Design and testing of fishing gear technologies and practices that promote the sustainable development of aquatic resources and the protection of marine and freshwater environments
Study of forest ecosystem dynamics, climate change, wildfire, and paleoecology; analysis of tree rings for archaeology, eco-cultural history, and artistic purposes
Controlled environment agriculture research and development, including measurement of plant growth, gas exchange, volatile organic compound (VOC) evolution and nutrient remediation
Developing rapid and sensitive analytical methods in capillary electrophoresis, chromatography, and mass spectrometry for the characterization of food products, agricultural, pharmaceutical and environmental samples.