Faculty
James G. Anderson
Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry. Gas-phase kinetics of free radicals; catalytic processes in the atmosphere controlling global change of ozone; high-altitude experiments from balloons and aircraft; development of laser systems for stratospheric and tropospheric studies; development of high-altitude, long-duration unmanned aircraft for studies of global change. (617) 495-5922[Contact]
Jeremy Bloxham
Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics and Professor of Computational Science; Dean of Science. Planetary magnetic fields, dynamo theory, structure and dynamics of the earth's core and lower mantle, inverse theory, mathematical geophysics (617) 495-9517.[Contact]
Brian F. Farrell
Robert P. Burden Professor of Meteorology. Explosive development of tropical and mid-latitude cyclones, predictability of weather regimes, dynamics of glacial and equable paleoclimates. (617) 495-2998[Contact]
Colleen Hansel
Microbial geochemistry; metal biogeochemistry; microbe-mineral interactions; environmental mineralogy; bioremediation of metal contaminated ecosystems.[Contact]
John P. Holdren
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, at Harvard University. Causes and consequences of global environmental change, sustainable development, energy technology and policy, nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, and science and technology policy. (617) 495-1464 (617) 496-7203 [Contact]
Peter Huybers
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Paleoclimate --- to include glacial cycles, ocean circulation, and Earth's surface temperature --- explored through observational analysis and mathematical models. (617) 495-8391[Contact]
Miaki Ishii
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Internal structure of the earth, seismic source imaging, signal processing, theoretical seismology, and geodynamics. (617) 384-8066[Contact]
Daniel J. Jacob
Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering. Air pollution, atmospheric transport, regional and global atmospheric chemistry, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, climate change. (617) 495-1794[Contact]
Stein B. Jacobsen
Professor of Geochemistry. Isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry; the formation and early differentiation of the terrestrial planets; the chemical evolution of Earth's crust-mantle system; Earth systems evolution and environmental geochemistry. (617) 495-5233[Contact]
David Johnston
Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Isotope geochemistry and historical geobiology. Re-animating ancient ecosystems and ocean chemistry using stable isotope systems, chemical speciation techniques, modern microbial experiments ( for calibration) and theoretical considerations.[Contact]
Andrew H. Knoll
Fisher Professor of Natural History and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Paleontology and sedimentary geology of Precambrian terrains; evolution of vascular plants in geologic time. (617) 495-9306[Contact]
Zhiming Kuang
Assistant Professor of Climate Science. Tropical convection and large scale atmosphere-ocean dynamics. (617) 495-2354[Contact]
Charles H. Langmuir
Higgins Professor of Geochemistry. The solid earth geochemical cycle, petrology, volcanology, ocean ridges, convergent margins, ocean islands, composition and evolution of the earth's mantle. (617) 384-9948 [Contact]
Francis Macdonald
Assistant Professor Of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Earth history; field geology; tectonics; co-evolution of the crust, the ocean, climate, and life as revealed through field and geochemical studies of the stratigraphic record.[Contact]
Charles R. Marshall
Professor of Biology and Geology. Nature and causes of evolutionary innovation and extinction over geological time scales, using techniques in paleontology, developmental biology, statistics, molecular and morphological phylogenetics. (617) 495-2572, [Contact]
Scot T. Martin
Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Chemistry. Atmospheric particles, cloud formation, and climate change; energy, pollution, and climate; mineral origins of life; energy technology; biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks.[Contact]
James J. McCarthy
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography. Biological oceanography, phytoplankton ecology, nitrogen nutrition of phytoplankton. (617) 495-2330[Contact]
Michael B. McElroy
Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies. Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere, evolution of planetary atmospheres. (617) 495-4359[Contact]
Brendan Meade
Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Active tectonics; dynamics of fault systems and plate boundary zones; theoretical geomorphology. (617)495-8921.[Contact]
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Professor of Geophysics. Ice age geodynamics, plate tectonics, mantle dynamics and structure, paleo- and modern climate, sea level change, planetary rotation, space geodesy.[Contact]
Sujoy Mukhopadhyay
Associate Professor of Geochemistry co-Director of Graduate Studies. Noble gas geochemistry; record of cosmic dust flux from sediments, production rates of cosmogenic nuclides and application to surface exposure dating, low temperature thermochronology, chemical evolution of the mantle-crust-atmosphere system. (617) 496-6441[Contact]
Richard J. O'Connell
Professor of Geophysics. Geodynamics: mantle flow, convection and plate tectonics; models of tectonic processes; elasticity and rheology of rocks and minerals. (617) 495-2532[Contact]
Ann Pearson
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and co-Head Tutor. Carbon isotope biogeochemistry; compound-specific d13C and D14C analysis of lipids and RNA; global organic carbon cycle; microbial metabolism in anoxic marine systems; sources of carbon to marine sediments. (617) 384-8392, [Contact]
James R. Rice
Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics. Theoretical mechanics in seismology, tectonophysics and surficial processes; physics of earthquakes, environmental geomechanics. (617) 495-3445 [Contact]
Daniel Schrag
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Director of Harvard University Center for the Environment Geochemical oceanography, paleoclimatology, stable isotope geochemistry. (617) 495-7676, [Contact]
John H. Shaw
Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology and Department Chair. Structure of the earth's crust, active faulting and folding, earthquake hazards assessment, petroleum exploration methods, and remote sensing. (617) 495-8008[Contact]
Sa rah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences. Experimental and computational study of impact processes; collisional processing and evolution of comets, asteroids and planetary surfaces; physical properties of planetary materials. (617) 496-6462[Contact]
Eli Tziperman
Pamela and Vasco McCoy, Jr. Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics and Co-Director of Graduate Studies. Large scale climate and ocean dynamics, including El Nino, thermohaline circulation, abrupt climate change, glacial cycles and equable climates (617) 384-8381[Contact]
Steven C. Wofsy
Abbot Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science and co-Head Tutor. Chemistry of the atmosphere on global and regional scales, including stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry. (617) 495-4566 [Contact]
Professors Emeriti:
Charles Burnham
Adam Dziewonski
Paul Hoffman
Heinrich D. Holland
Ulrich Petersen
James B. Thompson, Jr.
Other instructors:
| Kelly Chance |
Lecturer on Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5-7389 | kchance@cfa |
| James L.Davis | Lecturer on Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6-7640 | jdavis@cfa |
| Renata Dmowska | Lecturer on Geology in EPS | 5-3452 | dmowska@esag.deas |
| Ralph Mitchell | Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Biology | 5-2846 | mitchell@deas |
| Mark Van Baalen | Lecturer on Earth and Planetary Sciences | 5-3237 | mvb@harvard |
Visiting Scholars and Associates:
| Jason Morgan | Visiting Scholar | 6-8283 | wjmorgan@fas | |
| John Remo |
Associate | 505-771-2505 | jremo@cfa.harvard.edu | |
| Joseph Steim |
Associate | 978-772-4774 | steim@quanterra.com | |
| Carl Wunsch |
Visiting Scholar | 6-2732 | cwunsch@mit.edu |
