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Plant-insect interactions or understanding and managing insect populations in agricultural settings. One recent emphasis of the plant-insect work has been to understand the consequences of changes in either system traits or plant characteristics on the interactions of plant, herbivores, and their natural enemies.

Professor Narasimhan is a hydrogeologist. Hydrogeology is concerned with geological processes that are influenced by water. Over the past three decades, Narasimhan and his students have addressed research issues and published papers on a wide variety of hydrogeological topics including, aquifer hydraulics, groundwater contamination, nuclear waste disposal, geothermal energy, irrigated agriculture, marine hydrogeology, petroleum reservoir engineering, triggered earthquakes, numerical modeling, and so on.

The focus of Nicholas Mills' research group is the biological control of insect pests and the ecology of insect parasitism and predation.

Isao Kubo's group has been searching for ecologically sound pest control agents based on natural products (including biopolymers such as enzymes) that fundamentally regulate nature.

Miguel Altieri's research group uses the concepts of agroecology to obtain a deep understanding of the nature of agroecosystems and the principles by which they function. Throughout their research and writings they have aided in the emergence of agroecology as the discipline that provides the basic ecological principles for how to study, design, and manage sustainable agroecosystems that are both productive and natural resource conserving, and that are also culturally-sensitive, socially-just and economically viable.