People – Environmental Sciences

Administration

Charles J. Vörösmarty, Ph.D.
Director, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Director, Environmental Crossroads Group
Professor of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York
Email: cvorosmarty@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3140

Anthony D. Cak, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: acak@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3141

Kendra Krueger
STEM Outreach and Education Manager, Administration
Outreach and Education Director, ASRC Sensor CAT
Email: kkrueger@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3309
Doris Switzer
Administrative Coordinator, Vörösmarty Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: dswitzer@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3142

Faculty and Core Facility Directors

Brett Branco
Professor, NGENS
Email: BBranco@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Ana Carnaval
Professor, Affiliate
Email: acarnaval@ccny.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3140
Dianne Greenfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College
Email: dgreenfield@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3154
Peter M. Groffman, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Brooklyn College
Email: pgroffman@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3143
Erika Niwa
Professor, Affiliate
Email: eyniwa@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Andrew Reinmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Assistant Professor of Geography, Hunter College

Dr. Andrew Reinmann is an ecologist and biogeochemist who focuses on plant ecophysiology and the terrestrial carbon cycle. He is particularly interested in understanding the effects of environmental change (e.g., climate change, urbanization, and land cover change) on the drivers of plant-mediated controls of terrestrial carbon cycling, and nitrogen dynamics as a limiting nutrient, across a continuum of human-disturbed ecosystems. His research draws from multiple disciplines and combines field observations, ecosystem experiments, and laboratory analyses with GIS, remote sensing, and modeling. Reinmann currently has projects in forested and human dominated landscapes throughout the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern U.S. For his latest CV, click here.
Email: areinmann@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3152
Andrea Silverman
Assistant Professor, NGENS
Email: andrea.silverman@nyu.edu
Monica Trujillo
Professor, Affiliate
Email: mtrujillo@qcc.cuny.edu
Charles J. Vörösmarty, Ph.D.
Director, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Director, Environmental Crossroads Group
Professor of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York
Email: cvorosmarty@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3140

Brian M. Giebel, Ph.D.
Director, Advanced Laboratory for Chemical and Isotopic Signatures
Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: bgiebel@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3151
Ricardo Toledo-Crow, Ph.D.
Director, Next Generation Environmental Sensor Lab (NGENS)
Research Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: rtoledocrow@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3144

Research Staff

Mariapaola Ambrosone
Research Assistant, Greenfield Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: mambrosone@gc.cuny.edu
Justin Bowers
Email: jbowers1@gc.cuny.edu
Kevin Carrera
Email: kcarrera@gc.cuny.edu
Fabio Corsi, Ph.D.
Research Associate, Vörösmarty Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: fcorsi@gc.cuny.edu
Jessica Espinosa
Research Assistant, Greenfield
Email: jespinosa@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3145
Pamela Green
Senior Research Associate, Vörösmarty
Email: pgreen@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3148
Clare Kohler
Research Technician, Environmental Sciences Initiative

Clare Kohler is a research technician in the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the ASRC working in Dr. Andrew Reinmann’s and Dr. Peter Groffman’s labs. In this position, she is responsible for executing experiments, coordinating lab and field efforts, and lab management.

She earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Pittsburgh, where she conducted pollination ecology research in Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman’s lab. Before joining the GC-ASRC, she held research assistant and technician positions in Dr. Courtney Murren’s lab at College of Charleston studying the ecology of Arabidopsis thaliana in Spain, and in Dr. Hilary Callahan’s lab at Barnard College studying the effects of mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana lines from a knockout library.
Email: ckohler@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3153
Kendra Krueger
STEM Outreach and Education Manager, Administration
Outreach and Education Director, ASRC Sensor CAT
Email: kkrueger@gc.cuny.edu
Phone: 212.413.3309
Ariel Miara, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, Vörösmarty Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Energy, Water and Environment Research Analyst, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Email: amiara@gc.cuny.edu
Nicolle Navaretta
Undergraduate research assistant , Greenfield Lab
Email: nicolle.navaretta04@qmail.cuny.edu
Vironika Puricelli
Research Assistant, Vörösmarty
Email: vironikapuricelli@yahoo.com
Paramita Sen
Graduate Research Assistant , Groffman Lab
Email: Paramita.Sen@bcc.cuny.edu
Magdaly Sevilla
Research Assistant, Reinmann Lab
Email: magdalysevilla@gmail.com

