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Dr. Peter Kelemen

Peter Kelemen is the Arthur D. Storke Professor of Geochemistry at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory where he moved from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2004. In addition to his academic work, he was a mineral exploration consultant from 1980 to 1991, evaluating deposits of copper, gold, and platinum in the steeper parts of Canada, Alaska and Greenland.

Dr. Keleman’s research interests include CO2 capture and storage via in situ mineral carbonation in peridotite and basalt; melting and reactive melt transport in the Earth's mantle and...Read more

Michael B. Gerrard

Michael B. Gerrard teaches courses on environmental law, climate change law, and energy law, and is director of the Center for Climate Change Law. He is also Associate Chair of the faculty of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. From 1979 through 2008 he practiced environmental law in New York, most recently as partner in charge of the New York office of Arnold & Porter LLP. Upon joining the Columbia law faculty in 2009, he became Senior Counsel to the firm.  His practice involved trying numerous cases and arguing many appeals in federal and state courts and administrative...Read more

Scott Barrett

Scott Barrett is the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. His research focuses on how institutions like norms, customary law, resolutions, and treaties can be used to promote international cooperation on issues like climate change and disease eradication.

He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles as well as two books, "Environment and Statecraft" and "Why Cooperate?," both published by Oxford University Press. In addition to his academic work, he has advised a number of international organizations on these issues and was...Read more

Venkat Venkatasubramanian

Venkat Venkatasubramanian is the Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering, professor of computer science (affiliate), and professor of industrial engineering and operations research (affiliate) at Columbia University. He earned his doctoral degree in chemical engineering at Cornell University, master’s degree in physics at Vanderbilt, and bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Madras, India. He taught at Purdue University for 23 years, before returning to Columbia in 2011.

Venkat's research interests are...Read more

Juerg Matter

Jeurg Matter several research interests in the intersection between geology, climate change and energy. He is especially interested in geologic carbon sequestration and how fluid-gas-rock reactions can lead to secure and permanent sequestration of industrial carbon dioxide. Currently, he is working in three overlapping areas:

  • CO2-water-rock interactions and reactive flow in deep aquifers
  • Fluid flow and solute transport in saturated media
  • Subsurface fluid injection and geomechanical stability of reservoir rocks.
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Klaus Lackner

Klaus Lackner is the Ewing Worzel Professor of Geophysics and the Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Lackner’s current research interests include carbon capture and sequestration, air capture, energy systems and scaling properties (including synthetic fuels and wind energy), energy and environmental policy, lifecycle analysis, and zero emission modeling for coal and cement plants.

Lackner earned his Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics, summa cum laude, in 1978 from Heidelberg University, was awarded the Clemm-Haas...Read more

Alissa Park

Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park is the Lenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science of Earth and Environmental Engineering & Chemical Engineering at Columbia University. She is also the Associate Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. Her research interests include carbon capture, utilization and storage, sustainable energy conversion systems, particle technology and multiphase flows. The specific on-going research efforts of Park's group include the fundamental studies of novel Nanoparticle Organic Hybrid Materials for application in CO2 capture, conversion and storage,...Read more

Zhengrong Wang

Zhengrong Wang's research interest is concerned with theoretical and experimental studies of stable isotope fractionation and trace element partition as means to understanding properties and evolution of different terrestrial reservoirs and dynamics of interaction among them over geological times. ...Read more

Brad Sageman

Brad Sageman is Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding the Earth's carbon cycle, including controls on natural variations in the cycle, perturbations from fossil fuel use, and predictions of future carbon cycle behavior in a warming world. At Weinberg, Brad teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in physical geology, sedimentary geology, and paleobiology, among other subject areas. ...Read more

Meet Chris Lowe – Featured YP for February

February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013

Meet Chris Lowe and learn about his graduate work in biomedical engineering at Rutgers, how he spends his time outside of work, and more.

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