Directory

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Alyssa (Shiel) Shiel-Higgins

Associate Professor

alyssa.shiel@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Environmental monitoring: moss, lichen, water, soil, sediment; pollution: mining, infrastructure, leaded gasoline; metals; lead; isotopes
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Andrea Allan

Senior Instructor II and Program Director of the Climate Science Program

andrea.allan@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
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

Geology and Geophysics
Geochronology, paleomagnetism, stratigraphy
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Andrew Barnard

Associate Professor (Senior Research)

barnaran@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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Jack Barth

Professor

jack.barth@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Coastal ocean dynamics, coastal marine ecosystems, hypoxia, inner continental shelf dynamics
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Tamara Baumberger

Assistant Professor (Senior Research)

baumbert@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Sustainability and Resilience in Land Use Planning, Conservation GIS, Public Participation GIS, and Biomimicry
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Jeffrey Beeson

Assistant Professor

beesonj@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Using seafloor and subseafloor imaging to explore the dynamics of plate boundary tectonics, methane seepage, and submarine volcanism
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Kim Bernard

Professor

kim.bernard@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Polar zooplankton ecology
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Bran Black

Instructor

brandi.black@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Sherman Bloomer

Chancellor and Dean, OSU-Cascades

sherman.bloomer@osucascades.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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Ed Brook

University Distinguished Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

edward.brook@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Paleoclimatology, geochemistry, ice core trace gas records, cosmogenic isotopes, extraterrestrial dust
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Kristen (Caison) Buck

Professor

kristen.buck@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
trace metal biogeochemistry, elemental cycles, chemical oceanography
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Christo Buizert

Associate Professor

christo.buizert@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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

Oceanography
Fisheries oceanography, spatial ecology, fish early life stages, statistical analysis of catch and survey data
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Peter U. Clark

University Distinguished Professor of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences

peter.clark@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
Dynamics of glaciers and ice sheets, sea level change, paleoclimatology, abrupt climate change
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Jessica (JC) Creveling

Associate Professor

jessica.creveling@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Geology, Earth history, sedimentology, stratigraphy, sea-level change
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Byron Crump

Professor

byron.crump@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Aquatic microbial ecology in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems
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Jesse Cusack

Assistant Professor

jesse.cusack@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Lynette de Silva

Water Conflict Mgt. Director; Senior Instructor II

lynette.desilva@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Water conflict management, integrated watershed management
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Simon de Szoeke

Professor

simon.deszoeke@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
Atmosphere-ocean interaction, stratiform clouds, tropical meteorology
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Edward Dever

Professor

edward.dever@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Oceanography
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Land use change, sustainable rural livelihoods (especially in agriculture and fisheries), environmental risk and justice, climate resilience
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Jenny Engels

Associate Professor of Teaching in Environmental Sciences

jenny.engels@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Jennifer Fehrenbacher

Associate Professor, Interim Program Director for Ocean, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Program

jennifer.fehrenbacher@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Trace element and stable isotope geochemistry, biomineralization, and marine biology
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Melanie Fewings

Professor

melanie.fewings@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Observational coastal physical oceanography and meteorology
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Erica Fleishman

Professor, Geography and Environmental Sciences Unit Chair, and Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute

erica.fleishman@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Oceanography
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Amrapalli Garanaik

Assistant Professor (Senior Research)

amrapalli.garanaik@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Oceanography
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

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

Instructor

matthew.goslin@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Hannah Gosnell

Professor

hannah.gosnell@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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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Roy Haggerty

Provost and Executive Vice President

roy.haggerty@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Ground water-surface water interactions, flow and transport in surface and ground water, nutrient transport, modeling, hyporheic exchange, heat transport in streams
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Burke Hales

Professor

burke.hales@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Coastal ocean carbon cycles, ocean acidification, measurement and experimental manipulation technology
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Brian Haley

Professor (Senior Research)

brian.haley@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Plasma spectrometry
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Michael Harte

Professor

michael.harte@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Marine geography, natural resource management and planning
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Demian Hommel

Associate Professor of Teaching, Geography & Geospatial Science

hommeld@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Climate Sciences
Sea ice dynamics and mechanics
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Andrea Jenney

Assistant Professor

andrea.jenney@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
Atmospheric/climate science with a focus on understanding and modeling tropical convection and clouds
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Julia Jones

University Distinguished Professor

julia.jones@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Oceanography
Dissolved gases, isotope biogeochemistry, marine biological pump, and marine carbon cycle
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Maria Kavanaugh

Associate Professor

maria.kavanaugh@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Seascape ecology, remote sensing, global change
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Randall (Randy) Keller

Instructor

randall.keller@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Marine geology, igneous geochemistry
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Robert Kennedy

Professor

robert.kennedy@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography
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Adam Kent

Professor and Director of the W.M. Keck Collaboratory for Plasma Mass Spectrometry

adam.kent@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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Kevin Konrad

Assistant Professor

kevin.konrad@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Noble gas geochronology, marine geology, mantle geodynamics, and volcanism
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Anthony Koppers

