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Michael Bender

Professor of Geosciences, Emeritus

Location: M48 Guyot Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2936
Email Address: bender@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Glacial-interglacial climate change; photosynthesis and respiration in phytoplankton and plants

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Leo Donner

Lecturer in Geosciences and Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Physical Scientist, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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Email Address: leo.j.donner@noaa.gov

Research Description:

Climate-model development; cloud and convective processes in the atmospheric general circulation; role of clouds in climate and climate change

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Anu Ramaswami

Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Director, Chadha Center for Global India

Andlinger Center Executive Committee

Location: E232 Engineering Quad
Phone Number: 609-258-5424
Email Address: anu.ramaswami@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Environmental science and engineering; industrial ecology; public health and public affairs; sustainable urban infrastructure systems

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Jorge Sarmiento

George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus

Location: 306A Forrestal Campus Sayre Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-6585
Email Address: jls@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Fundamental processes controlling the ocean-atmosphere distribution of climatically important chemicals, particularly carbon dioxide, and how these have changed through time; global carbon cycle, ocean biogeochemical dynamics, the impact of climate change on ocean biology and biogeochemistry, use of chemical tracers to study ocean circulation, paleoceanography

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Daniel Sigman

Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences

Professor of Geosciences

Andlinger Center Associated Faculty

Location: C358 Briger Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-2194
Email Address: sigman@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Earth’s environmental history; interactions among climate, ocean biogeochemistry, and atmospheric carbon dioxide; the global nitrogen cycle, today and in the past

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Gabriel A. Vecchi

Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences

Professor in the High Meadows Environmental Institute

Director, High Meadows Environmental Institute

Andlinger Center Executive Committee

Location: B230 Briger Hall
Phone Number: 609-258-7813
Email Address: gvecchi@princeton.edu

Research Description:

Understanding changes to the oceans and atmosphere, including the monsoons, El Niño, and the impact of climate on tropical cyclones, weather extremes, and global patterns of rainfall and drought. Climate modeling. Climate variability, change and predictability.

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