EEAS students and faculty conduct high-impact research in Environmental Geoscience and Atmospheric Sciences. Our research includes global-scale and regional modeling, state-of-the-art laboratory analyses including trace metal and stable isotopes, and field research that engages our students and faculty in countries across the globe.

Climatology, Climate Variability, Forecasting and Modeling of Extreme Events (Droughts, Floods, Snow Squalls), Ensemble Modeling, Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure, Mesoscale Wind Patterns, Synoptic-scale Circulations.

Research Groups:

• Frank Colby
• Matthew Barlow

Environmental Geochemistry, Petrology, Geochronology, Isotopic Measurements, Cosmogenic Exposure Dating.

Research Groups:

• Nelson Eby
• Richard Gaschnig
• Kate Swanger

Rock Weathering Processes, Blast Petrology, Forensic Geology Cold-based Glacier Processes and Deposits, Buried Ice Geochemical Records, McMurdo Dry Valleys Geology, Tree Ring Studies.

Research Groups:

• Nelson Eby
• Kate Swanger

Global and Regional Element Cycles, Heavy Metal Contamination, Atmospheric Chemistry, Greenhouse Gas Dynamics, Atmosphere-Surface Flux Exchange, Soil Pollution, Hydrologic Cycle and Hydrogeology.

Research Groups:

• Nelson Eby
• Daniel Obrist
• Lori Weeden
• Arnold O’Brien

Spectral Line Shapes, Planetary Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of the Earth’s Troposphere, Stratosphere, and Ionosphere, Planetary Atmospheres, Ionospheric Modeling and Prediction.

Research Groups:

• Robert Gamache

EEAS students and faculty conduct high-impact research in Environmental Geoscience and Atmospheric Sciences. Our research includes global-scale and regional modeling, state-of-the-art laboratory analyses including trace metal and stable isotopes, and field research that engages our students and faculty in countries across the globe.