Fellows | Research Scientists | Fellows Emeriti
Fellows are faculty who govern the institute and help lead INSTAAR's research and education missions. Reach out to individual fellows for information about joining INSTAAR, especially if you are a prospective graduate student or staff member.
Geomorphology
Geomorphology, weathering, hydrology
Ecohydrology, forest hydrology, tree physiology, stable isotope geochemistry.
Plant ecology, climate change, tundra
Attmospheric processes and chemical transformations; advanced laser technology for atmospheric research, including trace gas detection
Stream-groundwater interactions; contaminant transport/fate; polar responses to climate change; ecosystem processes in polar landscapes; aquatic biogeochemical cycling; water quality modeling
Climate modeling, polar climate, paleoclimate, cryosphere, oceanography, modeling of isotopes.
Arctic paleoclimate and paleoceanography, ice-sheet/ocean interactions, foraminifera.
Polar ice cores, abrupt climate change, Isotope geochemistry, glaciological and Earth system modeling, unmanned aerial vehicles, methane in permafrost (new pursuit), outreach
Hydrology, sediment transport, flooding, remote sensing, numerical modeling
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, radiocarbon research.
Marine carbon cycle, climate variability, ocean modeling.
Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology
Isotope biogeochemistry; paleoclimate and climate dynamics, particularly in the high latitudes; geochemical proxy records and models
Limnology; biogeochemistry of lakes and streams.
Quaternary stratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoclimatology.
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Surface water and snow hydrology; remote sensing; ecohydrology.
Coastal oceanography; Numerical modeling; Sediment transport; Biogeochemistry
Hydrology, climate change, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, modeling & data analytics.
Interface of social sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences; long-term human ecodynamics and climate change.
Earth surface process modeling; Coastal and river geomorphology; Sedimentary geology; Civil engineering and applied earth sciences.
Hydrology, Geomorphology, Modeling, Cyberinfrastructure
Glaciology, continuum mechanics, heat transfer, analysis and numerical methods.
Geochemistry; oceanography; global silicon cycle
Terrestrial ecosystem ecology; causes and feedbacks of biotic change; grassland ecology; plant-soil-animal interactions.
Organic and stable isotope biogeochemistry, geobiology, biomarker research, paleoceanography, paleoclimate, extreme climates, mass extinction events.
My professional interest lies in diatoms, which are single-celled organisms contained within silica cell walls.
Biogeochemistry, hydrology, and geomorphology.
Plant community ecology; restoration, invasion biology, environmental change, and conservation.
Hybridization, speciation, evolutionary ecology, and population genomics; impacts of anthropogenic change on species distributions, interactions, and evolution.
Ecosystem ecology, Wetland ecology, Carbon cycling, Permafrost science, Fire ecology, Biogeochemistry
Isotopic analysis in global change, paleoclimate, glacier hydrology, atmospheric trace gases, and instrument development.
Global change, paleoclimate dynamics, biogeochemistry.
These faculty scientists have appointments at INSTAAR. They lead and participate in research projects and programs, and often mentor students and otherwise contribute to INSTAAR’s education mission.
Space-based monitoring of surface water changes for humanitarian, research, and water management applications; includes changes related to floods, droughts, wetlands, shorelines, lakes, and reservoirs.
The social dimensions of environmental change, resilience, social vulnerability, disasters risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the global south and US marginalized groups
Thermal geophysics, polar sciences, climate change
African drought, the Aral Sea basin, desertification, food production problems and prospects; societal impacts of climate anomalies related to El Niño events and the use of El Niño-related teleconnections to forecast these impacts; developing methods of forecasting possible societal responses to the regional impacts of climate change; and the use of climate-related information for economic development.
Marine Geology, Oceanography, Stratigraphy, Data Integration, Linguistic Data, Carbonate Stratigraphic Modeling, Marine Geoacoustics
Global change biology and climate science.
Environmental archaeology (landscapes, icescapes, seascapes); human responses to climate change; archaeometry (isotopic analyses); historical ecology.
Arctic data science and geospatial analysis of environmental change.
Atlantic Arctic ocean-ice-atmosphere system; Arctic sea ice; late Holocene climate and environmental change; Greenland and the Nordic Seas; contemporary changes and Arctic sustainability.
Model coupling cyberinfrastructure, open source software development and education, turbulence, atmospheric boundary layers.
Animal ecology, pikas
Technology and instrument design & development, Optical engineering and development, Airborne atmospheric research, High-precision trace gas sensing
Snow hydrology, remote sensing of ice and snow, earth surface energy and water balance, and large-scale data modeling.
Coupled human-natural systems; coastal hazards related to global change and anthropogenic processes; environmental governance; fluvial-deltaic sediment dynamics; continental margin evolution
Fire ecology, landscape ecology, geographic information systems (GIS), dendrochronology.
Polar oceanography and climate, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding environmental and ecosystem response to climate variability.
Optical remote sensing and in-situ based laser technologies, including trace gas detection of methane emissions, VOCs, organic aerosols, and more.
Soil biogeochemistry, Earth system modeling, Tropical forest ecology
Climate and its interaction with society, focusing on early warning, food security, innovative rural technology, and capacity building.
Fellows Emeriti are retired faculty but remain professionally active and contribute to the goals and mission of INSTAAR.
The hydrology and climate of polar and alpine regions.
Quaternary and glacial geology of Arctic areas, with a particular interest in the areas around Iceland, Greenland, and NE Canada.
Geophysics (aeromagnetics, gravity, seismology); tectonics, glaciology, polar geophysics, marine geophysics, Antarctic history.
Geomorphology and hydrology.
Archaeology and human paleoecology.
Volcanology and igneous petrology.
South America and Southern Hemisphere paleoclimates; inter-and intra-hemispheric paleoclimate correlations.
Oceanography, geological sciences, hydrology, numerical modeling, geophysics.