Our听Faculty Research Scientists have appointments at INSTAAR. They lead and participate in research projects and programs, and often mentor students and otherwise contribute to INSTAAR鈥檚 education mission.
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![Portrait of Robert Brakenridge](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/brakenridge_robert.jpg?itok=9wq5Kx6i)
Robert Brakenridge
Senior Research Associate • Founder & Associate Director, DFO Flood Observatory • • Surface water changes
![Photo of Fernando Briones](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/fernando-briones-pic.png?itok=G5HHxssp)
Fernando Briones
Research Affiliate • • Resilience • Social vulnerability • Disaster risk reduction
Environmental Studies
![Picture of Alton Byers](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/alton-byers.png?itok=85scMcqr)
Alton C. Byers
Senior Research Associate • Co-Manager, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP) • Senior Fellow, The Mountain Institute • • Alpine conservation and restoration
![Portrait of Gary Clow](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/clow-gary_0.png?itok=d4Ve0Eta)
Gary Clow
Senior Research Associate • Research Geophysicist • • Thermal geophysics • Polar sciences • Climate change
![Portrait of Mickey Glantz](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/glantz_mickey.png?itok=oCCTssIL)
Mickey Glantz
Senior Research Associate • Director, Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) • • Societal impacts of El Ni帽o events and climate change
![Portrait of Eric Hutton](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/hutton_eric.jpg?itok=aUl0J56G)
Eric Hutton
Chief Software Engineer, CSDMS • Research Associate
![Portrait of Chris Jenkins](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/jenkins_chris_0.png?itok=gZS_ZkwF)
Chris Jenkins
Research Associate • Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide • • Marine geology • Stratigraphy • Data integration
![Portrait of Craig M. Lee](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/lee_craig_0.png?itok=TBnRKU00)
Craig M. Lee
Research Associate •
• Environmental archaeology • Human responses to climate change • Archaeometry
• Environmental archaeology • Human responses to climate change • Archaeometry
![Picture of Sebastien Lenard](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/sebastien-lenard.png?itok=4XSnScGa)
Sebastien Lenard
Research Associate • Research Software Engineer • • Climate change • Snow • Remote sensing • Software • Computing
![Portrait of William F. Manley](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/manley_william_0.png?itok=bGe0m2Zb)
William F. Manley
Research Associate •
• Arctic data science • Geospatial analysis of environmental change
• Arctic data science • Geospatial analysis of environmental change
![Portrait of Martin W. Miles](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/miles_martin_0.png?itok=jO1TxZB9)
Martin W. Miles
Research Associate • Research Scientist II, NORCE/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research • • Arctic sea ice • Greenland and Nordic seas
![Photo of Cajetan Neubauer](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/Caj_profile_2024_2000x2000_0.png?itok=ohH2bQPv)
Cajetan (Caj) Neubauer
Research Associate • • Biochemistry • Mass spectrometry • Stable isotope signatures
Geological Sciences
![Picture of Cynthia Nevison](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/cynthia-nevison-profile.png?itok=-UlqY3pC)
Cynthia Nevison
Research Associate •
• Biochemistry • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
• Biochemistry • Biosphere-atmosphere interactions
![Picture of Cara Nissen](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/cara-nissen.png?itok=ImbekH-g)
Cara Nissen
Research Associate • • Ocean biogeochemical cycles • Bio-physical interactions • Ocean modeling
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
![Portrait of Mark Piper](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/piper_mark.png?itok=96ORsPgj)
Mark Piper
Research Associate • Research Software Engineer, CSDMS •
![Portrait of Chris Ray](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/ray_chris_0.png?itok=y9Jqv-QF)
Chris Ray
Research Associate • • Animal ecology • Pikas
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
![Portrait of Dirk Richter](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/richter_dirk_0.png?itok=UKVqJXdT)
Dirk Richter
Research Associate • • Airborne atmospheric research
![Photo of Karl Rittger](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/rittger-karl.png?itok=9OzKeEoV)
Karl Rittger
Research Associate • • Remote sensing of ice and snow • Earth energy and water balance • Large-scale data modeling
![Portrait of Kimberly G. Rogers](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/rogers_kimberly_0.png?itok=B0cEXw62)
Kimberly G. Rogers
Research Associate •
• Environmental governance • Continental margin evolution
• Environmental governance • Continental margin evolution
![Portrait of Tania Schoennagel](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/schoennagel_tania_0.png?itok=Y-6gomux)
Tania Schoennagel
Assistant Professor Adjunct •
• Fire ecology • Landscape ecology • Dendrochronolgy
• Fire ecology • Landscape ecology • Dendrochronolgy
Geography
![Portrait of Sharon Stammerjohn](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/stammerjohn_sharon_0.png?itok=Rdg3B3WJ)
Sharon Stammerjohn
Senior Research Associate • Adjunct Assoc Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory • • Polar oceanography and climate
![Photo of Petter Weibring](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/weibring-petter.png?itok=ajdLSuEP)
Petter Weibring
Research Associate • • Optical remote sensing
![Portrait of Will Wieder](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/wieder_will_0.png?itok=WTzgkonQ)
Will Wieder
Investigator, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) •
• Soil biochemistry • Earth system modeling • Tropical forest ecology
• Soil biochemistry • Earth system modeling • Tropical forest ecology
![Portrait of Tsegay Wolde-Georgis](/instaar/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/wolde-georgis_tsegay.png?itok=aWZZllNG)
Tsegay Wolde-Georgis
Research Associate • • Climate and society • Capacity building