research

At Lehigh, faculty and students in the EES Department carry out externally funded research in a broad range of subjects. This work spans the fields of ecology, environmental science, and geology, many of which might be unfamiliar to people having focused high-school or undergraduate training in the traditional disciplines of geology, biology, chemistry,or physics. Have a look at our faculty and student research activities and if something piques your interest, please contact us.

A wide range of research programs, equipment and computing facilities are available to support research in EES, located both within the department and in cooperating departments. The department houses some major, NSF-supported equipment and laboratories, and several groups of faculty and students are involved in larger collaborative research efforts of various types. Below, you will find links to pages describing these facilities and programs.

Programs and Projects

• Lehigh's Environmental Initiative
• Geodynamics of Indentor Corners (Nanga Parbat, Eastern Tibet)
• Lehigh Earth Observatory (LEO)
• Lehigh River Watershed

Faculty Research

• David Anastasio (Structural Geology)
• Gray Bebout (Petrology and High-Temperature Geochemistry)
• Robert Booth (Ecology, paleoecology, and paleoclimatology)
• Edward Evenson (Glacial and Quaternary Geology)
• Bruce Hargreaves (Physiological and Ecosystem Ecology)
• Ken Kodama (Paleomagnetism)
• Anne Meltzer (Seismology, tectonics)
• Don Morris (Microbial Ecology and Limnology)
• Frank Pazzaglia (Surface Processes and Tectonics)
• Steve Peters (Low-temperature geochemistry)
• Joan Ramage (remote sensing, cryosphere)
• Dork Sahagian (tectonics, environmental change)
• Zicheng Yu (Paleoecology and Paleoclimatology)
• Peter Zeitler (Geochronology and Tectonics)

Recent Faculty Publications

update in progress

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