Dr. Jennifer Baka
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Geography, Penn State
Dr. Baka is a geographer who studies the connections between material, political, and environmental processes and their effects in the context of energy development. She focuses on domestic and international unconventional and renewable energy systems.
Dr. Susan Brantley
Barnes Professor of Geosciences, Penn State
Dr. Brantley is a geoscientist who studies natural and human-induced reactions among water, rock, gas, living organisms, and soil. She is particularly interested in how and how fast water-rock reactions happen in the field and in the laboratory, including how they’re measured, reproduce in the laboratory, and modeled.
Dr. Tao Wen
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Dr. Casey Pinto
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State
Dr. Pinto’s research focuses on rural/urban disparities in the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among adolescents. She is specifically interested in the behavioral and/or social environmental factors that are associated with STI prevalence and how these vary between rural/urban populations.
Dr. Zachary Bitzer
Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State
Dr. Bitzer’s research focuses on environmental toxicology, including how toxins are produced, how they interact with human bodies, and new biomarkers that could be developed to determine exposure levels.