Our climate change science research informs projections of extreme climate events, including heatwaves, droughts, floods and other threats to our water supply. It uses Earth system models to analyze how climate change interacts with a changing biosphere, oceans, and atmosphere. It uses the principles of quantum mechanics to develop new ways to analyze the atmosphere’s composition from space. And it takes a ‘deep time’ perspective on climate change through paleoclimatology.

Meet Our Faculty

  • Mathew Barlow
    Professor, Interim Department Chair
    Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Initiative

    Climate Variability and Climate Change

  • Robert Gamache
    Professor Emeritus
    Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Initiative

    Theoretical molecular spectroscopy with emphasis on the spectral line shape problem

  • James Heiss
    Assistant Professor
    Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, SWIMMER

    Coastal Hydrogeology, Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions, Coastal Groundwater Resources, Aquifer Biogeochemistry

  • Christopher Skinner, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Initiative

    Climate Change, Weather Extremes, Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions, Climate Modeling

  • Kate Swanger
    Associate Professor
    Environmental Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Initiative

    Earth Surface processes & paleoclimatology, with an emphasis on glacial geology, permafrost processes & high-latitude climate change