This research cluster involves eighteen faculty members in the Department of Geosciences at UMass-Amherst, with active research interests in the following areas:

David F. Boutt : hydrogeology, watershed hydrology, geomechanics

Stephen J. Burns: stable isotopes, paleoclimate

Raymond Bradley: climatology, paleoclimatology, global change, arctic environments

Julie Brigham-Grette: Quaternary/glacial geology, paleoclimatology, paleoenvironments

Laurie Brown: geophysics, paleomagnetism

Chris Condit: digital mapping, basaltic volcanism, planetary geology

Michele Cooke: active structural systems, geomechanics, rock fracture mechanics

Francisco Da Cruz : speleothems, paleoclimatology

Robert DeConto: paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, Earth system modeling

Dominik Fleitmann: speleothems, isotope geochemistry, paleoclimatology

Doug Hardy: high-elevation climatology, paleoclimatology, mountain glaciers

John Hubert: sedimentology, sedimentary petrology

Marck Leckie: micropaleontology, biostratigraphy, paleoceanography

Stephen Mabee: hydrogeology

Lynn Margulis: microbial evolution, organelle heredity

William McCoy: geomorphology, amino acid geochronology

George McGill: structural and planetary geology

Steve Petsch: biogeochemistry, organic geochemistry, geomicrobiology

Michael Rhodes: volcanology

Paul Voss: baloon, trajectory, lagrangian, atmosphere, chemistry, dynamics

Mathias Vuille: tropical climatology and paleoclimatology

Richard Yuretich: environmental geochemistry, clay minerals, lake environments