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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Chair: Steven L. Goldstein, Ph.D.
213 Comer Building
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tel: 845.365.8787
Fax: 845.365.8155


Director of Graduate Studies: Peter B. de Menocal, Ph.D.
211 Geoscience Building Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tel: 845.365.8483
Fax: 845.365.8165


Dissertation Sponsors

Geoffrey A. Abers:
Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D., MIT, 1989
Interests: Processes of lithospheric deformation; active collisions and rifts; earthquake sources; subduction mechanics and structure; crustal structure.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark H. Anders:
( Structural Geology ) Associate Professor, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1989
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert F. Anderson:
( Chemical Oceanography/Climate Studies ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1981
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Roger N. Anderson:
( Marine Geology and Geophysics ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., UC San Diego, 1973
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robin Bell:
Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D., Columbia, 1989
Interests: Marine Geology and Geophysics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wallace S. Broecker:
Newberry Professor, Columbia, 1958
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
W. Roger Buck IV:
( Marine Geology & Geophysics ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1984
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark A. Cane:
Professor G. Unger Vetlesen Professor, Earth and Climate Sciences,Ph.D., Ph.D., MIT, 1975
Interests: Climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics; impacts of climate on society, El Nino forecasting
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Nicholas Christie-Blick:
Professor, Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 1979
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jim Cochran:
Lecturer, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Marine geophysics, gravity, geology, isostasy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Anthony Del Genio:
Adjunct Associate Professor (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Ph.D., UCLA California (Los Angeles), 1978
Interests: Role of clouds and water vapor in climate, dynamics of planetary atmospheres
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter B. de Menocal:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1992
Interests: How and why climate has changed in the past, ocean circulation variability, tropical-extratropical paloeclimate linkages, Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of tropical climates, African climate and human evolution
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter M. Eisenberger:
( Earth Systems Science ) Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1967
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Goran Ekstrom:
( Seismology ) Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1987
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John J. Flynn:
( Vertebrate Paleontology ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1983
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dave Goldberg:
Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D., Columbia, 1985
Interests: Marine Geology & Geophysics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Steven L. Goldstein:
( Geochemistry/Petrology ) Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1986
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Arnold L. Gordon:
( Physical Oceanography ) Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1965
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kevin L. Griffin:
Associate Professor (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Ph.D., Duke, 1994
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
James Hansen:
Associate Research Scientist Applications Research (International Research Institute for Climate Prediction), Ph.D.
Interests: Unraveling the mechanisms of climate change, and projecting the climatic impact of human activity
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
George Harlow:
Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D., Princeton, 1977
Interests: Geochemistry
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dennis E. Hayes:
( Marine Geology and Geophysics ) Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1966
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Sidney R. Hemming:
( Geochemistry/Climate Studies ) Associate Professor, Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook, 1994
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Baerbel Hoenisch:
( Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography ) Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Bremen, 2002
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Kim A. Kastens:
( Earth and Environmental Sciences ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., California ( San Diego), 1981
Interests: Enviromental issues; marine geology; instructional technology for geoscience education
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter B. Kelemen:
( Petrology/Geochemistry ) Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1987
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Yochanan Kushnir:
Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1985
Interests: Ocean & Climate Physics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Arthur L. Lerner-Lam:
( Seismology ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., UC San Diego, 1982
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Douglas G. Martinson:
( Physical Oceanography ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jerry F. McManus:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1997
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jin Meng:
Associate Curator, Ph.D., Columbia, 1991
Interests: Paleontology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
William H. Menke:
( Seismology ) Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Ron Miller:
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1990
Interests: Meteorology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
John C. Mutter:
Deputy Director/Associate Vice Provost of the Earth Institute at Columbia (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Ph.D., Columbia, 1982
Interests: Global tectonics using geophysical techniques
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Meredith Nettles:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 2005
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mark A. Norell:
( Vertebrate Paleontology ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Yale University, 1988
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Paul E. Olsen:
Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Geological Sciences (Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Ph.D., Yale, 1983
Interests: Paleoecology; ecosystem evolution; vertebrate paleontology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Hsien Wang Ou:
( Physical Oceanography ) Professor, Ph.D., MIT, 1979
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dorothy M. Peteet:
Lecturer; Scientist/Adjunct Senior Research Scientist (Lamont-Doherty), Ph.D., New York, 1983
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Stephanie L. Pfirman:
( Oceanography ) Hirschorn Professor of Environmental and Applied Sciences, Ph.D., MIT, 1985
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Walter C. Pitman, III:
( Marine Geology & Geophysics ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1967
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Terry Plank:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1993
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lorenzo M. Polvani:
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ph.D., MIT, 1988
Interests: atmospheric, oceanic, and planetary science, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid mechanics. passive and active global
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
G. Michael Purdy:
( Marine Geology & Geophysics ) Professor, Ph.D., Cambridge, 1974
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Joerg M. Schaefer:
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2000
Interests: Geochemistry, cosmogenic dating
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Peter Schlosser:
Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1985
Interests: Studies of water movement and its variability in natural systems, ocean/atmosphere gas exchange, reconstruction of paleotemperature records, anthropogenic impact on natural systems;Human impact on the environment
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gavin Schmidt:
Adjunct Research Scientist, Ph.D., University College London, 1993
Interests: Climate
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christopher H. Scholz:
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Ph.D., MIT, 1967
Interests: experimental and theoretical rock mechanics, especially friction, fracture, hydraulic transport properties, nonlinear systems, mechanics of earthquakes and faulting
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Richard Seager:
Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D., Columbia, 1990
Interests: Ocean & Climate Physics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bruce Shaw:
Research Scientist, Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1989
Interests: Seismology/Geo/Tectonophy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Christopher Small:
( Marine Geophyics/ Remote Sensing ) Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D., California (San Diego), 1993
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Adam H. Sobel:
Associate Professor, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Environmental Sciences, Ph.D., MIT, 1998
Interests: atmospheric science, geophysical fluid dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate dynamics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Marc W. Spiegelman:
Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Ph.D., Cambridge University (U.K.), 1989
Interests: coupled fluid/solid mechanics, reactive fluid flow, solid earth & magma dynamics, scientific computation/modeling
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Martin Stute:
( Hydrology/Geochemistry ) Associate Professor of Environmental Science, Prom., Heidelberg, 1989
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lynn R. Sykes:
Higgings Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1965
Interests: Seismology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Taro Takahashi:
( Chemical Oceanography/ Geochemistry ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1957
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Andreas Thurnherr:
Associate Research Scientist, Ph.D., Southampton, 2000
Interests: Ocean & Climate Physics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Mingfang Ting:
Doherty Senior Research Scientist: Lecturer, Ph.D., Princeton, 1990
Interests: Impact of global climate change on regional scales.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Maya Tolstoy:
Research Scientist, Ph.D., Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1994
Interests: Marine Geology & Geophysics
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Felix Waldhauser:
Research Scientist, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1996
Interests: Seismology
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Walker:
( Petrology/Mineralogy ) Higgins Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1972
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Spahr C. Webb:
( Seismology ) Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., UC San Diego, 1984
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gisela Winckler:
Adjunct Associate Professor, Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1998
Interests: Sedimentary geochemistry/ climate studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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