Global ocean circulation and its role in climate; ocean turbulence and mesoscale eddies; mixing and transport processes.
Modern and Future Climate
All department faculty and affiliated researchers are available as potential graduate advisors.
 Assistant Professor (845) 365-8185 |
 Palisades Geophysical Institute (PGI) Lamont Research Professor Ice sheet dynamics and mass balance; continental dynamics; estuarine processes; linkages between ice sheet processes and subglacial geology. (845) 365-8827 |
 Lamont Assistant Research Professor Tropical climate: dynamics of ITCZs and monsoons. Past and future anthropogenic climate change, especially over Africa. Adaptation to climate change in developing countries. (845) 365-8512 |
 Lamont Associate Research Professor Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology; tropical forest ecosystems; arctic treeline studies. (845) 365-8782 |
 G. Unger Vetlesen Professor Emeritus of Earth & Climate Sciences Tropical oceanography, climate modeling, paleoclimate, impacts of climate on society, El Niño forecasting, data analysis methods. (845) 365-8344 |
 Associate Research Scientist, NASA/GISS Pre-Quaternary paleoclimate modeling; mid-Pliocene global warming; improving accessibility to complex computer climate models. (212) 678-5644 |
 Lamont Assistant Research Professor My research is geared toward understanding global climate change, including current anthropogenic driven changes and past changes to the Earth System. I investigate the natural modes and underlying forcing mechanisms of past climate variability, with the goal... (845) 365-8654 |
 Lamont Research Professor Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology; Arctic treeline studies; tropical dendroclimatology. (845) 365-8617 |
 Lamont Research Professor Tropical cyclones, hurricanes, climate variability and change. (845) 365-8640 |
 Professor Using stable isotopic and trace metal (Mg/Ca) analyses of marine sediment to reconstruct past changes in ocean circulation and terrestrial climate. (845) 365-8483 |
 Lamont Assistant Research Professor Understanding the role of microorganisms as agents of biogeochemical transformations, and the reciprocal role of nutrients availability on the distribution, growth and productivity of microplankton. (845) 365-8774 |
 Professor Microbial oceanography; environmental genomics; microbial biogeochemistry, phytoplankton physiological ecology; phosphorus cycling; ocean acidification; climate; eutrophication; harmful algal blooms. (845) 365-8165 |
 Professor Interactions among regional air pollution, global atmospheric chemistry, climate, and the biosphere; chemistry-climate and tropospheric chemistry-transport modeling. (845) 365-8580 |
 Adjunct Associate Professor Climate change in the semi-arid tropics, climatic and human determinants of environmental change, impacts/vulnerability/adaptation. (845) 680-4473 |
 Adjunct Professor Climate prediction, near term climate change, ENSO. (845) 680-4430 |
 Lamont Research Professor Impact of climate change on phytoplankton productivity and biodiversity and on biogeochemical processes; ocean carbon cycling and air-sea CO2 fluxes. (845) 365-8467 |
 Lamont Research Professor (845) 365-8674 |
 Professor Ocean stratification, circulation and mixing and the ocean's role in Earth's climate system. (845) 365-8325 |
 Professor Plant respiration, global carbon cycle, forest ecology. (845) 365-8371 |
 Associate Professor Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, biology. (845) 365-8828 |
 Lamont Associate Research Professor Analyses of climate fields based on historical, instrumental and paleoclimatic data; El Nino and Southern Oscillation; ocean data assimilation; statistical studies of climate variability from observations and models. (845) 365-8689 |
 Lamont Assistant Research Professor Climate dynamics, climate modeling, cloud physics, cumulus parameterization. (845) 365-8317 |
 Lamont Research Professor Diagnostic analysis of climate variability; climate impacts; climate predictability; ocean-atmosphere interaction. (845) 365-8669 |
 Adjunct Professor Oceans and their role in climate; onset and termination of ice ages. (845) 365-8830 |
 Professor Paleoceanography (845) 365-8722 |
 Adjunct Professor Atmospheric and climate dynamics. (212) 678-5577 |
 Professor Mid-ocean ridge and rift tectonics. (845) 365-8730 |
 Lecturer Climate change and glacier retreat, with an emphasis on water, natural hazards and the loss of iconic landscapes. (212) 854-1543 |
 Lamont Assistant Research Professor Terrestrial ecosystems, dendrochronology, dendroclimatology, forest ecosystems, disturbance ecology. |
 Adjunct Professor Paleoclimate, paleoecology, climate modeling, wetland carbon storage, palynology. (845) 365-8420 |
 Lamont Associate Research Professor Paleoclimatology; paleoaltimetry; organic geochemistry; isotope geochemistry. (845) 365-8400 |
 Professor Atmospheric and climate dynamics; geophysical fluid dynamics; numerical methods for weather and climate modeling; planetary atmospheres. (845) 365-8347 |
 Lamont Assistant Research Professor Climate dynamics; climate change; hydrological cycle. (845) 365-8631 |
 Adjunct Professor Regional climate variability, predictability and change; probabilistic daily rainfall modeling; predictability of weather-within-climate; climate downscaling methodologies; climate risk management. (845) 680-4491 |
 Adjunct Professor Application of isotope physics on environmental processes; Mass spectrometry; Dynamics of earth surface processes and their interaction with climate; Paleoclimate. (845) 365-8703 |
 Professor Emeritus Aqueous geochemistry, physical oceanography, climate, contaminant transport. (845) 365-8707 |
 Physical Scientist, NASA/GISS Climate modeling of past, present and future. (212) 678-5627 |
 Palisades Geophysical Institute (PGI) Lamont Research Professor Hydroclimate variability and change; causes of drought; seasonal to decadal climate variability. (845) 365-8743 |
 Lamont Associate Research Professor Late-Holocene paleoclimatology; land-atmosphere interactions; proxy-process modeling; statistical climatology. (845) 365-8493 |
 Professor Atmospheric and climate dynamics, tropical meteorology. (845) 365-8527 |
 Professor Isotope hydrology, water resources, paleoclimate. (845) 365-8704 |
 Adjunct Professor CO2 cycling through oceans and atmosphere; industrial CO2 accumulation. (845) 365-8537 |
 Adjunct Professor Atmospheric impacts of global climate change at regional scales; dynamics of naturally occuring and anthropogenically-forced climate changes, droughts and floods; regional climate modeling. (845) 365-8374 |
 Adjunct Professor Marine geochemistry, paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, tracer oceanography, dust, paleoclimate. (845) 365-8756 |
 Lamont Research Professor Antarctic atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice/glacial ice fields. (845) 365-8820 |
 Lamont Associate Research Professor Air-sea interaction; wave dynamics & wave breaking; effect of near-surface turbulence on heat, gas, and momentum transport; infrared remote sensing; upper-ocean, coastal and estuarine processes. (845) 365-8547 |