The Faculty
Hagit Affek Assistant Professor Biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Biogenic volatile organic compounds. Isotope geochemistry in atmospheric trace gases. Paleo-temperature using carbonate minerals isotopic composition.	(203) 432-3761 KGL 211 Email Me Webpage
Jay Ague Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies Editor, American Journal of Science High-temperature petrology, geochemistry, and mineralogy. Emphasis on metamorphic, igneous and ore-forming processes that operate deep within mountain belts.	(203) 432-3171 216 KGL Email Me Webpage
David Bercovici Professor Department Chair Mantle and lithosphere dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, nonlinear science and self-organization. Generation of plate tectonics from a convecting mantle. Water and melting in the mantle and geochemical evolution of the Earth. Physics of comple...(Read More)	(203) 432-3168 305 KGL Email Me Webpage
Robert A. Berner Emeritus Professor Computer modeling of the carbon and sulfur cycles. This includes calculation of the evolution of atmospheric CO2 and O2 over Phanerozoic time and the effect of CO2 on climate via the atmospheric greenhouse effect and the effect of changing O2 on anim...(Read More)	(203) 432-3183 227 KGL Email Me Webpage
Ruth Blake Associate Professor Biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology, stable isotope geochemistry, astrobiology. Biogeochemical cycling of P, S, Fe and related elements (C, N ); applications to marine, Archean/early earth and extraterrestrial systems; microbe-mineral interactions; e...(Read More)	(203) 432-3191 345 KGL Email Me Webpage
Mark Brandon Professor Tectonic and geomorphic evolution of convergent plate boundaries, including western North America, Kamchatka, New Zealand, Alps, Crete, Apennines, and Patagonian Andes	(203) 432-3135 208 KGL Email Me Webpage
Derek Briggs Professor Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (w.e.f. 1st July 2008) The taphonomy and evolutionary significance of exceptionally preserved fossils; decay and mineralization, molecular preservation, the Cambrian radiation.	(203) 432-8590 236 ESC Email Me Webpage
David Evans Assistant Professor Continental reconstructions; paleomagnetism; long-term evolution of geodynamics, tectonics, climate change, and life.	(203) 432-3127 210 KGL Email Me Webpage
Alexey Fedorov Assistant Professor Climate dynamics with a focus on large-scale ocean-atmosphere interactions, ocean circulation, and global climate change. Theory and modelling of climate.	(203) 432-3153 117b KGL Email Me Webpage
Jacques Gauthier Professor Vertebrate paleontology, evolution of reptiles, and phylogenetic systematics and taxonomy	(203) 432-3150 264 ESC Email Me
Robert Gordon Emeritus Professor Archaeometallurgy,laboratory analysis and interpretation of ancient and historical materials and artifacts. Industrial ecology, technological cycles of metals; mineral resources.	(203) 432-3125 207 KGL Email Me
Leo Hickey Professor Plant phylogeny, evolution and paleoecology of the flowering plants, paleoclimate, and stratigraphy.	(203) 432-5006 242 ESC Email Me Webpage
Shun-ichiro Karato Professor Mineral physics and chemistry. High-pressure, temperature experimental studies, and their applications to geophysical and geological problems	(203) 432-3147 KGL319 Email Me Webpage
Jun Korenaga Associate Professor Terrestrial magmatism, mantle convection, and the thermal and chemical evolution of the Earth; geophysical inverse theory	(203) 432-7381 314 KGL Email Me Webpage
Mark Pagani Associate Professor Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, and paleoclimatology. Low-temperature isotope and organic geochemistry.	(203) 432-6275 220 KGL Email Me Webpage
Jeffrey Park Professor Theoretical and observational seismology, geological time-series analysis, structure of Earth's subsurface.	(203) 432-3172 316 KGL Email Me Webpage
Danny Rye Professor Editor, American Journal of Science Director of Earth System Center for Stable Isotopic Studies Isotope geochemistry related to ore deposits, metamorphic rocks, and paleoenvironments	(203) 432-3174 214 KGL Email Me Webpage
Adolf Seilacher Professor Latest Precambrain and Paleozoic trace fossils, taphonomy and morphology	(203) 432-3173 254 KGL Email Me
