Directory

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Andrea Allan

Senior Instructor I and Program Director of the Climate Science Program

andrea.allan@oregonstate.edu

Large-scale atmospheric circulation and dynamics, present and future climatology, and global and regional climate modeling and statistical analysis

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Andrea Balbas

Assistant Professor

andrea.balbas@oregonstate.edu

Geochronology, paleomagnetism, stratigraphy

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Andrew Barnard

Associate Professor (Senior Research)

barnaran@oregonstate.edu

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Jack Barth

Professor

jack.barth@oregonstate.edu

Coastal ocean dynamics, coastal marine ecosystems, hypoxia, inner continental shelf dynamics

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Tamara Baumberger

Assistant Professor (Senior Research)

baumbert@oregonstate.edu

The gas chemistry of hydrothermal vents and methane seeps with a special interest into the carbon cycle and noble gas chemistry

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Lorene Yokoyama (Laurie) Becker

Senior Instructor II

lorene.yokoyama-becker@oregonstate.edu

Sustainability and Resilience in Land Use Planning, Conservation GIS, Public Participation GIS, and Biomimicry

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Kim Bernard

Professor

kim.bernard@oregonstate.edu

Polar zooplankton ecology

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Sherman Bloomer

Chancellor and Dean, OSU-Cascades

sherman.bloomer@osucascades.edu

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Ed Brook

Distinguished Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

edward.brook@oregonstate.edu

Paleoclimatology, geochemistry, ice core trace gas records, cosmogenic isotopes, extraterrestrial dust

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Kristen Buck

Professor

kristen.buck@oregonstate.edu

Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine ecosystems, with particular emphasis on the role of metal-binding ligands in the cycling of bioactive trace elements like iron and copper.

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Christo Buizert

Associate Professor

christo.buizert@oregonstate.edu

Paleoclimate, ice cores, abrupt climate change, firn processes

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Lorenzo Ciannelli

Professor, Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Programs

lorenzo.ciannelli@oregonstate.edu

Fisheries oceanography, spatial ecology, fish early life stages, statistical analysis of catch and survey data

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Peter Clark

University Distinguished Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

peter.clark@oregonstate.edu

Dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets, sea level change, paleoclimatology, abrupt climate change

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Robert (Bob) Cowen

Director, Hatfield Marine Science Center

robert.cowen@oregonstate.edu

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Jessica (JC) Creveling

Associate Professor

jessica.creveling@oregonstate.edu

Geology, Earth history, sedimentology, stratigraphy, sea-level change

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Byron Crump

Professor and Program Head for Oceanography

byron.crump@oregonstate.edu

Aquatic microbial ecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems

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Jesse Cusack

Assistant Professor

jesse.cusack@oregonstate.edu

Small to mesoscale ocean processes such as turbulence, flows over topography, internal waves and eddies

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Jason Davis

Environmental Justice and Sustainability Instructor

jason.davis@oregonstate.edu

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Lynette de Silva

Water Conflict Mgt. Director; Senior Instructor II

lynette.desilva@oregonstate.edu

Water conflict management, integrated watershed management

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Shanaka de Silva

Professor

shanaka.desilva@oregonstate.edu

Volcanology, Igneous Petrology, Aeolian geomorphology

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Simon de Szoeke

Professor

simon.deszoeke@oregonstate.edu

Atmosphere-ocean interaction, stratiform clouds, tropical meteorology

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Edward Dever

Professor

edward.dever@oregonstate.edu

Cross-shelf exchange processes, analysis and prediction of Lagrangian transport, air-sea interaction

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Emily Eidam

Associate Professor

emily.eidam@oregonstate.edu

Sediment transport processes and rates in fluvial, coastal, and continental shelf systems, as well as event-scale to centennial-scale sediment deposition

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Kelsey Emard

Assistant Professor

kelsey.emard@oregonstate.edu

Political ecology; environmental justice; drivers and impacts of environmental change; changing land-based livelihoods; sustainable and just food systems; feminist methodologies

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Jennifer Fehrenbacher

Associate Professor

jennifer.fehrenbacher@oregonstate.edu

Trace element and stable isotope geochemistry, biomineralization, and marine biology

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Melanie Fewings

Professor

melanie.fewings@oregonstate.edu

Observational coastal physical oceanography and meteorology

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Erica Fleishman

Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and Professor

erica.fleishman@oregonstate.edu

Biogeography, conservation, ecological responses to climate and land-use change

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Jonathan Fram

Associate Professor (Senior Research), OOI Endurance Array Project Manager

jonathan.fram@oregonstate.edu

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Amrapalli Garanaik

Assistant Professor (Senior Research)

amrapalli.garanaik@oregonstate.edu

Geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics, with a focus on turbulent mixing and transport in oceanic flows and their critical impact on Earth's climate and ecosystems

