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Faculty & Staff

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Faculty

Daniel Belknap

Daniel Belknap
 
Interests:
Benthic Oceanography

Nancy Bertler

Nancy Bertler
 
Interests:
None listed.

Harold Borns

Harold Borns
 
Interests:
Glacial Geology; Founder,Climate Change Institute University of Maine, 1974-1988

Fei Chai

Fei Chai
 
Interests:
Biological-Physical Interactions, Fisheries Sciences, Ocean Modeling and Prediction, Marine Biogeochemistry, Biological Oceanography, Marine Climate Change

Sudarshan Chawathe

Sudarshan Chawathe
 
Interests:
Database management, data mining, information integration, XML, Web, scientific data management

Ronald Davis

Ronald Davis
 
Interests:
Ecology and paleoecology (pollen, plant macrofossils, diatoms, geochemistry)

George Denton

George Denton
 
Interests:
None listed.

Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall

Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall
 
Interests:
Paleoecology, Paleohydrology, Environmental reconstruction, Paleoclimatology, Plant ecology, Insect ecology (Chironomidae)

James Fastook

James Fastook
 
Interests:
None listed.

Ivan J. Fernandez

Ivan J. Fernandez
 
Interests:
soils, forest soils, biogeochemistry, watersheds, atmospheric deposition, climate change, carbon, acidification, ecological stoichiometry

Brenda Hall

Brenda Hall
 
Interests:
Quaternary, glacial geology, geochronology, Antarctica

Gordon Hamilton

Gordon Hamilton
 
Interests:
Glaciology; Remote Sensing; ice sheets; sea level rise; Greenland; Antarctica; GPS geodesy

Michael Handley

Michael Handley
 
Interests:
None listed.

Jay Holweger

Jay Holweger
 
Interests:
None listed.

Roger Hooke

Roger Hooke
 
Interests:
Geomorphology, Glaciology, Glacial Geology

Gary Hoyle

Gary Hoyle
 
Interests:
museum exhibit concept development and fabrication, explaining science to the general public, sculpting and illustrating

Terence Hughes

Terence Hughes
 
Interests:
glaciology, glacial ice sheets, abrupt climate change

Douglas Introne

Douglas Introne
 
Interests:
None listed.

George Jacobson

George Jacobson
 
Interests:
climatology, paleoclimatology, ecology, paleoecology, vegetation

Shaleen Jain

Shaleen Jain
 
Interests:
Hydroclimatology, Environmental Flows, Climate Variability and Change, Hydrosystems Modeling, Adaptive Management and Decision Analysis.

Bob Kates

Bob Kates
 
Interests:
None listed.

David Keefer

David Keefer
 
Interests:
Peru geoarchaeology landslides earthquakes El Niño

Joseph Kelley

Joseph Kelley
 
Interests:
coastal geology, marine geology, beach erosion, beach management, salt marshes, sea-level change, seafloor mapping, bluff erosion, coastal zone management, sedimentology, marine geo-archeology

Alice Kelley

Alice Kelley
 
Interests:
geoarchaeology archaeological geology surficial geology geomorphology ground-penetrating radar cultural resource management dam removal

Peter Koons

Peter Koons
 
Interests:
None listed.

Karl Kreutz

Karl Kreutz
 
Interests:
Paleoclimatology, glaciology, geochemistry

Andrei Kurbatov

Andrei Kurbatov
 
Interests:
volcanology, ice cores, tephra, dust, climate, Allan Hills, Detroit Plateau

I. Marianne Lagerklint

I. Marianne Lagerklint
 
Interests:
None listed.

Kirk Maasch

Kirk Maasch
 
Interests:
climate climate change climate modeling

Paul Andrew Mayewski

Paul Andrew Mayewski
 
Interests:
Glaciology, Climate Change, Paleoclimate, Ice Cores, Glaciochemistry

Debra Meese

Debra Meese
 
Interests:
None listed.

Stephen Norton

Stephen Norton
 
Interests:
Aquatic geochemistry, paleolimnology

Andrea Nurse

Andrea Nurse
 
Interests:
palynology, pollen studies, lake level studies, paleoecology research

Constanza Ocampo-Raeder

Constanza Ocampo-Raeder
 
Interests:
Ecological and environmental anthropology Human ecology of tropical rainforests Resource management, land use change, and anthropogenic ecosystems Biodiversity conservation Political ecology, environmental justice, and indigenous rights Market-based conservation and sustainable development Latin American Studies

Brian Olsen

Brian Olsen
 
Interests:
Evolutionary Ecology; Range limits; Demography; Ornithology; Behavioral Ecology

Gordon Oswald

Gordon Oswald
 
Interests:
Radio echo sounding Subglacial interfaces and water glaciology

Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson
 
Interests:
Biological-Physical Interactions, Elastic waves and dynamics; experimental and analytical solutions; applications in biomechanics, materials and manufacturing, Ocean Observing Systems

Charles Porter

Charles Porter
 
Interests:
None listed.

Brian Robinson

Brian Robinson
 
Interests:
None listed.

Paul Roscoe

Paul Roscoe
 
Interests:
Anthropology of climate change, ecological anthropology, war, social and political evolution, New Guinea, Polynesia

Dan Sandweiss

Dan Sandweiss
 
Interests:
Archaeology, Peru, El Niño, Fishing, Maritime Adaptations

David Sanger

David Sanger
 
Interests:
archaeology; Northeast North America; maritime adaptations; geoarchaeology

Jasmine Saros

Jasmine Saros
 
Interests:
lakes, paleolimnology, climate change, nitrogen deposition, diatoms, phytoplankton ecology

Molly Schauffler

Molly Schauffler
 
Interests:
science education; environmental monitoring; paleoecology; community-based science; climate change education

Jefferson Simoes

Jefferson Simoes
 
Interests:
Antarctic and South American paleoclimatology Ice core environmental interpretation Glaciochemistry Antarctic and Andean Glaciology

Bruce Smith

Bruce Smith
 
Interests:
archaeobiology, domestication, niche construction, archaeology, agriculture

Sharon Sneed

Sharon Sneed
 
Interests:
analytical chemistry, glaciochemistry

Kristin Sobolik

Kristin Sobolik
 
Interests:
Paleonutrition Archaeology Archaeobiology Prehistory

Marcella Sorg

Marcella Sorg
 
Interests:
None listed.

J. Curt Stager

J. Curt Stager
 
Interests:
Paleoecology, limnology, evolution and climate change. Current focus: tropical climate changes of the last millennium.

M Vandergoes

M Vandergoes
 
Interests:
Quaternary climate change and paleoecology (particularly in the Southern Hemisphere), geomorphology and Antarctic glaciology.

Gregory Zaro

Gregory Zaro
 
Interests:
Archaeological Method and Theory, Complex Societies, Human/Environment Relationship, Historical Ecology, Agricultural Landscapes, Intensification, Geoarchaeology, Indigenous/Spanish Colonial Encounters, Mesoamerica, Andes

Melinda A. Zeder

Melinda A. Zeder
 
Interests:
Domestication, Agricultural Origins, Archaeozoology,Near Eastern Archaeology

Staff

Rebecca Addessi

Rebecca Addessi
 
Interests:
None listed.

Betty Lee

Betty Lee
 
Interests:
None listed.
 

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