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	Talal T. Al-Housseiny Graduate Student, CBE Storage Group talal@princeton.edu	Investigation of technical challenges at the intersection of fluid mechanics and energy research; the study of interfacial instabilities that occur in fluid-fluid displacements in porous media: applications to Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration; the integration of Microbial Fuel Cells in microfluidic devices.

	Oliver Baars Postdoctoral Research Associate, GEO Science Group obaars@princeton.edu	Interactions of key biological trace metals with biota to understand their influence on the cycle of the major bio-elements and also in the context of changing environmental conditions; Currently investigating how oceanic phytoplankton acquire sufficient amounts of the potentially growth-limiting trace metal zinc under the influence of naturally-occurring organic ligands. Chemical characterization of different zinc species in the bulk medium conducted in conjunction with biological uptake experiments.

	Andrew Babbin Graduate Student, AOS Science Group babbin@princeton.edu	Biogeochemical modeling in the ocean; interaction of microorganisms with their environment, and the consequences they have on the nitrogen and carbon cycles; how climate change will affect these elemental cycles in the future.

	Karl W. Bandilla Associate Professional Specialist, CEE Storage Group bandilla@princeton.edu	Current research involves numerical modeling of the movement of CO₂ and brine in storage formations. Specifically working on dynamic pressure reconstruction and active pressure management using brine production wells.

	Sarah Batterman Graduate Student, EEB, Science Group	Biogeochemical cycles; nutrient limitation on plant growth and carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems; scaling from individual plants to ecosystems; symbiotic di-nitrogen fixation.

	Claudie Beaulieu Postdoctoral Research Fellow, AOS Science Group beaulieu@princeton.edu	Statistical applications in atmospheric and water sciences.

	Daniele Bianchi Graduate Student, AOS Science Group dbianchi@princeton.edu	Connections between the large scale ocean circulation and biogeochemical cycling of elements, such as nutrients, oxygen and carbon, as well as radiocarbon and helium-3, patterns of water mass circulation from the distribution of tracers; physical and biological mechanisms that contribute to the maintenance of the observed tracer distribution.

	John Cannarella Graduate Student, MAE Low-Carbon Energy Group jcannare@princeton.edu	Development of economical clean energy technologies; methods of improving the cycle life of lithium-ion batteries for more cost-effective energy storage.

	Shoibal Chakravarty Associate Research Scholar, PEI, Energy Systems Analysis Group Policy & Integration Group shoibalc@princeton.edu	The study of energy use and emissions as a function of economic development and the resulting change in lifestyle patterns; the projection of aviation demand resulting from economic growth over the next fifty years; integrating equity into international climate policies.

	Anping Chen Postdoctoral Research Associate, EEB Science Group anpingc@princeton.edu	The global carbon cycle and climate change; understanding the impact of human activity to global carbon balance, vegetation dynamics; modelling biodiversity and biogeography.

	Mark Dobossy High Performance Computing Specialist, CEE Storage Group mdobossy@princeton.edu	Development of massively parallel semi-analytical algorithms to predict leakage of CO₂ stored in deep brine aquifers.

	Stephanie Downes Senior Research Assistant, AOS Science Group sdownes@princeton.edu	Formation and circulation of Southern Ocean water masses; simulation of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation using climate models; comparisons with observations subduction and transformation of water masses, and the associated air-sea and Ekman fluxes.

	Raymond J. Dybzinski Postdoctoral Research Associate, EEB Science Group rdybzins@princeton.edu	The mechanisms of plant species coexistence and plant community structure; the effects of resource dynamics, recruitment, and natural enemies on community dynamics; human impacts on ecological and biogeochemical systems.

	Brian Ellis Graduate Student, CEE Storage Group brellis@princeton.edu	Geologic carbon sequestration in deep saline formations as a means to mitigate carbon emissions to the atmosphere; understanding the complex geochemical reactions that will occur after carbon dioxide injection; how these reactions will impact the sealing ability of caprocks and the long-term flow characteristics of the injection formation; combining geochemical modeling and experimental work to investigate these CO₂-water-rock interactions.

	Thomas Elliot Postdoctoral Research Associate, CEE Storage Group telliot@princeton.edu	2D and 3D imaging and analysis; upscaling of processes; radiative energy transport concepts; transfer and utilization of scientific knowledge within government agencies and collaborating groups; policy development and rapid assessment of site response.

	Caroline E. Farrior Graduate Student, EEB Science Group cfarrior@princeton.edu	Determining mechanisms of community assembly and species coexistence; exploring the role of resource availability in forest dynamics by extending the framework of a macroscopic forest dynamics model.

	Romain Fardel Postdoctoral Research Associate, MAE Low-Carbon Energy Group rfardel@princeton.edu	Energy storage systems, processing of energy storage materials, nanostructuring of materials.

	Thomas Froelicher Postdoctoral Research Associate, AOS Science Group tfrolich@princeton.edu	Carbon cycle modeling; variability in the carbon cycle from regional to global scales; ocean acidification; oxygen minimum zones; past and future climate change.

