Our Team

Professors

Albert L. Park

Albert L. Park

Director of EnviroLab and Past Co-PI

Research Interests: Design & Architecture, East Asian History & Political Economy, Korean History, Modern Japanese History

Branwen Williams

Branwen Williams

Past Co-Director and Co-PI

Research Interests: Water Quality, Agricultural Water Quality, Water Pollution and Cyanobacteria

Marc Los Huertos

Marc Los Huertos

Past Co-PI

Research Interests: Water Quality, Agricultural Water Quality, Water Pollution and Cyanobacteria

Tamara Venit-Shelton

Tamara Venit-Shelton

Past Co-PI

Research Interests: social and environmental history of the United States in the nineteenth century, history of medicine, race/ethnicity and immigration, labor and capitalism

Postdoctoral Fellows

Kathryn Hargan

Kathryn Hargan

2017-2019 Fellow

Research Interests: Aquatic ecology, (paleo)limnology, paleoecology, biogeochemistry, contaminants, ecosystem ecology, climate change, peatlands, bio-vectors, diatoms, conservation biology

Franck Fu

Franck Fu

2019-2021 Fellow

Research Interests: Air quality, Atmospheric deposition, Particulate matter chemistry, Air pollution from Agriculture, Atmospheric trace metals. Background: Ph.D. in Atmospheric chemistry at University of Paris 7 in France.

Editor-in-Chief & Publication Advisor

Char Miller

Char Miller

Director and W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and an affiliated member of the History Department, Pomona College

Research Interests: The intersection of U.S. environmental policy, history, and politics

Project Administrator

Manuel Garcia

Manuel Garcia

Committee and Board

Ad Hoc Steering Committee

The Ad Hoc Steering Committee is charged with reviewing applications for course development and redevelopment grants, along with reviewing research lab proposals. The members of the Committee are: Anne Harley(Associate Professor of Music, Scripps College), Melinda Herrold-Menzies(Professor of Environmental Analysis, Pitzer College), Zayn Kassam(Professor of Religious Studies; Coordinator of Gender and Women’s Studies; Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies), Rachel Mayeri(Professor of Media Studies, Harvey Mudd College), Katie Purvis-Roberts(Professor of Chemistry & Environmental Science, Keck Science), and Tamara Venit-Shelton(Associate Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College).

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is comprised of faculty members from the five colleges and is charged with providing advice and feedback to the Principal Investigators on the overall trajectory and strategy of the project.