State of the Climate Systems

Alexander S Bradley, PhD
Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: abradley@levee.wustl.edu
- Environmental and biological parameters that produce chemical compounds stored in the geological record
- Compounds that can be climate proxies

Sophia Hayes, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Email: hayes@wustl.edu
- Carbon capture and sequestration

Bronwen L Konecky, PhD
Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: bkonecky@wustl.edu
- Tropical climate variability and change
- Paleoclimatology
- Global water cycle
- Stable isotope and organic geochemistry
- Paleoclimate modeling and data-model intercomparison
- Natural drivers of climate change

Randall Martin, PhD
Professor in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
- Email: rvmartin@wustl.edu
- Atmospheric composition
- Atmospheric aerosols
- Satellite remote sensing
- Atmospheric modeling
- Atmospheric chemistry

Rachel Penczykowski, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
- Email: rpenczykowski@wustl.edu
- Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases
- Plant pathogen interaction with the environment
- Environmental drivers of disease
- Effects of diseases on ecosystems

Jennifer R Smith, PhD
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Email: jensmith@wustl.edu
- Understanding the interaction between humans and their environment as recorded in the archeological record
- Effects of climatic and environmental changes on resources available to people through time
- Effects of changes in population and technology on human environmental impact