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

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

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

Caj Neubauer
Research Affiliate • • Analysis of stable isotopes • Amino acids • Nitrate

Cynthia Nevison
Research Associate •
• Biochemistry • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
• Biochemistry • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions

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 • Dendrochronolgy
• Fire ecology • Landscape ecology • Dendrochronolgy
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