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Please note: Faculty members must be approved to represent a specific concentration on a student's Special Committee.

  • Richard Allmendinger -- Concentrations: geotectonics; seismology; structural geology; Research interests: structural geology

  • Warren Allmon -- Concentrations: paleontology; Research interests: macroevolution; evolutionary paleoecology; systematics of Cenozoic mollusks

  • Christopher Andronicos -- Concentrations: general geology; geotectonics; petrology; Precambrian geology; structural geology; Research interests: general geology; geotectonics; petrology; precambrium geology; tectonics; structural geology; metamorphic petrology

  • James Bell -- Concentrations: planetary geology; Research interests: planetary surface composition; mineralogy and weathering processes; spacecraft; telescopic and laboratory remote sensing instrumentation and data processing/analysis methods

  • J. Thomas Brenna -- Concentrations: geochemistry and isotope geology; Research interests: mass spectrometry; biomedicine; compound-specific isotope analysis; instrument development

  • Larry Brown -- Concentrations: environmental geophysics; geophysics; seismology; Research interests: geophysics; seismology; ground penetrating radar; geotectonics

  • Wilfred Brutsaert -- Concentrations: geohydrology; Research interests: geohydrology

  • Lawrence Cathles -- Concentrations: economic geology; engineering geology; environmental geophysics; geochemistry and isotope geology; geohydrology; geophysics; geotectonics; petroleum geology; Research interests: economic geology; geophysics

  • John Cisne -- Concentrations: general geology; geobiology; paleontology; sedimentology; stratigraphy; Research interests: paleontology

  • Louis Derry -- Concentrations: general geology; geochemistry and isotope geology; Research interests: low-temperature geochemistry; isotope geochemistry; biogeochemical cycles

  • Gregory Dietl -- Concentrations: paleontology; Research interests: paleontology

  • Michelle Goman -- Concentrations: Quaternary geology; Research interests: Quaternary paleoecology; Quaternary paleoclimatology

  • Charles Greene -- Concentrations: environmental geophysics; Research interests: oceanography; interaction of physical and biological processes in oceanic ecosystems

  • David Hysell -- Concentrations: geophysics; Research interests: geophysics; upper atmosphere physics; radar remote sensing; space plasmas

  • Teresa Jordan -- Concentrations: general geology; geotectonics; sedimentology; stratigraphy; Research interests: stratigraphy; sedimentology; tectonics; geomorphology

  • Robert Kay -- Concentrations: economic geology; general geology; geochemistry and isotope geology; geotectonics; mineralogy; petrology; planetary geology; Precambrian geology; Research interests: petrology; geochemistry

  • Suzanne Kay -- Concentrations: geochemistry and isotope geology; geotectonics; petrology; Research interests: igneous petrology; geochemistry

  • Rowena Lohman -- Concentrations: geophysics; Research interests: geophysics

  • Sturt Manning -- Concentrations: geochemistry and isotope geology; Quaternary geology; Research interests: dendrochronology; dendroclimatology; dendrochemistry in the Mediterranean, Near East and Northeast North America; radiocarbon dating and calibration; Aegean, Cypriot and East Mediterranean history

  • Thomas O'Rourke -- Concentrations: engineering geology; rock mechanics; Research interests: geotechnical and earthquake engineering

  • Jean-Yves Parlange -- Concentrations: geohydrology; Research interests: geohydrology

  • Jason Phipps-Morgan -- Concentrations: geophysics; geotectonics; Research interests: geodynamics, marine geophysics, geochemical evolution of the Earth, hotspot, mid-ocean ridge, and subduction zone processes

  • Matthew Pritchard -- Concentrations: geophysics; geotectonics; planetary geology; seismology; Research interests: active tecctonics/earthquake cycle; volcanology; planetary geophysics

  • Robert Ross -- Concentrations: general geology; geobiology; paleontology; Quaternary geology; sedimentology; stratigraphy; Research interests: evolutionary paleobiology; paleoceanography; geoscience education; micropaleontology

  • Andy Ruina -- Concentrations: engineering geology; geophysics; geotectonics; rock mechanics; seismology; Research interests: geomechanics

  • Steven Squyres -- Concentrations: planetary geology; Research interests: planetary science

  • Tammo Steenhuis -- Concentrations: geohydrology; Research interests: geohydrology

  • Jefferson Tester -- Concentrations: economic geology; engineering geology; geochemistry and isotope geology; geohydrology; petroleum geology; rock mechanics; Research interests: geothermal energy; advanced drilling technology; unconventional fossil fuel upgrading; carbon capture and sequestration; water purification and use

  • Joseph Veverka -- Concentrations: geomorphology; planetary geology; Research interests: astronomy; planetology

  • William White -- Concentrations: geochemistry and isotope geology; petrology; Research interests: geochemistry

Graduate School Professors (Emeritus faculty) :
  • Muawia Barazangi -- Concentrations: geophysics; geotectonics; seismology; Research interests: seismology; tectonics; geophysics; GIS

  • John Bird -- Research interests: geotectonics; deep mantle petrology

  • Bryan Isacks -- Research interests: seismology; tectonics

  • Daniel Karig -- Research interests: geotectonics; rock mechanics; structural geolog

  • Fred Kulhawy -- Concentrations: engineering geology; rock mechanics; Research interests: geotechnical engineering; engineering geology

  • Arthur Ruoff -- Research interests: matter at multimegabar pressures

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