Our Team
Professors
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
Past Co-Director and Co-PI
Research Interests: Water Quality, Agricultural Water Quality, Water Pollution and Cyanobacteria
Marc Los Huertos
Past Co-PI
Research Interests: Water Quality, Agricultural Water Quality, Water Pollution and Cyanobacteria
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
2017-2019 Fellow
Research Interests: Aquatic ecology, (paleo)limnology, paleoecology, biogeochemistry, contaminants, ecosystem ecology, climate change, peatlands, bio-vectors, diatoms, conservation biology
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
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
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.