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Faculty & Staff

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Faculty

Daniel Belknap

Daniel Belknap
Professor of Geology and Cooperating Professor of Marine Sciences
 
Interests:
Benthic Oceanography

Nancy Bertler

Nancy Bertler
Research Assistant Professor
 
Interests:
None listed.

Harold Borns

Harold Borns
Research Professor and Professor Emeritus, Department of Geological Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
 
Interests:
Glacial Geology, Founder, Climate Change Institute University of Maine, 1974-1988

Fei Chai

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

Sudarshan Chawathe

Sudarshan Chawathe
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Cooperating Associate Professor of Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
Database management, data mining, information integration, XML

Ronald Davis

Ronald Davis
Professor Emeritus - Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
Ecology and paleoecology (pollen, plant macrofossils, diatoms, geochemistry)

George Denton

George Denton
 
Interests:
None listed.

Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall

Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall
Assistant Research Professor
 
Interests:
Paleoecology, Paleohydrology, Environmental reconstruction, Paleoclimatology

James Fastook

James Fastook
Cooperating Professor - Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
None listed.

Ivan J. Fernandez

Ivan J. Fernandez
Professor of Soil Science; Cooperating Professor - Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
soils, forest soils, biogeochemistry, watersheds

Brenda Hall

Brenda Hall
Associate Professor of Glacial and Quaternary Studies
 
Interests:
Quaternary, glacial geology, geochronology, Antarctica

Gordon Hamilton

Gordon Hamilton
Associate Research Professor
 
Interests:
Glaciology, Remote Sensing, ice sheets, sea level rise

Michael Handley

Michael Handley
ICPMS Laboratory Manager
 
Interests:
None listed.

Jay Holweger

Jay Holweger
Lab Tech
 
Interests:
None listed.

Roger Hooke

Roger Hooke
Cooperating Professor - Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
Geomorphology, Glaciology, Glacial Geology

Gary Hoyle

Gary Hoyle
Artist in Residence for the Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
museum exhibit concept development and fabrication, explaining science to the general public, sculpting and illustrating

Terence Hughes

Terence Hughes
Professor, Earth Sciences and Quaternary and Climate Studies
 
Interests:
glaciology, glacial ice sheets, abrupt climate change

Douglas Introne

Douglas Introne
Assistant Director- Stable Isotope Lab
 
Interests:
None listed.

George Jacobson

George Jacobson
Maine State Climatologist
 
Interests:
climatology, paleoclimatology, ecology, paleoecology

Shaleen Jain

Shaleen Jain
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
 
Interests:
Hydroclimatology, Environmental Flows, Climate Variability and Change, Hydrosystems Modeling

Bob Kates

Bob Kates
Presidential Professor of Sustainability Science
 
Interests:
None listed.

David Keefer

David Keefer
Adjunct Research Professor
 
Interests:
Peru geoarchaeology landslides earthquakes El Niño

Alice Kelley

Alice Kelley
Asst. Research Prof., Climate Change Institute; Instructor, Depart. of Earth Sciences; Cooperating Assist. Prof., Department of Anthropology Univeristy of Maine
 
Interests:
geoarchaeology archaeological geology surficial geology geomorphology ground-penetrating radar cultural resource management dam removal

Joseph Kelley

Joseph Kelley
Professor of Marine Geology; Cooperating Professor - Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
coastal geology, marine geology, beach erosion, beach management

Peter Koons

Peter Koons
Professor of Geodynamics; Cooperating Professor - Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
None listed.

Karl Kreutz

Karl Kreutz
Associate Professor
 
Interests:
Paleoclimatology, glaciology, geochemistry

Andrei Kurbatov

Andrei Kurbatov
Assistant Research Professor
 
Interests:
volcanology, ice cores, tephra, dust

I. Marianne Lagerklint

I. Marianne Lagerklint
Research Assistant Professor
 
Interests:
None listed.