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Jessica Garwood

Assistant Professor

jessica.garwood@oregonstate.edu

Small-scale physical-biological interactions in the ocean, especially their implications for transport of plankton or sediment

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Miguel Goñi

Professor

miguel.goni@oregonstate.edu

Cycling of natural organic matter in the earth's surface, mainly in aquatic environments

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Hannah Gosnell

Professor

hannah.gosnell@oregonstate.edu

Transformations to sustainability; biodiversity conservation; regenerative agriculture; environmental governance; water resource policy, management and law; drivers and consequences of rural land use change

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Burke Hales

Professor

burke.hales@oregonstate.edu

Coastal ocean carbon cycles, ocean acidification, measurement and experimental manipulation technology

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Brian Haley

Professor (Senior Research)

brian.haley@oregonstate.edu

Plasma spectrometry

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Michael Harte

Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs

michael.harte@oregonstate.edu

Marine geography, natural resource management and planning

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Demian Hommel

Associate Professor of Teaching

hommeld@oregonstate.edu

Human dimensions of global change; environmental security and resource conflicts; political ecology; risk; people-reef interactions; climate justice; pedagogy and technology

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Jennifer (Jenny) Hutchings

Professor

jennifer.hutchings@oregonstate.edu

Sea ice dynamics and mechanics

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Andrea Jenney

Assistant Professor

andrea.jenney@oregonstate.edu

Atmospheric/climate science with a focus on understanding and modeling tropical convection and clouds

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Julia Jones

Distinguished Professor and Program Head for Geography

julia.jones@oregonstate.edu

Land use, climate change and disturbance effects on hydrology, geomorphology, water quality, spatio-temporal statistics

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Lauren (Laurie) Juranek

Professor

laurie.juranek@oregonstate.edu

Dissolved gases, isotope biogeochemistry, marine biological pump, and marine carbon cycle

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Maria Kavanaugh

Associate Professor

maria.kavanaugh@oregonstate.edu

Seascape ecology, remote sensing, global change

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Randall (Randy) Keller

Instructor

randall.keller@oregonstate.edu

Marine geology, igneous geochemistry

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Robert Kennedy

Professor

robert.kennedy@oregonstate.edu

Satellite remote sensing using time series imagery, pattern and processes of landscape change, "Landtrendr"

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Patrick (Pat) Kennelly

Senior Instructor I

kennellp@oregonstate.edu

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography

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Adam Kent

Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Faculty Advancement

adam.kent@oregonstate.edu

High temperature geochemistry, igneous petrology, In-situ elemental and isotopic analysis

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Kevin Konrad

Assistant Professor

kevin.konrad@oregonstate.edu

Noble gas geochronology, marine geology, mantle geodynamics, and volcanism

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Anthony Koppers

Professor

anthony.koppers@oregonstate.edu

Isotope geochemistry of hotspot volcanism, plate tectonic theory, mantle geodynamics

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P. Michael (Mike) Kosro

Professor

mike.kosro@oregonstate.edu

Coastal oceanography, shelf/deep-sea exchange processes, remote sensing, ocean acoustics, ocean circulation

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Stephen Lancaster

Associate Professor

stephen.lancaster@oregonstate.edu

Fluvial geomorphology, hydrology

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Kelsey Lane

Oceanography Instructor, REU Program Director

kelsey.lane@oregonstate.edu

Modern planktic foraminiferal ecology

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Astrid Leitner

Assistant Professor

astrid.leitner@oregonstate.edu

The impacts of abrupt and complex bathymetry across scales on the ecology and behavior of marine animals with a special focus on the deep sea

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Jim Lerczak

Professor and Associate Dean for Research

jim.lerczak@oregonstate.edu

Coastal physical oceanography

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Ricardo Letelier

Professor

ricardo.letelier@oregonstate.edu

Marine pelagic microorganisms, biogeochemical cycles, nitrogen fixation, photosynthesis, chlorophyll passive (solar-induced) fluorescence

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John Lowry

Geospatial Science Senior Instructor I

john.lowry@oregonstate.edu

Geospatial Science applications in environmental planning and management

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Mitchell Lyle

Professor (Senior Research)

mitch.lyle@oregonstate.edu

Miocene equatorial Pacific paleoproductivity, ocean carbon cycling, geochemical tracers, seismic stratigraphy and pelagic sedimentation

