Deep Time
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.
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.
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.
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.