Steven Sherwood Professor Atmospheric physics and data analysis; clouds, radiation, and dynamics; climate theory and modeling.	(203) 432-3167 111 KGL Email Me Webpage
Brian Skinner Professor Origin and distribution of mineral deposits	(203) 432-3175 320 KGL Email Me
Ronald Smith Professor Geophysical fluid dynamics, dynamical meteorology, remote sensing	(203) 432-3129 112 KGL Email Me Webpage
Karl K. Turekian Professor The use of radioactive and radiogenic nuclides in deciphering the environmental history of Earth	(203) 432-3188 337 KGL Email Me Webpage
George Veronis Professor Physical Oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, double diffusion, ocean circulation	(203) 432-3148 110 KGL Email Me Webpage
Elisabeth Vrba Professor Mammalian paleontology, evolutionay theory. Subjects include morphology, allometry, ontogeny, systematics, biogeography, paleoecology, paleoclimate, and their use to understand macroevolutionary processes	(203) 432-5008 262 ESC Email Me Webpage
Zhengrong Wang Assistant Professor Mantle geochemistry, theoretical study of isotope fractionation theory and its application to geological problems, developing paleoproxies to study paleoclimate, trace element geochemistry	(203) 436-8461 Temporary: KGL 111 Email Me
John Wettlaufer Professor (Joint with Physics) Director of Graduate Studies Condensed matter, materials and statistical physics, applied mathematics, ice and climate, and geophysical fluid dynamics	(203) 432-0892 109 KGL Email Me Webpage
Research Staff
Elizabeth Berner Research Affiliate	(203) 432-3183 333 KGL
Edward Bolton Senior Research Scientist Modeling of fluid flow and mineral reactions in Earth's crust	(203) 432-3149 309 KGL Email Me Webpage
Chris Brierley Post Doctoral Associate I am interested in the ability of climate models to replicate and project climate change. My current project is an investigation of the effect of a reduced meridional tropical SST gradient on the poleward heat transport. The motivation for th...(Read More)	117A KGL Email Me Webpage
Jaclyn Brown Post Doctoral Associate Tropical Pacific Oceanography and Climate - the mean state - ENSO - decadal variability and the 1970s climate shift - effects of global warming - permanent El Nino 3 million years ago Other interests - The Indian Ocean Dipole...(Read More)	(203) 432-1959 117A KGL Email Me Webpage
Sae Jung Chang Post Doctoral Associate Mechanisms of phosphate biomineralization in limestone caves, Phospahte oxygen isotope ratios as a biosignature for evidence of the earliest traces of life	(203) 436-3420 219 KGL Email Me
Lidong dai Post Doctoral Associate	KGL 310 Email Me
Michiel de Kock Post Doctoral Associate My research is focused on the paleomagnetism of the Ghaap Group. It is a Late Archean to Early Proterozoic carbonate/banded-iron formation succession from the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa. This study is part of the Agouron-Griqualand Paleoproter...(Read More)	KGL 306 Email Me Webpage
James Eckert Associate In Research Microscale chemical analysis and imaging of rocks and materials (Electron Microprobe Analysis, EMPA); X-Ray Diffraction of rocks and materials (XRD). Metamorphic/igneous petrology: Pressure-temperature (P-T) determinations to constrain equilibration...(Read More)	(203)432-3181 327 KGL Email Me
Simon Emmanuel Post Doctoral Associate	(203) 432-8343 KGL 222 Email Me
Roland Geerken Associate Research Scientist	106 KGL
William Graustein Research Affiliate "The behavior of natural radionuclides in near-surface, atmospheric and aquatic environments"	339 KGL
Neal Sanchayan Gupta Post Doctoral Associate BSc, Sep. 2001, University of Delhi.PhD, May 2005. University of Bristol, UK. Note: As of Jan 1 2007 I have moved to Roger Summons'geobiology Lab, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT.Contact me at SNGupta@MIT.edu.I continue to ...(Read More)	(317) 903-7357 KGL-221B Email Me
Patrick Haertel Associate Research Scientist	(203) 432-3173 KGL 254 Email Me
Austin Hendy Post Doctoral Associate My interests focus on understanding geologic transitions in marine invertebrate biodiversity and the quantification of various biases on these patterns, be they inherent in the fossil record, gaps in paleontological data, or methodological artifacts....(Read More)	KGL 272 Email Me
