Sandra Passchier is an Assistant Professor of Geoscience in the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies. Her primary research interests are in the sustainability of the cryosphere and its role in global climate change as it can be extracted from sediment cores on high latitude continental margins. She was an invited scientist in 4 international drilling programs in Antarctica and published more than 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Nature, Sedimentology, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Palaeogeography/Palaeoclimatology/Palaeoecology. Dr. Passchier has received over $470k in external funding from NSF and the Joint Oceanographic Institutions. She is a member of the international steering committee for Antarctic Climate Evolution, one of the five flagship research programs of the Scientific Committee of Antarctic Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from The Ohio State University and an M.S. in Physical Geography from the University of Amsterdam.

At Montclair State University Dr. Passchier has taught: Planet Earth (GEOS 107), Historical Geology (GEOS 114), Invertebrate Paleobiology (GEOS 431), Stratigraphy (GEOS 434), Seminar on Aquatic Sedimentary Environments (GEOS 494/592) and Sedimentology/Sedimentary Petrology (GEOS 437/538)