Directors

  • David Bercovici

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Co-Director
    Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences

  • Liza Comita

    School of the Environment
    • Co-Director
    Davis-Denkmann Professor of Tropical Forest Ecology

Managing Director

  • Toby Bryce

    Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture
    • Managing Director

Scientific Leadership Team

  • Mark Bradford

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    E.H. Harriman Professor of Soils and Ecosystem Ecology

  • Paulo Brando

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Associate Professor of Ecosystem Carbon Capture

  • Nilay Hazari

    Department of Chemistry
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Chair and John Randolph Huffman Professor of Chemistry

  • Sara Kuebbing

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Lecturer; Research Scientist; Research Director, Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program

  • David Kwabi

    Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Associate Professor

  • Sparkle Malone

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Carbon Capture

  • Noah Planavsky

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Professor

  • Peter Raymond

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Senior Associate Dean of Research & Director of Doctoral Studies; Oastler Professor of Biogeochemistry

  • James Saiers

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Clifton R. Musser Professor of Hydrology

  • Eric Slessarev

    Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Assistant Professor

  • Mary-Louise Timmermans

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Damon Wells Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences

  • Elizabeth Yankovsky

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Assistant Professor

  • Julie Zimmerman

    School of the Environment
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Vice Provost for Planetary Solutions, Professor of Green Engineering, Deputy Director for Research at Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering

Faculty Affiliates

  • Paul Anastas

    School of the Environment
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment

  • Mark Ashton

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Senior Associate Dean of The Forest School; Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology; Director of Yale Forests

  • Ruth E. Blake

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Professor

  • Edward Bolton

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Senior Research Scientist

  • J. Nicholas Hernandez-Aguilera

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Associate Research Scientist

  • Shu Hu

    Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Associate Professor

  • Jun Korenaga

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Professor

  • William Laurenroth

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Joseph F. Cullman 3rd ’35 Professor

  • Xuhui Lee

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor of Climate Science

  • Juan Lora

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Assistant Professor

  • Robert O. Mendelsohn

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy; Professor of Economics; and Professor, School of Management

  • Jordan Peccia

    Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Thomas E. Golden, Jr. Professor and Chair of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

  • Alan Rooney

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Assistant Professor

  • Luke Sanford

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance

  • Oswald J. Schmitz

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology

  • David Vasseur

    Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Professor and Chair of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

  • Hailiang Wang

    Department of Chemistry
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Professor

  • Lea Winter

    Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Assistant Professor

  • Michelle Wong

    Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Assistant Professor

  • Yuan Yao

    School of the Environment
    • Ecosystem Capture
    Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems

  • Mingjiang Zhong

    Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
    • Industrial Carbon Utilization
    Associate Professor

Research Scientists

  • Lucas Gloege

    Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
    • Research Scientists
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Associate Research Scientist

  • Fengchao Sun

    School of the Environment
    • Enhanced Weathering
    • Geological & Ocean Capture
    Associate Research Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellows

Staff

YCNCC Steering Committee

Committees