RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

• Climate change and impacts to ecosystems, landscapes, and hydrology.
• Geological carbon capture, use and storage.
• Radionuclide flow and transport, and material behavior at geologic conditions.
• Waste forms and used nuclear fuel disposition.

PRIMARY EXPERTISE

• Atmospheric, climate, and ecosystem science.
• Geology, geochemistry, and geomaterials.
• International field instrument deployments and operations.
• Radio-geochemistry.

RECENT MAJOR PROJECTS

• Actinide environmental chemistry.
• Advancing nuclear fuels.
• Cleaner, greener, and more efficient biofuels and hydrocarbon resources, extraction.
• Climate and atmospheric research: many global research campaigns.
• Climate change and its effects on forest systems.
• Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty support and field exercises.
• Contamination fate and transport and environmental remediation.
• Determining and detecting signatures of underground nuclear testing, forensics.
• Multiphase subsurface fluid flow research.
• New approaches to carbon capture: utilization and storage.
• Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment: examines Arctic permafrost degradation.
• Radiologic waste disposal and repository science.
• Developing, deploying Unmanned Aerial Systems.