First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Brandi,Lenz,Instructional Assistant Professor,"I am an Earth scientist and educator with interests in subsurface geophysics, sediment mechanics, and natural hazards. My current research focuses on slope stability, marine geohazards, and geomechanics using geophysical data. I have first-hand experience in the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of reflection seismic data.",Instructional Assistant Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n055ff3cf
Ethan,Grossman,"Professor, Michel T. Halbouty Chair","My research focuses on global change and paleoclimates, stable isotope geochemistry, coastal environments past and present, hypoxia, isotope hydrology, past and present, biogeochemistry and geomicrobiology of aquifer systems.","Faculty Affiliate||Professor, Michel T. Halbouty Chair||Director",Geology and Geophysics||Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0c709094
Arthur,Donovan,Professor of the Practice,,Professor of the Practice,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0d53c831
Thomas,Yancey,Professor,My research focuses on the study of carboniferous and Permian marine shelf paleoenvironments and paleooceanography.,Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0e0dbd40
Mauro,Becker,Research Professor,,Research Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n12c4becf
Xiaowei,Chen,Associate Professor,,Associate Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1c3f97d9
Jin,Zhang,Associate Professor,"I am high pressure-temperature mineral physicist. My research focuses on the structures, composition, and dynamics of the Earth and other planets through high pressure-temperature experiments. My primary research tool is Brillouin spectroscopy combined with diamond anvil cell technique for in situ sound velocity measurements of Earth and planetary materials, which are essential for interpreting various geophysical/geochemical observations in the planetary interiors. My ultimate goal is to establish a 3D mineralogical model of the Earth from the core to the surface. I also use various types of synchrotron X-ray techniques and large volume press to study other petrology and volcanology problems, such as high pressure-temperature phase equilibrium, magma viscosity, volatile storage and transport in the deep Earth and other planets. I have minor interest in material sciences as well.",Associate Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1d7e3031
Peter,Knappett,Associate Professor,,Associate Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n21dc06e7
Ryan,Ewing,Professor,,Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n2484d678
Hongbin,Zhan,Holder of Endowed Dudley J. Hughes '51 Chair in Geology and Geophysics,"My teaching and research interests are primarily in fundamental processes of groundwater hydrology, flow and transport in geological formations, and their applications in water resources management and geological, environmental, and petroleum engineering. I am recently interested in unconventional subsurface flow and transport processes, with the studied media changing from permeable porous and fractured ones to much less permeable ones such as clay and shale, and the studied pore sizes also changing from millimeters to micro-meters or even nano-meters. I am interested in the following research:
1. Flow and solute transport in highly deformable low-permeability porous media
2. Interaction of aquifer with connected and disconnected rivers
3. Vapor flow and transport in the subsurface
4. Non-Darcian flow and its impact on anomalous transport
5. Coupled unsaturated-saturated flow and transport problems
6. Radial dispersion and push-and-pull tests
7. Flow and transport in sloping aquifers
8. Coupled aquifer-conduit-fracture flow and transport
9. Flow and transport in fracture-matrix systems
10. Vadose zone infiltration well",Faculty Affiliate||Endowed Ray C. Fish Professor||Holder of Endowed Dudley J. Hughes Chair in Geology and Geophysics,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute||College of Geosciences,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n31c29796
John,Giardino,Professor,,Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n38ad171c
Michael,Heaney,Assistant Professor,,Instructional Assistant Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n3be3533c
Lucien,Nana Yobo,Assistant Professor,,Assistant Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n485d8ec4
William,Lamb,Dr.,"My research focuses on metamorphic petrology and geochemistry; the characterization of metamorphism in the earth's crust and mantle including temperatures, pressures and, in particular, fluid compositions and movements. This research includes fieldwork, petrography, microprobe analyses, fluid calculations over a wide range of pressures and temperatures, fluid inclusion work and stable isotopic analyses. Recent research includes the production and microthermometric examination of synthetic fluid inclusions. Additional interests include crustal genesis, Precambrian geology, economic geology, and metasomatic transport of crustal materials.",Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n49131ef8
Mark,Everett,Howard Karren Endowed Professor,,Howard Karren Endowed Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4a2ad087
