Faculty Listing

Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 429
860-685-3129

Chair, Earth & Environmental Sciences

mgilmore@wesleyan.edu

BA Franklin & Marshall
MSC Brown University
PHD Brown University

E&ES151 - 01
The Planets

E&ES151 - 02
The Planets

E&ES151 - 03
The Planets

E&ES151 - 04
The Planets

E&ES397 - 01
Senior Seminar

E&ES555 - 01
Planetary Seminar

E&ES557 - 01
Advanced Research Seminars

E&ES195 - 01
Sophomore Field Seminar

E&ES398 - 01
Senior Field Research Project

E&ES557 - 01
Advanced Research Seminars

Office Hours:
By appointment; send me an email.

Scholarly Keywords:
Planetary Geology

Lab URL:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/planetary/msggroup/index.html

Publications:
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NxQ1-3gAAAAJ

Robert Schumann Professor of Environmental Studies
Exley Science Center 427
860-685-2452

Professor of Biology
Exley Science Center 327
860-685-2452

Director, College of the Environment
284 High Street
860-685-2452

Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 327
860-685-2452

Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-2452

Chair, Environmental Studies Program
860-685-2452

bchernoff@wesleyan.edu

BS SUNY at Stony Brook
MS Adelphi University
PHD University of Michigan

BIOL320 - 01
Quantitative Methods

BIOL507 - 01
Evolution Journal Club I

ENVS391 - 01
Senior Colloquium

ENVS419 - 01
Student Forum

BIOL508 - 01
Evolution Journal Club II

ENVS201 - 01
Research Methods in ENVS

ENVS392 - 01
Senior Colloquium

Personal Homepage:
http://bchernoff.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:

Spring 2013: M 10:00-11:30 in COE (284 High St. 2nd Floor) and Th 2:30-4:00  in Exley Science Tower 331 or by appointment.

Scholarly Keywords:

Ecology, Evolution and biogeography of freshwater fishes; morphological evolution; conservation of aquatic ecosystems.

BA Carthage College
MA Syracuse University
PHD Syracuse University

E&ES322 - 01
Introduction to GIS

E&ES324 - 01
GIS Service Learning Lab

BS SUNY at Binghamton
MS Brown University
PHD Brown University

E&ES386 - 01
Cosmochemistry

E&ES120 - 01
Mars, Moon, and Earth

E&ES155 - 01
Hazardous Earth

Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center
860-685-2265

tcku@wesleyan.edu

BS University of Rochester
MS University of Michigan
PHD University of Michigan

E&ES280 - 01
Environmental Geochemistry

E&ES281 - 01
Envir Geochem Lab

Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 431
860-685-2262

soconnell@wesleyan.edu

BA Oberlin College
MS SUNY at Albany
PHD Columbia University

E&ES199 - 01
Intro to Environmental Science

Office Hours:
Tuesdays 2-2:30, in Exley. Other times by appointment. Email is the best way to contact me.

Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science

Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 435
860-685-2268

Professor, Environmental Studies

ppatton@wesleyan.edu

BA Franklin & Marshall
MAA Wesleyan University
MS Colorado St University
PHD University of Texas Austin

