- Faculty Research Areas
- Environmental Sciences
- Geobiology
- Geochronology & Thermochronology
- Geophysics
- Low Temperature Geochemistry
- Oceanography
- Paleoclimate & Climate Change
- Paleontology
- Petrology & High Temperature Geochemistry
- Sedimentology & Stratigraphy
- Structural Geology & Tectonics
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The study of the oceans can take many forms: chemical, biological, and physical. Oceanography research at UM investigates the properties of oceans, past and present. Researchers study internal wave formation, model ancient tidal waves, and paleo-ocean circulation patterns, reconstruct temperature, salinity, and water chemistry in ancient oceans, and relate changes in ocean sediments to past climate shifts.
Faculty | Specialities | Associated Laboratories and Research Groups |
Brian Arbic | Physical oceanography, numerical modeling, satellite oceanography, oceanography capacity development in Africa. | Arbic Group |
Joel Blum | Isotope Geochemistry, Geochemistry of heavy metals, mercury in the environment, geoarchaeology, forest biogeochemistry. | |
Julie Cole | Coral reefs, caves, drought, El Nino, Common Era, Holocene. | Julia Cole's Climate Lab |
Greg Dick | Geomicrobiology, environmental biogeochemistry, geochemistry, oceanography, geobiology | Michigan Geomicrobiology Lab |
Ingrid Hendy | Sedimentology, micropaleontology, paleoceanography, glaciology. | |
Jenan Kharbush | Oceanography, geobiology, environmental sciences, geochemistry | Kharbush Lab |
Sierra Petersen | Past greenhouse climates, mass extinctions, stable and clumped isotope paleothermometry, fossil mollusks, sclerochronology. | Lab Website |
Affiliated Faculty | Specialties | Primary Affiliation | Associated Laboratories and Research Groups |
Kerri Pratt | Chemistry, Polar Regions, Snow, Atmosphere | Chemistry | Pratt Lab |