Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Environmental Conservation is a 14-PI network with 2 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Environmental Science as the leading field (38% of slots across 10 PIs; 10 labels), Nature and Landscape Conservation as the leading subfield (13% of slots across 4 PIs; 4 labels), and Plant and animal studies as the leading topic (9% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The leading PI names are Anita Milman (8.5 weighted works; Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Disaster Management and Resilience). The clearest collaboration lines are Ezra M. Markowitz and Rebecca Sokoloski (1 shared works, weight 0.6). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 2 PIs, 1 internal connections, weight 0.1, around Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Pollution, led by Timothy O. Randhir, Todd K. Fuller.