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Research
Research in the School of Earth and Environment addresses some of the most dramatic global challenges to cultivating a high quality of life and sustaining human societies. Faculty research can generally be categorized within the following themes:
- Climate change
- Including studies of past, present, and future climate
- Sea level rise
- Including local and regional-scale work
- Ocean destabilization
- Including abiotic and biotic systems
- Environment and biodiversity
- Including degradation, resilience, and recovery
- Urbanization
- Including challenges and opportunities
- Earth through space and time
- Including geology and paleontology
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You can also find specific faculty research specializations from the listing below, through our directory, or via department pages:
To get involved in School research as a student worker, an intern, an employee, or a graduate student, fill out this student research interest form. Don't see a researcher listed? Email or talk to them directly about current opportunities!
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Any students interested in cross-disciplinary research through the College of Science & Mathematics departments of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy, or Psychology can explore opportunities at CSM here.
Environmental Science Researchers
Beth Christensen, Ph.D. | Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblage (isolate and identify fossil marine organisms) | Create Virtual Representations of Marine Sediment Cores Using Proprietary Software
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Patrick Crumrine, Ph.D. | Aquatic Community Ecology | Aquatic Turtle Ecology
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Andra Garner, Ph.D. | Sea-level Rise | Tropical Cyclones | Coastal Hazards
- Website
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Dan Duran, Ph.D. | Systematics | Taxonomy | Conservation | Biodiversity | Ecosystem Functioning
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Charles Schutte, Ph.D. | Biogeochemistry | Global Change | Wetlands | Greenhouse Gases | Nitrogen Cycle
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Lauren Kipp, Ph.D. | Oceanography | Geochemistry | Radioisotopes
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Thivanka Ariyarathna, Ph.D. | Environmental Geochemistry | Contaminants
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Corianne Tatariw, Ph.D. | Biogeochemistry | Wetlands | Nitrogen
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Jennifer Walker, Ph.D. | Sea-Level Rise | Climate Change | Paleoclimate | Micropaleontology | Coastal Environment
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Geology Researchers
Harold C. Connolly Jr., Ph.D. | Meteorites | Asteroid | Cosmochemistry | Petrology | Chondrules
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Gerald Rustic, Ph.D. | ENSO | Paleoceanography | Paleoclimatology | Climate Change | Oceanography | Foraminifera | Laboratory Methods
- Website
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Aaron Barth, Ph.D. | Geology | Glaciers | Paleoclimatology | Geochemistry
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Lily Pfeifer, Ph.D. | Sedimentology | Deep Time Paleoclimatology | Basin Analysis
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Zachary Boles, Ph.D. | Taphonomy | Vertebrate Paleontology | Histology | Marine Reptiles
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Geography, Planning, & Sustainability Researchers
Zachary Christman, Ph.D. | GIS | Land Systems Science | Health Geography | Spatial Uncertainty
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
John Hasse, Ph.D., AICP | GeoLab
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Kevin Keenan, Ph.D. | Terrorism & Cyber Vulnerability | Public Policy | Risk-Hazards | Policy Analysis | Qualitative Methods | Environmental Risks & Hazards
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Mahbubur Meenar, Ph.D. | Community Food [systems + environment + security] | [Green + blue + grey] Infrastructure | Sustainable [development + design + policy] | Digital [tools + technologies + societies]
- Website
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Qian He, Ph.D. | Community Resilience | Climate Adaptation | Transportation Planning | Public Health | Urban Informatics
- Website
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes
Charles McGlynn, Ph.D. | Rowan Water Resources Lab | Water Quality Issues | Safe Drinking Water Access | Philippines | Natural Disasters
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Jennifer Kitson, Ph.D. | Urban, Environmental, & Social Issues through Lived Experience of Place | Urban History, Memory, & Nostalgia | Place & Smell | Public Art | Sustainable Urbanism | Placemaking
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- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
John Mullen, Ph.D. | Sustainability Science | Educational Theory | Environmental Humanities | Ecological Philosophy of Education
- Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
- Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No