She may be a microbiologist, but functions as a Professor of Environmental Science. Well, at least that's what the SUNY-Purchase website says:
Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Ph.D. Research Professor of Environmental Science
Not to denigrate SUNY-Purchase, but it looks like a school that just goes to the bachelor degree in Environmental Science. Probably not exactly a hotbed of cutting edge bio-weapons research.
I hope Professor Rosenberg isn't doing any bioweapons research for which SUNY-Purchase doesn't have certified containment facilities.
Just my naive guess, but about the only environmental research products she's turning out right now are: thermal pollution in terms of lots of hot air and fouling the waters in the public commons with too much bull excrement and release of red herrings.
Thanks for the observations, VOA. I'd meant to respond earlier. SUNY Purchase is a college, not a university, and a performing arts school, at that. "Environmental science" sounds like some version of "Physics for Poets," or maybe Physics for Political Activists: "The Politics of Pollution"; "Environmental Racism," "The Politics of the White House-Big Oil Connection," yadda, yadda, yadda.