Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Amy Tuininga
Amy R. Tuininga, PhD, is the Director of Montclair State’s PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies (PSEG ISS) where she grows academic-corporate-community partnerships that advance sustainability science and engender resilient communities. Projects involve the environment, energy, water, food, and natural resources. Outcomes developed from the novel classroom-to-career Green Teams internship program that partners transdisciplinary teams of students from multiple universities with corporations and organizations to address sustainability challenges are shared through the PSEG ISS resource center. Students receive training in sustainability, financial analyses, communications, professional development, and teambuilding and generate comprehensive reports and deliverables for host organizations.
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Dr. Tuininga’s own research has focused on environmental responses to human perturbations such as climate change, pollution, invasive species and urbanization. She worked at the US EPA in Corvallis, Oregon to examine elevated temperature and CO2 effects on soil biodiversity. In New Jersey, she was funded by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection to identify bio-indicators of atmospheric polution. In New York, she partnered with scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies to study effects of invasive earthworms on nitrogen cycling and nitrogen availability in northern hardwood forests, she identified biological control agents for black-legged (formerly deer) ticks, and she supervised work examining plant community development and ecosystem processes on green roofs.
Prior to Montclair State, Dr. Tuininga served as the Interim Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President, as well as Co-Director of the Bronx Science Consortium, at Fordham University. Dr. Tuininga received her B.S. in Botany from the University of Washington, M.S. in Botany and Plant Pathology from Oregon State University, and her PhD in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where she is a Rutgers 250 Fellow.
Selected Publications
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