Michael Hren Post Doctoral Associate Paleoelevation, Paleoclimate	(203) 432-8343 KGL 222 Email Me
Justin Hustoft Post Doctoral Associate	(203) 432-5791 KGL 310 Email Me
Deb Jaisi Post Doctoral Associate My interdisciplinary research focuses on the interface and aqueous (bio)geochemistry and its application to environmental problems. It involves iron redox reaction and biogeochemistry, biogeochemical cycling of metals and long term immobilization of ...(Read More)	KGL 326 Email Me Webpage
Takaaki Kawazoe Post Doctoral Associate (1) Mantle dynamics and Earth evolution. Experimental studies on rheological properties of mantle minerals at high pressure and high temperature (2) Core formation with a deep magma ocean. Experimental studies on elemental partitioning between...(Read More)	203-432-5791 KGL 310 Email Me
Daniel Kirshbaum Post Doctoral Associate Mountain and boundary-layer meteorology, atmospheric convection, numerical modeling	(203) 432-5669 KGL 106D Email Me Webpage
Tadashi Kito Post Doctoral Associate Global seismology. Seismic structure in the mantle and its implication for geodynamics, development of seismic array methods	KGL 326 Email Me
Dorothy Koch Research Affiliate Global modeling of aerosol transport and radiative effects on climate	(203)432-6925 237 KGL Email Me Webpage
Zhonghui Liu Post Doctoral Fellow	KGL 222 Email Me
Chloe Michaut Post Doctoral Associate My research interests includes magmatism and volcanism, thermal and dynamical processes, the thermal structure and dynamics of the lithosphere, thermal evolution of planets. I am currently working on two-phase viscous gravity currents. I am studyi...(Read More)	(203) 436-3998 306 Email Me Webpage
Mainak Mookherjee Post Doctoral Associate Mineral Physics	203-432-5791 KGL310 Email Me Webpage
Tomohiro Ohuchi Post Doctoral Fellow	KGL 310 Email Me
Michael Patterson Associate Research Scientist	KGL 125 Email Me Webpage
Stephen Peppin Post Doctoral Associate Thermodynamics and continuum/fluid mechanics of colloidal suspensions and multiphase systems.	107 Email Me Webpage
Frank Robinson Associate In Research Simulations of tropospheric overshoot, stellar atmospheres and convection experiments.	(203) 432-1728 106 KGL Email Me Webpage
John Rudge Post Doctoral Associate	(203) 436-3996 KGL 306 Email Me Webpage
Phillip Schafer Research Assistant	(203) 432-3159 KGL 115 Email Me
David Seidemann Research Affiliate Geochronology; science and public policy	339 KGL Email Me
Florian Sevellec Post Doctoral Associate	KGL 117 Email Me
H. Catherine Skinner Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale Medical School "Minerals, especially biominerals, those in, and those produced or influenced by biological processes"	(203)432-3787 124 KGL Email Me
Drew Stolar Post Doctoral Associate	KGL 306 Email Me Webpage
Lisa Stout Post Doctoral Associate Microbial diversity and relationship to geochemistry of hot sulfur springs at St. Lucia, microbial interactions with heavy metals	(203) 436-3420 KGL 219 Email Me
Ellen Thomas Senior Research Scientist and Editor of Marine Micropaleontology Late-Cretaceous Recent paleoceanography (especially periods of extreme warm climate) using benthic foraminifera and stable isotopes; deep-sea research using samples from the Ocean Drilling Program, coastal studies in Long Island Sound (Holocene) and ...(Read More)	(203)432-5928 336 KGL Email Me Webpage
Stuart Thomson Associate Research Scientist Low temperature thermochronology. Investigating problems in regional tectonics, structural geology and tectonic geomorphology. Understanding interactions between tectonics, climate and erosion. Examining the sedimentary record of orogeny.	(203) 436-4050 KGL306 Email Me Webpage
Katharine (Kate) Willett Post Doctoral Associate Humidity and Climate Change	(203) 432-2033 KGL 117 Email Me Webpage
Bryony Youngs Post Doctoral Associate Deep Earth geodynamics. Currently working on analytical and numerical modeling of two-layer convection problems namely that of compositionally distinct material in the D" region and a melt layer above the transition zone.	KGL 306 Email Me Webpage
