Faculty

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• WAHLEN, MARTIN - Professor
•  Reconstruction of paleoatmospheres from ice core records in Greenland and Antarctica back to > 500,000 years covering at least 5 glacial/interglacial cycles; main emphasis is to reconstruct atmospheric CO2 and d13CO2.
•  Global biogeochemical cycles of radiatively important atmospheric trace gases; biosphere-atmosphere interaction.
•  Stable isotopes in atmospheric CO2 (d13C and d18O) to arrive at improved global carbon cycle budgets (in collaboration with C. D. Keeling).
•  Stable isotopes of Cl and Br in aerosols to determine if Cl and Br radicals are produced in the troposphere.
•  Investigations on CO2, CH4, 85Kr and N2O in the stratosphere (and their isotopic species 13C and 18O in CO2, 13C, D and 14C and CH4, 15N and 18O in N2O) to determine the troposphere/stratosphere air exchange rate.
•  Process-oriented studies to determine the significance of 18O in atmospheric CO2.
• WATSON, KENNETH - Professor Emeritus
• WEISS, RAY - Professor
•  Distributions of trace gases in the global and regional atmosphere and in the oceans, with emphasis on halocarbons, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane.
•  Geochemical tracers of circulation, mixing, chemical and biological processes in the atmosphere, world oceans and deep lakes.
• WERNER, BRADLEY - Professor
•  Complex systems, self-organization, geophysical pattern formation, Arctic landscapes and permafrost.
•  Human-landscape interactions, urban geomorphology, theory of modeling, models for science, human consciousness/free will, environmental management, social and economic human behavior, resistance and the Mexico-US border.
• WINANT, CLINTON - Professor
•  Circulation in lagoons and estuaries
•  Descriptions of coastal circulation
•  Wind-forced coastal circulation
•  Mixing and dispersion
• WINTERER, EDWARD - Professor Emeritus
•  Geologic history of the Pacific, including stratigraphy, sedimentation, seamount chains and tectonics
•  Comparisons between oceanic pelagic sediments and their analogues in folded mountain belts
•  Plate stratigraphy and the subsidence of ocean crust, oceanic atolls, and continental margins
•  Origin of atolls and barrier reefs