	Gennady Gor Postdoctoral Research Associate, CEE Storage Group ggor@princeton.edu	Simulations of carbon dioxide leakage conditions from deep saline aquifers: coupling thermodynamics of CO₂-brine mixtures, transport in porous media and geomechanics.

	Phillip M. Hannam Graduate Student, WWS STEP Policy & Integration Group phannam@princeton.edu	Renewable energy in developing countries; international financing of renewable energy; flexible mechanisms; climate change burden sharing; China-Africa energy investment.

	Ilkka Hannula Research Scientist PEI Energry Group ihannula@princeton.edu	Thermal gasification of biomass; advanced energy systems analysis; synthesis gas chemistry; biomass to liquids and chemicals; combined heat and power production; energy economics.

	Bror Jonsson Postdoctoral Research Associate, GEO Science Group bjonsson@princeton.edu	Biological production in the Southern Ocean. Comparisons of biogeochemical models and observations. Remote sensing of ocean productivity. measurements of NCP using O₂/Ar. Coastal dynamics. Lagrangian particle tracking as a method to explore General circulation models.

	Mary Kang Graduate Student, CEE Storage Group marykang@princeton.edu	Carbon capture and storage options and related policy areas.

	Kelly Kearney Graduate Student, AOS Science Group kkearney@princeton.edu	Developing a modeling framework for an end-to-end ecosystem model, linking biogeochemical ocean models with upper trophic level predator-prey systems. Investigating the relative influences of changing climate and fishing practices on pelagic ocean ecosystems with this model.

	Robert Key Research Oceanographer, AOS Science Group key@princeton.edu	Global scale oceanographic issues related to climate change: assembling fully-calibrated high-quality data sets that could be used to address global biogeochemical issues and using radiocarbon to study oceanographic ventilation, meridional overturning circulation, and air-sea gas exchange.

	Anne Kraepiel-Morel Research Scholar, Chemistry Science Group kraepiel@princeton.edu	Investigations at the molecular level how metals, as essential part of metalloenzymes, catalyze key processes in biogeochemical cycles, how they are acquired by organisms, and how they are themselves cycled in the environment; effect of metal (Fe, Mo, V) availability on nitrogen inputs to ecosystems through nitrogen fixation.

	Elena Krieger Graduate Student, MAE Low-Carbon Energy Group krieger@princeton.edu	Materials for energy conversion and storage with a focus on ultracapacitor electrode morphology.

	Eun Young Kwon Associate Research Scholar, MAE Science Group ekwon@princeton.edu	Understanding global climate change and its impact on the oceanic carbon cycle through the use of analytical, statistical, and numerical tools.

	Thomas Lafitte Associate Research Scholar, CBE Science Group tlafitte@princeton.edu	Molecular simulation of organic-hybrid materials.

	Nicolas Lefèvre-Marton Graduate Student, WWS Policy & Integration Group nlefevre@princeton.edu	Induced climate friendly technological change; comparative advantage to change; the role of emerging economies in climate friendly technological change.

	Christopher Little Postdoctoral Fellow, WWS Science and Policy Integration Groups cmlittle@princeton.edu	Improving the comprehensiveness and robustness of numerical ice sheet models; framing sea level rise projections in a form that is amenable to decision-making; volunteer chapter scientist in the IPCC SREX special report, which emphasizes the social context underlying vulnerability to climate-related impacts.

	Wei Liu Graduate Student, MAE Low-Carbon Energy Group weil@princeton.edu	Nonpremixed ignition temperature measurements of liquid hydrocarbons; kinetic mechanism reductions.

	Yang Liu Graduate Student, CHE Storage Group yangliu@princeton.edu	The phase behavior of nano-confined water.

	Jenna Losh Graduate Student, GEO Science Group jlosh@princeton.edu	The ocean's response to climate change, specifically the response of phytoplankton to increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO₂).

	Joseph Majkut Graduate Student, AOS Science Group jmajkut@princeton.edu	Use of ocean models to constrain and study the carbon cycle, ocean circulation and ocean tracer distributions. Example topics include: How can we identify carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate change? To what degree are random and systematic uncertainty affecting the misfit of climate models to data? How informative are tracer distributions to our study of the deep circulation?

	Sergey Malyshev Postdoctoral Research Associate, EEB Science Group malyshev@princeton.edu	Surface-atmosphere interaction and its consequences for the Earth's climate; long-term climate variations and connections with long-term variations of surface properties.

	Duncan Menge Postdoctoral Researcher, EEB Science Group dmenge@princeton.edu	Understanding global biogeochemical patterns and nutrient limitation to plant growth and carbon storage.

	Anatoli Morozov Research Staff, Manager Laser Laboratory, MAE Low-Carbon Energy Group amorozov@princeton.edu	Powerful subpicocecond lasers systems and their applications. Soft X-ray laser development. Raman amplification of ultrashort laser pulses in plasmas.

	Juan Nogues Graduate Student, CEE Storage Group jnogues@princeton.edu	Quantifying the uncertainty related to predicting the risk of leakage of CO₂ associated with geological sequestration, using a computational model developed at Princeton. The model calculates the leakage of CO₂ into overlying formations through a set of analytical and semi-analytical solutions; how this leakage can be detected through monitoring wells and what is the detection limits associated with certain types of leakage scenarios.

