Faculty

John E. Ebel, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Interests:

• Earthquake seismology
• Exploration seismology
• Theoretical seismology

Amy E. Frappier, Assistant Professor

Interests:

• Paleoclimatology
• Stable Isotope Geochemistry
• Earth System Science
• Environmental Geology
• Stratigraphy

J. Christopher Hepburn, Professor

Interests:

• Regional geology and tectonics
• Metamorphic petrology

Rudolph Hon, Associate Professor

Interests:

• Solid earth and environmental chemistry
• GIS

Alan Kafka, Associate Professor

Interests:

• Seismology
• Earthquake hazards
• Science education
• Science and public policy

Gail C. Kineke, Associate Professor, Department Chair, and Director of Undergraduate Studies

Interests:

• Coastal and estuarine processes
• Marine sediment transport

Yvette D. Kuiper, Assistant Professor

Interests:

• Structural Geology
• Tectonics
• Geochronology

Noah P. Snyder, Assistant Professor

Interests:

• Earth surface processes
• River erosion, transport, and deposition

Emanuel G. Bombolakis, Research Professor

Interests:

• Structural geology
• Rock mechanics

Peter M. Dillon, Lecturer

Interests:

• Geology
• Geochemistry
• GIS modeling

Kenneth Galli, Lecturer

Interests:

• Regional Geology
• Sedimentology

Judith Hepburn, Lecturer

Interests:

• Environmental geoscience

 

Randolph J. Martin III, Adjunct Professor

Interests:

• Rock mechanics
• Experimental geophysics

 

Viacheslav G. Merkin, Lecturer

Interests:

• Magnetospheric physics
• MHD modeling of space plasmas
• Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

James W. Skehan, S.J., Professor Emeritus

Interests:

• Assembly and dispersal of supercontinents

Paul Strother, Adjunct Research Professor

Interests:

• Paleobotany and palynology
• Precambrian paleobiology
• Origin of land plants

Alfredo Urzua, Adjunct Professor

Interests:

• Groundwater flow
• Geotechnical engineering
• Risk assessment for geologic hazards

 

Dale Weiss, Lecturer

Interests:

• Geology
• Geophysics
• Environmental hydrology