Since joining Ohio University in 1999, Scott Miller has focused on building strong relationships with industry, government, and nonprofit partners to shape and implement programs that elevate and enhance Ohio University’s research and teaching profile. Miller currently serves as the Russ College’s point person on industry attraction at the Russ Research Center in Beavercreek, Ohio, near Dayton.

Climatologist Dr. Ryan Fogt investigates the variability and dynamics of large-scale climate in the Southern Hemisphere using observations, atmospheric reanalysis and coupled global climate models.

Dr. Morrone is an expert on food safety in America. A credentialed food safety professional, Morrone is also the former chief of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Education.

Morrone has focused her career on examining the relationship between environmental contamination and human health outcomes, including exploring disproportionate exposures in low-income areas.

Dabelko works at the interface of research and policy on questions tackling links between climate change and security, fostering environmental peacebuilding, and making more age-friendly and climate resilient for older adults. He has over three decades of experience bringing together individuals and organizations not accustomed to working together on shared challenges and opportunities.

As an environmental historical geographer, Dr. Geoff Buckley examines how past processes and decisions have produced many of the environmental problems we grapple with today. He is particularly interested in urban sustainability and management of public lands, especially city, state and national parks. He often frames his research using an environmental justice lens.

Buckley has also studied the development of coal mining landscapes, especially in the Appalachian region.

Dr. Sarah Davis is an ecosystem ecologist with expertise in energy bioscience, biogeochemistry, and eco-physiology. She researches ecosystem-level energy conversion efficiency, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse gas fluxes in managed landscapes using experimental and modeling approaches.

Bruce Martin's love of the outdoors led him from being a camp counselor, raft guide, kayak instructor and Outward Bound instructor to his work as a researcher, speaker, writer and professor.

"I've always been curious about the meaning that people derive from adventure experience and how outdoor leaders can help people derive meaning from it," Martin said.

Dr. O'Connor combines laboratory studies with field research to address how organisms are matched to their environments and how changing environments ultimately influence biotic diversity on the planet. Primarily focused on predatory dinosaurs, birds and crocodiles, his early work advanced traditional fossil interpretations by examining how different soft-tissue systems - in particular the pulmonary and nervous systems - influence the size and shape of features preserved on dinosaur skeletons.

Scanlan is a professor of Sociology at Ohio University. His research interests include development and comparative social change, environmental sociology, social stratification and social movements.  More specifically his published research has examined environmental justice and poverty in Appalachia; food deserts; food insecurity and the environment; gender and development; global hunger; and greenwashing and corporate environmental communication.

Kruse Daniels has worked passionately on stream reclamation since the tender age of 10. She started attending University classes at age 11 and earned a civil engineering degree by her late teens. After obtaining a doctorate in hydrogeochemical engineering in England, Kruse Daniels returned to her alma mater, stepping into the role of her former mentor with the Environmental Studies program at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service.