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	Craig Arnold Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Low-Carbon Energy Group D410 Engineering Quad 609-258-0250 cbarnold@princeton.edu	Laser processing and transport in materials. Current projects include laser direct-write and non-traditional patterning of small-scale and flexible structures such as microbatteries, nanomaterials, organic molecular electronics, and living cells and organisms.

	Michael Bender Professor of Geosciences Carbon Science Group M48 Guyot Hall 609-258-2936 bender@princeton.edu	Biogeochemistry and paleoclimate. Measurement of concentration and isotopic composition of O₂ in air on various timescales, characterization of the fertility of ecosystems.

	Michael Celia Theodora Shelton Pitney Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering Fluids & Energy Group E205 Engineering Quad 609-258-5425 celia@princeton.edu	Ground-water hydrology, contaminant transport simulation, and multi-phase flow in porous media. Current applications include modeling and analysis of geological storage of carbon dioxide.

	Pablo Debenedetti Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Vice Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science Fluids & Energy Group A419 Engineering Quad 609-258-0211 pdebene@princeton.edu	Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of metastable liquids and glasses, in particular water and aqueous systems. He is the author of Metastable Liquids.

	Alexander Glaser Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School Policy & Integration Group 202 221 Nassau St. 609-258-5692 aglaser@Princeton.EDU	Nuclear energy and security policy with a particular emphasis on nuclear nonproliferation and arms control. Participant in the University’s Program on Science and Global Security and in the International Panel on Fissile Materials.

	Lars O. Hedin Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director, Program in Environmental Studies, Princeton Environmental Institute Carbon Science Group 222 Guyot Hall 609-258-7325 lhedin@Princeton.EDU	Role of ecosystems in the earth climate system. Current interests include the broad controls of nutrient cycles on the land carbon sink, the biogeochemical function of land ecosystems, conceptual and numerical models of land ecosystems, and the role of managed ecosystems for biofuel production.

	Thomas Kreutz Energy Systems Modeler, Energy Systems Analysis Group, PEI Low-Carbon Energy Group 25 Guyot Hall 609-258-7715 kreutz@princeton.edu	Advanced energy conversion systems modeling: hydrogen, electricity, and CO₂ production from coal; residential scale, natural gas-fired PEM fuel cell cogeneration; gasification of biomass and black liquor for combined cycle generation of electric power, and fuel cells, gas turbines, and hybrid/combined cycles for power generation.

	Eric Larson Research Engineer, Energy Systems Analysis Group, PEI Low-Carbon Energy Group 26 Guyot Hall 609-258-4966 elarson@princeton.edu	Energy systems analysis relating to advanced clean-energy technologies and processes for carbonaceous fuels conversion, energy-related challenges in developing countries. Technology interests include gas turbines for power generation, gasification of solid fuels, and synthesis of various clean fluid fuels.

	David Medvigy Assistant Professor of Geosciences Carbon Science Group 212 Forrestal Campus Sayre Hall 609-258-2906 dmedvigy@Princeton.EDU	Interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, from the scale of individual plants to the global scale. Investigation of tropical rainforests as carbon sinks.

	François Morel Albert G. Blanke, Jr., Professor, Geosciences Carbon Science Group 153 Guyot Hall 609-258-2416 morel@princeton.edu	Interactions between chemical and biological processes in the oceans, from the molecular to the global scale, with particular emphasis on trace elements and primary production.

	Michael Oppenheimer Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) at the Woodrow Wilson School Carbon Science Group/Policy & Integration Group 448 Robertson Hall 609-258-2338 omichael@princeton.edu	Michael Oppenheimer joined the Princeton faculty after more than two decades with Environmental Defense, a non-governmental, environmental organization, where he served as its Chief Scientist and Manager of the Global and Regional Atmosphere Program.

	Stephen W. Pacala Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Director, PEI, Co-Director, CMI Carbon Science Group/Policy & Integration Group 103A Eno Hall 609-258-6885 pacala@princeton.edu	Interaction among the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere at global scales, with an emphasis on the carbon cycle.

	Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos Susan Dod Brown Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Fluids & Energy Group A317 Engineering Quad 609-258-4591 azp@princeton.edu	Molecular-based computational tools for predicting fundamental physicochemical characteristics required for understanding the rational design of CO₂ separation and storage processes. Development of Monte Carlo methods for free energies and phase equilibria. Thermodynamic analysis of processes. Modeling of nanoscale hybrid materials, electrolytes, polymers and surfactants.

	Jean-Hervé Prévost Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Fluids & Energy Group E232 Engineering Quad 609-258-5424 prevost@princeton.edu	Areas of computational solid and fluid mechanics, wave propagation and transient effects in porous media, multi-phase flows in porous media, nonlinear constitutive theories, dynamic instabilities and localization of deformations and fracture in solids, thermoelasticity, electro-magneto-solid interaction effects, finite element methods.

	Jorge Sarmiento Professor of Geosciences, Director, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Director of CICS between Princeton University and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Carbon Science Group 306A Forrestal Campus Sayre Hall 609-258-6585 jls@princeton.edu	Oceanic cycles of climatically important chemicals such as carbon dioxide, and use of chemical tracers to study ocean circulation.

	Robert Socolow Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Energy Systems Analysis Group, Co-Director, CMI Carbon Science Group/Policy & Integration Group 139 Guyot Hall 609-258-5446 socolow@princeton.edu	Global energy system responsive to global and local environmental and security constraints. Carbon dioxide capture from fossil fuels and storage in geological formations, nuclear power, energy efficiency in buildings, and the acceleration of deployment of advanced technologies in developing countries.

	Howard A. Stone Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Fluids & Energy Group D326 Engineering 609-258-9493 hastone@princeton.edu	Fluid mechanics and soft condensed matter physics, widely applied to problems in engineering, physics, chemistry and biology. Current research interests include flow in porous media, the influence of flow on bacteria and biofilms, the influence of surfactants on the dissolution of CO₂ bubbles in water, and problems coupling flow and elasticity of soft substrates.

	Jeroen Tromp Blair Professor of Geology. Professor of Geosciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics. Director, Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. Fluids & Energy Group 336 Peter B Lewis Library 609-258-4128 jtromp@Princeton.EDU	Theoretical & Computational Seismology. Research topics include: surface waves, free oscillations, body waves, seismic tomography, numerical simulations of 3-D wave propagation, and seismic hazard assessment.

	Robert Williams Senior Research Scientist Energy Systems Analysis Group, PEI Low-Carbon Energy Group 140 Guyot Hall 609-258-5448 rwilliam@princeton.edu	Energy technology including fuel cells for transportation and stationary power applications, advanced gas turbine technologies for power generation, advanced technologies for producing hydrogen and other clean synthetic fuels from carbonaceous feedstocks, fuels decarbonization and CO₂ sequestration.