Our听Faculty Research Scientists have appointments at INSTAAR. They lead and participate in research projects and programs, and often mentor students and otherwise contribute to INSTAAR鈥檚 education mission.
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Robert Brakenridge
Senior Research Associate • Founder & Associate Director, DFO Flood Observatory • • Surface water changes
Fernando Briones
Research Affiliate • • Resilience • Social vulnerability • Disaster risk reduction
Environmental Studies
Alton C. Byers
Senior Research Associate • Co-Manager, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP) • Senior Fellow, The Mountain Institute • • Alpine conservation and restoration
Gary Clow
Senior Research Associate • Research Geophysicist • • Thermal geophysics • Polar sciences • Climate change
Mickey Glantz
Senior Research Associate • Director, Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) • • Societal impacts of El Ni帽o events and climate change
Eric Hutton
Chief Software Engineer, CSDMS • Research Associate
Allison Jacobel
Visiting Scientist • Assistant Professor, Middlebury College • • Paleoceanography • Paleoclimatology • Deep ocean oxygen • Respired carbon storage
Chris Jenkins
Research Associate • Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide • • Marine geology • Stratigraphy • Data integration
Craig M. Lee
Research Associate •
• Environmental archaeology • Human responses to climate change • Archaeometry
• Environmental archaeology • Human responses to climate change • Archaeometry
Sebastien Lenard
Research Associate • Research Software Engineer • • Climate change • Snow • Remote sensing • Software • Computing
William F. Manley
Research Associate •
• Arctic data science • Geospatial analysis of environmental change
• Arctic data science • Geospatial analysis of environmental change
Martin W. Miles
Research Associate • Research Scientist II, NORCE/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research • • Arctic sea ice • Greenland and Nordic seas
Cajetan (Caj) Neubauer
Research Associate • • Biochemistry • Mass spectrometry • Stable isotope signatures
Geological Sciences
Cynthia Nevison
Research Associate •
• Biochemistry • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
• Biochemistry • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
Cara Nissen
Research Associate • • Ocean biogeochemical cycles • Biophysical interactions • Ocean modeling
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Mark Piper
Research Associate • Research Software Engineer, CSDMS •
Chris Ray
Research Associate • • Animal ecology • Pikas
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Dirk Richter
Research Associate • • Airborne atmospheric research
Karl Rittger
Research Associate • • Remote sensing of ice and snow • Earth energy and water balance • Large-scale data modeling
Kimberly G. Rogers
Research Associate •
• Environmental governance • Continental margin evolution
• Environmental governance • Continental margin evolution
Tania Schoennagel
Assistant Professor Adjunct •
• Fire ecology • Landscape ecology • Dendrochronology
• Fire ecology • Landscape ecology • Dendrochronology
Geography
Sharon Stammerjohn
Senior Research Associate • Adjunct Assoc Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory • • Polar oceanography and climate
Petter Weibring
Research Associate • • Optical remote sensing
Will Wieder
Investigator, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) •
• Soil biochemistry • Earth system modeling • Tropical forest ecology
• Soil biochemistry • Earth system modeling • Tropical forest ecology
Tsegay Wolde-Georgis
Research Associate • • Climate and society • Capacity building