These subject matter experts volunteered to assist student teams in developing their projects as part of the 2020 Sustainability STEAM Challenge.
Yi Bao
Stevens Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Sustainable materials; innovative structures; brainstorming solutions to real-world problems for climate change impacts
Key Question: How can we use sustainable materials and innovative structures to adapt and mitigate climate change?
Email me: yi.bao@stevens.edu
Dr. Ashish Borgaonkar
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Climate change research, educating stakeholders, engineering education and Environmental Engineering Faculty member
Key Questions: 1. How is climate change affecting the earth?
2. How can climate action help?
3. What is being done as part of the climate action initiative?
Email me: ashish.borgaonkar@njit.edu
Kate Lawrence
Director of Sustainability, City of Jersey City
Sustainability Expertise: Citywide Sustainability
Key Questions: 1. How can we improve the number and health of trees in JC neighborhoods?
2. How can we reduce the amount of waste JC residents are sending to the landfill?
3. How can we reduce carbon emissions from transportation in JC?
Email me: klawrence@jcnj.org
Weina Meng
Stevens Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Sustainability
Key Question: How can we develop and use sustainable construction materials?
Email me: weina.meng@stevens.edu
Angela Oberg
Rutgers University
Sustainability Expertise: Social Science of the Environment
Key Question: How can we navigate the relationship between scientific knowledge and human behavior? In other words, why do we act contrary to what science tells us to?
Email me: angela.oberg@rutgers.edu
Barkha Patel
City of Jersey City, Division of Engineering
Sustainability Expertise: Transportation
Key Question: How can transportation choices and transportation planning reduce emissions, improve air quality and public health, and create sustainable neighborhoods?
Email me: bpatel@jcnj.org
Lucia Rodriguez-Freire
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: The way that contaminants moves and behaves in different environmental conditions
Key Question: How will a changing environment affect the distribution of pollutants in water, soil, or plants?
Email me: lrfreire@njit.edu
Dibyendu ‘Dibs’ Sarkar
Stevens Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Environmental sustainability
Key Question: How can we use green technology to protect water quality from urban runoff?
Email me: dsarkar@stevens.edu
Raman Sharma
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sustainability Expertise: Healthcare
Key Question: How will climate change affect human health and how can we optimize healthcare to deal with the effects of climate change ?
Email me: SharmaR4@mskcc.org
Clarke Snell
Stevens Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Carbon neutral design
Key Question: How can you lower the carbon footprint (aka the climate change effect) of any project or action?
Email me: csnell@stevens.edu
Kushagra Varma
Stevens Institute of Technology
Sustainability Expertise: Green Buildings – Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Building Materials
Key Question: What makes our buildings sustainable? How to select the right materials and systems for our building projects?
Email me: Kushagra.Varma@stevens.edu
Irais Vázquez
National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (Mexico)
Sustainability Expertise: Sustainable Cities
Key Question: Under which indicators and parameters can we measure the level of sustainability of a city?
Email me: irais.vazquezc@gmail.com
Miao Yu
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Sustainability Expertise: Environmental Science
Key Questions: How do you choose environmental friendly materials?
Email me: yufreecas@gmail.com
Mark Yuschak
Kean University
Sustainability Expertise: Energy efficiency and sustainability
Key Questions: What climate actions can students take and address through social media?
Email me: myuschak8@optonline.net
