The Faculty
Hagit Affek Assistant Professor Paleo-temperature using carbonate 'clumped isotopes. Isotope geochemistry in atmospheric trace gases. Biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Biogenic volatile organic compounds.	(203) 432-3761 KGL 211 Email Me Webpage
Jay Ague Professor of Geology and Geophysics Curator-in-Charge of Mineralogy, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 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 Deputy Director Yale Climate & Energy Institute 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 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 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 Professor Continental reconstructions; paleomagnetism; long-term evolution of geodynamics, tectonics, climate change, and life.	(203) 432-3127 210 KGL Email Me Webpage
Alexey Fedorov Associate 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 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
Kanani Lee Assistant Professor I explore the physics and chemistry of planetary interiors by using a variety of high-pressure/temperature techniques, most notably a laser-heated diamond-anvil cell and ab-initio computations.	(203) 432-4354 KGL 207 Email Me Webpage
Maureen Long Assistant Professor Observational seismology; seismic anisotropy and mantle dynamics; subduction zone dynamics and processes; field deployment of broadband seismic arrays	(203) 432-5031 KGL 310 Email Me Webpage
Mark Pagani Associate Professor Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology Low-temperature Isotope and Organic Geochemistry ...(Read More)	(203) 432-6275 220 KGL Email Me Webpage
Jeffrey Park Professor Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) 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
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
Mary-Louise Timmermans Assistant Professor Ocean circulation and mixing; Arctic Ocean dynamics and climate	(203) 432-3167 KGL 111 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 Director of Graduate Studies 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 KGL 339 Email Me Webpage
John Wettlaufer Professor (Joint with Physics) 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
Dominic M. Colosi Research Assistant	(203) 432-3184 ESC 078F 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
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
Patrick Haertel Associate Research Scientist	(605) 627-9412 KGL 254 Email Me
Hendrik Hansen-Goos Post Doctoral Associate	(203) 432-3144 KGL 107 Email Me
Michael Hren Post Doctoral Associate Paleoelevation, Paleoclimate	(203) 432-8343 KGL 222 Email Me Webpage
Pincelli Hull Post Doctoral Associate	Email Me
Justin Hustoft Post Doctoral Associate	(203) 436-9077 KGL 310 Email Me
Deb Jaisi Post Doctoral Associate My interdisciplinary research focuses on the mineral-water interface and aqueous (bio)geochemistry and its application to environmental problems. It involves iron redox reaction and biogeochemistry, biogeochemical cycling of metals and long ...(Read More)	(203) 432-3180 KGL 326 Email Me Webpage
Daniel Kirshbaum Research Affiliate Atmospheric convection, mountain meteorology, boundary-layer meteorology, numerical modeling	() - X 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	(203) 436-4048 KGL 306 Email Me
Dorothy Koch Research Affiliate Global modeling of aerosol transport and radiative effects on climate	(203)432-6925 237 KGL Email Me Webpage
Tomoko Korenaga Research Assistant Marine geophysics	KGL 306 Email Me
Richard Krause Post Doctoral Associate Preservational bias in brachiopods; Stable isotope and trace element geochemistry of modern brachiopods; Body size ecology and evolution in Jurassic bivalves; Quantification of time averaging	ESC 272 Email Me
Marc Laflamme Post Doctoral Associate My research focuses on the classification, preservation, and biological function of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara Biota. Specifically, my past research has inquired into the morphology of the fractally-branched Rangeomorphs and the cylindrica...(Read More)	(203) 432-5411 KGL 221 Email Me
Philip Larese-Casanova Post Doctoral Associate	(203) 436-4049 KGL 306 Email Me
