Our Faculty Fellows govern the institute and help lead INSTAAR's research and education missions. Reach out to individual fellows for information about joining INSTAAR, especially if you are a prospective student or staff member. INSTAAR's Director is Nikki Lovenduski.
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![Portrait of Bob Anderson](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/anderson-bob.png?itok=6RfJEflF)
Robert S. Anderson
Distinguished Professor • • Geomorphology
Geological Sciences • Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
![Portrait of Suzanne Anderson](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/anderson_suzanne_1.png?itok=aSJsZ7n3)
Suzanne Anderson
Professor • • Geomorphology • Weathering • Hydrology
Geological Sciences • Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
![Picture of Holly Barnard](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/barnard_holly.png?itok=shxMT65j)
Holly R. Barnard
Associate Dean of Research • Professor • Co-Director, Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program • PI, Critical Zone Dynamic Water • • Ecohydrology • Tree physiology • Stable isotope geochemistry
Geography • Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
![Picture of Cassandra Brooks](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/cassandra-brooks.png?itok=NMiDqxic)
Cassandra Brooks
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies • • Marine science • Environmental governance • Antarctica
Environmental Studies
![Picture of Sarah Elmendorf](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/elmendorf-sarah.png?itok=jmc3v7Zu)
Sarah Elmendorf
Research Associate •
• Plant ecology • Climate change • Tundra
• Plant ecology • Climate change • Tundra
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
![Picture of Alan Fried](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/fried-alan.png?itok=9-irLyCL)
Alan Fried
Senior Research Associate • • Atmospheric processes • Chemical transformations • Advanced laser technology
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
![Picture of Michael Gooseff](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/gooseff-michael_0.png?itok=_rw_yBPA)
Michael Gooseff
Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering • Professor • Co-Director, Hydrologic Sciences Program • PI, McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER • • Stream-groundwater interactions
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering • Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
![Portrait of Alexandra Jahn](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/jahn_alexandra_0.png?itok=g5f5RNuz)
Alexandra Jahn
Associate Professor • • Climate modeling • Cryosphere • Oceanography
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
![Portrait of Anne Jennings](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/annejennings-2022.png?itok=AH6qOXqF)
Anne Jennings
Senior Research Associate • Editor, Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research • • Arctic paleoclimate & paleoceanography • Ice-sheet/ocean interactions • Foraminifera
![Picture of Tyler Jones](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/jones-tyler-2.png?itok=OEMopwoZ)
Tyler Jones
Assistant Research Professor • • Polar ice cores • Permafrost • Glaciology • Abrupt climate change
![Portrait of Albert Kettner](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/kettner_albert_0.png?itok=RebDEz7X)
Albert J. Kettner
Associate Professor, Research • Associate Director, INSTAAR • Director, DFO Flood Observatory • • Hydrology • Sediment transport • Flooding • Numerical modeling
![Jianghanyang (Ben) Li](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/Jianghanyang_Ben_Li.png?itok=MV08tQ0G)
Jianghanyang (Ben) Li
Assistant Professor •
• Atmospheric chemistry • Stable isotope geochemistry
• Atmospheric chemistry • Stable isotope geochemistry
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
![Portrait of Nikki Lovenduski](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/lovenduski-nikki.png?itok=FaJnP6lW)
Nikki Lovenduski
Professor • Director, INSTAAR • • Marine carbon cycle • Climate variability • Ocean modeling
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences • Graduate Certificate in Oceanography
![Picture of Tom Marchitto](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/marchitto-2.png?itok=xKFKUtPn)
Tom Marchitto
Professor • Associate Director of Laboratories, INSTAAR • Director, ICP-MS Trace Metal Laboratory • • Paleoceanography • Paleoclimatology
Geological Sciences • Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
![Picture of Brad Markle](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/markle_bradley.png?itok=7awb1hmy)
Bradley Markle
Assistant Professor • • Isotope biogeochemistry • Paleoclimate and climate dynamics
Geological Sciences
![Portrait of Diane McKnight](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/mcknight_diane.png?itok=zq2htw35)