David Zinniker Post Doctoral Associate Organic Geochemistry, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoclimate. My research is innovative primarily in the application of CSIA techniques to taxon-specific molecular fossils and the utilization of unique sedimentary archives where they are ab...(Read More)	(203) 432-8343 222 KGL Email Me Webpage
Staff
Larry Bonneau CEO Staff Forestry applications of remote sensing	(203) 432-3142 119A ESC Email Me
Pamela Buonocore Business Office	203-432-3165 304 KGL Email Me
Susan Butts Collections Manager Permo-Carboniferous brachiopod paleoecology, stratigraphy & climate Silicification of shelly fossils	203-432-4122 ESC 254 Email Me
Diane Dickinson Business Manager	(203)432-3164 303 KGL Email Me
Thomas Dobkowski Rock Lab Staff	(203) 432-3140 26 KGL Email Me
Ellen Faller Collections	203-432-3141 105 KGL Email Me
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Marilyn Fox Preparator Vertebrat	22P KGL Email Me Webpage
Rafael Gonzalez STAFF	Loading Dock Email Me
Robert Heister Library Staff	432-3157 328 KGL Email Me
Zhenting Jiang STAFF	(203)432-1327 321 KGL Email Me
Ernestine Jones-Bush Chairman's Assistant	(203)432-3161 301 KGL Email Me
Walter Joyce Collections Manager Systematic, Paleoecological, and Nomenclatural Aspects of Primitive Turtles	(203) 432-3748 16 KGL Email Me Webpage
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John Morgan Library Staff	(203)432-3157 328 KGL Email Me
Barbara Narendra Peabody Museum staff	(203)432-0729 14 KGL Email Me
Gerard Olack Mass Spectrometer La Exploring the surface area of proteins using a stable isotope label	(203) 432-3184 078 ESC Email Me Webpage
Doreen Orciari Editorial Assistant	(203)432-3154 121 KGL Email Me Webpage
Mabel Peterson Geochemistry Staff	335B KGL
Ann Phelps Geochemistry Staff	335B KGL
Aida Rodriguez Secretary	(203)432-3114 202 KGL Email Me
David Rossman Systems Programmer	(203) 432-3155 204 KGL Email Me Webpage
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William Samela Rock Lab Staff	(203) 432-1614 20 KGL Email Me
Peter Schrader Registrar	(203) 432-3124 KGL 203 Email Me
Andrew Scott Visiting Professor Fire in the environment: The past, present and future of wildfires and their environmental effects. The role of fire in Earth Systems Processes. The geological and archaeological uses of charcoal. The entombment and preservation of plants by volcanic...(Read More)	(203) 432-8100 272 ESC Email Me Webpage
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MaryAnn Turner Collection Mgr Verte	21 KGL
Students
Robert Allen Graduate Climate change, atmospheric data analysis/applied climatology, remote sensing, climate modeling	(203) 432-9808 250 KGL Email Me Webpage
Brian Andres Graduate Phylogenetic Systematics of the Pterosauria	231 KGL Email Me
Megan Andrews Graduate Impact of tree evolution on Phanerozoic atmospheric CO2, long-term carbon cycle, chemical and biological weathering, biological-geological interactions.	249 KGL Email Me
Matthew Benoit Graduate Allometric and morphometric analyses of living and extinct Felidae. Multiphasic ontogenetic growth and its effect on allometric relationships	239 KGL Email Me
Irene Bianchi Graduate Crustal and upper mantle structure, seismic anisotropy.	KGL 256 Email Me Webpage
Faysal Bibi Chief of Dana Club Secret Police Mammalian paleontology in the Neogene and such things, particularly focused on paleontological survey and fieldwork in the Middle East. Dropping a pencil may break the lead inside, rendering the implement unsharpable to a tip, and, hence, useless.	251 KGL Email Me
Madalyn Blondes Graduate Mantle Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Thermochronology, Isotope Geochemistry	(203) 209-0269 253 KGL Email Me Webpage
Michelle Casey Graduate Predation, brachiopod paleoecology, the Silurian recovery interval and Ordovician mass extinction, stable isotope trophic position of carnivorous marine gastropods, computer-intensive statistical methods and morphometrics	KGL 237 Email Me
JungHyo Chae Graduate "Atmospheric physics, climate change, dynamics, and data analysis."	245 KGL Email Me
Sitindra Dirghangi Graduate	235 KGL Email Me
Peter Douglas Graduate Organic geochemistry and paleoclimatology: Holocene variation in tropical hydrology; climate change and the collapse of the Mayan civilization; compound specific isotope analysis	KGL 247 Email Me
