Faculty

Dr. Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. His research focuses on climate science and climate change. He was selected by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002, was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union in 2012.

I am a biogeochemist with a broad interest in the cycling of elements through the Earth system. My current research focuses on the role of glacial meltwater in downstream biogeochemical cycles. I take particular interest in the potential of meltwater to influence the structure and productivity of ecosystems, subglacial biogeochemical weathering processes, and the mobilization of nutrients and toxic elements in freshwater environments and export to coastal ecosystems.

Fluid dynamicist unraveling geophysical and environmental flows. My research focuses on characterizing the physics governing transport and mixing processes in natural waters, such as lakes and coastal seas. For this, I blend theory, high-resolution numerical modelling with laboratory and field observations. My goal is to develop mathematical models that reproduce and provide a physical understanding of the functioning of aquatic environments.

Joseph S. Francisco is focused on bringing new tools from experimental physical and theoretical chemistry to atmospheric chemical problems to enhance our understanding of chemistry in the atmosphere at the molecular level. This work has led to important discoveries of new chemistries occurring on the interfaces of cloud surfaces as well as fundamental new chemical bonding controlling these processes. His current work is investigating how solar radiation impacts chemistry on clouds interfaces.

Board Certified Professional Engineer

Board Certified Environmental Engineer

Honorary Diplomat in Water Resources Engineering

Reto Gieré investigates Earth materials, their response to geological forces, and their interaction with the environment and humans. He is engaged in research projects around the world and is dedicated to promoting the health of our fragile planet through teaching, mentoring and research. He obtained his Ph.D.

Jane’s undergraduate research at the University of California at Santa Barbara was on paleomagnetics and recent tectonics (measuring movement along faults throughout California as well as the Teton fault in Wyoming). Her graduate research at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena on magnetic paleointensity, earthquakes, plate tectonics and marine seismology took her to Antarctica, Mexico, Chili, New Zealand, and throughout the South Pacific Ocean.

Attended Middlebury College, Class of 1998 (B.A. Physics, B.A. Mathematics). Received PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from Princeton University in 2005. Conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2005-2007- as a NOAA Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Global Change - and at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from 2007-2009. Joined the EES department at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 as a Lecturer, and was appointed Assistant Professor in 2012.