Degree Program Offered:  Master of Science

Director of Graduate Program:  Alexander Gates, Smith Hall (973/353-5100)

Members of the Graduate Faculty

Rutgers-Newark:

Professors:

Alexander E. Gates; Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute Structural geology; tectonics; radon

Warren Manspeizer; Ph.D., Rutgers Stratigraphy; plate tectonics

John H. Puffer; Ph.D., Stanford Igneous petrology; geochemistry; environmental geology

Assistant Professors:

Victoria C. Hover; Ph.D., Michigan Low-temperature geochemistry; environmental geology; soil and sediment geochemistry

Lee Slater; Ph.D., Lancaster (United Kingdom) Environmental geophysics and geophysical hydrogeology

Nathan Yee; Ph.D., Notre Dame Biogeochemistry; aqueous geochemistry

Adjunct Members of the Graduate Faculty:

Jonathan Adams; Ph.D., Université D`Aix-Marseille II Quarternary geology, ecology, biogeography

Andrew E. Kasper; Ph.D., Connecticut Paleobotany; palynology; plant morphology

Emily W.B. Russell; Ph.D., Rutgers Paleoecology; palynology

Professors Emeriti:

George Theokritoff, FAS-N; Ph.D., London Paleontology; biostratigraphy

Andreas H. Vassiliou; Ph.D., Columbia Mineralogy; ore-genesis; X-ray crystallography

Rutgers-New Brunswick/Piscataway:

Professors

Gail M. Ashley; Ph.D., British Columbia Sedimentology; glacial geology; geomorphology; geoarchaeology

Michael J. Carr; Ph.D., Dartmouth Volcanology; petrology; geochemistry

Jeremy S. Delaney; Ph.D., Queen`s (Northern Ireland)  Microanalysis; meteoritics

Mark D. Feigenson; Ph.D., Princeton Isotope geochemistry; petrology

Claude T. Herzberg; Ph.D., Edinburgh High-pressure experimental petrology

Roger H. Hewins; Ph.D., Toronto Mineralogy; meteoritics/planetology

Dennis V. Kent; Ph.D., Columbia
Paleomagnetism; paleogeography

George R. McGhee; Ph.D., Rochester Paleontology; evolution; biostatistics

Kenneth G. Miller; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Paleoceanography; Cenozoic stratigraphy; micropaleontology

Gregory Mountain; Ph.D., Columbia Marine geology; seismic stratigraphy

Peter A. Rona; Ph.D., Yale Marine geology; geophysics

Roy W. Schlische; Ph.D., Columbia Structural geology; tectonics

Robert M. Sherrell; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Marine geochemistry

Carl Swisher; Ph.D., California (Berkeley) Geochronology; vertebrae paleontology, human origins

Martha Withjack; Ph.D., Brown Structural geology

James Wright; Ph.D., Columbia Paleography; stable isotope geochemistry

Professors Emeriti:

Richard K. Olsson; Ph.D., Princeton Micropaleontology; marine paleoecology

Robert E. Sheridan; Ph.D., Columbia Geophysics
Civil and Environmental Engineering (NJIT):

Professors

Lisa Axe; Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology Environmental and geoenvironmental engineering

Sima Bagheri; Ph.D., Wisconsin Environmental remote sensing

Nancy Jackson; Ph.D., Rutgers Coastal geomorphology

John S. Schuring; Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology Environmental and geoenvironmental engineering