Peter Lea

Associate Professor of Earth and Oceanographic Science

On leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year.

Spring 2012

  • On Leave for the Academic Year 2011-2012 
Phone 725-3439
Title Associate Professor
Department Earth & Oceanographic Science
Work Location 120 D Druckenmiller Hall
E-Mail plea@bowdoin.edu
Peter Lea: Bowdoin College: Geology

Education:

A.B. (Dartmouth)
M.S. (Washington)
Ph. D. (Colorado-Boulder)

Peter D. Lea teaches hydrology, glacial processes and landforms, and sedimentology. His research includes climatic and environmental change of the Bering land bridge, as well as the flow dynamics, biogeochemistry, and environmental history of Merrymeeting Bay, a freshwater tidal system in mid-coast Maine.