Lisa Doner
Associate Professor, PSU
Lisa is an Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Policy and the Center for the Environment.She studies lake sediments to decipher past watershed changes. Her primary focus is on how climate interacts with other mechanisms for change including natural catastrophe (fire, flood, landslide, tsunami), human disturbance (agriculture, logging, development) and long-term trends (glaciations, tectonics, sea-level change). These projects are globally distributed, with sites in Utah, Maine, Baffin Island (Canada),Iceland and Turkey.
Eric Hoffman
Professor, PSU
Dr. Eric G. Hoffman received his B.S. in meteorology from Cornell University, and his M.S. andPh.D. in atmospheric science from the University at Albany (SUNY). His areas of expertise include synoptic and mesoscale meteorology.Prior to joining the PSU faculty in 2000, Dr. Hoffman worked for the National Weather Service as an aviation meteorologist for the Aviation Weather Center. While in graduate school, he worked as a part-time broadcast meteorologist for WGY-AM Radio in Schenectady, NY, and as a graduate research and teaching assistant.
Tracey Lesser
Professor, NHTI
Tracey Lesser is a Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences at NHTI, Concord's Community College. She holds an M.S. degree from the University of New Hampshire. Professor Lesser has received environmental awards for research, including a 2015 study improve soils for the Sycamore Community Garden on the NHTI campus that now provides 160 refugee families a place to grow traditional foods, and a 2016 multidisciplinary project oriented around a common theme of water quality and global climate change. Tracey has been heading up MEER's installation and data collection of the experimental mirror arrays on the NHTI campus.
Jessica Morgan
Teaching Lecturer, PSU/NHTI
Early in Dr. Morgan's childhood, she became aware of the affects humans were having on the environment. She decided to go into chemistry in her sophomore year of undergrad at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She found that her passion with teaching, so she went to grad school at UNH and pursued a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry. She now teaches at NHTI, New Hampshire's Community College and Plymouth State University. Dr. Morgan became a part of the MEER reflection group after a colleague, Lisa Doner, suggested that it might interest her. Currently she is helping on the mirror installation projects and with the calcium oxide project.
Sarah Turtle
Teaching Lecturer, PSU
Sarah Turtle earned her B.A. in Biology from Hartwick College in 1991. After working as a field biologist and an environmental educator she returned to academics at the University of New Hampshire. She earned a MS (1996 ) and a Ph.D. (2000) in Zoology. Sarah started teaching at Plymouth State in 2000. Sarah is an ecologist interested in how environmental stresses individual, populations, and communities of amphibians and reptiles. She has worked with the Nature Conservancy and NH Fish and Game to investigate rare turtles in the state of New Hampshire through the use of live traps and telemetry.She is currently working to help support science teachers through professional development.
Ye Tao
Founder & Director of MEER
Dr. Ye Tao seeks to explain the mechanistic links between structure and function, across length scales and systems.Educated as a nanotechnologist and instrumentation expert, he brings the benefits of a multidisciplinary background in engineering and science to problem solving. That background includes formal training and research in combinatorial chemical syntheses, custom instrumentation design and fabrication, low-temperature experimental physics,mechanistic organic catalysis, semiconductor fabrication technologies, structural biology, and surface science.
Student Contributors
Dillon Buttner, Environmental Science & Policy, GeoPaths, MEERCAP, Plymouth State U. Class of 2022
David Cokkinos, Meteorology, GeoPaths, MEERCAP, INBRE, Plymouth State U. Class of 2024 (INBRE Poster)
Cole Prescott, Climate Studies, GeoPaths, MEERCAP, Plymouth State U. Class of 2024
William Van De Veen, Environmental Science & Policy, MEERCAP, Plymouth State U. Class of 2022
Other Contributors
Karen Cangialosi (Keene State)
Robin DeRosa (Plymouth State)
Xiaouhui Han (Rowland Institute Harvard)
Eric Kelsey (Plymouth State)
Amy Villamagna (Plymouth State)