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Dr Christopher Hein
Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Physical Sciences
University/Institute/Company: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
About
Christopher Hein received a B.S. from the Cornell University in 2003 and Ph.D. from Boston University in 2012. For the latter, Chris studied the role of changes in sea level and sediment supply on Holocene coastal evolution. He then worked as a postdoctoral scholar at WHOI, studying the effects of climate change on terrestrial organic-carbon dynamics in the Ganges-Brahmaputra/Bengal Fan system. Chris is now working to apply the tools of sedimentology and organic chemistry to investigate the link between sediment-supply driven coastal evolution and past climatic variability in diverse coastal settings, with a goal of using this link to forecast future responses to regionally-specific climate changes.
