Chair(s)

Jason Brozek
Jason Brozek is Associate Professor of Government and Stephen Edward Scarff Professor of International Affairs, and since joining the faculty in 2008, has taught courses on global politics, international law, US foreign policy, climate change, and environmental policy.
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Marcia Bjornerud (she/her/hers)
Marcia Bjornerud is a structural geologist whose research focuses on the physics of earthquakes and mountain building. She combines field-based studies of bedrock geology with quantitative models of rock mechanics.

Jason Brozek
Jason Brozek is Associate Professor of Government and Stephen Edward Scarff Professor of International Affairs, and since joining the faculty in 2008, has taught courses on global politics, international law, US foreign policy, climate change, and environmental policy.

Jeffrey J. Clark (he, his)
My research explores human interactions with the physical environment, both how humans shape Earth's surface, and how natural processes have shaped human habitation.

Bart T. De Stasio (he/him/his)
After discovering my passion for freshwater ecology and marine biology as a Lawrence undergraduate, I continued developing these interests by studying evolutionary ecology of zooplankton, food web interactions in the Baltic Sea, Green Bay (WI), and Lake Baikal (Russia), as well

Alyssa S. Hakes (she/her)
I am an ecologist who studies plant-insect interactions. I am interested in the factors that influence the amount of damage plants receive from insects.

Relena R. Ribbons (sher/her/hers)
Dr. Ribbons is a forest and soil ecologist, and biogeochemist in the Geosciences Department and Environmental Studies program.

Jodi Sedlock
I have been exploring the secret lives of bats for many years, mostly across the diverse archipelago of the Philippines in Southeast Asia. In collaboration with Filipino scientists and conservation professionals, colleagues at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Law