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sílvia Anglès, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Greenfield Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: sangles@gc.cuny.edu
Charlie Mydlarz
Postdoctoral Research Associate, NGENS
Email: cmydlarz@nyu.edu
Amanda Suchy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Groffman Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: asuchy@gc.cuny.edu
Dandan Wei, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative

Dandan has a B.S. in Meteorology, a M.S. in Ecology, and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry. Her research is broadly focused on quantifying sources and sinks of biogenic VOCs, including emissions, gas-phase chemistry, vertical transport, and secondary organic aerosol formation. She uses a variety of approaches including modeling and observational analysis. Dandan brings her expertise in numerical modeling to the group, studying the biogenic carbon fluxes in the New York City Metro Area. Dandan likes swimming, traveling, and watching soccer (a proud Arsenal fan!).
Email: dwei@gc.cuny.edu

Students

Doctoral Students

Evonne Aguirre
Doctoral Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: eaguirre1@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Justin Bowers
Email: jbowers1@gc.cuny.edu
Cong Cao
Doctoral Student, NGENS
Email: cong.cao@stonybrook.edu
Ilana Cohen
Doctoral Student, Groffman Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: icohen1@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Andrea Gomez
Email: anmigome@gmail.com
John Paul Hellenbrand
Doctoral Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: jhellenbrand@gradcenter.cuny.edu
James Herlan
Doctoral Student, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: jherlan@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Georgie Humphries
Doctoral Student, Greenfield Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: ghumphries@gc.cuny.edu
Kat Jensen
Doctoral Student, Affiiate
Email: kat.m.jensen@gmail.com
Sequoia Kessler
Undergraduate research student , Greenfield Lab
Email: sequoia.kessler80@qmail.cuny.edu
Jo Machesky
Doctoral Student, NGENS
Email: jo.machesky@yale.edu
Nicolas Maxfield
Doctoral Student, Vörösmarty Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: nmaxfield@gc.cuny.edu
Alana Menendez
Email:
Kelsey Parker
Doctoral Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: kelsrparker@gmail.com
Christopher Ryan
Doctoral Student, Groffman Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: cryan3@gc.cuny.edu
Corey Scher
Email: coreyscher@berkeley.edu
Paramita Sen
Graduate Research Assistant , Groffman Lab
Email: Paramita.Sen@bcc.cuny.edu
Derek Tesser
Doctoral Student, Affiliate
Email: derek.tesser@guttman.cuny.edu
Natalie Umling
Email: numling@amnh.org
Jiaqi (Cassie) Zhang
Doctoral Student, Affiliate
Email: jiaqi.zhang@ou.edu
Yuwei Zhao
Affiliate PhD student , Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: yz4343@columbia.edu

Masters Students

Zabdiel Roldan Ayala
Masters Student, Greenfield Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: zroldanayala@gc.cuny.edu
Hussain Bokhari
Masters Student, Vörösmarty Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: hbokhari@gc.cuny.edu
Maximillian Brown
Masters Student, Greenfield Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: mbrown8@gc.cuny.edu
Maria Ivanova
Email: Maria.Ivanova@csi.cuny.edu
Eric Jackson
Masters Student, Reinmann
Email: ej2451@columbia.edu
Brittany Washington
Masters Student, Groffman Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Email: brittany.washington60@bcmail.cuny.edu

Undergraduate Students

Brian Boston
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Malik Caston-Donatien
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Schidza Cime
Coral del Mar Valle Rodriguez
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Roxy Gates
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Myron Huang
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Felicity Liu
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Reese Mercado
Undergraduate Student, Groffman Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Ashley Mercado
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Reese Mercado
Undergraduate Student, Groffman
Sumayya Mokit
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Sumayya Mokit
Undergraduate student , Reinmann Lab
Rollin Muskat
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann
Nicolle Navaretta
Undergraduate research assistant , Greenfield Lab
Nicolas Russel
Undergraduate Student, Greenfield
Margalit Shetreat-Klein
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Margalit Shetreat-Klein
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann
Kayla Warner
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann
Rohan Watt
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann Lab, Environmental Sciences Initiative
Rohan Watt
Undergraduate Student, Reinmann