	Jan Nordbotten Visiting Research Scholar, CEE Storage Group jnordbot@princeton.edu	The interplay of scales in porous media problems such as carbon sequestration.

	Anne M. O'Leary Graduate Student, GEO Science Group aoleary@princeton.edu	Interested in the relationships between climate, the carbon cycle, and large-scale geologic processes. Currently, research focuses on using fossil corals to reconstruct past changes in seawater chemistry, with an eventual goal of achieving a better understanding of how those changes are linked to the earth-climate system.

	Yves Plancherel Graduate Student, AOS Science Group yplanche@princeton.edu	Applications of the concept of oceanic water masses; using water mass mixing models and global data sets to characterize water-mass specific preformed and remineralized nutrient inventories; attempting to develop water-mass metrics for use as diagnostics of ocean model performance using bivariate temperature-salinity distributions.

	Arun Prabhu Graduate Student, CBE Storage Group aprabhu@princeton.edu	Investigation of rates of formation and stability of clathrate hydrates (specifically CO₂ hydrates) under different conditions of pressure, temperature, salinity and dispersant concentrations.

	Sam Sidwell Rabin Graduate Student, EEB Science Group srabin@princeton.edu	Incorporating the effects of land use into global vegetation fire models, using these and other insights to improve the simulation of tropical forest fires, and considering the effects of changing tropical forest fire regimes on REDD+.

	M. V. Ramana Associate Research Scholar Nuclear Futures Laboratory & Program on Science and Global Security Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Policy & Integration Group ramana@Princeton.edu	Nuclear energy in the context of climate change mitigation and nuclear weapons disarmament. Current projects include studying small modular reactors and their fuel cycles, nuclear energy in integrated assessment models for climate policy making.

	Kathleen Riesing Undergraduate Student, MAE Storage Group kriesing@princeton.edu	As part of Professor Howard Stone's Complex Fluids Group, research interests include the study of density-driven convection to model the process of carbon sequestration. Specifically, research seeks to evaluate the effects of porosity and an inclined boundary on the rate of convection.

	Keith Rodgers Associate Research Scholar, AOS Science Group krodgers@princeton.edu	Using models to identify and understand dynamical controls on seasonal interannual to decadal variability in the carbon cycle.

	Sapna Sarupria Senior Research Assistant, CE Storage Group sarupria@princeton.edu	Developing a quantitative understanding of the thermodynamics and kinetics of CO₂ hydrate formation using principles of statistical mechanics along with detailed molecular simulations.

	Elena Shevliakova Postdoctoral Research Associate, EEB Science Group elena@princeton.edu	Modeling biosphere-atmosphere interactions and applications of such models to the issues of global environmental change.

	Dalin Shi Graduate Student, GEO Science Group dshi@princeton.edu	The interactive influences of iron and CO₂ on marine phytoplankton; how the ongoing increase in CO₂ would affect iron acquisition and requirements in iron-limiting phytoplankton; physiological and/or biochemical mechanisms.

	Suin Shim Graduate Student, MAE Storage Group sshim@princeton.edu	Experimental studies of the dissolution of bubbles of carbon dioxide during flow in microfluidic channels; Comparisons of the dissolution rates with of the dissolution process, including influences of the background flow.

	K. Allison Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, AOS Science Group kas3@princeton.edu	Ecological forecasting in marine environments; predicting the impacts of climate change on species distributions; mechanistic modeling of organisms in oxygen minimum zones; physiology and behavior of invertebrates.

	Hongyan Sun Associate Research Scholar, MAE Low-Carbon Energy Group hsun@princeton.edu	Thermochemistry and chemical kinetics by utilizing state-of-the art quantum chemistry techniques to characterize molecular structures, energies and reaction pathways on the pyrolysis and oxidation of hydrocarbon fuel and propellants; detailed elementary reaction mechanisms for modeling complex combustion process.

	Lawrence Adam Wolf Postdoctoral Research Fellow, EEB Science Group adamwolf@princeton.edu	Understanding how plants control the earth's chemical cycles and energy balance, and how soils and climate interact with plant species to determine their distribution on earth. Remote sensing simulation, flux measurements and modeling, and wireless sensor networks.

	Yan Xu Postdoctoral Research Associate, GEO Science Group yxu@princeton.edu	The effects of ocean acidification on the bioavailability of trace metals to marine phytoplankton; the characterization of metalloenzymes which are involved in major nutrient acquisition in marine phytoplankton.

	Jie Zhang Postdoctoral Research Associate, CEE Storage Group jiezhang@princeton.edu	Shale permeability; shale pore-structure; hydration and setting of well cement.

	Xinning Zhang Postdoctoral Research Scholar, GEO Science Group xinningz@princeton.edu	Interplay between microbes and the physical environment on both short (transcriptional) and long (evolutionary) timescales. In the Morel lab, studying the impacts of trace metals on nitrogen fixation by diverse bacteria.

	Zhong Zheng Graduate Student, MAE Low-Carbon Energy and Policy & Integration Group zzheng@princeton.edu	CCS source-sink match optimization and potential early actions in China.