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	Michael Bender, Geosciences, Princeton University View Homepage: http://geoweb.princeton.edu/people/faculty/bender/index.html Bender’s research involves studies of biogeochemistry and paleoclimate. Much of his work involves measuring the changing concentration and isotopic composition of O₂ in air on various timescales, and using the results to characterize the fertility of ecosystems and to study Earth's climate history. Many aspects of Bender’s work involve the interpretation of data using simple or complex mathematical models of atmospheric circulation, climate, and large-scale biological processes.
	Stephanie Bohlman, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology View Homepage: http://dana.ess.washington.edu/~steph/ Stephanie's main area of research is forest canopy biology and physiology, particularly as it relates to carbon cycling. She is interested in landscape patterns of species and functional diversity in forests and their underlying physical and historical causes. One of the main tools she has used over the past few years is remote sensing, striving to link plant physiology, remote sensing and landscape patterns in tropical forests.
	Valentina Bosetti, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University View Homepage: http://www.youngeconomists.it/Bosetti/home.htm Valentina's main research interests are integrated assessment modelling and climate change policy. She is also interested in modelling uncertainty and how it affects optimal strategies.
	Nicolas Cassar, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University Nicolas received his Ph.D. from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawai‘i in 2003. His dissertation was on the influence of carbon-concentrating mechanisms and ß-carboxylation on marine photosynthetic carbon isotope fractionation. He is currently working with Michael Bender (Department of Geosciences) on atmospheric oxygen. In conjunction with atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements, O₂/N₂ can be used to better understand the global carbon cycle and, more specifically, the mechanisms by which some of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere (land biosphere vs. ocean).
	Dr. Shoibal Chakravarty , Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University Shoibal has been at Princeton since 1998 and currently studies the application of Quantum Field Theory to strongly interacting magnetic systems and models of High Temperature Superconductivity. Prior to coming to Princeton to pursue his Ph.D., Shoibal studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, where he received his BSE degree.
	Anping Chen (GS), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Anping is interested in the global carbon cycle and climate change, understanding the impact of human activity to global carbon balance, vegetation dynamics and modelling, biodiversity and biogeography.
	Benjamin Court , Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University Ben is a PhD candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department working with Professor Celia on modeling of large scale CO₂ storage in deep saline formations. His research focuses on a fast probabilistic analysis of different potential leakage scenarios in the Wabamun lake area of the Alberta Basin (Canada). He is using a semi-analytical model to simulate the evolution of CO₂ plumes. The model also simulates leakage of CO₂ through abandoned wells. Recent work has focused on systems with a single injection well. Current work is focused on systems with multiple injection wells and more complex geology. Prior to coming to Princeton, Ben received his Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Bristol University (UK) after being raised in France.
	Jeanne DeNoyer (GS), Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University My research focuses on plant physiology and community dynamics. At the plant physiology level, I’m interested in the relationships between plant carbon and nutrient economies and water use strategies. At the community level, I’m interested in how physiological differences among species influence competition and other community assembly processes across environmental gradients. At the moment, investigating the relationship between physiology and community dynamics in forests in northern Wisconsin.
	Peter J. DiFiore (GS) , Geosciences, Princeton University Peter DiFiore's research is focused on the integration of new geochemical tracers, the isotopes of nitrate, into ocean circulation models to better understand the nitrogen cycle in the modern and past ocean and its link to climate change. Recent studies have focused on the cycling of nitrate in the Southern Ocean and its link to physical circulation.