People

Kaighin McColl

Assistant Professor

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

kmccoll at seas dot harvard dot edu

Previously, I was a Ziff Environmental Fellow in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. I received my PhD from MIT in 2017, where I worked with Dara Entekhabi. I have undergraduate degrees in applied mathematics and environmental engineering from the University of Melbourne in Australia (where I’m from). Outside of work, I like reading, and hanging out with my wife and our dog, Beulah.

My first name is pronounced like the surname of Elena Kagan.

Past members

Lucas Vargas Zeppetello, Postdoc (with Huybers and Holbrook), February 2022-September 2023. Now faculty at UC Berkeley.

Yuanchao Fan, Postdoc, November 2019-December 2022. Now faculty at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School.

Alexis Berg, Research Associate, July 2019-February 2022. Now faculty at the University of Montreal.

Eleanor Wiesler, Harvard undergraduate student, Spring 2023

Robert Powell, Harvard undergraduate student, July 2019-May 2021

Sarosh-Alam Ghausi, visiting PhD student from Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Spring 2023

Shiliu Chen, visiting PhD student from Tsinghua University, 2019-2020

Qing He, visiting PhD student from Tsinghua University, 2018-2019

Elida Kocharian, Harvard undergraduate student, Fall 2019

Spring 2024 (left to right): Olivia Pietz, Lois Tang, Kaighin McColl, Yu Cheng (missing: Tara Gallagher)