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