Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty

Faculty in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences either teaching or doing sustainability-related research.

Karen Berger

Berger, Karen

Associate Professor of Instruction, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Co-Chair, University Council on Sustainability

Coordinator, College Sustainability Studies

Curriculum Coordinator, Environmental Programs

Office Location
227B Hutchison Hall

Interests: Teaching Interests: Human use of and impacts on energy and water resources; community-engaged learning; metrics of sustainability

Chiara Borrelli

Borrelli, Chiara

Assistant Professor

Office Location
209B Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7884
Web Address

Interests: paleoceanography; paleoclimatology; foraminifera; stable isotopes; trace elements; biomineralization

Udo Fehn

Fehn, Udo

Professor Emeritus

Interests: Primary research focus is the movement of fluids in the earth's crust, with an emphasis on dating and tracing studies.

John Kessler

Kessler, John

Professor

Department Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Office Location
210 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-4572

Interests: Chemical Oceanography; Isotope geochemistry; Analytical chemistry

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Murray, Lee

Associate Professor

Office Location
479 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2077
Web Address

Interests: Application and development of 3-D global models of atmospheric chemistry and climate to examine various couplings between atmospheric chemistry and the climate system in the past, present and future.

Vasilii Petrenko

Petrenko, Vasilii

Associate Professor

Graduate Studies Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Office Location
228 Hutchinson Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-6094
Web Address

Interests: Understanding natural and anthropogenic climate and environmental change, particularly from the perspective of atmospheric composition and chemistry.

John A. Tarduno

Tarduno, John A.

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Dean of Research, Arts, Sciences & Engineering

Office Location
227 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5713
Web Address

Interests: Paleomagnetism, Geomagnetism and Geodynamics, including rates of plate tectonic, hotspot and polar motion, mantle plume volcanism, long-term history of Earth's magnetic field (paleointensity, paleosecular variation and reversal frequency), origin of the geodynamo, magnetic shielding and planetary habitability, decay of the modern dipole magnetic field and archeomagnetism; Cretaceous climate; environmental magnetism.

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Weber, Thomas

Associate Professor

Office Location
126 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2103
Web Address

Interests: Ocean biogeochemical cycles, trace element oceanography, marine ecosystems and their response to climate change