Charles' scholarly work addresses the effects of disturbance on forest, urban, freshwater and marine ecosystems, including air pollution (acid and mercury deposition), land-use, and climate change. His current research focuses on recovery of eastern forest watersheds from acidic deposition, health and environmental justice co-benefits of decarbonization of the electricity sector, ecosystem restoration; ecosystem response to changing climate; mitigation of harmful algal blooms, and atmospheric deposition, watershed and surface water transport and transformations, and biotic exposure of mercury.
We’re not going to move from fossil fuels to renewable energy overnight. But there are doubts about the future of companies that extract oil.
We’re in a very abrupt transition now, with energy systems coming out of COVID. And that’s, you know, problems like this, so are likely to be more prominent going forward.