E&ES397 - 01
Senior Seminar

E&ES317 - 01
Hydrology

E&ES319 - 01
Hydrology Laboratory

E&ES398 - 01
Senior Field Research Project

ENVS285 - 01
Environmental Law & Policy

Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 443
860-685-3139

presor@wesleyan.edu

AB Dartmouth College
MS University of Wyoming
PHD Stanford University

E&ES223 - 01
Structural Geology

E&ES225 - 01
Field Geology

Personal Homepage:
http://presor.faculty.wesleyan.edu/

Office Hours:
Spring 2013: Monday 1:30-2:30, Friday 11-11:50

Research Interests:
Crustal deformation

Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 445
860-685-2836

Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-2836

droyer@wesleyan.edu

BA University of Pennsylvania
PHD Yale University

E&ES197 - 01
Intro to Env Studies

E&ES229 - 01
Geobiology Laboratory

E&ES233 - 01
Geobiology

Personal Homepage:
http://droyer.web.wesleyan.edu

Office Hours:
open door policy and by appointment

Research Interests:
I explore how plants can be used to reconstruct ancient environments, and the (paleo-) physiological underpinnings behind these plant-environment relationships. Recent and current projects include the reconstruction of early Paleogene and middle Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from the stomatal distributions in plant leaves, and the development of mechanistically-grounded proxies for climate and leaf ecology from the size and shape of fossil leaves. I also compile Phanerozoic carbon dioxide records and investigate the strength of carbon dioxide-temperature coupling over multi-million-year timescales.

Scholarly Keywords:
Global change; paleoclimatology; paleoecology; carbon cycle; paleobotany; plant physiology

Research Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 459
860-685-2238

ethomas@wesleyan.edu

BS University of Utrecht
MS University of Utrecht
PHD University of Utrecht

Personal Homepage:
http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu

Research Interests:

Paleoceanography - reconstruction of climates of the past; influence of greenhouse climates on ocean circulation and biots - interaction between life and climate

Scholarly Keywords:

Paleoceanography/paleoclimate/micropaleontology

Academic Associations:

American Geophysical Union, British Micropalaeontological Society, Cushman Association for Foraminiferal Research, Geological Society of America, Oceanography Society

Grants:

Keck Consortium (2008, with J.C. Varekamp): Block Island Holocene environments, $38,000.- NSF:2007-2009, Oceanic productivity and the carbon cycle during the end Cretaceous mass extinction, $200.000.- USSAC/NSF: Participation in ODP Leg 208, cruise salary and postcruise funding, $50,109.-, 2003-2005 NSF: Consequences of Greenhouse Warming for Biocomplexity and Biogeochemical Cycles: a multidisciplinary case study across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, PIs J. Zachos, G. Dickens, P. Koch, E. Thomas, P. Delaney, L. Sloan, T. Bralower, J. Meng, S. Wing, L. Kump, $2,500,000.-; Wesleyan subcontract $216,710.-; 2001-2006.

Publications:
http://ethomas.web.wesleyan.edu/publications.htm

Editorial Boards:

Editor Geology; Editorial Boards: 1). Marine Micropaleontology 2).Palaegeography, Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology

Board Memberships:

Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research Board of Directors

Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science
860-685-2248

Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences
Exley Science Center 451
860-685-2248

Professor, Environmental Studies
860-685-2248

jvarekamp@wesleyan.edu

BS University of Utrecht
MS University of Utrecht
PHD University of Utrecht
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E&ES154 - 01
Volcanoes of the World

E&ES380 - 01
Volcanology

E&ES381 - 01
Volcanology Lab Course

ENVS361 - 01
Living in a Polluted World

Personal Homepage:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/ees/JCV/varekamp.html

Office Hours:
open door policy

Research Interests:
Volcanic Lakes (acid and hot lakes on active volcanoes, volcano monitoring, environmental impacts, relations with ore deposition) Environmental Geochemistry (Mercury pollution and dispersal, links with biosphere) Environmental History from sediment cores (Sea level rise records from salt marshes, water quality records from LIS, climate records from LIS) Modelling (energy budget models for lakes, lake mixing models, climate models, stable isotope models)

Scholarly Keywords:
Environmental Chemistry
Volcanology
Climate Change

Grants:
LIS research $128K, $123K Hg research $57K Metal pollution research $22K Public Science writing $2K

Publications:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/ees/JCV/publications.html

BA Amherst College
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Stanford University

Personal Homepage:
http://jgutmann.web.wesleyan.edu/index.html

BA Dartmouth College
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD Columbia University

BS University of Utrecht
MAA Wesleyan University
PHD University of Utrecht