Prospective Mentors for LDEO Postdoctoral Fellows

Name: Aarons, Sarah
Title: Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: understanding and tracking Earth surface processes in a variety of environments on both geologic timescales and throughout the modern

Name: Anderson, Robert
Title: Ewing Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: chemical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, paleoclimatology, trace elements and isotopes, marine radiochemistry

Name: Austermann, Jacqueline
Title: Associate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: geophysics, tectonics, sea level rise

Name: Balwada, Dhruv
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: understanding ocean turbulence and its role in climate, using an integrated approach combining high-resolution simulations, observations, and machine learning

Name: Becel, Anne
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: marine geophysics, active-source seismology, subduction zones, transform fault systems, continental rifted margins

Name: Biasutti, Michela
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: paleoclimate, future climate, climate adaptation, tropical climate

Name: Boelman, Natalie
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: arctic ecology, climate change, wildlife, vegetation, remote sensing, bioacoustics

Name: Bostick, Benjamin
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: soils, biogeochemistry, mineralogy

Name: Buck, W. Roger
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: marine geology, geophysics

Name: Buckley, Brendan
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: dendrochronology

Name: Camargo, Suzana
Title: Professor of Climate
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: hurricanes, extreme weather events, climate variability, climate change, atmospheric sciences

Name: Carbotte, Suzanne
Title: Bruce Heezen Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: marine seismology, marine geophysic,s ocean floor mapping, geoinformatics

Name: Chillrud, Steven
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: air pollution, contaminants, water pollution, contaminated sediments, radionuclide dating, exposure assessment, remediation, monitor development / validation, research translation

Name: Commane, Róisín
Title: Associate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: atmospheric composition, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric science, urban ecology, ecophysiology, arctic permafrost, urban combustion, fossil fuel combustion, remote atmosphere

Name: Cook, Edward
Title: Ewing Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: dendrochronology

Name: Cox, Stephen
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: geochemistry, noble gas, enogeology, climate change, geochronology

Name: Crone, Timothy
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: marine geophysics

Name: D'Andrea, William
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: paleoclimate, organic geochemistry, sedimentology

Name: Davis, James
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: geodesy, space geodesy, sea-level change

Name: Douglass, Kristina
Title: Professor of Climate
Email: [email protected]
Division: Columbia Climate School
Areas of Expertise: archaeology, anthropology, human-environment interactions

Name: Dyhrman, Sonya
Title: Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: oceanography, geochemistry, marine microbiology, biogeochemistry, genomics, climate, science communication

Name: Ekström, Göran
Title: Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: seismology

Name: Ferrini, Vicki
Title: Senior Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine/Large Programs
Areas of Expertise: bathymetry, seafloor mapping, global bathymetry, geoinformatics, data science, ocean floor mapping, mapping, gis, scientific data management, marine geology, deep submergence science, science communication

Name: Goes, Joaquim
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: climate science, marine ecosystems, marine sustainability, fisheries, ocean carbon cycling, remote sensing

Name: Goldberg, David
Title: Deputy Director; Paros Lamont Research Professor in Climate Science Research and Carbon Management; Associate Director
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine/Large Programs
Areas of Expertise: boreholes, geophysics, carbon sequestration

Name: Goldstein, Steve
Title: Interim Director; Higgins Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: geochemistry, isotope geology, earth systems

Name: Gomes, Helga
Title: Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: biological oceanography, biogeochemistry, climate science, marine sustainability, fisheries, ocean carbon cycling, remote sensing

Name: Griffin, Kevin
Title: Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: plant respiration, global carbon cycle, forest ecology

Name: Guérin, Gilles
Title: Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine/Large Programs
Areas of Expertise: borehole geophysics, downhole logging, marine geophysics, scientific drilling, acoustic logs, geophysical data processing, data management, gas hydrate

Name: Hemming, Sidney
Title: Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: geochronology, paleoclimate, geochemistry

Name: Holtzman, Ben
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: mechanical behavior of rocks applied to problems such as how magma migrates through the planet’s interior, how seismic waves propagate, and how earthquakes occur

Name: Hurley, Sarah
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: organic geochemistry, microbial physiology, geobiology

