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Earth and Environmental Sciences Faculty Listing
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Professor Rebecca Lange, Chair
Professor Peter van Keken, Associate Chair for Curriculum
Associate Professor Chris Poulsen, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Tomasz R. Baumiller, Paleontology, biomechanics
Udo Becker, Mineralogy, mineral surface chemistry, computational mineralog
Joel D. Blum (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; John D. MacArthur Professor of Geological Sciences), Isotope geochemistry, environmental geochemistry, hydrogeochemistry
Mary Anne Carroll, Atmospheric chemistry and atmosphere-biosphere interactions
Rodney C. Ewing (Edward H. Kraus Distinguished University Professor), Mineralogy, materials science and nuclear materials
Daniel C. Fisher (Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology), Invertebrate paleontology, evolutionary functional morphology
Philip D. Gingerich (Ermine Cowles Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology), Vertebrate paleontology and mammalian evolution
Rebecca Lange, Igneous petrology, volcanology
Kyger T Lohmann, Sedimentology, trace element and isotope geochemistry
Robert M. Owen (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Marine and lacustrine geology and geochemistry
Larry J. Ruff, Geophysics, seismology
Ben A. van der Pluijm (Bruce R. Clark Collegiate Professor of Geology), Structural geology
Rob Van der Voo (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Frank H.T. Rhodes Collegiate Professor of Geological Sciences), Geophysics, paleomagnetism and its application to pre-Mesozoic plate tectonics
Peter van Keken, Geophysics, geodynamics
Donald Zak (Burton V. Barnes Collegiate Professor), Microbial ecology and ecosystem ecology
Youxue Zhang (James R. O'Neill Collegiate Professor of Geological Sciences), Mineral physics, chemical thermodynamic
Associate Professors
Robyn J. Burnham, Paleobotany
M. Clara Castro, Hydrogeology, noble gas geochemistry
Ingrid L. Hendy, Oceanography, paleoclimatology, micropaleontology, marine geochemistry
Jie (Jackie) Li, Mineral physics, experimental geochemistry, Earth and planetary interiors
Chris Poulsen, Paleoclimate, paleoceanography, and climate modeling
Jeroen Ritsema (Henry Pollack Endowed Professor of Geological Sciences), Global geophysics and earthquake seismology
Adam C. Simon, Economic Geology, Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry
Allison L. Steiner, Biosphere-atmosphere interactions, Regional climate modeling, Chemistry-climate interactions
Jeffrey A. Wilson, Paleontology
Assistant Professors
Sarah Aciego, Glaciochemistry, geochronology, chemical weathering and global change
Brian Arbic, Physical oceanography, ocean and solid earth tides, oceanic turbulence, numerical modeling
Marin Clark, Geomorphology, tectonics and crustal dynamics
Gregory Dick, Geomicrobiology, marine microbiology and oceanography
Eric Hetland, Lithospheric dynamics and crustal mechanics
David C. Lund, Paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and biogeochemical cycles
Nathan Niemi, Neotectonics and structural geology
Nathan Sheldon, Paleoclimatology, global change, and biosphere-climate interactions
Research Professor
Jeffery C. Alt, Water-rock interaction and hydrothermal geochemistry
Research Scientist
Catherine Badgley, Vertebrate paleontology
Associate Research Scientists
James Gleason, Oceanography
Chris M. Hall, Isotope and noble gas geochemistry, argon geochronology
Shaopeng Huang, Geophysics, paleoclimatology
Assistant Research Scientists
Maik Lang, High pressure mineralogy and materials science
Anja Schleicher, Clay mineralogy and structural geology
Fuxiang Zhang, High-pressure mineralogy and materials science
Jiaming Zhang, Materials science and electron microscopy
Adjunct Professors
John W. Geissman, Geophysics, paleomagnetism
William B. Simmons, Mineralogy and petrology
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Karen L. Webber, Petrology, volcanology
Visiting Assistant Professors
Brian Kennedy, Aquatic ecology
Selena Smith, Plant systematics and anatomy, paleobotany, taphonomy, role of plants in ancient environments
Professors Emeriti of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professors Emeriti of Geological Sciences
Charles B. Beck, Paleontology
William R. Farrand, Archaeological geology (especially sediment and stratigraphic analysis), geochronology of primitive sites
Stephen E. Kesler, Economic geology, exploration geology and geochemistry, environmental geochemistry
Philip A. Meyers, Organic geochemistry, paleoceanography, paleolimnology
Theodore C. Moore, Oceanography, Great Lakes geology, paleoclimatology
Samuel B. Mukasa (Eric J. Essene Collegiate Professor of Geological Sciences), Igneous petrology, isotope geochemistry
James R. O'Neil, Isotope geochemistry
Samuel I. Outcalt, Permafrost and physical geography
Donald R. Peacor, Mineralogy, crystallographic studies of minerals, clay diagenesis
Henry N. Pollack, Geophysics, terrestrial heat flow, tectonic evolution of the earth
David K. Rea, Marine geology, oceanography, sedimentology, paleoclimatology
Gerald R. Smith, Paleontology, numerical taxonomy, ecological biogeography, biostratigraphy of fishes
James C.G. Walker (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Biogeochemical cycles, atmospheric evolution
Lynn M. Walter, Geochemistry of natural waters, experimental low-temperature geochemistry
Bruce H. Wilkinson, Sedimentary geology, ancient lacustrine and marine carbonates