Applied linguistics, communication across media, semiotics and biosemiotics, TESOL and second language acquisition; cultural heritage and ecological storytelling, environments and species, multimodal communication and analysis.

Environmental economics, policy and regulation, environmental innovation, technology adoption and technical change, corporate environmental strategy.

Development of new computational tools, including artificial neural networks, to improve the understanding of human induced changes on natural systems and the way we make decisions about natural resources.

Sustainable business, ESG, corporate social responsibility, climate risk, greenwashing, sustainability accounting and reporting. 

Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering, geo-energy systems, sensors/sensing for civil infrastructure.

Nutrition and public health, food security, prevention of diseases through nutritious diets, adoption of plant-based foods, sustainable food systems.

• Crop genetics, evolution, genomics, breeding, domestication and sustainability
• Legumes and germplasm
• Animal grazing and sustainability
• Agriculture, food, ecology, conservation

Climate change and land use, sustainable agriculture and food, forests and farming, natural resource management and governance, international rural livelihoods, anthropology. 

Climate change and measurement, environmental sustainability, ecosystems ecology, nitrogen and carbon cycling, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, ecosystems modeling, land-cover and land-use change, tropical agriculture, Vermont's...

Vehicle traffic air pollutant emissions and air quality analysis, transportation and land use planning, transportation policy (focus on energy and climate impacts), active travel (bicycling and walking), travel demand forecasting.