Prospective applicants to the program wishing to complete the MA in Earth and Environment with Thesis should have a target research area that they plan to study and must contact faculty with whom they share research interests. Applicants will need to have a willing faculty advisor before they are admitted to the program as a thesis student. Applicants who have not secured an invitation by a faculty research advisor will be evaluated for admission to the Master of Arts in Earth and Environment via Examination program.
Faculty who are not included on this list are not accepting new master’s students for the current application window.
| Alyssa Novak | Seeking applicants with interest/experience in coastal restoration, habitat suitability modeling, and genomics. |
| Benjamin Sovacool |
Considering applicants passionate about energy, environmental, or climate justice, energy futures, or science and technology studies
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| Cedric Fichot |
Seeking applicants with interests in aquatic remote sensing, aquatic biogeochemistry (Carbon), sediment dynamics (field work, lab work, modeling)
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| Christoph Nolte |
Seeking applicants with coding skills and interests at the intersection of property & environment, e.g. estimating conservation effectiveness, land value, hedonic valuation
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| Cutler Cleveland |
Considering applicants with interests related to the clean energy transition, and the use of data and visualizations in science communication. See https://visualizingenergy.org/
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| Dan Li |
Seeking applicants with coding experience interested in urban climate (e.g., assessment of urban heat mitigation) and urban hydrology (e.g., precipitation anomalies over urban environments)
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| David Demeritt |
Can support applicants interested in a wide range of topics in environmental social science, but particular preference for those interested in flooding, climate adaptation, wildfire and environmental risk regulation & governance, whether in the USA or internatinoally
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| Duncan FitzGerald |
Seeking applicants with interests in coastal processes and coastal geomorphology, including beaches, tidal inlets, estuaries, and marshes. Also, projects dealing with the transport and deposition of sediment by tidal currents and waves. And finally, marine geological studies encompassing the impacts of major storms and sea-level rise.
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| Elizabeth Barnes |
Seeking applicants with coding experience interested in data science and deep learning applied to extreme weather, climate and human-earth system (e.g. trade, human migration, etc.) dimensions
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| Ian Sue Wing |
Considering applicants with a background in economics, experience in empirical analysis, and interests in the impacts of heat on health, adaptation behaviors and energy consumption
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| James Baldwin |
Considering applicants with interests related to energy and climate, environmental policy, and sustainable development broadly defined. In particular those wishing to employ quantitative methods to make use of spatial and temporal data to address policy relevant questions.
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| Jeff Geddes |
Considering applicants with interests in atmospheric chemistry and satellite remote sensing of air quality. Prior undergrad experience in atmospheric science preferred.
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| Lucy Hutyra |
Seeking applicants interested in urban ecology, forest biogeochemistry, and the carbon cycle. Particularly interested in productivity of urban vegetation and mitiation of extreme urban heat.
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| Mark Friedl |
Sabbatical AY 26/27; Seeking applicants with interests in remote sensing applied to terrestrial ecosystem dynamics and processes, including land use and land cover, phenology, and surface energy, water and carbon budgets.
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| Mike Dietze |
Seeking applicants interested in ecosystem monitoring and forecasting, with a particular emphasis on the fusion of process-based modeling, remote sensing, bottom-up inventories, Bayesian inference, and machine learning. Core application areas include the terrestrial carbon cycle (currently North America) with an emphasis on disturbance and management, agricultural GHG MRV (currently California), and tick-borne disease (currently eastern US). In all cases there is an interest in further expansion in spatial scale.
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| Patrick Keys |
Seeking applicants with coding experience to work on climate and society research, including climate-social modeling, climate futures, and moisture recycling & society. Prior research experience is preferred.
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| Ranga Myneni | Applicants with interest in remote sensing of vegetation and good math and coding skills are encouraged. |
| Robert Kaufmann | Seeking applicants interested in energy markets, climate change, and land use change |
| Richard Becker |
Seeking an applicant for a project studying El Niño during the Ice Age in New England. Coding skills in R preferred, but not required.
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| Robinson W. Fulweiler |
Seeking applicants with coding and/or field/lab experience interested in biogeochemical cycling in any habitat along the land-ocean continuum. Applicants interested in data analysis related to environmental metagenomics and/or time series analysis.
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| Sasha Kramer |
Seeking applicants with coding experience interested in ocean color remote sensing of phytoplankton or characterizing phytoplankton communities from imaging and/or DNA data.
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| Sergio Fagherazzi | Seeking applicants interested in coastal field work and salt marsh mapping using remote sensing |
| Sucharita Gopal |
Seeking student interested in spatial analysis applicable to sustainable finance, public health, conservation, ecosystem service accounting, conservation, spatial data AI modeling and geo-AI applications. using multi source satellite and GIS data.
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| Xiaozhou Ruan |
Seeking applicants with a strong background in math and physics, coding experience, and an interest in physical ocean processes.
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| Zoe Hughes |
Seeking applicants with interests in coastal hydrodynamics, ecogeomorphology, and sedimentology, with an interest in salt marsh resilience to climate change and anthropgenic stressors
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