David Bercovici Professor Department Chair Deputy Director Yale Climate & Energy Institute Email Me Office: 305 KGL Phone: (203) 432-3168 Fax: (203) 432-3134 A More Detailed Webpage Research Interests: 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 complex continua, e.g., two-phase and/or grained media, damage theory, shear-localization. Current Courses: GG100a, Natural Disasters GG222b, Origins of Everything GG525/ENS761 Intro. Continuum Mechanics Students and Postdocs: Zhengyu Cai Brad Foley Karen Paczkowski