Director

Eric Steig	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Stable Isotope Laboratory/Glaciology

Faculty | Staff | Emeritus Faculty | QRC Alumni

Name	Department	Interests
Atwater, Brian	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences USGS	Quaternary Geology Paleoseismology
Booth, Derek	Pacific Northwest Center for Geologic Mapping Studies (GeoMapNW) Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences Dept of Civil Engineering Dept. of Landscape Architecture Dept. of Forest Resources	Geomorphology Quaternary Research Seattle Geological Mapping Project
Bourgeois, Jody	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Sedimentation in tectonically active areas Paleoseismology and neotectonics, esp. tsunami and Paleotsunami studies; interpretation of sedimentary structures
Close, Angela E.	Dept. of Anthropology	North African Stone Age Journal of World Prehistory
Fitzhugh, Ben	Dept. of Anthropology	Kuril Paleobiology and Biogeography Project Kodiak Cultural Evolution
Gillespie, Alan	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Remote Sensing
Grayson, Donald K.	Dept. of Anthropology Environmental Archaeology, Curator, Burke Museum	Human Paleoecology
Hallet, Bernard	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Field, Theoretical, and Laboratory Studies of Processes that shap Alpine and Arctic Landscapes
Heath, Ross	Dept. of Oceanography	Isotopic and Chemical Signatures of Marine Sediments
Montgomery, David	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Geomorphology
Nittrouer, Charles	Dept. of Oceanography	Sediment Strata
Putkonen, Jaakko	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Geomorphology
Quay, Paul D.	Dept. of Oceanography	Radioisotope
Roe, Gerard	Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences	Atmospheric and Climate Dynamics
Richey, Jeffrey	Dept. of Oceanography	Biochemistry
Shreve, Ron	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Geomorphology Quaternary Geology Glaciology Geological Physics
Sletten, Ronald S.	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Chemical Processes in Soils
Steig, Eric	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Paleoclimatology Glaciology Isotope Geochemistry
Stein, Julie	Dept. of Anthropology Archeology, Curator, Burke Museum	Geoarchaeology Coastal Adaptions
Stone, John	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Isotope Geochemistry
Swanson, Terry	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Geology
Waddington, Ed	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Paleo-climatology
Warren, Stephen	Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Climatology

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Name	Department	Interests
Barton, Bax R.	Quaternary Research Center Curator, QRC Special Collections Resource Center Associate Editor & Book Review Editor, Quaternary Research	QRC Special Collections Resource Center Quaternary Research Editor Quaternary palaeoecology Pleistocene megafauna and extinctions Geoarchaeology Terrestrial/aquatic molluscs
Greenberg, Harvey	Quaternary Research Center	GIS Programming Support
Sheikh, Amir	Quaternary Research Center	GIS Analyst, Research Support
Stewart-Perry, Karin	Quaternary Research Center	Program Coordinator Managing Editor Quaternary Research
Laura Gilson	Quaternary Research Center	Administrative Support

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Name	Department	Interests
Anderson, Patricia	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Palynology Paleoecology
Brubaker, Linda B.	Dept. of Forest Resources	Dendrochronology Palynology
Kohn, Alan	Department of Botany	Paleobiology
Leopold, Estella	Dept. of Botany (Biology)	Reconstructioning past climates, vegetation, and associated earth processes.
Porter, Stephen C.	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Glacial and Quaternary Geology
Raymond, Charles F.	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Glaciology and ice sheet dynamics
Stuiver, Minze	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Isotope Geology UW Quaternary Isotope Laboratory
Tsukada, Matsuo	Department of Botany	Late Quaternary Ecology; Paleoclimatology
Washburn, A. L.	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Quaternary Geology

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Faculty | Staff | Emeritus Faculty |QRC Alumni

Name	Location	Information
Aalto, Rolf	Dept. of Geography, University of Exeter	Geomorphology, Sedimentary Processes
Amerson, Byron	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Apostle, Peter
Anders, Alison	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Anderson, Robert and Suzanne	UC Santa Cruz	Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes
Balco, Greg	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Cosmogenic isotope geochronology
Bierman, Paul	University of Vermont	Geomorphologist
Brown, Tom	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Accelerator mass Spectrometry	Climate Change
Brummer, Chris	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Fluvial Geomorphology
Bunn, Jeremy	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Catania, Ginny	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Scar features surrounding ice streams
Clark, Doug	Western Washington University	Paleoclimatic significance of alpine and lacustrine deposits
Collins, Brian	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Puget Sound River History Project
Cuffey, Kurt	UC Berkeley	Environmental Changes
Dethier, David	Williams College	Geosciences
Dietrich, William	UC Berkeley	Geomorphology
Finnegan, Noah	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Controls on channel width in bedrock rivers
Gendaszek, Andrew	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Gran, Karen	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Fluvial Recovery
Harbor, John	Purdue University	Glacial Geomorphology, Applied geomorphology/hydrology, Environmental education
Hawley, Bob
Henck, Amanda	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Heuser, Heather	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Higman, (Hig) Bretwood	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Hoppe, Kathryn	Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Isotope Paleoecology, Geobiology
Humphrey, Neil	University of Wyoming	Himalayan Erosion
Kay, Jennifer	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Lidar, Radiosonde, Radiometer data for cirrus cloud formation and evolution
Koppes, Michele	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Ice dynamics and glacial geomorphology
Kuharic, Matthew	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Garrison-Laney, Carrie	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Young subsidence events in Puget Sound
McCrumb, Daniel
Merrand, Yann
Mertes, Leal	UC Santa Barbara	Fluvial geomorphology
Mitchell, Sara	Department of Earth and Space Sciences	Cascade Mountain Range
Neumann, Tom
O'Neal, Michael	Pacific Northwest Center for Geologic Mapping Studies
Reimer, Paula	CAMS-Lawrence Livermore National Laoratory	Soil carbon sequestration and turnover times in California marine terraces
Rupper, Summer
Sherrod, Brian	US Geologic Survey	Puget Sound Fault Zones
Smith, Meg
Spooner, Alecia M.	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Stolar, Drew	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
Troost, Kathy	Pacific Northwest Center for Geologic Mapping Studies
Whipple, Kelin	MIT	Tectonic Geomorphology, Processes of River Incision into Bedrock, Dynamic Interactions between Climate and Tectonics, Topography and Structural Evolution of Orogenic Belt
Zehfuss, Paul	Department of Earth and Space Sciences

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