Featured Experts

Princeton faculty members have long been at the frontier of environmental research, launching new fields of inquiry and deepening knowledge across and between a broad array of disciplines. Meet some of our founding scholars in environmental studies and a selection of our many leading researchers.

Samuel G.H. (George) Philander

Tropical oceans, La Nina and El Nino weather patterns

Amilcare Porporato

Sustainable use of soil and water resources

Robert Pringle

Ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem rehabilitation

Anu Ramaswami

Urban infrastructures, sustainability, health and equity

V. "Ram" Ramaswamy

Climate Science and Modeling

Barry Rand

Thin film materials for electronics

Zhiyong (Jason) Ren

Water-energy nexus

Laure Resplandy

Climate and ocean modeling, marine biogeochemistry and ecosystems

Daniel Rubenstein

Behavioral ecology and conservation

Jorge Sarmiento

Climate change impacts on ocean biology, biogeochemistry, ocean productivity, and fisheries and the role of the Southern Ocean in determining the air-sea balance of carbon dioxide

Blair Schoene

Geology, thermochronology, radiogenic isotope tracing, structural analysis, and geochemistry

Timothy Searchinger

Food, agriculture and climate change

Daniel Sigman

Global cycles of biologically important elements and their interaction with climate, today and over time

Peter Singer

Bioethics, climate, ethics and animals, and poverty

James Smith

Hydrology and hydrometeorology

Robert Socolow

Solutions to climate change

Mary (Cassie) Stoddard

Sensory ecology, evolution and behavior

Corina Tarnita

Theoretical biology and complex systems

Gabriel Vecchi

Climate science, extreme weather events, hurricanes, mechanisms of precipitation variability and change; ocean atmosphere interaction; detection and attribution