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Karen Berger

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

Chiara Borrelli

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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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

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Udo Fehn

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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Hicks, Tyler

Customer Technology Specialist

Office Location
216 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2774

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Katie Kase

Kase, Katie

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Administrative Assistant

Office Location
227 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-3934
John Kessler

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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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: 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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Vasilii Petrenko

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

Minako Righter

Righter, Minako

Scientist

Interests: Petrologic analyses, measurements of radiogenic and stable isotopic compositions, and measurements of trace element concentrations to understand Earth and planetary processes including nature and timing of magmatic activities on Mars, chronology of early solar system materials, and impact processes on planetary bodies.

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John A. Tarduno

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.

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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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

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