Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty
Faculty in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences either teaching or doing sustainability-related research.
Berger, Karen
- Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Co-Chair, University Council on Sustainability
Coordinator, College Sustainability Studies
Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Programs
- karen.berger@rochester.edu
- 227B Hutchison Hall
Interests: Teaching Interests: Human use of and impacts on energy and water resources; community-engaged learning; metrics of sustainability
Borrelli, Chiara
- Assistant Professor
- cborrelli@ur.rochester.edu | (585) 275-7884
- 209B Hutchison Hall
Interests: paleoceanography; paleoclimatology; foraminifera; stable isotopes; trace elements; biomineralization
Cottrell, Rory D.
- Scientist
- rory.cottrell@rochester.edu | (585) 275-6025
- 209C Hutchison Hall
Interests: Paleomagnetism and paleointensity
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.
Kessler, John
- Professor
- Department Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- john.kessler@rochester.edu | (585) 273-4572
- 210 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Chemical Oceanography; Isotope geochemistry; Analytical chemistry
Murray, Lee
- Associate Professor
- lee.murray@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2077
- 479 Hutchison Hall
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.
Petrenko, Vasilii
- Associate Professor
- Graduate Studies Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- vasilii.petrenko@rochester.edu | (585) 276-6094
- 228 Hutchinson Hall
Interests: Understanding natural and anthropogenic climate and environmental change, particularly from the perspective of atmospheric composition and chemistry.
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
- john.tarduno@rochester.edu | (585) 275-5713
- 227 Hutchison Hall
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.
Weber, Thomas
- Associate Professor
- t.weber@rochester.edu | (585) 275-2103
- 126 Hutchison Hall
Interests: Ocean biogeochemical cycles, trace element oceanography, marine ecosystems and their response to climate change