Professor Biological and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography Peter Hess is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering. His research interests focus on understanding atmospheric chemistry within the...
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Peter Hitchcock
Assistant Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Research Interests Dr. Hitchcock's research focuses on the dynamics and variability of the atmospheric circulation at the largest scales. He has a particular interest in the stratosphere. Hitchcock says that in recent...
Megan Holycross
Assistant Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography Megan Holycross joined Cornell’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in July 2020 as an assistant professor. Her research seeks to understand the processes that have differentiated the chemistry of...
David Hysell
M.Eng. Director Thomas R Briggs Professor in Engineering Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography David Hysell earned his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1992. Hysell investigates ionospheric plasma physics with a focus on plasma instabilities, ionospheric irregularities, and...
Teresa Eileen Jordan
J. Preston Levis Professor of Engineering Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography Teresa Jordan completed a B.S. in December 1974 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in June 1979 from Stanford University, both in Geology. She joined Cornell in 1979 in a...
Kade Keranen
Associate Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography Dr. Kade Keranen earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from Stanford University. She began her professional career at ExxonMobil Exploration as a geophysicist and then the United States Geological...
Flavio Lehner
Assistant Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography Flavio Lehner obtained a PhD in Climate Science from the University of Bern in Switzerland in 2013. After a brief engagement as Science Officer in the Technical Support Unit for the IPCC Fifth Assessment...
Rowena B. Lohman
Associate Professor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography Rowena Lohman received her B.S. in geology in 1998, and her Ph.D. in geophysics in 2004, both from the California Institute of Technology. She followed her time at Caltech with postdoctoral positions at...
Natalie M. Mahowald
Director of Graduate Studies for Atmospheric Sciences Irving Porter Church Professor in Engineering Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Biography Professor Mahowald has undergraduate degrees in German and physics from Washington University, an M.S. in natural resource...