Michael,Pope,Professor and Department Head,"My research interests focus on three main topics: 1) Integrating litho-, chemo- and chronostratigraphy in a regional sequence stratigraphic framework to understand high-frequency and long-term climatic and oceanic processes affecting development of sedimentary successions; towards this end I am currently most interested in the transitions that occur between global icehouse and greenhouse conditions and how these affect reservoir characterization. 2) Using detrital zircon geochronology to understand sediment dispersal and large-scale tectonic processes. 3) Determining the structural deformation (twinning, cataclasis, brecciation, etc.) produced in carbonates by meteorite impacts as a means to establish objective criteria for cratering - similar to shocked quartz.",Professor and Department Head||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n50988f03
Brad,Clement,Professor and Director,,Professor and Director,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n53a20ce7
David,Bapst,Assistant Instructional Professor,"I am an analytical paleobiologist, focused how we infer evolutionary relationships in the fossil record, date when lineages diverge from each other, and how we can use relationships among extinct organisms to say something about evolutionary processes in deep time. I work on whatever group of organism is best for a particular question (because every fossil record is different), so my research includes everything from living brachiopods to fossil birds. I most often work on the planktonic graptolites, a group of colonial zooplankton that diversified rapidly and went extinct during the Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian periods, hundreds of millions of years ago. Graptolites have a fantastically detailed fossil record for asking evolutionary questions, but they have also long been important as a biostratigraphic tool in economic geology in the early Paleozoic.",Assistant Instructional Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n56db717f
David,Sparks,Professor,"My research focuses on mathematical and numerical modeling of dynamic geophysical and geochemical systems, including: Grain-scale dynamics of unconsolidated sediment and fault gouge; Discrete element method for modeling granular materials; Pressure solution; Fluid flow through porous media; Mantle convection and crustal generation beneath spreading centers, subduction zones, intraplate volcanoes; Physics and chemistry of mantle partial melting and melt migration; and Thermal and differentiation history of icy solar system bodies.",Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5cb13616
Alan,Yu,Professor of the Practice - Basin Modeling F/T,,Professor of the Practice - Basin Modeling F/T,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5f07ae5d
Leila,Baghdad Brahim,Lecturer,,Lecturer,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n62c4e717
Alfonso,Benavides Iglesias,Lecturer,,Lecturer,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6620bec3
Hiroko,Kitajima,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on rock mechanics, soil mechanics, structural geology, hydrogeology, numerical modeling, and scientific drilling.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n69a78f25
Nicholas,Perez,Assistant Professor,"My research focuses on basin evolution and deformation along active margins, the role of structural inheritance on deformation and subsidence patterns, tectonic influences on sedimentology, stratigraphy, and basin architecture, continent-scale sediment routing, and tectonic-climate interactions.",Assistant Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7033c8ff
Juan Carlos,Laya,Associate Professor,"My current research interests are in the broad area of carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy. The topics I am focusing on include:
1) Carbonate reservoir characterization and modeling from modern and outcrop analogues, (interested in Caribbean islands, also Pacific and Indian Ocean islands)
2) Late Paleozoic carbonate petroleum systems and opportunities for exploration
3) Diagenesis and porosity evolution, using image analysis tools as a key for petrophysics.
4) The use of stable isotope geochemistry including clumped isotopes in understanding deposition, diagenesis and basin evolution.
5) Unconventional Carbonate reservoirs and basin analysis.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Assistant Professor,Geology and Geophysics||Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n70ce65bb
Julia,Reece,Assistant Professor,"My research program focuses on understanding the mechanics and flow behavior of mudrocks with applications in subsurface pressures/stresses, basin modeling, and submarine slope failures. I am particularly interested in the controls on permeability and compressibility in marine sediments. In addition, I study physical and chemical diagenesis in shale gas reservoirs. My group uses field samples and data and employs a suite of laboratory techniques to pursue these research interests including sedimentological and geotechnical experimentation (grain size, Atterberg Limits, uniaxial consolidation, petrography). We also use imaging techniques (Scanning Electron Microscope) in order to analyze microstructures of the mudrocks.",Assistant Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7317d514
Frederick,Chester,Professor,"My research focuses on experimental rock mechanics, structural geology, ocean drilling sciences, and tectonophysics.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7653191a
Christina,Belanger,Assistant Professor,"Identifying how organisms respond, why they respond, and to which environmental factors they are primarily responding is integral to understanding how future climate change will affect the modern biota as well as to inform efforts to sustain biodiversity and economically important fisheries.