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Roberta Marinelli

Professor

roberta.marinelli@oregonstate.edu

Ecology and biogeochemistry of the seafloor

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Tara Massad

Instructor

massadt@oregonstate.edu

tropical chemical ecology, plant-insect interactions, reforestation, savanna ecology

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Ricardo Matano

Professor

ricardo.matano@oregonstate.edu

Large-scale ocean circulation, the dynamics of western boundary currents, ocean modeling, geophysical fluid dynamics. the circulation in the Southern Ocean

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Haruyoshi Matsumoto

Associate Professor (Senior Research)

haru.matsumoto@oregonstate.edu

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Tyler McFadden

Environmental Sciences Instructor and Program Coordinator

tyler.mcfadden@oregonstate.edu

Biodiversity responses to land use and climate change; avian ecology; species interactions

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Karen McLeod

Director, Marine Resource Management Program

karen.mcleod@oregonstate.edu

Science and society; marine ecology; leadership development; science communication & strategic engagement; transdisciplinarity

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Erin McParland

Assistant Professor

erin.mcparland@oregonstate.edu

Using metabolomics and other techniques to understand the cycling of carbon by marine microbes

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Philip Mote

Professor, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School

philip.mote@oregonstate.edu

Regional climate modeling, the influence of climate change on western US snowpack. No longer advising Ph.D. students.

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Jonathan Nash

Professor

jonathan.nash@oregonstate.edu

Physics of turbulence, mixing & other small-scale processes in the ocean & near ice. New technologies (like autonomous vehicles & sensor systems) to measure glacier ice melt, internal waves, submesoscale instabilities, ocean dynamics.

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Peder Nelson

Senior Instructor I / Senior Faculty Research Assistant II

peder.nelson@oregonstate.edu

Remote sensing, GIS, automated visualization and analysis tools

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Edwin Nissen

Courtesy Appointment (Professor starting May 1, 2025)

edwin.nissen@oregonstate.edu

InSAR and lidar remote sensing and earthquakes and active tectonics of the Middle East and western Canada.

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Larry O'Neill

Associate Professor and Director of the Oregon Climate Service

larry.oneill@oregonstate.edu

Air-sea interactions, satellite meteorology and oceanography, atmospheric boundary layer and ocean mixed layer dynamics

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Tuba Ozkan-Haller

Dean and Professor

tuba.ozkan-haller@oregonstate.edu

Near-shore circulation modeling, data assimilation in the near-shore region, time-series analysis techniques

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Brodie Pearson

Assistant Professor

brodie.pearson@oregonstate.edu

Physics of mixing processes (i.e. turbulence) in the ocean

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Laura E. R. Peters

Assistant Professor

peterlau@oregonstate.edu

Disasters, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, community health, social justice and inclusion, humanitarian and conflict-affected contexts

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Erin Pettit

Professor

pettiter@oregonstate.edu

Glacier and ice sheet dynamics, ice/ocean interactions, ice rheology and deformation, ice-core climate history

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Mark Raleigh

Assistant Professor

raleigma@oregonstate.edu

Snow, mountain, and forest hydrology; remote sensing; numerical modeling; data assimilation; machine learning; streamflow forecasting; hydroclimate interactions, extremes, disturbance, and change

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Peter Ruggiero

Professor

peter.ruggiero@oregonstate.edu

Coastal geomorphology, coastal hazards, nearshore processes

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David Rupp

Associate Professor (Senior Research)

david.rupp@oregonstate.edu

Climate variability, anthropogenic influences on climate and hydrology, streamflow processes

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Roger Samelson

Professor

roger.samelson@oregonstate.edu

Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere, coastal and arctic meteorology, nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluids

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Mary Santelmann

Professor; Director, Water Resources Graduate Program

mary.santelmann@oregonstate.edu

Wetlands ecology, biogeography

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Andreas Schmittner

Professor

andreas.schmittner@oregonstate.edu

Climate change, ocean biogeochemical cycles, interactions in the climate system, paleoclimate, ocean circulation

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Adam Schultz

Professor

adam.schultz@oregonstate.edu

Geophysical imaging to study the structure and composition of Earth’s interior

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Pieter-Ewald Share

Assistant Professor

sharep@oregonstate.edu

Nature of structure and strain along major faults making up the southern California plate boundary

