Position:
Co-Director
Emeritus
Email:
jbulkley@umich.edu
Website:
Degrees:
PhD, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '66
SM, Civil Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '63
S.B. Civil Engineering, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, '61
Research Interests:
Development and application of both quantitative and qualitative means to help policy makers and decision makers attain improved planning, evaluation, and management of natural resources, especially water resources. Specific research interests include multi-objective analysis and risk analysis application.
Projects:
- 21st Century Wastewater Treatment Issues: Ballast Water and Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals (EDCs)
- Alcoa Foundation's Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship Program: Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Energy Future through Interdisciplinary Research and Training
- Application of Life Cycle Assessment to US Water and Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- Benchmarking Current States' Wet Weather Discharge Policies
- Binational Great Lakes Studies Program and Summit on Emerging Canadian and U.S. Issues
- Campus Ecology: Environmental Performance Assessment and Reporting Economicology 1.0, 1.5, 2.0
- Compendia Project
- CSS Factsheets
- Development of Sustainable Shrimp Aquaculture
- Directory of Pollution Prevention in Higher Education: Faculty and Program
- Effect of Water Level Changes - Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
- Energy Utilization: Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- EPA Internship for U-M Sustainable Systems Internship Program
- Industrial Ecology of the Automobile Seminar Series
- Interdisciplinary Research and Education on Industrial Ecology
- Life Cycle Assessment of E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Linking Industrial Ecology, Research and Education
- Life Cycle Assessment of E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Scholarly Books and E-Book Reading Devices
- Life Cycle Assessment Water Bottles
- Life Cycle Optimization of Vehicle Replacement
- MUSES: Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure Materials and Systems: Developing an integrated life cycle design framework
- Pollution Prevention in the Cruise Ship Industry
- Research and Documentation for Transfer of Waste Reduction Technologies
- Sustainability Assessment and Reporting for University of Michigan Ann Arbor Campus
- Sustainable Water Infrastructure in Developing Countries
- Wege Environmental Education
- Wetlands Restoration Master's Project
Publications:
- A Predictive Model of Salinity and Crop-Production in the Jezreel Valley in Israel
- An Overview of China's Water Resources
- Characteristics of Integrated Water Resource Management in the Zambezi River and Great Lakes Basins: A Comparison of Two Approaches
- Combined Sewer Overflows; Approaches to Achieve Regulatory Objectives
- Energy Utilization: Wastewater Treatment Facilities
- Executive Order 13112 Invasive Species
- Extreme Value Analysis of Wastewater Treatment Plant Flows
- Global Overview: Water Resources and Distributional Issues
- Industrial Ecology of the Automobile: A Life Cycle Perspective
- Integrated Watershed Management: Past, Present, and Future
- Measuring Progress: Developing Standard Campus Performance Metrics
- Mercury Pollution Prevention in Michigan: A Report by the Michigan Mercury Pollution Prevention Task Force
- Optimizing Vehicle Life Using Life Cycle Energy Analysis and Dynamic Replacement Modeling
- Quantifying U.S. Aluminum In-Use Stocks and Their Relationship with Economic Output
- Risk Analysis: Water Resources Education
- Risk Analysis: Wet Weather Flows in Southeast Michigan
- Risk Reduction of Lead and Mercury in Michigan
- Rouge River Restoration: Correcting a Major Pollution Source to the Great Lakes
- Seaborne Petrochemical Spill Analysis Within the United States, 1992–1999
- Sustainable Infrastructure for Water Treatment and Delivery
- Sustainable Water Management in the Zambezi River Basin
- The Challenge to Higher Education
- The Environmental Impact of Cruise Ships
- The Impacts of Lead in Michigan
- The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University of Zambia and the University of Michigan Conception and Subsequent Implementation Goals
- The October 2003 Quantification Settlement Agreement Implications for Water Management
- The State of Michigan's General Storm Water Discharge Permit: An Innovative Approach Contributing to Watershed Planning and Management
- U.S. Wastewater Treatment
- U.S. Water Supply & Distribution
- Universities Undertaking Water Resources Security Research: Issues for Consideration
- Waste Reduction in Children's Day Care: Case Study Report of Gretchen's
- Waste Reduction in Department Store Retail: Case Study Report of Hudson's
- Waste Reduction in Food Retail: Case Study Report of the People's Food Co-op
- Waste Reduction in Furniture Manufacture: Case Study Report of Steelcase Inc.
- Waste Reduction in the Hospital Sector: Case Study Report of McPherson Hospital
- Watershed Planning and Management: Institutional Realities
- Wet Weather Benchmarking Report
- Wet Weather Rules, Regulations and Policies: A National Survey