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Associated Departments and Affiliated Personnel

Associated Academic Departments & Programs

The CGCS is an independent MIT research center in the School of Science that also includes participants from the School of Engineering. The CGCS is also active in cooperative efforts involving faculty and researchers from all areas of the Institute.

The Center's research team is comprised of faculty, staff and students, most of whom are affiliated with one of the following academic departments at MIT:

• Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
• Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
• Biology
• Chemical Engineering
• Chemistry
• MIT/WHOI Joint Program
Additional Interaction through Collaborative Efforts

Although most CGCS-affiliated faculty and staff hold an appointment in one of the academic departments noted above, CGCS participants are enaged in cooperative efforts with faculty and researchers from all areas of MIT, and beyond.

For example, a key CGCS activity is the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which is a joint effort formed in 1991 by the CGCS and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). The Joint Program brings CGCS participants together with researchers in departments representing all five Schools of the Institute, and other organizations, including, for example:

• Economics
• Political Science
• Sloan School of Management
• Urban Studies and Planning
• Engineering Systems Division
• Technology and Policy Program
• Earth System Initiative
• Energy Initiative
• Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
• Center for International Studies
• The Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory

Also, through involvement in collaborative research the Center represents a broad-based endeavor that includes cooperative international efforts with participants worldwide. Examples of these types of activities, which strengthen ties with climate researchers elsewhere, are the following:

• Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment
• Estimating the Circulation & Climate of the Ocean
• Soil Moisture Active Passive Project
• Energy and Water Cycle Study
• Alliance for Global Sustainability, which includes:
     • Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
     • University of Tokyo
     • Chalmers University of Technology

This interdisciplinary and international approach, which is organized to encourage collaboration of researchers with a wide variety of backgrounds and interests, is vital to effectively confront the complex challenge of understanding and predicting global change.

Affiliated Personnel     top

| Faculty | Staff | Biosketches |

The CGCS involves the participation of approximately 25 MIT faculty members, all of whom are active in research and teaching in an area related to at least one of the core CGCS foci. There are also about 25 professional full-time research staff and postdoctoral associates contributing to the Center's efforts.

The CGCS Directory provides brief biosketches of the faculty and researchers associated with the CGCS. The tables below list the affiliated MIT personnel, with the exception of the many graduate research assistants and undergraduate students participating in CGCS-related research projects.

The CGCS Director is Ronald G. Prinn, the Associate Director is Rafael L. Bras, and the Assistant Director is Anne Slinn. For futher information contact the CGCS office at cgcs@mit.edu. If you're looking for a name not on the lists below, try searching the MIT Directory.

CGCS Faculty and Senior/Principal Research Scientists     top     | staff list|

Faculty Member Department research area position
Boyle, Edward A. EAPS paleoceanograhy, ocean chemistry faculty
Bras, Rafael L. CEE & EAPS hydroclimatology, hydrometeorology CGCS Associate Director
Chisholm, Penny CEE & Biology ocean biology faculty
Eagleson, Peter S. CEE hydrology emeritus
Eltahir, Elfatih CEE biosphere-atmosphere interaction faculty
Emanuel, Kerry A. EAPS convection and moist processes faculty
Entekhabi, Dara CEE & EAPS hydrology, climate predictability faculty
Ferrari, Raffaele EAPS ocean mixing faculty
Flierl, Glenn R. EAPS ocean modeling, carbon cycle faculty
Hemond, Harold F. CEE wetland hydrology, biogeochemistry faculty
King, Jonathan A. Biology molecular biology faculty
Lindzen, Richard S. EAPS climate dynamics faculty
Marshall, John EAPS ocean modeling faculty
McLaughlin, Dennis CEE hydrologic modeling faculty
McRae, Gregory J. ChemE air pollution modeling, uncertainty faculty
Mei, Chiang C. CEE hydrodynamics, coastal processes faculty
Plumb, R. Alan EAPS atmospheric dynamics faculty
Polz, Martin CEE environmental microbiology faculty
Prinn, Ronald G. EAPS atmospheric chemistry CGCS Director
Rizzoli, Paola EAPS ocean circulation faculty
Staelin, David H. EECS remote sensing faculty
Stone, Peter H. EAPS climate modeling, predictability emeritus
Wunsch, Carl I. EAPS ocean model-data comparisons faculty
Senior Research Scientists and Principal Research Scientists & Engineers
Follows, Mick EAPS ocean circulation, carbon cycle senior research scientist
Forest, Chris CGCS climate observations principal research scientist
Heimbach, Patrick EAPS ocean modeling principal research scientist
Hill, Christopher EAPS atmosphere & ocean model development principal research scientist
Schlosser, Adam CGCS ecosystem and hydrology models principal research scientist
Wang, Chien CGCS atmospheric chemistry principal research scientist
Williams, Earle R. CEE atmospheric physics, lightning principal research engineer

 

CGCS Research Staff and Administrative Staff     top    | faculty list |

Research Staff Department research area or task position
Campin, Jean-Michel EAPS ocean circulation modeling research scientist
Castanho, Andrea EAPS aerosol measurements postdoctoral fellow
Condron, Alan EAPS global circulation postdoctoral associate
Dutkiewicz, Stephanie EAPS ocean biogeochemical modeling research scientist
Evangelinos, Constantinos EAPS computation, model development research scientist
Ferreira, David EAPS coupled oceant-atmosphere modeling research scientist
Gao, Xiang CGCS hydrologic data and modeling postdoctoral associate
Hill, Helen EAPS ocean convection research scientist
Hodson, Elke CGCS trace gas emissions postdoctoral associate
Huang, Jin CGCS inverse emissions estimation research scientist
Jeong, Gill-Ran CGCS aerosol modeling postdoctoral associate
Manizza, Manfredi EAPS ocean biogeochemical cycles postdoctoral associate
Maze, Guillaume EAPS air-sea interactions, climate variability postdoctoral associate
Mena, Marcelo EAPS energy, pollution, climate postdoctoral fellow
Rigby, Matthew CGCS inverse emissions estimation postdoctoral associate
Scott, Jeffery EAPS ocean modeling research scientist
Selin, Noelle CGCS air pollution, human health postdoctoral associate
Sokolov, Andrei CGCS climate modeling research scientist
Administrative Staff  
Goldstein, Frances CGCS Global Change Forum program administrator
Joseph, Robens CGCS fiscal officer financial administrator
Richard, Michael CGCS human resources personnel administrator
Salmons, Sally CGCS secretarial and scheduling administrative support
Slinn, Anne CGCS science/research administration CGCS Assistant Director
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  7/2008