Experts by Expertise: Earth Science

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8/2/22
Joseph Atkinson
Director of the Great Lakes Program
Expertise: Great Lakes water levels, flooding and water pollution

Phone: 716-645-2220
Email: atkinson@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Irus Braverman

Professor of Law

Expertise: laws governing animals, zoos, wildlife, coral reefs, extinction and climate change law, law and society, law and conservation, law and the environment, environmental justice in Israel/Palestine
Phone: 716-645-3030
Email: irusb@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Jason Briner
Professor of Geology
Expertise: climate change, sea level rise, glaciers, ice sheets, Greenland Ice Sheet, Arctic environmental change
Phone: 716-645-4326
Email: jbriner@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Beata Csatho
Professor and Chair of Geology

Expertise: climate change, sea level rise, Greenland Ice Sheet, Antarctic ice loss, glaciers, remote sensing, using satellite data and laser altimetry to measure the Earth

Phone: 716-645-4325
Email: bcsatho@buffalo.edu
8/19/21
Stuart M. Evans

Assistant Professor of Geography

Expertise: climate change, dust and dust storms, weather, atmospheric science, precipitation, monsoons, lake effect snow

Phone: 716-645-0491
Email: stuartev@buffalo.edu
4/7/23
Tracy K. P. Gregg
Professor of Geology

Expertise: volcanology, volcanoes on Mars and Venus, the search for water on Mars, volcanism on the moon, deep-sea eruptions, basaltic lava flows

Phone: 716-645-4328
Email: tgregg@buffalo.edu
4/13/23
Howard Lasker

Professor Emeritus of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans
Phone: 716-645-4870
Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu
8/19/21
Kristin Poinar

Assistant Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet modeling, sea level rise, Antarctica, Great Lakes ice cover

Phone: 716-645-4286
Email: kpoinar@buffalo.edu
10/25/21
Kang Sun

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: air pollution, greenhouse gases, climate change, remote sensing, molecular spectroscopy

Phone: 716-645-6167
Email: kangsun@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Jennifer L. Temple
Professor of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, and Community Health and Health Behavior
Expertise: caffeine use among kids, energy drinks, obesity

Phone: 716-829-5593
Email: jltemple@buffalo.edu
11/21/22
Elizabeth K. Thomas

Associate Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Arctic ice sheets, precipitation, lake effect snow, sea level rise, monsoons

Phone: 716-645-4329
Email: ekthomas@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Greg A. Valentine

Director of the Center for Geohazards Studies

Expertise: volcanoes, volcanic eruptions, disaster preparedness, supervolcanoes

Phone: 716-645-4295
Email: gav4@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Eva Zurek

Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: superconductors, high-pressure chemistry, crystals, materials science, materials discovery, computational chemistry
Phone: 716-645-4332
Email: ezurek@buffalo.edu