Kirk Maasch

Kirk Maasch
Professor
 
Interests:
climate climate change climate modeling

Paul Andrew Mayewski

Paul Andrew Mayewski
Director & Professor, Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
Glaciology, Climate Change, Paleoclimate, Ice Cores

Debra Meese

Debra Meese
Research Professor
 
Interests:
None listed.

Stephen Norton

Stephen Norton
Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences
 
Interests:
Aquatic geochemistry, paleolimnology

Andrea Nurse

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

Constanza Ocampo-Raeder

Constanza Ocampo-Raeder
Assistant Professor of Anthropology; Cooperating Assistant Professor, Climate Change Institute; Affiliated Assistant Professor, Ecology and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program
 
Interests:
Ecological and environmental anthropology Human ecology of tropical rainforests Resource management, land use change, and anthropogenic ecosystems Biodiversity conservation Political ecology, environmental justice

Brian Olsen

Brian Olsen
Research Assistant Professor
 
Interests:
Evolutionary Ecology, Range limits, Demography, Ornithology

Gordon Oswald

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

Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Cooperating Professor - Climate Change Institute, Cooperating Professor of Marine Sciences; Cooperating Professor of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
 
Interests:
Biological-Physical Interactions, Elastic waves and dynamics, experimental and analytical solutions, applications in biomechanics

Charles Porter

Charles Porter
Research Associate
 
Interests:
None listed.

Brian Robinson

Brian Robinson
Assistant Professor
 
Interests:
None listed.

Paul Roscoe

Paul Roscoe
Professor of Anthropology and Cooperating Professor of Climate Change Studies
 
Interests:
Anthropology of climate change, ecological anthropology, war, social and political evolution

Dan Sandweiss

Dan Sandweiss
Professor of Anthropology and Quaternary and Climate Studies/Dean and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies
 
Interests:
Archaeology, Peru, El Niño, Fishing

David Sanger

David Sanger
Professor Emeritus Anthropology and Climate Change Institute
 
Interests:
archaeology, Northeast North America, maritime adaptations, geoarchaeology

Jasmine Saros

Jasmine Saros
Associate Professor
 
Interests:
lakes, paleolimnology, climate change, nitrogen deposition

Molly Schauffler

Molly Schauffler
Assistant Research Professor, Earth Sciences Dept.
 
Interests:
science education, environmental monitoring, paleoecology, community-based science

Bruce Smith

Bruce Smith
Curator, North American Archaeology, Senior Research Scientist
 
Interests:
archaeobiology, domestication, niche construction, archaeology

Sharon Sneed

Sharon Sneed
Lab Manager
 
Interests:
analytical chemistry, glaciochemistry

Kristin Sobolik

Kristin Sobolik
Professor of Anthropology and Climate Change; Associate Director of Climate Change Institute; Chair Department of Anthropology
 
Interests:
Paleonutrition Archaeology Archaeobiology Prehistory

Marcella Sorg

Marcella Sorg
Research Associate Professor
 
Interests:
None listed.

J. Curt Stager

J. Curt Stager
2002-present ADJUNCT RESEARCH FACULTY, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, . Current focus: tropical climate changes of the last millennium; 1987 present PROFESSOR, Paul Smith's College, upstate NY. Biology 141 & 142, Forest Soils 23
 
Interests:
Paleoecology, limnology, evolution and climate change, Current focus: tropical climate changes of the last millennium

M Vandergoes

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

Gregory Zaro

Gregory Zaro
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Climate Change
 
Interests:
Archaeological Method and Theory, Complex Societies, Human/Environment Relationship, Historical Ecology

Melinda A. Zeder

Melinda A. Zeder
Curator of Old World Archaeology and Archaeozoology, Senior Research Scientist
 
Interests:
Domestication, Agricultural Origins, Archaeozoology, Near Eastern Archaeology

Staff

Rebecca Addessi

Rebecca Addessi
Manager of Funded Accounts
 
Interests:
None listed.

Betty Lee

Betty Lee
Financial & Outreach Manager
 
Interests:
None listed.
 

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