Name: Hönisch, Bärbel
Title: Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: paleoclimate, paleoceanography, biological oceanography

Name: Horton, Radley
Title: Professor of Climate
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate, climate vulnerability, extreme weather, climate adaptation

Name: Jensen, Laramie
Title: Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: trace metal chemistry, polar oceanography, arctic science, chemical oceanography

Name: Juhl, Andrew
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: aquatic ecology, oceanography, marine biology, water quality

Name: Kaplan, Alexey
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: modern and future climate, oceanography, paleoclimate, geophysical fluid dynamics, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, ocean system modeling

Name: Kaplan, Michael
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: paleoglaciology, paleoclimate, geochronology, geomorphology, geochemistry, antarctica, south america, undergraduate research

Name: Kelemen, Peter
Title: Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: geochemistry, carbon capture and storage, geodynamics

Name: Kenna, Timothy
Title: Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: Earth surface processes, geochemical tracers, anthropogenic radionuclides

Name: Kim, Won-Young
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: earthquake seismology, nuclear test ban verification

Name: Kingslake, Jonathan
Title: Associate Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: glaciology, ice sheets, supraglacial hydrology, subglacial hydrology, ice-penetrating radar, ice flow, antarctica, mathematical modelling, satellite remote sensing

Name: Kolawole, Folarin
Title: Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: structural geology, geophysics, geomechanics

Name: Lee, Chia-Ying
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: weather, climate, tropical cyclones

Name: Lehnert, Kerstin
Title: Doherty Senior Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: information technology, scientific data management, petrology, geochemistry, astromaterials

Name: Lev, Einat
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: volcanology, fluid mechanics, numerical modeling, geologic natural hazards

Name: Linsley, Braddock
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: coral-based paleoclimatology, geochemistry, geology, climate, paleoclimate, oceanography, environmental chemistry, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology

Name: Lloyd, Andrew
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: geodynamic processes, geology and tectonic histories of continents, interactions of the solid Earth and the cryosphere and hydrosphere

Name: Malinverno, Alberto
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: marine geology and geophysics, borehole geophysics, scientific ocean drilling, quantitative data analysis, geophysical inversion, bayesian statistics, monte carlo methods

Name: Mark, Hannah
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: marine seismology, seismology, marine geophysics, geophysics, subduction zones, plate tectonics, anisotropy

Name: McCarthy, Christine
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: material response of Earth and panetary materials via laboratory experiment

Name: McKinley, Galen
Title: Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: oceanography, carbon cycle, climate science, numerical modeling

Name: McManus, Jerry
Title: Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: paleoclimate, geochemistry, oceanography

Name: Menke, William
Title: Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: seismology, earth structure, inverse theory, environmental data analysis

Name: Middleton, Jennifer
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: isotope geochemistry, paleoclimate, paleoceanography, marine biogeochemistry, mid-ocean ridges

Name: Moussallam, Yves
Title: Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: geochemistry, igneous/metamorphic petrology, volcanology

Name: Mutter, John
Title: Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: natural disasters, climate science, sustainable development, equity, marine geophysics

Name: Nakamura, Jennifer
Title: Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: atmospheric science, hydroclimatology, droughts and floods, climate variability, tropical cyclones

Name: Nettles, Meredith
Title: Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: seismology, glaciology, geophysics, global seismic monitoring, ice-sheet dynamics

Name: Nitsche, Frank
Title: Senior Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: seafloor mapping, seafloor morphology, applied geophysics, reflection seismic, marine glacial sediments, seafloor morphology, estuarine sediments, coastal sediments, gis, data management, marine glacial sediments, marine geophysics, antarctica, bathymetry, data management

Name: Olsen, Paul
Title: Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: paleontology, stratigraphy, continental ecosystems, climate change, mass extinctions

Name: Pincus, Robert
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate, climate change, weather forecasting, clouds, radiation, remote sensing

Name: Plank, Terry
Title: Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: geochemistry, tectonics, volcanology

Name: Polvani, Lorenzo
Title: Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: atmospheric and climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical methods for weather and climate modeling, planetary atmospheres

Name: Previdi, Michael
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate dynamics

