Daniel Sigman, Assistant Professor of Geosciences Cycles of biologically important elements, earth history, Nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry

Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences Biogeochemistry and paleoclimate; Oxygen and nitrogen isotopes in the atmosphere and ocean

Catherine Peters, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Biodegradation and Bioremediation

Peter Jaffee, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Hydrocarbon and trace metal contaminants, modeling contaminant fat
 

Collaborators elsewhere:
Jeffrey Cornwell, Horn Point Laboratory, sediment biogeochemistry

Jackie Collier, SUNY Stony Brook Molecular ecology, cyanobacterial genetics and evolution

Dick Dugdale, San Francisco State University Biological Oceanography, nutrient cycling

Patricia Glibert, Horn Point Laboratory, Nutrient cycling and primary production of plankton

George Jackson, Texas A&M University Biological Oceanography, Oceanographic and biogeochemical modeling

Lee Kerkhof, Rutgers University Microbial diversity, molecular ecology

Mary Voytek, USGS, Reston Microbial Ecology, Bioremediation

Mark Wells, University of Maine Chemical Oceanography, trace metals and plankton

Francis Wilkerson, San Francisco State University Biological Oceanography

John Zehr, University of California, Santa Cruz Microbial Ecology, Nitrogen fixation 
 

Links to related programs on campus:
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department

Princeton Environmental Institute

Geosciences Department

Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

Molecular Biology Department
 

Information for Potential Student and Post Doctoral applicants:
People interested in finding out more about our group and related programs for study and research in this area at Princeton University are invited to contact us directly (see any of the links to Ward lab people or just hit this link (bbw@princeton.edu). You may also find the following information/links useful.

Graduate students in several departments find the nexus of their research interests in our lab. Our students mainly come from graduate programs in Geosciences and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Both offer flexibility in customizing your courses and research; check them out!

The Princeton Environmental Institute also supports graduate fellowships, although PEI has no formal graduate degree program. The PEI-STEP program supports half-time fellowships (stipend and tuition) for 24 months, to permit Ph.D. students in science and engineering to address environmental policy implications of their thesis research through supplementary course-work and policy-oriented research.Post Doctoral Researchers: The mix of projects and ideas in our lab has attracted post docs with graduate degrees or previous experience in microbiology, oceanography, chemical engineering and geosciences. Please contact us with your ideas.

There are several fellowships for which you might be interested in applying, both at Princeton University and at the national research funding agencies.
The Hess Fellowship, an honorific postdoctoral fellowship program, has been established to provide opportunities for outstanding young geoscientists to work in the field of their choice. Research may be carried out independently or in collaboration with members of the Geosciences Department. 

The Council for Science and Technology supports a program of research and teaching fellowships, which is designed to provide up to three years of stipend support to postdoctoral fellows who wish to obtain further training in both research and teaching. Fellows work with one or more faculty advisor in the department of their choice.

The National Science Foundation supports several post doctoral fellowship programs. Of particular interest in our lab is the Microbial Biology fellowship program, which currently supports two researchers in the group.