The following is a list of members of the Earth Institute faculty, all of whom are from the Columbia University community. Clicking on a member's name takes you to a short curriculum vitae. To view the members of the standing subcommittees of the Earth Institute faculty, click here.
Peter Schlosser, Chair
Associate Director and Director of Research, The Earth Institute
Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Scott Barrett
Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics, Department of International and Public Affairs
Robin Bell
Palisades Geophysical Institute Lamont Research Professor, Division of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Wallace S. Broecker
Newberry Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mark A. Cane
G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Robert Chen, Ex Officio
Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network
Joel E. Cohen
Director, Laboratory of Populations
Professor, Columbia University and The Rockefeller University
Steven A. Cohen, Ex Officio
Executive Director, The Earth Institute
Director, Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy, Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs and Earth Institute
Director, Concentration in Environmental Policy Studies, School of International and Public Affairs
Peter Coleman
Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, Department of Social-Organizational Psychology, Teachers College
Patricia Culligan
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Richard J. Deckelbaum
Director, Institute of Human Nutrition
Professor of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology, and Robert R. Williams Professor Nutrition, Columbia University Medical Center
Ruth DeFries
Denning Family Chair of Sustainable Development
Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Peter B. deMenocal
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Alexander van Geen
Lamont Research Professor, Division of Geochemistry, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michael Gerrard
Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia Law School
Steven L. Goldstein, Ex Officio
Chair and Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Joseph Graziano
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Associate Dean of Research and Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Geoffrey M. Heal
Director, Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development
Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, School of Business
Patrick L. Kinney
Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
David H. Krantz
Professor, Department of Psychology
Co-Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
Yochanan Kushnir
Lamont Research Professor, Division of Oceans and Climate Physics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Director, Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research
Klaus S. Lackner
Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy
Upmanu Lall
Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Departments of Earth and Environmental Engineering, and Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Art Lerner-Lam, Ex Officio
Interim Director; Associate Director - Seismology, Geology and Tectonophysics; and
Lamont Research Professor; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
Robert Lieberman, Ex Officio
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of International and Public Affairs
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Edward Lloyd
Evan M. Frankel Clinical Professor of Environmental Law, School of Law
Director, Environmental Law Clinic, School of Law
Vijay Modi
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
John C. Mutter
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Shahid Naeem
Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology
Benjamin Orlove
Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Associate Director, Master's Program in Climate and Society
Co-Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
Stephanie L. Pfirman
Hirschorn Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Science, Barnard College
Richard Plunz
Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Director, Urban Design Lab, The Earth Institute
Robert Pollack
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University
Director, Center for the Study of Science and Religion, The Earth Institute
Kenneth Prewitt
Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management, The Earth Institute
Pedro Sanchez, Ex Officio
Director, Tropical Agriculture and the Rural Environment Program
Director, Millennium Villages Project
Elliott Sclar
Professor of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Professor of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs
Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development, The Earth Institute
Richard Seager
Lamont Research Professor, Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Elke Weber
Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Columbia Business School
Professor, Department of Psychology
Co-Director, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions
Stephen E. Zebiak, Ex Officio
Director General, International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Senior Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Allen Zweben, Ex Officio
Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs, School of Social Work
Professor of Social Work
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