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  Graduate School-New Brunswick 2017 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Geological Sciences 460  

Geological Sciences 460

Degree Programs Offered: Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy

Director of Graduate Program: Professor James D. Wright, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Busch Campus (848-445-3445)

Website: http://geology.rutgers.edu/academic-programs-in-geological-sciences/graduate-program

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Gail M. Ashley, Distinguished 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 nanoplankton evolution; geological time and the stratigraphic record

William A. Berggren, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, SAS; Ph.D., Stockholm
Micropaleontology and marine geology

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

Craig S. Feibel, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Anthropology, 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

Juliane Gross, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany)
Planetary geology; formation and evolution of differentiated planetary bodies

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, Board of Governors Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Paleomagnetics; paleogeography; stratigraphy

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

Vadim Levin, 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, Distinguished 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., Distinguished 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

Yair Rosenthal, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Marine Sciences, SAS/SEBS; 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

Robert M. Sherrell, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, SAS/IEOAS; 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

Sonia M Tikoo, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lunar paleomagnetism; impact cratering on planetary surfaces

Jill A. VanTongeren, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Petrology and geochemistry of crustal accretion and differentiation

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, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Marine geology; paleoceanography; stable isotope geochemistry; stratigraphy

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

Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty

Kay Bidle, Professor of Marine and Coastal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., California (San Diego)
Molecular evolution and ecology; marine microbial ecology; biogeochemistry

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, Professor of Geology, FAS-N; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic
Tectonics; structural geology; deformational-chemical interactions in orogenic belts

Linda Godfrey, Associate Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Cambridge
Paleoclimate; groundwater; nitrogen cycle; geochemistry

Christopher J. Lepre, Assistant Instructor in Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., Rutgers
Geoanthropology; hominid evolution

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

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

Brent Turrin, Associate Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Noble gas isotope geochemistry

Constantino Vetriani, Professor of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Marine and Coastal Sciences, SEBS; Ph.D., Rome Tor Vergata
Deep-sea microbiology; extremophiles; adaptations to extreme environments

Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty

Karen Bemis, Research Associate, IEOAS; 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
Seismology; upper-mantle velocity structure

Jeremy S. Delaney, Visiting Research Scientist, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, SAS; Ph.D., Queens (UK)
Microbeam analysis of terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials

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

Christopher J. Potter, Research Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey; Ph.D., Washington
Structural geology; regional tectonics

Rhonda L. Quinn, Associate Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Seton Hall; Ph.D., Rutgers
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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