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Kevin Lewis

Morton K. Blaustein Vice Chair and Professor

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Research Interests: Planetary geology and geophysics

Education: PhD, Caltech

Jerry Burgess

Associate Teaching Professor and Director, ENVS

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Research Interests: Conservation science, tectonics, and metamorphic petrology.

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Anand Gnanadesikan

Professor

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Research Interests: Physical circulation; biogeochemical cycling; climate modeling

Education: PhD, MIT

Maya Gomes

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry, geobiology, biogeochemical cycling, Earth history, carbonate sedimentology

Education: PhD, Northwestern University

Thomas Haine

Professor

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Research Interests: Ocean circulation and dynamics; ocean’s role in climate

Education: PhD, University of Southampton, UK

Sarah Hörst

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Atmospheric chemistry; planetary atmospheres

Education: PhD, University of Arizona

Jana Kopelent-Rehak

Senior Lecturer

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Research Interests: Cultural, Environmental and Visual Anthropology, Urban Socioecology, Climate Ethnography

Education: PhD, American University

Julie K. Lundquist (she/her/hers)

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Wind Energy

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Research Interests: Atmospheric dynamics, boundary-layer meteorology, renewable energy

Education: Ph.D. Astrophysics, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder M.S. Astrophysics, Planetary, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder B. A. English and Physics, Trinity University

Emmy Smith

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: Sedimentary geology; biostratigraphy; Earth history; tectonics

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Sabine Stanley

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

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Research Interests: Planetary magnetism, dynamo theory, planetary interiors, geophysics

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Dimitri Sverjensky

Professor

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Research Interests: Geochemistry; astrobiology; deep carbon cycle

Education: PhD, Yale University

Daniel Viete

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests: Metamorphic petrology; structural geology; tectonics

Education: PhD, The Australian National University

Darryn Waugh

Professor

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Research Interests: Atmosphere and ocean sciences

Education: PhD, Cambridge University

Jasmina Wiemann

Assistant Professor

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Research Interests:  Ecology & Evolution, Geochemistry, Global Change Science, Planets, Mechanisms of evolution (across the tree of Life); paleobiology (Earth-Life interactions); astrobiology; biomolecule fossilization (carbon cycle); integrative biosignatures; spectroscopic multi-omics; global change biology; carbon sequestration

Education: PhD, Yale University

staff

Alicia Boampong

Administrative Manager

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Taylor Hannah

Administrative Coordinator

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Emily Nocera

Grants and Contracts Analyst

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Shelby Russell

Academic Program Administrator

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professors emeriti

Bruce D. Marsh

Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor

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Research Interests: Volcanism; magma dynamics; planetology; igneous petrology; geophysics

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Thomas Osborn

Professor Emeritus

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Education: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Darrell Strobel

Academy Professor and Research Professor

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Research Interests: Planetary atmospheres/astrophysics

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Research Scientists

Renske Gelderloos

Visiting Research Scientist

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Chao He

Visiting Research Scientist

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Marie-Aude Pradal

Associate Research Scientist

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Joint Appointments

Scot Miller

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering

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Michael Harrower

Assistant Professor, Archaeology

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Research Interests: Archaeology of the Near East, Southern Arabia, and Eastern Africa; geographic information systems (GIS), satellite imagery, agriculture, irrigation, ethnoarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, landscape archaeology, state formation

Rebecca E. Kelly

Visiting Associate Teaching Professor

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Research Interests: Pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning

Education: PhD, University of Oregon

Ken Livi

Associate Research Scientist

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Research Interests: Characterization of Inorganic and Organic Materials, Biomaterials, Earth Materials, and Surfaces of Nanomaterials through Electron Microscopy

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Katrina M. Lohan

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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K.T. Ramesh

Professor (Mechanical Engineering)

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Anthony D. Toigo

Adjunct Assistant Professor, (APL)

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Research Interests: Planetary atmospheres; planetary surface and atmosphere interactions

Lecturers

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Isabel Baker (she/her/hers)

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Microbe-mineral Interactions, Ocean Ecosystems, Evolution, Global Change, Earth History

Patrick Beaudry

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Igneous petrology and geochemistry, stable isotopes, subduction zones, sulfur cycling

Benjamin Fernando (He/Him)

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Seismology, Computational Geophysics, Planetary Science, Impact Physics, Science Policy, Diversity in Science

Prakrut Kansara

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Global hydro-meteorology, Climate change, Streamflow forecasting, and Remote Sensing

Prajvala Kurtakoti

Benton Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Climate Change, Climate Resilience, Arctic Ocean/Air/Sea-ice Interaction, Meridional Heat Transport, Meridional Overturning Circulation, Deep Convection, Polynyas, Ocean-Bathymetry Interaction, Cloud Feedbacks, Extreme Events, Machine Learning in Climate

Mahmoud Osman

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Drought, Flash Droughts, Land-Atmosphere interactions, Hydroclimatology

Shangyong Shi

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Precipitation Phase, Remote Sensing, Satellite Snowfall Retrievals, Hydrometerology, Surface Hydrology, Climate Change

Mahdad Talebpour

Post-Doctoral Fellow

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Research Interests: Atmospheric-Hydrological Modeling, Large-Eddy Simulation, Urban Hydrometeorology, Urban Climate, Urban Heat Island, Machine Learning Applications to Environmental Processes

Yilang Xu

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Research Interests: Physical Oceanography, Numerical Ocean Modeling, Polynya Circulation, Sea Ice Dynamics, Polar Marine Environments

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