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Berger, Karen
Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Co-Chair, University Council on Sustainability
Coordinator, College Sustainability Studies
Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Programs
- Office Location
- 227B Hutchison Hall
Interests: Teaching Interests: Human use of and impacts on energy and water resources; community-engaged learning; metrics of sustainability
Black, Erin
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Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 221 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3440
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Borrelli, Chiara
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 209B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7884
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Interests: paleoceanography; paleoclimatology; foraminifera; stable isotopes; trace elements; biomineralization
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Cottrell, Rory D.
Scientist
- Office Location
- 209C Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6025
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Interests: Paleomagnetism and paleointensity
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Fehn, Udo
Professor Emeritus
Interests: Primary research focus is the movement of fluids in the earth's crust, with an emphasis on dating and tracing studies.
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Glade, Rachel
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- Office Location
- 206A Hutchison
- Telephone
- Office: (585) 273-4059
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Interests: Geomorphology; landscape evolution; sediment transport; fluids mechanics; granular physics; pattern formation
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Kessler, John
Professor
Department Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Office Location
- 210 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 273-4572
Interests: Chemical Oceanography; Isotope geochemistry; Analytical chemistry
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Little, Jon
Adjunct Professor
- Office Location
- 719 Hylan
Lundgren, Lawrence L.
Professor Emeritus
- lwlundgren@gmail.com
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Interests: Renewable energy systems in Europe-American applications; Environmental medicine
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Masny, Julia
Lecturer
- Office Location
- 117 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-8508
Interests: Introducing geology to students and connecting geology to everyday life
Mitra, Gautam
Professor Emeritus
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5816
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Interests: Tectonic evolution of mountain belts; Finite strain and strain history analysis; Deformation mechanisms in rocks
Murray, Lee
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 479 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2077
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Interests: Application and development of 3-D global models of atmospheric chemistry and climate to examine various couplings between atmospheric chemistry and the climate system in the past, present and future.
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Nakajima, Miki
Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
- Office Location
- 224D Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6617
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Interests: Dynamics of planetary impacts; Evolution of planetary interiors; Planet formation and evolution; Early Earth, Earth-Moon formation; Modeling Enceladus plumes; Origin of the Martian moons; Exomoon formation; Space missions
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Olugboji, Tolulope
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 224B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6609
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Interests: High-Resolution 3-D Earth Imaging using Seismology (Tomography, Receiver Functions, Ambient Noise Dispersion Analysis, Spectral Analysis, Model description); Application of Computational Statistics to Geophysics (Bayesian Methods); Seismic Data Analysis using High-performance Computing (Large-N Seismic Arrays and Graph Theory), Geophysical Inverse Theory (Parameter Estimation and Uncertainty Quantification).
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Petrenko, Vasilii
Associate Professor
Graduate Studies Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Office Location
- 228 Hutchinson Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6094
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Interests: Understanding natural and anthropogenic climate and environmental change, particularly from the perspective of atmospheric composition and chemistry.
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Righter, Kevin
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Office Location
- 208A Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5345
Interests: Igneous petrology, mantle geochemistry, experimental petrology, origin of the Earth and Moon, and planetary melting; Planetary interiors, core formation, high pressure phase equilibria, combining trace element partitioning and isotopic tracers, redox state of magmas and terrestrial planets; Meteorites, early solar system processes, cosmochemistry
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Tarduno, John A.
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Dean of Research, Arts, Sciences & Engineering
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5713
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Interests: Paleomagnetism, Geomagnetism and Geodynamics, including rates of plate tectonic, hotspot and polar motion, mantle plume volcanism, long-term history of Earth's magnetic field (paleointensity, paleosecular variation and reversal frequency), origin of the geodynamo, magnetic shielding and planetary habitability, decay of the modern dipole magnetic field and archeomagnetism; Cretaceous climate; environmental magnetism.
Trail, Dustin
Associate Professor
- Telephone
- (585) 276-7182
Interests: Experimental geochemistry; early Earth - including understanding the origin(s) of the oldest terrestrial rocks and minerals; planetary geology; astrobiology; lunar geochemistry; "water" in nominally anhydrous minerals; isotope geochemistry and geochronology of accessory minerals; redox chemistry of magmas, fluids, and minerals - including the application of synchrotron-based techniques
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Weber, Thomas
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 126 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2103
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Interests: Ocean biogeochemical cycles, trace element oceanography, marine ecosystems and their response to climate change