Our 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’s education mission.
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 Niño 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
