Urban Systems

Jeffrey G Catalano, PhD
Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: catalano@levee.wustl.edu
- Biogeochemistry in soils and aquatic system

Patty Heyda, MArch
Associate Professor, Urban Design and Architecture
- Email: heyda@wustl.edu
- American cities
- Redevelopment, Race and Inequality
- Cities and climate change
- Mapping
- Urban Design
- Architecture
- Planning and Public policy

John Hoal, MAUD
Professor, Architecture
- Email: hoal@wustl.edu
- Sustainable Urbanism
- Design and activation of public space
- Climate Resiliency Planning
- Equitable City Redevelopment
- Philosophy of architecture and the city

Derek Hoeferlin, MArch
Associate Professor, Chair of landscape architecture and urban design programs
- Email: hoeferlin@wustl.edu
- Architecture
- Landscape architecture
- Urban design
- Water-based design strategies
- Climate change adaptation
- Comparative watershed research

Elizabeth Hubertz, JD
Director/Associate Prof of Practice, Clinical
- Email: ejhubertz@wustl.edu
Client-service organization working on:
- Pollution (air, water, land)
- Environmental justice issues (home heating costs, mold, vacancies)

Johnelle Lamarque, PhD
Lecturer, Anthropology
- Email: lamarque@wustl.edu
- Environmental and housing issues

Edward McPherson, MFA
Associate Professor of English
- Email: emcpherson@wustl.edu
- Environmental justice
- Climate Change
- Radioactive/nuclear legacy
- Fracking/oil & gas production

Kim Medley, PhD
Director of Tyson Research Center, Tyson Research Center
- Email: kim.medley@wustl.edu
- Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
- Urban ecology and evolution
- Disease vector ecology and evolution
- Human-environment interactions

Rachel Penczykowski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Email: rpenczykowski@wustl.edu
- Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
- Plant pathogen interaction with the environment
- Environmental drivers of disease
- Effects of diseases on ecosystems

Linda Samuels, PhD
Associate Professor in Urban Design
- Email: lcsamuels@wustl.edu
- Urban Design
- Sustainable Urbanism
- Next Generation Infrastructure
- Alternative Metrics

Katie Westby, PhD
Staff Scientist, Tyson Research Center
- Email: kwestby@wustl.edu
- Mosquito ecology and evolution
- Anthropogenic impacts on mosquitoes
- Disease ecology
- Urban evolutionary ecology