Professor

anthony.koppers@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Isotope geochemistry of hotspot volcanism, plate tectonic theory, mantle geodynamics
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P. Michael (Mike) Kosro

Professor

mike.kosro@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Geology and Geophysics
Fluvial geomorphology, hydrology
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Kelsey Lane

Oceanography Instructor, REU Program Director

kelsey.lane@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Modern planktic foraminiferal ecology
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Andone Lavery

Executive Director of the Gaulke Center for Marine Innovation and Technology

andone.lavery@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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Astrid Leitner

Assistant Professor

astrid.leitner@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Oceanography
Coastal physical oceanography
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Ricardo Letelier

Professor

ricardo.letelier@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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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Tara Massad

Instructor

massadt@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
tropical chemical ecology, plant-insect interactions, reforestation, savanna ecology
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Ricardo Matano

Professor

ricardo.matano@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Instructor and Interim Director, Environmental Sciences Undergraduate Program

tyler.mcfadden@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

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

Assistant Professor

erin.mcparland@oregonstate.edu

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

Professor (Senior Research)

david.mellinger@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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Philip Mote

Professor, Climate Science Unit Chair

philip.mote@oregonstate.edu

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

Geography Instructor

park.muhonda@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Jonathan Nash

Professor

jonathan.nash@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Remote sensing, GIS, automated visualization and analysis tools
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Larry O'Neill

Associate Professor and Director of the Oregon Climate Service

larry.oneill@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
Air-sea interactions, satellite meteorology and oceanography, atmospheric boundary layer and ocean mixed layer dynamics
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Felicia Olmeta Schult

Assistant Professor of Practice

felicia.olmetaschult@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Tuba Ozkan-Haller

Dean and Professor

tuba.ozkan-haller@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Oceanography
Physics of mixing processes (i.e. turbulence) in the ocean
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Laura E. R. Peters

Assistant Professor

peterlau@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Climate Sciences
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Geology and Geophysics
Coastal geomorphology, coastal hazards, nearshore processes
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David Rupp

Associate Professor (Senior Research)

david.rupp@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
Climate variability, anthropogenic influences on climate and hydrology, streamflow processes
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Roger Samelson

Professor

roger.samelson@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
Fluid dynamics and thermodynamics of the ocean and atmosphere, coastal and arctic meteorology, nonlinear dynamics of geophysical fluids
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Andreas Schmittner

Professor

andreas.schmittner@oregonstate.edu

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

Professor

adam.schultz@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Geophysical imaging to study the structure and composition of Earth’s interior
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Pieter-Ewald Share

Assistant Professor

sharep@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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

Oceanography
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 Sciences
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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Emily Shroyer

Professor

emily.shroyer@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
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

Climate Sciences
Mountain precipitation and hydrology, global hydrologic cycle, regional climate change and variability
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Eric Skyllingstad

Professor

eric.skyllingstad@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
Upper ocean turbulence, mesoscale coastal internal waves, ocean-atmosphere coupling
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Frank Sousa

Assistant Professor and George & Danielle Sharp Endowed Faculty Scholar in Field Geology

francis.sousa@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Low-temperature thermochronology, field geology, and applications of remote sensing date to geology mapping
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Yvette Spitz

Professor, Program Director for Oceanography, Oceanography Unit Chair

yvette.spitz@oregonstate.edu

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

Senior Instructor I of Geology

stanlebe@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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Joseph Stoner

Professor

joe.stoner@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Sediment magnetism, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology
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Pamela Sullivan

Professor, Hollis M. Dole Professor in Geosciences

pamela.sullivan@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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

Geology and Geophysics
Mineral deposits, Igneous petrology, volcanology, experimental petrology
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Frank Tepley

Professor, Geology and Geophysics Unit Chair, and Geology Program Director

frank.tepley@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
Igneous petrology, isotope geochemistry, electron probe microscopy
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Jim Thatcher

Associate Professor

jim.thatcher@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Critical GIS, Critical Cartography, Political Ecology, and geocomputation
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Jenna Tilt

Associate Professor

tiltj@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Human dimensions of natural hazards, disaster recovery, community resilience
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Alexandra Turgul

Instructor

caplana@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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Jamon Van Den Hoek

Associate Professor

jamon.vandenhoek@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Oceanography
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

Geography and Environmental Sciences
GIS, metadata, digital libraries and coastal atlases
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James Watson

Associate Professor

james.watson@oregonstate.edu

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

Associate Professor

justin.wettstein@oregonstate.edu

Climate Sciences
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

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

Professor

aaron.wolf@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
Transboundary water conflicts and conflict resolution
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David Wrathall

Associate Professor

david.wrathall@oregonstate.edu

Geography and Environmental Sciences
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

Geology and Geophysics
Distance and online education, paleoclimatology
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Rebecca Yalcin

Instructor

yalcinr@oregonstate.edu

Geology and Geophysics
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Edward (Ed) Zaron

Associate Professor (Senior Research)

edward.d.zaron@oregonstate.edu

Oceanography
Ocean modeling and data assimilation, satellite altimetry, and geophysical fluid dynamics
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Seth Zippel

Assistant Professor

zippels@oregonstate.edu

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