Jih-Pai Lin Post Doctoral Associate My research goals focus on understanding the early evolution of two important invertebrate clades: arthropods and echinoderms, and the origination and sustainability of marine benthic communities through time. By understanding the taphonomic...(Read More)	(203) 432-8744 ESC 274 Email Me
Nicholas Longrich Post Doctoral Associate	ESC 256 Email Me
Maria McNamara Post Doctoral Fellow My research interests lie primarily in the field of taphonomy, in particular, the exceptional preservation of non-biomineralised tissues in the fossil record. Such exceptionally preserved fossils can provide the only evidence of many extinct organism...(Read More)	(203) 432-5411 KGL 221B Email Me
Michael Oristaglio Research Scientist	(203) 432-0579 KGL 308 Email Me
Michael Patterson Associate Research Scientist	KGL 125 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
David Seidemann Research Affiliate Geochronology; science and public policy	339 KGL Email Me
Florian Sevellec Post Doctoral Associate My research interests focus on the stability and the low-frequency variability of the ocean circulation and its role in the climate system. Specifically, I am investigating the effect of wind on the ocean dynamics through analytical approaches and nu...(Read More)	KGL 117A Email Me Webpage
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
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 and Block Islan...(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
Weihong Wang Associate In Research	(203) 432-8343 KGL 222 Email Me
YueJian Wang Post Doctoral Associate	(203) 436-9075 KGL 315 Email Me
Andrew Wells Post Doctoral Associate Geophysical fluid dynamics, buoyancy driven convection, solidification, melting and dissolving. Application to environmental problems, including the flow of meltwater under Antarctic ice shelves, the exchange of heat between the ocean and atmosphere ...(Read More)	(203) 432-3132 KGL 125 Email Me Webpage
Katharine (Kate) Willett Post Doctoral Associate Humidity and Climate Change	(203) 432-2033 KGL 117 Email Me Webpage
Alessandro Zanazzi Post Doctoral Associate Cenozoic paleoclimatology and paleoecology using stable isotope ratios in biogenic apatites.	(203) 436-9091 KGL 318 Email Me
Jin-Qiang Zhong Post Doctoral Associate	Email Me
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George Amulele STAFF	(203) 436-3996 KGL 306 Email Me
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 301 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
Margaret Gomes STAFF	(203) 432-3169 KGL 304 Email Me
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
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
Becky Pocock STAFF	(203) 432-3161 KGL 201 Email Me Webpage
Aida Rodriguez Staff	(203)432-3114 202 KGL Email Me
David Rossman Systems Programmer Computer systems management and networking services. I am the resident computer geek. Several years ago, in 2003, I was hired to work on several older servers by a department computer committee. I promptly upgraded these servers and mov...(Read More)	(203) 432-3155 204 KGL Email Me Webpage
Joan Rye STAFF	217 KGL Email Me
William Samela Rock Lab Staff	(203) 432-1614 25 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
Adam Behlke Graduate	KGL 246 Email Me
Zhengyu Cai Graduate Modeling for two-phase compaction and damage; Geometry factor in partial-melting deformation; Deformation experiment of two-phase upper mantle materials; Non-linear physics and numerical simulation.	KGL 231 Email Me
Michelle Casey Graduate Molluscan predator-prey interactions, stable isotope trophic position, Long Island Sound eutrophication and pre-anthropogenic ecology, computer-intensive statistical methods and morphometrics	KGL 244 Email Me
Xu Chu Graduate Metamorphic Petrology	KGL 239 Email Me
Simon Darroch Graduate The palaeoecology of mass extinction events and recovery intervals; quantitative testing of 'disaster' and 'opportunistic' ecological models; Early Triassic foraminifera; the origin of pentamery in crinoids	KGL 233 Email Me
Sitindra Dirghangi Graduate	235 KGL Email Me
Dea Doklestic Graduate	KGL 254 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 Webpage
Zhixue Du Graduate	KGL 249 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
Brad Foley Graduate	KGL 251 Email Me
