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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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Johnson, Laura

Academic Operations Manager

Office Location
227 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4682

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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: 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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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

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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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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