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.

 

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Robert Brakenridge
Senior Research AssociateFounder & Associate Director, DFO Flood Observatory
• Surface water changes
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Fernando Briones
Research Affiliate
• Resilience • Social vulnerability • Disaster risk reduction
Environmental Studies
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Alton C. Byers
Senior Research AssociateCo-Manager, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP)Senior Fellow, The Mountain Institute
• Alpine conservation and restoration
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Gary Clow
Senior Research AssociateResearch Geophysicist
• Thermal geophysics • Polar sciences • Climate change
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Mickey Glantz
Senior Research AssociateDirector, Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB)
• Societal impacts of El Niño events and climate change
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Eric Hutton
Chief Software Engineer, CSDMSResearch Associate
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Chris Jenkins
Research AssociateSenior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
• Marine geology • Stratigraphy • Data integration
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Craig M. Lee
Research Associate
• Environmental archaeology • Human responses to climate change • Archaeometry
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Sebastien Lenard
Research AssociateResearch Software Engineer
• Climate change • Snow • Remote sensing • Software • Computing
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William F. Manley
Research Associate
• Arctic data science • Geospatial analysis of environmental change
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Martin W. Miles
Research AssociateResearch Scientist II, NORCE/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
• Arctic sea ice • Greenland and Nordic seas
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Caj Neubauer
Research Affiliate
• Analysis of stable isotopes • Amino acids • Nitrate
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Cynthia Nevison
Research Associate
• Biochemistry • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
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Cara Nissen
Research Associate
• Ocean biogeochemical cycles • Bio-physical interactions • Ocean modeling
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Mark Piper
Research AssociateResearch Software Engineer, CSDMS
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Chris Ray
Research Associate
• Animal ecology • Pikas
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Dirk Richter
Research Associate
• Airborne atmospheric research
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Karl Rittger
Research Associate
• Remote sensing of ice and snow • Earth energy and water balance • Large-scale data modeling
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Kimberly G. Rogers
Research Associate
• Environmental governance • Continental margin evolution
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Tania Schoennagel
Assistant Professor Adjunct
• Fire ecology • Landscape ecology • Dendrochronolgy
Geography
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Sharon Stammerjohn
Senior Research AssociateAdjunct Assoc Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Polar oceanography and climate
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Petter Weibring
Research Associate
• Optical remote sensing
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Will Wieder
Investigator, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
• Soil biochemistry • Earth system modeling • Tropical forest ecology
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Tsegay Wolde-Georgis
Research Associate
• Climate and society • Capacity building