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Tanja Bosak
Assistant Professor of Geobiology Home Phone: (617) 324-3959 Personal Email: tbosak@mit.edu Interest Areas: microbiology, geology Website WebsiteCo-evolution of life and the environment on early Earth; study of the microfossil record associated with major climatic and geochemical oscillations in the Neoproterozoic.
Ed Boyle
Professor of Ocean Geochemistry; Director of WHOI-MIT Joint Program Home Phone: 617-253-2288 Personal Email: eaboyle@mit.edu Interest Areas: chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry Website WebsiteMarine chemistry: distribution of trace elements in the ocean and their use as paleochemical tracers; response of the ocean to anthropogenic lead emissions; relation between dust, iron in the ocean, and marine biological activity.
Stephanie Dutkiewicz
Principal Research Scientist Home Phone: (617) 253-2454 Personal Email: stephd@ocean.mit.edu Interest Areas: Biogeochemistry Website WebsiteBiogeochemical cycles
Kerry Emanuel
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science Home Phone: (617) 253-2462 Personal Email: emanuel@mit.edu Interest Areas: atmospheric convection, hurricanes Website WebsiteAtmospheric convection; interaction of hurricanes with the ocean.
Raffaele Ferrari
Breene M. Kerr Professor of Oceanography Home Phone: (617) 253-1291 Personal Email: raffaele@MIT.EDU Interest Areas: physical oceanography, paleoclimate, biological oceanography Website WebsiteOcean circulation: dynamics of the ocean and climate, atmospheric and oceanic turbulence, air-sea interactions, the energetics of the ocean circulation, the impact of ocean physics on biology, and paleoclimate.
Glenn Flierl
Professor of Oceanography Home Phone: (617) 253-4692 Personal Email: glenn@lake.mit.edu Interest Areas: physical oceanography, eddies Website WebsiteOceanic eddies and their impacts upon the distribution of tracers and on the biology of the sea.
Mick Follows
Associate Professor Home Phone: (617) 253-5939 Personal Email: mick@mit.edu Interest Areas: biogeochemistry, ocean circulation Website WebsiteModels of interactions of ocean circulation, biogeochemical cycles and marine ecosystems.
Patrick Heimbach
Principal Research Scientist Home Phone: (617) 253-5259 Personal Email: heimbach@mit.edu Interest Areas: ocean and ice, inverse methods Website WebsiteOcean circulation and its role in the global climate system; the dynamics of sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers.
Christopher N. Hill
Principal Research Engineer Home Phone: (617) 253-6430 Personal Email: cnh@mit.edu Interest Areas: ocean modeling, computation Website WebsiteOcean modeling: development of software, computing infrastructure and numerical algorithms for simulation of atmospheric, oceanic and geophysical flows.
John Marshall
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography Home Phone: (617) 253-9615 Personal Email: jmarsh@mit.edu Interest Areas: oceanography, climate dynamics Website WebsiteClimate and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans; development of mathematical and numerical models of key physical and biogeochemical processes, oceans and climate, and paleoclimate.
Shuhei Ono
Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences Home Phone: (617) 253-0474 Personal Email: sono@mit.edu Interest Areas: microbial oceanography, ecology Website WebsiteInterplay among atmosphere, rock, water and microbes; the photochemical sulfur isotope effect, early microbial evolution, deep biosphere, and seafloor hydrothermal deposits.
Paola Rizzoli
Professor of Physical Oceanography Home Phone: (617) 253-2451 Personal Email: rizzoli@mit.edu Interest Areas: general circulation, climate modeling Website WebsiteClimate; general ocean circulation and ecosystem models developed through mathematical numerical models.
Daniel Rothman
Professor of Geophysics Home Phone: (617) 253-7861 Personal Email: dhr@mit.edu Interest Areas: theoretical geophysics, biogeochemistry and paleobiology Website WebsiteDynamical organization of the natural environment through investigation of the cooperative phenomena underlying common yet poorly understood observations. Work combines theory, field observations, and experiments to study problems including the carbon cycle and climate, the co-evolution of life and the environment, and the dynamics of fluids, rocks, and sand.
Noelle Eckley Selin
Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems and Atmospheric Chemistry Home Phone: (617) 324-2592 Personal Email: selin@mit.edu Interest Areas: Engineering Systems Division and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Website WebsiteMy research focuses on using atmospheric chemistry modeling to inform decision-making strategies on air pollution, climate change and hazardous substances such as mercury and persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Roger Summons
Professor of Geobiology Home Phone: (617) 452-2791 Personal Email: rsummons@mit.edu Interest Areas: geobiology, biogeochemistry Website WebsiteBiogeochemistry and geobiology: lipid chemistry of geologically significant microbes and microbial ecosystems; organic and isotopic indicators of climate change; evolution and mass extinction; biomarkers in sediments and petroleum; and biogeochemical fossils.
Carl Wunsch
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography Home Phone: (617) 253-5937 Personal Email: cwunsch@mit.edu Interest Areas: ocean circulation, climate Website WebsiteUnderstanding ocean circulation and its implications for climate and paleoclimate by combining global general circulation models and the recently available global data sets.
