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Alves, Andressa
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Chiara Borrelli
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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
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 221 Hutchison
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3440
- Web Address
- Website
Borrelli, Chiara
Assistant Professor
- Office Location
- 209B Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-7884
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: paleoceanography; paleoclimatology; foraminifera; stable isotopes; trace elements; biomineralization
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Cabrera, Erin
Program Coordinator
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2283
Carr, Steve
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Tolulope Olugboji
Chattopadhyay, Aparajeo
Scientist, Petrenko Lab
- Office Location
- B03 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Atmospheric chemistry: air quality and climate change; Global methane (CH4) budget; Hydroxyl (OH) radical abundance in the past and modern atmosphere; Gas kinetics, photochemistry, and spectroscopy; Ice cores; Atmospheric monitoring
Chau, Alice
Postdoctoral Associate
- Advisor(s)
- Miki Nakajima
- Office Location
- 206 Hutchison
Chen, Hsin-Yu
Research Specialist, Trail Lab
- Office Location
- 502 Hutchison Hall
Cone, Kim
Postdoctoral Associate
- Advisor(s)
- Miki Nakajima
- Office Location
- 206 Hutchison
Cottrell, Rory D.
Scientist
- Office Location
- 209C Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-6025
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Paleomagnetism and paleointensity
Creed, Gracie
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Tom Weber
Cyriac, Mariya
she/her/hers
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Erin Black
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Dasgupta, Archishman
he/him/his
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Dustin Trail
Dres, Yoseph Muhabaw
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- John Tarduno
Dugan, Jesse
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Tom Weber
- John Kessler
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Every, Madeline
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- John Kessler
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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
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Geomorphology; landscape evolution; sediment transport; fluids mechanics; granular physics; pattern formation
Gregory, Katherine
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- John Kessler
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Hall, Katie
MS Student
- Advisor(s)
- Vasilii Petrenko
- Web Address
- Website
Hicks, Tyler
Customer Technology Specialist
- Office Location
- 216 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2774
Holmes, Karine
she/her/hers
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Erin Black
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Ihle, Alex
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Vasilii Petrenko
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Jasko, Alex
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Miki Nakajima
Johnson, Laura
Academic Operations Manager
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-4682
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Kase, Katie
she/her/hers
Administrative Assistant
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-3934
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
Kloc, Gerald
Laboratory Technician
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5713
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Larison, Steve
MS Student
- Advisor(s)
- Lee Murray
Legre, Jean Joel
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Tolulope Olugboji
- Web Address
- Website
Licata, Sydney
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Dustin Trail
- Miki Nakajima
Little, Jon
Adjunct Professor
- Office Location
- 719 Hylan
Litza, Nic
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Miki Nakajima
Loman, Matt
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Lee Murray
Louden, Sydney
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- John Kessler
Lundgren, Lawrence L.
Professor Emeritus
- lwlundgren@gmail.com
- Web Address
- Website
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
Miller, Sebastian
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Vasilii Petrenko
Mitra, Gautam
Professor Emeritus
- Telephone
- (585) 275-5816
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Web Address
- Website
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
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Earth imaging with signals and intelligent algorithms; The global structure of the lithosphere; Seismic signal processing; Mathematical geophysics; Marine geophysics; Parameter estimation; Inverse theory; Computational imaging; Machine learning and computational statistics
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Petrenko, Vasilii
Associate Professor
Graduate Studies Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Office Location
- 228 Hutchinson Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 276-6094
- Web Address
- Website
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
Roy, Sumana
she/her/hers
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Dustin Trail
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Samassi, Nacere Mohamed
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rachel Glade
Schneider, Jack
Lab Specialist, Tarduno Lab
- Office Location
- Hutchison Hall
Shi, Mingjian
PhD Student
- Entry Year
- 2017
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall
- mshi16@ur.rochester.edu
Sleiman, John Paul
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Rachel Glade
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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
- Web Address
- Website
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.
Tie, Xin
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Lee Murray
Todd, Harrison
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Dustin Trail
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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Wang, Shengyu
PhD Student
- Advisor(s)
- Thomas Weber
Weber, Thomas
Associate Professor
- Office Location
- 126 Hutchison Hall
- Telephone
- (585) 275-2103
- Web Address
- Website
Interests: Ocean biogeochemical cycles, trace element oceanography, marine ecosystems and their response to climate change
Williams, Sarah
Postdoctoral Associate
- Advisor(s)
- Rachel Glade
- Office Location
- 205 Hutchison
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Xu, Hairong
PhD Student
- Entry Year
- 2017
- Office Location
- Hutchison Hall
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Yadav, Anshul
Postdoctoral Associate
- Advisor(s)
- Rachel Glade
- Office Location
- 205 Hutchison Hall
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Zhou, Tinghong
Postdoctoral Associate
- Office Location
- 227 Hutchison Hall