{"id":84,"date":"2017-10-24T18:09:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:52:39","slug":"eaes-research-and-facilities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/eaes-research-and-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"EAES Research and Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Earth and Environmental Studies (EAES) has a group of dedicated faculty that work in areas that are truly global, and span the local New Jersey\/New York metropolitan area to coastal New Jersey, upstate New York, Massachusetts, the southwestern United States, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, the Netherlands, Ghana, Nigeria, the Philippines, the Arctic, and Antarctica. We take great pride in including our graduate and undergraduate students in our field programs and teaching them to collect and analyze their own data using state of the art instrumentation and data processing software. Our research is aided by external grants plus small internal <em>seed<\/em>\u00a0grants from the University that support a diverse array of research topics, broadly grouped in the following foci:\u00a0Geodynamics and Earth materials, Global environmental change, Urban environments, environmental policy and education, and Water pollution and water resource management.<\/p>\n<p>When conducting research in lab spaces it is important to know the safety protocols.<\/p>\n<h2>Research Disciplines\/Topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Earth&#8217;s glacial record and long-term global change, marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, ice sheet-ocean interactions in the Antarctic and Arctic regions, mineral magnetism, paleomagnetism, terrestrial and planetary magnetism<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~passchiers\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Passchier<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~brachfelds\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanie Brachfeld<\/a>, <a href=\"\/~cuiy\">Ying Cui<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Environmental Management, Urban Studies<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~taylorr\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Taylor<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Geochemistry and Petrology of Mafic Volcanics, Mantle Xenoliths and igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Hudson Highlands and Newark Basin, Geology and Tectonics of the Southern Andes, Analytical Geochemistry<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~gorringm\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Gorring<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Geochemistry, contaminated sediments, riverine, estuarine and marine environmental geochemistry<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~krugem\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Kruge<\/a> (Emeriti), <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~fengh\" target=\"_blank\">Huan Feng<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"\/~cuiy\">Ying Cui<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Geography, GIS\/Spatial statistics, urban &amp; regional studies<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~yud\" target=\"_blank\">Danlin Yu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Geomorphology, hydrology, soils<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~popeg\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Pope<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~galsterj\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Galster<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GIS\/Remote Sensing<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~choppingm\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Chopping<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~yud\" target=\"_blank\">Danlin Yu<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~galsterj\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Galster<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hydrogeology, Groundwater Modeling<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"\/~ophorid\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Ophori<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Stable isotope geochemistry<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/~cuiy\">Ying Cui<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sustainability, Energy, Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/~lalp\">Pankaj Lal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Earth and Environmental Studies (EAES) has a group of dedicated faculty that work in areas that are truly global, and span the local New Jersey\/New York metropolitan area to coastal New Jersey, upstate New York, Massachusetts, the southwestern United States, Argentina, Brazil, China, India, the Netherlands, Ghana, Nigeria, the Philippines, the Arctic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205908,"parent":0,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-84","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206797,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/206797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}