Diane M. McKnight
Distinguished Professor • • Limnology • Biogeochemistry of lakes and streams
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering • Environmental Studies • Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
![Picture of Giff Miller](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/miller_gifford.jpg?itok=RjPbrB6H)
Gifford H. Miller
Distinguished Professor • Director, Center for Geochemical Analysis of the Global Environment (GAGE) • • Quaternary stratigraphy • Geochronology • Paleoclimatology
Geological Sciences
![Picture of Noah Molotch](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/molotch_noah.png?itok=KZwghFCw)
Noah P. Molotch
Associate Professor • • Surface water and snow hydrology • Remote sensing • Ecohydrology
Geography • Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
![Portrait of Julia Moriarty](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/julia-moriarty-profile.png?itok=u1-VhcsS)
Julia Moriarty
Assistant Professor • • Coastal oceanography • Numerical modeling • Sediment transport • Biogeochemistry
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
![Photo of Keith Musselman](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/musselman_keith.png?itok=hNA66iVm)
Keith Musselman
Assistant Professor • • Hydrology • Climate change • Hydrometeorology • Remote sensing • Modeling
Geography
![Picture of Astrid Ogilvie](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/ogilvie-astrid_0.png?itok=Jz8NlmFZ)
Astrid E. J. Ogilvie
Senior Research Associate • Senior Scientist, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland • • Human ecology of Arctic and subarctic regions
Environmental Studies
![Photo of Isabella A. Oleksy](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/isabella-oleksy.png?itok=EAAjo7yz)
Isabella A. Oleksy
Assistant Professor • • Limnology • Biogeochemistry • Ecosystem ecology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
![Portrait of Irina Overeem](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/overeem-irina.png?itok=Yq42PzeU)
Irina Overeem
Associate Professor • Deputy Director, CSDMS • • Earth surface process modeling • Coastal and river geomorphology
Geological Sciences
![Portrait of Scott Peckham](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/peckham_scott.png?itok=eycB4f_1)
Scott D. Peckham
Research Associate • • Hydrology • Geomorphology • Modeling • Cyberinfrastructure
![Photo of Shaily Rahman](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/shaily-rahman-portrait.png?itok=DQncZWeZ)
Shaily Rahman
Assistant Professor • • Isotope biogeochemistry • Chemical oceanography • Global geochemical cycles
Geological Sciences
![Picture of Tim Seastedt](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/seastedt-2.png?itok=2CM_f8Ce)
Tim Seastedt
Professor Emeritus • • Terrestrial ecosystem ecology • Grassland ecology • Plant-soil-animal interactions
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
![Picture of Julio Sepúlveda](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/Sepulveda_Julio_headshot-1.png?itok=IVVeuwLS)
Julio Sepúlveda
Associate Professor • Assistant Director of JEDI, INSTAAR • • Biogeochemistry • Geobiology • Biomarker research • Paleoclimate & paleoceanography
Geological Sciences
![Picture of Sarah Spaulding](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/spaulding_sarah.png?itok=-0tvjiTI)
Sarah Spaulding
Research Associate • Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey • • Diatoms • Biogeography • Paleoecology
![Picture of Robert Stallard](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/stallard_robert.png?itok=duBdWfPS)
Robert F. Stallard
Professor Adjoint • Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey • Research Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama • • Biogeochemistry • Hydrology
Environmental Studies
![Portrait of Katharine Suding](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/suding_katharine_0.png?itok=nDFrgPhE)
Katharine Suding
Distinguished Professor • PI, Niwot Ridge LTER • • Plant community ecology • Restoration and conservation • Invasion biology
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
![Picture of Scott Taylor](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/scott-taylor.png?itok=6uUxeKmd)
Scott Taylor
Associate Professor • Director, Mountain Research Station • • Evolutionary ecology • Population genomics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
![Picture of Bruce Vaughn](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/vaughn_bruce.png?itok=-P4VaOe0)
Bruce H. Vaughn
Research Associate • Manager, Stable Isotope Lab • • Isotopic analysis in global change • Carbon cycle • Instrument development
![Portrait of Jim White](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/white_jim.png?itok=EUe8gIEU)
James W. C. White
Craver Family Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Fellow in absentia • • Global change • Paleoclimate dynamics • Biogeochemistry