Faculty Profiles
Atilla Aydin, Professor (Research)
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Formation, geometric patterns and fluid flow properties of fractures and faults in a broad range of scales.
Dennis Bird, Professor
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Theoretical geochemistry of reactions among aqueous solutions and minerals in magma-hydrothermal systems; environmental geochemistry of toxic metals in the Mother Lode Gold Mining District, CA
Gordon Brown, Dorrell William Kirby Professor; Professor, Department of Photon Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Professor (by courtesy) of Chemical Engineering
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Surface and interface geochemistry; environmental fate of heavy metals; applications of synchrotron radiation in geochemistry and mineralogy
Stephan Graham, Welton Joseph & Maud L'Anphere Crook Professor; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Sedimentary basin analysis; petroleum geology
Marty Grove, Professor (Research)
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Development and application of 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)-He thermochronology & accessory mineral U-Th-Pb geochronology to unravel the tectonic evolution of continental margins.
George Hilley, Associate Professor
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Active tectonics, quantitative structural geology and geomorphology; Geographic Information Systems;unsaturated zone gas transport; near-surface hydrologic response and landscape development;active deformation and mountain belt growth in central Asia, central Andes, and along the San Andreas Fault; integrated investigation of earthquake hazards.
Keith Loague, Professor
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Surface / near-surface hydrology
Donald Lowe, Max Steineke Professor
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Clastic sedimentology, deep-water sedimentation mechanics and facies; Archean depositional systems and crustal development
Kate Maher, Assistant Professor
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Isotope geochemistry, environmental geochemistry and kinetics, and reactive transport.
Gail Mahood, Professor
Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences
Igneous petrogenesis, magmatic evolution of silicic magma chambers and physical evolution of related volcanic centers, volcanology, geochronology, extension-related magmatism, geoarchaeology
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