Jenny Hanna Graduate Seismic anisotropy and shear wave splitting in and around subduction zones.	KGL 234 Email Me
Thomas Hegna Graduate Trilobite and arthropod phylogeny and evolution, branchiopod crustaceans, segmentation in the notostracan Triops, carapace evolution, Cambrian life, the interface between molecules and morphology, the philosophical foundations of paleontology and sys...(Read More)	243 KGL Email Me
Allison Hsiang Graduate	KGL 231 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
Aaron Judah Graduate	KGL 254 Email Me
Taylor Kilian Graduate Paleomagnetism	KGL 229 Email Me
Srinath Krishnan Graduate Hydrological characteristics of the early Eocene hyperthermals including the PETM, ELMO and the X-event.	KGL 247 Email Me
Keith Laskowski Graduate Evolution of mountain belts: investigating changes in internal deformation of critical wedge orogens related to glacial erosion via analog models. Glaciology: developing a novel geochemical record of alpine glacier advance and retreat. ...(Read More)	KGL 238 Email Me
Yanping Li Graduate Atmospheric Sciences: mesoscale dynamics, remote sensing, regional climate modeling	(203) 432-9448 KGL 106B Email Me
Chao Liu Graduate	KGL 254 Email Me
Tyler Lyson Graduate	Email Me
Tamara Machac Graduate	KGL 250 Email Me
Georgy Manucharyan Graduate	(203) 435-7450 KGL 248 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 Webpage
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
Woosok Moon Graduate	KGL 232
Alison Nugent Graduate	KGL 252 Email Me
Tolulope Olugboji Graduate Active source seismology, numerical analysis and computational geometry, geophysical inverse theory, terrestrial magmatism, energy and natural resources. Ongoing research: Presently, I am working on the crustal structure of the Ont...(Read More)	(516) 348-3713 KGL 256 Email Me
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
Karen Paczkowski Graduate Lithospheric Instabilities, Mantle Convection, Tectonics, and Surface Processes	KGL 241 Email Me
Joe Panzik Graduate High pressure and high temperature characteristics of water, ammonia, methane and mixtures of the three to gain insight on the behavior of planetary bodies such as Uranus and Neptune.	KGL 240 Email Me
Melanie Parker Graduate	KGL 241 Email Me
Rachel Racicot Graduate Comparative anatomy, especially cranial anatomy of cetaceans using dissection and CT scanning methods Avian and cetacean osteology and myology Development of cranial pneumaticity Evolution of development and variation in devel...(Read More)	ESC 256 Email Me
Duayne Rieger Graduate Scattered surface waves as a diagnostic for upper mantle anisotropy and mantle dynamics	KGL 251 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 Webpage
Chris Thissen Graduate	KGL 238 Email Me
Erik Thomson Graduate Ice Physics: Surfaces and Interfaces of polycrystalline ice near the melting temperature.	107 Email Me Webpage
Meng Tian Graduate	KGL 242 Email Me
Jakob Vinther Graduate Early animal evolution Especially molluscs and annelids, lophotrochozoans in general and sponges Fossil preservation, melanin	(203) 832-8483 KGL 230 Email Me Webpage
Sarah Vorhies Graduate Metamorphic petrology Mantle geochemistry	244 Email Me
Courtney Warren Graduate Paleoclimatology, biogeochemistry, Pliocene warming events, terrestrial paleobotanical proxies.	(909) 528-3343 KGL 252 Email Me
Amelinda Webb Graduate Invertebrate Paleontology: community paleoecology, predation, competition, encrustation, the impact of extinction events	KGL 237 Email Me Webpage
Erin Wirth Graduate	KGL 254 Email Me
Jo Wolfe Graduate Origins of arthropod diversity in the Cambrian explosion, especially the evolution of segmentation and appendage types, using a combination of fossil, evo-devo, and molecular data.	KGL 245 Email Me Webpage
Bryan Woods Graduate Meteorology and atmospheric science	978-726-3462 KGL 234 Email Me Webpage
Hobart Young Graduate	KGL 250 Email Me Webpage
Shikma Zaarur Graduate	KGL 249 Email Me
Yige Zhang Graduate Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography: application of geochemical indices (e.g. lipid biomarkers and stable isotopes) in better understanding of climate changes Geochemistry: stable isotope geochemistry; global biogeochemical cycles Geomicrobio...(Read More)	KGL 246 Email Me