Four from EAPS earn chaired professorships
Four EAPS faculty members, including two early career professors, have been recognized with endowed chair appointments effective July 1, 2025. These named chairs provide additional support for research and career development.
Nicole Nie has been named the Paul M. Cook Career Development Professor. She is an isotope geo/cosmochemist interested in early solar system evolution, planetary differentiation, moon formation, and planetary surface weathering. Using chemical and isotopic compositions of planetary samples, she is working towards drawing a clearing picture of the processes that shaped the early solar system. She joined the EAPS faculty in 2023.
Paul O’Gorman has been named a Robert R. Shrock Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. His research explores atmospheric dynamics and extreme precipitation events with a focus on the response to climate change. To better understand shifting patterns and behaviors of extreme events, he uses simulation, theory and observation to accurately describe the physics behind them. He joined the EAPS faculty in 2008.
Shuhei Ono has been named a Schlumberger Professor in Earth Sciences. Ono uses stable isotope geochemistry to study how microbes catalyze chemical reactions and shape the chemistry of our atmospheres and oceans. His research has explored the evolution of atmospheric oxygen, as well as developed a tool to pinpoint origins of methane, with applications for the detection of methane, whether as a biosignature on other planets or in the form of methane seeps on Earth. He joined the EAPS faculty in 2007.
Talia Tamarin-Brodsky has been named the Class of 1947 Career Development Professor. She works at the interface between weather and climate. Her interests include atmospheric temperature variability and how it responds to climate change, atmospheric dynamics, regional climate and extremes, subseasonal-to-seasonal predictability, and stratosphere-troposphere interactions. She joined the EAPS faculty in 2023.
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