Name: Rao, Mukund
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: carbon cycle, ecoclimatology, dendrochronology, plant ecophysiology, climate science

Name: Reilly, Brendan
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: geological oceanography, marine sediments, past changes in ice sheets, paleomagnetism

Name: Schaefer, Joerg
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: geochemistry, sea level rise

Name: Schaff, David
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: earthquakes

Name: Seager, Richard
Title: Ewing Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate variability, drought, hydroclimate

Name: Shaw, Bruce
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: physics of earthquakes

Name: Slagle, Angela
Title: Senior Research Scientist
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine/Large Programs
Areas of Expertise: marine geology, marine geophysics, carbon sequestration, downhole logging, borehole geophysics, scientific ocean drilling, seafloor mapping

Name: Small, Christopher
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: geophysics, land surface processes, spectroscopy, remote sensing, image analysis, spatiotemporal analysis

Name: Smerdon, Jason
Title: Professor of Climate
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate variability, climate change, paleoclimate, statistical climatology, climate modeling, hydroclimate

Name: Sobel, Adam
Title: Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: atmospheric dynamics, climate, meteorology, extreme weather

Name: Spiegelman, Marc
Title: Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: computational geophysics, magma dynamics

Name: Straub, Susanne
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: andesite petrogenesis, subduction fluxes, arc volcanism and ice cycles, subduction erosion, olivine as tracer of mantle processes

Name: Subramaniam, Ajit
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: oceanography, remote sensing, phytoplankton physiology, biogeochemical cycles, bio-optics

Name: Tedesco, Marco
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: cryosphere, polar regions, snow, climate change, economic impacts of sea level rise, high latitudes fieldwork, remote sensing, microplastics, climate science, science communication, science journalism, climate justice, economics, climate impacts

Name: Thurnherr, Andreas
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: observational physical oceanography

Name: Ting, Mingfang
Title: Professor of Climate
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate change impact, climate dynamics, precipitation

Name: Tinto, Kirsty
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: behavior and subglacial geology of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

Name: Tolstoy, Maya
Title: Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Email: [email protected]
Division: Marine and Polar Geophysics
Areas of Expertise: marine geophysics, geophysics, seismology

Name: Van Geen, Alexander
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: environment and human health, groundwater contamination, soil contamination

Name: Waldhauser, Felix
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: nature of seismogenic processes along major plate boundary systems

Name: Webb, Spahr
Title: Jerome M. Paros/Lamont Senior Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: instrumentation to better observe geophysical and oceanographic processes, subduction zones, megathrust earthquakes

Name: Wentzcovitch, Renata
Title: Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Email: [email protected]
Division: Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics
Areas of Expertise: computational mineral physics, high-pressure mineralogy, earth’s deep interior, planetary interiors, quantum mechanical simulations of materials, mineral thermodynamics and elasticity, mantle and core physics

Name: Westervelt, Daniel
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate change, air pollution, atmospheric aerosol chemistry, climate change

Name: Winckler, Gisela
Title: Professor of Climate
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: marine geochemistry, paleoclimate, paleoceanography, climate, southern ocean, carbon cycle

Name: Wu, Yutian
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: climate dynamics, atmospheric transport, Arctic-midlatitude linkage

Name: Xia, Yushu
Title: Lamont Assistant Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Biology and Paleo Environment
Areas of Expertise: soil science, agriculture, carbon sequestration, nitrogen cycling, nitrous oxide, soil health, soil fertility, agricultural productivity, process-based modeling, remote sensing, agroecology, machine learning, spectroscopy, nature-based solutions

Name: Yan, Beizhan
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: biogeochemistry, environmental bioremediation

Name: Young, Nicolás
Title: Lamont Associate Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Geochemistry
Areas of Expertise: paleoclimate, glaciers, geochronology, quaternary science

Name: Zappa, Christopher
Title: Lamont Research Professor
Email: [email protected]
Division: Ocean and Climate Physics
Areas of Expertise: observational physical oceanography, air-sea interaction, air-sea gas exchange, ocean surface waves, knowledge co-production

Postdoctoral Fellowships Overview