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Elsie Sunderland

Fred Kavli Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Research in the Sunderland Lab focuses on how biogeochemical processes affect the fate, transport and food web bioaccumulation of trace metals and organic chemicals. Her group develops and applies models at a variety of scales ranging from ecosystems and ocean basins (e.g., the Gulf of Maine, the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans) to global applications to characterize how changes in climate and emissions affect human and ecological health, and the potential impacts of regulatory activities. Her group also makes key measurements of chemical concentrations and reaction rates in environmental samples (natural waters, sediments, and aquatic biota) and humans (hair, blood) to parameterize and evaluate environmental models.

Ongoing research is elucidating the biogeochemical cycling of compounds with contrasting physical and chemical properties that can be used to obtain insights into the varying exposure pathways and environmental lifetimes for industrial chemicals. The innovation in this work is to quantitatively analyze the entire exposure pathway for these compounds to identify their properties in air and water (e.g., stability in the atmosphere, photodegradation in water, environmental partitioning behavior) that enhance chemical persistence and ultimate accumulation in biota.

Assistant: Robert Stanhope

Faculty Web Page
SEAS Website
Pierce Hall 127
ems@seas.harvard.edu
p: (617) 496-0858

Eli Tziperman

Pamela and Vasco McCoy, Jr. Professor of Oceanography and Applied Physics

Eli Tziperman joined Harvard as a Professor of oceanography and applied physics in 2003.  His research interests include large-scale climate and ocean dynamics, including El Nino, thermohaline circulation, abrupt climate change, glacial cycles and equable climates; advanced methods of ocean data assimilation. 

He teaches courses in oceanography, climate and applied math.  Before Joining Harvard he was a post doc to a prof, 1988-2003, at the Weizmann institute of science.  He holds a BA in physics and mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and a PhD in physical oceanography from the joint program of MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Large scale climate and ocean dynamics, including El Nino, thermohaline circulation, abrupt climate change, glacial cycles and equable climates.

Research Group Coordinator: Priya Putta

Eli Tziperman's Website
SEAS Website
EPS
20 Oxford St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Office location - Geological Museum 456
eli@eps.harvard.edu
p: (617) 384-8381, f: (617) 496-7411

Kevin Uno

Associate Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology
Affiliated Faculty Member of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Kevin Uno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
Kevin Uno Website
11 Divinity Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138
kevinuno@fas.harvard.edu

Robin Wordsworth

Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Theoretical and numerical modelling of planetary climate; paleoclimates of Earth and Mars, exoplanet atmospheric composition and habitability, radiative transfer, geophysical fluid dynamics

Faculty Web Page
SEAS Website
Geological Museum 451

Administrative Support:
Emma Sachi Duncan - Pierce 232 617-496-2145
eduncan@seas.harvard.edu
rwordsworth@seas.harvard.edu

Carl Wunsch

Visiting Professor of Physical Oceanography and Climate

Professor Wunch's area of expertise is physical oceanography and its relation to climate. His work is generally in the area relating global scale observations to theoretical and modeling ideas. Large scale state estimation and inverse methods are used to determine the ocean circulation and its properties and variability on time scales of millennia to hours.

Harvard Website
MIT Website
Office location: Geological Museum 426
cwunsch@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-496-2732

Anders Albertsen

Associate
Perez-Mercader Lab, Rowland Institute

Anders N. Albertsen studied Chemistry at the Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT) under the supervision of Assoc. Prof.  Pierre-Alain Monnard.  The Ph.D. thesis, "Study of Replication Processes in Minimal Self-Replicating Systems", was defended in December 2013. Anders joined the Perez-Mercader group in February 2014.

albertsen@fas.harvard.edu

Gina Armstrong

Financial Associate
Provides support and oversight for general financial transactions, including purchases, reimbursements, and corporate and purchasing cards.
Hoffman 406
armstr3@fas.harvard.edu
p: 617-496-1907