2025 INSTRUCTORS

2025 IsoCamp Instructors

Viorel Atudorei, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona

Alexi Besser, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University

Ruth Blake, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

Christopher Brodie, IsoAlba New Zealand

Laura Burkemper, Center for Stable Isotopes, University of New Mexico

Dan Breecker, Department of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin

Thure Cerling, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah

Lucas Cernusak, Center for Tropical and Environmental Sustainability Science, James Cook University

​Todd Dawson, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley

Emma Elliott Smith, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution

Brad Erkkila, Stable Isotope Center, Yale University

Paul Koch, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

Sebastian Kopf, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder

Christy Mancuso, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Seth Newsome, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Tamsin O'Connell, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Pratigya Polissar, Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

Brian Popp, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii

Keith Prufer, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Zachary Sharp, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico

Oliver Shipley, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

Katie Snell, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder

Jed Sparks, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

Lael Vetter, Geosciences Department, University of Arizona

Jordan Wostbrock, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University

2025 Group Co-Leaders

Payal Banerjee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico

Natalia Chavez, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Joshua Cortez, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Cloe Knutson, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico

Anejelique Martinez, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Conner Mertz, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Emily Milton, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University

Austin Murrell, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Nadia Neff, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Catherine Peshek, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico

Erin Ray, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Alana Robinson, Center for Stable Isotopes, University of New Mexico

Monica Warner, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

Caitlin Zimmer, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Instructor Alumni (1996-2024)

Hagit Affek, Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Viorel Atudorei, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico

Soumaya Belmecheri, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona

Joseph Berry, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University

Ruth Blake, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University

Gabriel Bowen, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah

David Bowling, Department of Biology, University of Utah

Christopher Brodie, IsoAlba New Zealand

J. Renee Brooks, Western Ecology Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis

​Wally Broecker, Columbia University

Jim Burdett, GIRMS Solutions

Laura Burkemper, Center for Stable Isotopes, University of New Mexico

Thure Cerling, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah

Lucas Cernusak, Center for Tropical and Environmental Sustainability Science, James Cook University

Suvankar Chakraborty, Stable Isotope Ratio Facility for Environmental Research, University of Utah

Lesley Chesson, IsoForensics Inc.

Craig Cook, Stable Isotope Facility, University of Wyoming

Todd Dawson, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Jim Ehleringer, Department of Biology, University of Utah

Brad Erkkila, Stable Isotope Center, Yale University

David Evans, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University

Lawrence Flanagan, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge

Katherine Freeman, Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University

Brian Fry, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University

John Hayes, NOSAMS, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Eve-Lyn Hinckley, Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder

Keith Hobson, Environment Canada

Paul Koch, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of California Santa Cruz

Sebastian Kopf, University of Colorado Boulder

Matthew Lachniet, Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Bruno Lavettre, Costech Inc.

Steve Leavitt, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona

Naomi Levin, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan

Steve Macko, University of Virginia

Christy Mancuso, Thermo Scientific

Luiz Martinelli, Tropical Ecosystem Functioning Ecology Laboratory, University of São Paulo

​Bob Michener, Boston University

Claudia Mora, Geochemistry Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Kenneth Nagy, Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles

Seth Newsome, Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Tamsin O'Connell, Oxford University

Diane Pataki, Department of Biology, University of Utah

Elise Pendall, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney

Pratigya Polissar, University of California Santa Cruz

Brian Popp, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii

Keith Prufer, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico

John Roden, Department of Biology, Southern Oregon University

Darren Sandquist, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Fullerton

Donald Schell, Institue of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Oliver Shipley, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

Katie Snell, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder

Kip Solomon, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah

Jed Sparks, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

Howie Spero, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis

Larry Tieszen, U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls

Brett Tipple, Department of Biology, University of Utah

Susan Trumbore, Max Plank Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena

Lael Vetter, Geosciences Department, University of Arizona

David Williams, Department of Botany, University of Wyoming

Jordan Wostbrock, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University

Dan Yakir, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science