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  Graduate School–New Brunswick 2010–2012 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Geological Sciences 460  

Geological Sciences 460

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor Kenneth G. Miller, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (732-445-3622)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Gail M. Ashley, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., British Columbia
Sedimentology; geomorphology; quaternary geology; modern processes

Marie-Pierre Aubry, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; D.Sc., Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
Biostratigraphy; calcareous nannoplankton evolution; geological time and the stratigraphic record

Michael J. Carr, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Dartmouth
Convergent plate margins; volcanology, tectonics, and igneous petrology

Paul G. Falkowski, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, SAS/SEBS; Ph.D., British Columbia
Biogeochemical cycles; evolution; astrobiology

Craig S. Feibel, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Utah
Geoarchaeology; paleoenvironments; paleoecology; microstratigraphy; geochronology

Mark D. Feigenson, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Geochemistry of igneous rocks and other geologic samples

Claude T. Herzberg, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Edinburgh (UK)
Solid and liquid silicate solutions; applications to planetary interiors

Gregory F. Herzog, Professor of Chemistry, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Meteoritics: radiometric dating and cosmic ray exposure; trace elements

Dennis V. Kent, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Paleomagnetics; paleogeography; stratigraphy

Robert Kopp III, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Earth system science; environmental magnetism; climate and energy policy

Vadim Levin, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Origin and evolution of continents; mantle dynamics at convergent plate margins; seismological techniques for studies of structure and texture at depth

George R. McGhee, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Rochester
Evolutionary theory; mass extinction; community paleoecology and evolution; functional and theoretical morphology; Paleozoic stratigraphy

Kenneth G. Miller Sr., Vice Chair and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic sea-level and paleoceanographic changes; integration of isotope, bio-, magneto-, and seismic stratigraphy

Gregory S. Mountain, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Seismic stratigraphy; paleoceanography; sea-level studies; continental margin evolution

Ying Fan Reinfelder, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Utah State
Hydrogeology; groundwater modeling

David A. Robinson, Professor of Geography, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Climatology; cryosphere; solar radiation; physical geography

Peter A. Rona, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, SAS/IMCS; Ph.D., Yale
Oceanic ridge crest processes; sea floor hydrothermal processes; marine geology and geophysics; continental margin processes

Yair Rosenthal, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Geochemistry; paleoceanography; trace metal biogeochemistry; metal cycling in estuarine and coastal sediments

Roy W. Schlische, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Extensional tectonics; structural and stratigraphic development of rift basins; growth of faults

Silke Severmann, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS/IMCS; Ph.D., Southampton
Cycle of metal, nutrient, carbon, and sulfur; earth's biogeochemical evolution

Robert M. Sherrell, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, SAS/IMCS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Geochemistry of marine and fresh waters; paleochemical records in ice cores

Carl Swisher III, Chair and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Geochronology; vertebrate paleontology; human origins

Martha O. Withjack, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Brown
Experimental structural geology; structural geology and tectonics; seismic interpretation

James D. Wright, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Marine geology; paleooceanography; stable isotopes; stratigraphy

Nathan Yee, Associate Professor of Environmental and Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS/SEBS; Ph.D., Notre Dame
Aqueous geochemistry; mineralogy; environmental geology

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Anthony J. Broccoli, Professor of Atmospheric Science, SEBS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Climate modeling; climate change

James V. Browning, Assistant Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Micropaleontology; sequence stratigraphy; sea-level change

Alexander E. Gates, Associate Professor of Geology, FAS-N; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic
Tectonics; structural geology; deformational-chemical interactions in oroganic belts

Roger H. Hewins, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Toronto
Petrology of meteorites, mafic, and ultramafic rocks; mineral chemistry

Richard K. Olsson, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Micropaleontology; stratigraphy; paleoecology; paleobathymetry of Cretaceous and Cenozoic formaminifera

John R. Reinfelder, Professor of Environmental Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., SUNY (Stony Brook)
Metals in marine phytoplankton and coastal waters

Kathleen M. Scott, Professor of Biological Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Functional morphology; paleoecology of ungulates; mammalian evolution

Robert E. Sheridan, Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Seismic reflection and refraction; seismic stratigraphy; general geophysics; geology of the Atlantic continental margin

Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty

Karen Bemis, Research Associate, IMCS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Marine geophysics; hydrothermal plume behavior; volcano morphology;, visualization

Margaret Benoit, Assistant Professor of Physics, College of New Jersey; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State
Sesimology; upper mantle velocity structure

William A. Berggren, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Earth and Planeary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Stockholm (Sweden)
Taxonomy, biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography of Mesozoic and Cenozoic planktonic and benthic foraminifera; global marine-continental stratigraphic correlations and time scales; paleoceanography

Jeremy S. Delaney, Research Scientist, Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Queens (UK)
Microbeam analysis of terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials

Donald H. Monteverde, Research Scientist 2, United States Geological Survey; Ph.D., Rutgers
New Jersey geology; seismic and sequence stratigraphy of nearshore New Jersey

Rhonda L. Quinn, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Loyola (Chicago)
Paleoecology; climate; human evolution; bioarchaeology; isotope geochemistry

Peter Sugarman, Supervising Geologist, New Jersey Geological Survey; Ph.D., Rutgers
Sequence stratigraphy; hydrogeology

 
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