Xiaoyue Du Graduate Geochemistry, Metamorphic petrology, Mineralogy, Igneous petrology	237 KGL Email Me
Una Farrell Graduate Paleoecology, geochemistry and taphonomy of Ordovician pyritized trilobite lagerstatten. Predator-prey interactions and evolution in Cenozoic molluscs.	244 KGL Email Me
Thomas Hegna Graduate Trilobite and arthropod phylogeny and evolution, branchiopods, segmentation in the notostracan Triops, Cambrian life, the interface between molecules and morphology, the philosophical foundations of paleontology and systematics	243 KGL Email Me
Zhicheng Jing Graduate Experimental and theoretical studies on the equation of state for silicate melts; Physics and chemistry of the Earth's deep interior	242 KGL Email Me Webpage
Srinath Krishnan Graduate Hydrological characteristics of the early Eocene hyperthermals including the PETM, ELMO and the X-event.	KGL 247 Email Me
William Landuyt Graduate Lithospheric and mantle dynamics, thermal evolution of the lithosphere; rheological and material science aspects of Earth evolution.	(203) 432-9808 248 KGL Email Me Webpage
Keith Laskowski Graduate Mountain-building and erosion interactions, especially with respect to glaciation	KGL 238 Email Me
Garrett Leahy Graduate Fluid dynamics and heat transport, convection and chemical circulation in the Earth's mantle, seismological observations of the Earth's interior.	246 KGL Email Me Webpage
Yanping Li Graduate Atmospheric Sciences
Tatiana Lioubetskaia Graduate Geophysics & Geodynamics	Email Me
Tyler Lyson Graduate	Email Me
Tamara Machac Graduate	KGL 250 Email Me
Tara Mayeau Graduate	KGL 253 Email Me
Devin McPhillips Graduate Tectonic and surface processes, geochronology; the application of thermochronologic data to problems like backthrusting in accretionary wedges and the creation of topographic relief.	KGL 238 Email Me
Ross N. Mitchell Graduate Paleomagnetism (true polar wander; supercontinents; paleogeography; magnetic field evolution; magnetostratigraphy). Paleoclimate (orbital forcing; oceanic anoxic events; BIFs). Other (ammonite evolution, layered mag...(Read More)	(203) 788-4149 KGL 239 Email Me Webpage
Kazuhiko Otsuka Graduate Experimental and theoretical mineral physics, mantle dynamics and geochemistry; Specifically, the role of point defects on transport properties in the lower mantle, stable isotopic composition of the terestrial mantle	KGL 235 Email Me
Melanie Parker Graduate	Email Me
Daniel Peppe Graduate Paleobotany, paleomagnetism, magnetostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, sedimentology, climate change, paleoecology, geochronology	229 KGL Email Me Webpage
Eben Rose X Origins of Life I pose this question: "If the Archean sedimentary rock record contained signs of the transition from pre-biology to familiar microbial biology, what would it look like and what would be preserved from this time?" I am a ...(Read More)	(203) 484-4497 232 KGL Email Me
Melissa Spannuth Graduate Ice physics, solidification inside a porous medium, frost heave	KGL 233 Email Me Webpage
Erik Sperling Graduate The origin and early evolution of metazoans	203-927-3754 KGL 229 Email Me
Carlos Szembek Graduate Short-term Climate Dynamics, emphasizing: - The impact of Westerly Wind Bursts on Ocean Energetics in the Tropical Pacific Basin - Ocean/Atmosphere coupled modeling of ENSO - The role of aerosols in General Circulation Models	KGL 241 Email Me
Erik Thomson Graduate Ice Physics: Surfaces and Interfaces of polycrystalline ice near the melting temperature.	231 Email Me
Brett Tipple Graduate Organic Geochemistry, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoclimate. Specifically, I study the long-term evolution of C4 photosynthesis and its relationship to CO2, the environmental controls on the hydrogen and carbon isotopic compositions of leaf wax ...(Read More)	203-432-8736 KGL 252 Email Me Webpage
Jakob Vinther Graduate Early animal evolution Especially molluscs, lophotrochozoans in general and sponges	KGL 230 Email Me Webpage
Sarah Vorhies Graduate	240 Email Me
Jo Wolfe Graduate Origins of arthropod diversity, especially the evolution of segmentation and appendages, using a combination of fossil, evo-devo, and molecular data.	KGL 245 Email Me
Bryan Woods Graduate Meteorology and atmospheric science	978-726-3462 KGL 234 Email Me Webpage