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Kipp Shearman

Professor

kipp.shearman@oregonstate.edu

Physical processes in coastal ocean, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)

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Karen Shell

Professor of Practice and Climate Science Program Head

karen.shell@oregonstate.edu

Climate dynamics, general circulation of the atmosphere, interactions between radiative transfer and the dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, climate modeling

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Alyssa Shiel

Associate Professor

alyssa.shiel@oregonstate.edu

Geochemical tracer development, transport and fate of metals/metalloids

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Emily Shroyer

Professor

emily.shroyer@oregonstate.edu

Small-scale ocean dynamics, such as turbulent mixing, internal gravity waves, and upper ocean processes

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Nicholas (Nick) Siler

Associate Professor

nick.siler@oregonstate.edu

Mountain precipitation and hydrology, global hydrologic cycle, regional climate change and variability

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Eric Skyllingstad

Professor

eric.skyllingstad@oregonstate.edu

Upper ocean turbulence, mesoscale coastal internal waves, ocean-atmosphere coupling

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Frank Sousa

Assistant Professor

francis.sousa@oregonstate.edu

Low-temperature thermochronology, field geology, and applications of remote sensing date to geology mapping

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Yvette Spitz

Professor, Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement

yvette.spitz@oregonstate.edu

The main pathways in marine ecosystems, coupled physical-biological models

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Ben Stanley

Senior Instructor I of Geology

stanlebe@oregonstate.edu

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Joseph Stoner

Professor

joe.stoner@oregonstate.edu

Sediment magnetism, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology

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Pamela Sullivan

Professor, Hollis M. Dole Professor in Geosciences

pamela.sullivan@oregonstate.edu

Ecohydrology; interactions of climate, vegetation and geology

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Brian Tattitch

Assistant Professor, Barrow Family Chair in Mineral Resource Geology

brian.tattitch@oregonstate.edu

Mineral deposits, Igneous petrology, volcanology, experimental petrology

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Frank Tepley

Professor, Geology Program Director

frank.tepley@oregonstate.edu

Igneous petrology, isotope geochemistry, electron probe microscopy

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Jim Thatcher

Assistant Professor

jim.thatcher@oregonstate.edu

Critical GIS, Critical Cartography, Political Ecology, and geocomputation

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Jenna Tilt

Assistant Professor

tiltj@oregonstate.edu

Human dimensions of natural hazards, disaster recovery, community resilience

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Jamon Van Den Hoek

Associate Professor

jamon.vandenhoek@oregonstate.edu

Using satellite imagery and geospatial data to examine relationships between forced displacement, climate vulnerability, and land cover/land use change in conflict-affected regions around the world

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George Waldbusser

Professor

george.waldbusser@oregonstate.edu

Ocean acidification effects on bivalves, benthic ecology and sediment biogeochemistry, tidal flat ecology

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Kuuipo Walsh

GIScience Program Director, Senior Instructor I

kuuipo.walsh@oregonstate.edu

GIS, metadata, digital libraries and coastal atlases

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James Watson

Associate Professor

james.watson@oregonstate.edu

Complex adaptive systems, environmental science, social-ecological systems, quantitative analyses, seascape ecology, marine spatial planning, coastal vulnerability

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Kathleen Wendt

Assistant Professor (Senior Research)

kathleen.wendt@oregonstate.edu

Using cave formations and polar ice cores to study Earth's climate history

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Justin Wettstein

Associate Professor

justin.wettstein@oregonstate.edu

Large-scale and long-term climate and atmospheric dynamics, climate variability and change, climate impacts and responses in natural and human-managed systems

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Greg Wilson

Associate Professor

greg.wilson@oregonstate.edu

Physics of the nearshore coastal ocean including waves, currents, and sediment transport

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Aaron Wolf

Professor

aaron.wolf@oregonstate.edu

Transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution

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David Wrathall

Associate Professor

david.wrathall@oregonstate.edu

Climate hazards, climate change adaptation, social vulnerability, migration, and political ecology

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Kaplan Yalcin

Assistant Dean for Academic Programs

kaplan.yalcin@oregonstate.edu

Distance and online education, paleoclimatology

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Edward (Ed) Zaron

Associate Professor (Senior Research)

edward.d.zaron@oregonstate.edu

Ocean modeling and data assimilation, satellite altimetry, and geophysical fluid dynamics

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Seth Zippel

Assistant Professor

zippels@oregonstate.edu

How the ocean and the atmosphere interact using field measurements from a diverse set of regions including estuaries, the open ocean, and the Arctic