College of Earth, Ocean and Environment
Saleem Ali
Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment
Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Research: Causes and consequences of environmental conflicts and how ecological factors can promote peace.
Cristina Archer
Unidel Howard Cosgrove Career Development Chair in Environment
Research: Renewable energy, wind power, meteorology, climate change, air quality, numerical modeling of atmospheric processes.
Wei-Jun Cai
Mary A.S. Lighthipe Chair of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
School of Marine Science and Policy
Research: How changes in land use and energy consumption elevate carbon and nutrient levels in estuaries and the coastal ocean, marine chemistry, ocean acidification.
The Lighthipe professorship honors Mary A.S. Lighthipe, a native of Sussex County with a longtime interest in the inland bays of Delaware. Lighthipe established the named professorship in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment to recognize the college’s research and teaching concerning the waters of and around Delaware.
George W. Luther III
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies
School of Marine Science and Policy
Research: Redox reactions in the environment, trace element speciation in marine waters and sediments, biogeochemical processes in marine environments, application of molecular orbital theory to geochemical processes.
The professorship honors Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington, Delaware natives with a special love for the coast. Mr. Harrington graduated from Delaware in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
Holly Michael
Unidel Fraser Russell Career Development Chair in Environment
Geological Sciences
Research: Coastal groundwater dynamics, submarine groundwater discharge and associated chemical fluxes, groundwater-surface water interaction, water supply sustainability, water resources in developing countries and hydro-economics.
The Unidel Fraser Russell Chair for the Environment is a five-year career development chair named in honor of T.W. Fraser Russell, Allan P. Colburn Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Mark Moline
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies
School of Marine Science and Policy
Research: Underwater vehicle-based technologies and application to ocean ecological research and exploration.
The professorship honors Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington, Delaware natives with a special love for the coast. Mr. Harrington graduated from Delaware in 1950 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.
Matthew Oliver
Patricia and Charles Robertson Distinguished Professor of Marine Science and Policy
School of Marine Science and Policy
Research: Using underwater robots and satellites to examine how organisms use marine environments, and in studying the impact of climate change on ocean processes.
The endowed chair, funded through a generous gift from UD alumna Patricia Robertson and her husband Charles, is meant to reward exceptional young faculty talent.
George Parsons
Unidel E.I. du Pont Professor of Marine Studies
School of Marine Science and Policy
Research: Environmental and natural resource economics; nonmarket valuation, travel cost models, hedonic price models, contingent valuation, choice experiments, discrete choice econometrics; coastal and ocean resource use.
Xiao-Hai Yan
Mary A.S. Lighthipe Professor of Marine Studies
School of Marine Science and Policy
Research: Satellite oceanography, ocean circulation and climate change, environmental remote sensing.
Mary A. S. Lighthipe, a native of Sussex County, had a longtime interest in the inland bays of Delaware and established a named professorship in the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment because of its research and teaching concerning the waters of and around Delaware.
