: hmnepf@mit.edu Interest Areas: fluid mechanics, ecology Website WebsitePhysical mechanisms which affect the transport and fate of contaminants and nutrients in surface water systems; wetland hydrodynamics, vegetated flow dynamics, and lake physics.
Martin Polz
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-7128 Personal Email: mpolz@mit.edu Interest Areas: environmental microbiology, microbial ecology Website WebsiteExploration of structure-function relationships in microbial communities using quantitative molecular approaches, genomics, physiology, and modeling.
Roman Stocker
Associate Professor Home Phone: (617) 253-3726 Personal Email: romans@mit.edu Interest Areas: physical ecology, environmental microfluidics Website WebsitePhysical ecology of microorganisms; microscale transport phenomena; microfluidic experiments to understand how physical forces and chemical signals shape the behavior of marine microorganisms.
Janelle R. Thompson
Assistant Professor in Ocean Utilization Home Phone: (617) 324.5268 Personal Email: janelle@mit.edu Interest Areas: microbial ecology, microbial oceanography Website WebsiteMicrobial oceanography: study of the relationship between the structure of microbial communities and their function using molecular biology, genomics, and genetics.