Shelled organisms, such as molluscs and foraminifera, are abundant and well-preserved in the fossil record and in museum collections of modern specimens. These preserved assemblages allow longer-term perspectives on biotic response and climate change - millennia to millions of years - than is possible in exclusively present-day ecological studies. The fossil record also allows trends in these natural communities to be analyzed before, during, and after changes in climate without needing to wait for the events to occur in real time.",Assistant Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7665a171
Judith,Chester,Professor,"My research focuses on the deformation and alteration reactions during faulting, the importance to earthquake nucleation and rupture propagation in the continental crust, mechanisms of creep compaction of reservoir rock, and the mechanics of fold-fault interaction in anisotropic rock.",Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n866736cf
Julie,Newman,Professor,"The investigation of the rheology, deformation processes, and deformation conditions (e.g., pressure, temperature, stress, strain-rate) in crustal and upper mantle environments through field, microstructural and geochemical studies.",Department Head||Professor,Geology and Geophysics||Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86cd191c
Brent,Miller,Professor,,Associate Professor||Professor,Geology and Geophysics||Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n8d902f4a
Anne,Raymond,Professor,,Professor,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/na06c16c9
Mukul,Bhatia,Executive Professor,"I have expertise in Sedimentary basins, Petroleum systems,
Appraisal and Field Development, Multidisciplinary Field Studies, Unconventional Resource Plays, Asset
Development and Reserves estimation",Executive Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb2b7a092
Yuefeng,Sun,Mollie B. & Richard A. Williford Professor,"My research focuses on quantitative petroleum geology, rock physics, and reservoir geophysics.",Faculty Affiliate||Mollie B. & Richard A. Williford Professor,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb4c2b00b
Jack,Baldauf,Senior Associate Vice President for Research,"Synergistic Activities: Neogene Pacific paleoceanography with focus on understanding variation in production, export productivity and dissolution and the relationship to climate change and the CO2 cycle.
Understanding climate change by translating global processes to local consequences and mitigations. Emphasis placed on education of educators, students and policy and decision makers.
Themes: Paleoceanography, Phytoplankton productivity, Diatoms and biotic response to climate variability, Carbon cycle, Biosiliceous sedimentation, Micropaleontology, and Biostratigraphy",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Senior Associate Vice President for Research||Executive Associate Dean,Geology and Geophysics||Oceanography||Energy Institute||Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nbeae09a3
Eric,Riggs,Professor,"The Riggs Group studies many related aspects of teaching, learning and cognition in the geosciences.
We work to understanding how people learn and develop expertise in complex geological settings through the lens of embodied cognition and culturally-mediated cognition, including international or cross-cultural learning situations. We seek to understand how to connect the whole person to science from an asset-based perspective.
Recent work includes studies of academic field choice in geology as a function of gender, and the role of gendered experience in field-based learning environments and the resulting influence on career paths.",Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ncda74524
Michael,Tice,Associate Research Scientist,,Associate Research Scientist,Geology and Geophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndcb5d62d
Benchun,Duan,Professor,,Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne9344aca
Andreas,Kronenberg,"Professor, Michel T. Halbouty Chair","My research interests span topics in structural geology, mineral physics, and solid earth geophysics with emphasis placed on the mechanical properties of Earth materials and the deformation mechanisms that govern rheology. Specific research topics have addressed the
plasticity, creep, and failure of minerals and rocks, examining the roles of crystalline defects, grain boundaries, interfaces, and fluids in determining macroscopic behavior. Taking an experimental approach, I have examined the effects of fluids, defect chemistry, and diffusional kinetics on mechanical behavior with current studies including the deformation of carbonates,
compactional creep of porous quartz aggregates, the role of crack healing in restrengthening rocks, and hydrolytic weakening of silicates.","Faculty Affiliate||Professor, Michel T. Halbouty Chair",Geology and Geophysics||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfec82edc