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