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 |
| Gaberiel Bever Post Doctoral Associate | (203) 432-5798 ESC 258 Email Me |
| 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 |
Staff | |
| 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 |
| Vicki Fitzgerald Conservation Asst Ve | |
| 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 Testing the dipolar nature of Earth's magnetic field in the Precambrian using large igneous provinces. | 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 |
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