Wangchuchu Zhao
Assistant Teaching Professor
Disciplines
- Management Information Systems
- Databases and Information Systems
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Wan Yang
Professor, Geology and Geophysics
Disciplines
- Geology
- Geophysics and Seismology
Research Interests
- Sedimentology and depositional systems, including modern and ancient, siliciclastic (marine and nonmarine) and carbonate, and outcrop and subsurface studies
- Stratigraphy, including modern and ancient, siliciclastic (marine and nonmarine) and carbonate, outcrop and subsurface (core, wireline, and 2-D and 3-D seismic), and qualitative and quantitative studies
- Geological indicators of paleoclimate and climatic controls on sedimentology and basin filling
Stephen S. Gao
Professor and Chair, Earth Sciences and Engineering Department
Disciplines
- Geology
- Geophysics and Seismology
Research Interests
- Geophysics
- Earthquake seismology
- Exploration geophysics
Shari Dunn-Norman
Chancellor's Professor
Disciplines
- Petroleum Engineering
Research Interests
- Petroleum Engineering
- Safety Engineering
- Ocean Engineering
Robert Clark
Lecturer
Disciplines
- Geological Engineering
Richard Stegemeier
Distinguished Professor
Disciplines
- Geological Engineering
Ralph E. Flori
Chancellor's Professor
Disciplines
- Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Geology
Research Interests
- BEST (Basic Engineering Software for Teaching) Dynamics
- Distance Learning
Phillip R. Mulligan
Assistant Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Disciplines
- Explosives Engineering
Research Interests
- Explosives Engineering
- Force protection
- Virtual reality
Norbert H. Maerz
Emeritus Professor, Geological Engineering and Director, Rock Mechanics and Explosives Research Center
Disciplines
- Geological Engineering
- Geology
Research Interests
- Imaging technologies for the mining, blasting, and materials handling industries
- Aggregate sizing and shape measurement
- Rock engineering in discontinuous rock masses
Mingzhen Wei
Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering; Research Investigator, CREE
Disciplines
- Petroleum Engineering
Research Interests
- Advanced application development for digital oifield inititives using data mining and artificial intelligence technologies
- Advanced semantic web application development for data management
- Reservoir engineering studies for unconventional oil and gas development
Marek Locmelis
Associate Professor and Faculty Fellow for Office of Vice Chancellor for Reasearch and Innovation
Disciplines
- Engineering
- Analytical Chemistry
- Geochemistry
Research Interests
- Genesis of magmatic, metasomatic and hydrothermal ore deposits in the crust and upper mantle
- Metal transport by fluids in the crust and upper mantle
- Fingerprinting ore-forming processes and development of innovative exploration tools
Leslie S. Gertsch
Associate Professor, Geological Engineering
Disciplines
- Mining Engineering
- Geology
Research Interests
- Extra-Terrestrial Mining and Excavation
- Rock Mechanics
- Mechanical Rock Cutting
Leonard Koederitz
Emeritus
Disciplines
- Petroleum Engineering
Kelly H. Liu
Professor of Geology and Geophysics; Senior Research Investigator, CREE
Disciplines
- Geology
- Geophysics and Seismology
Research Interests
- Exploration of Earth's interior using geophysical methods especially passive and active seismology.
- Oil and gas exploration
- Hazard mitigation
Katherine R. Grote
Assistant Chair and Associate Professor, Geological Engineering
Disciplines
- Geological Engineering
Research Interests
- Environmental Engineering
- Agricultural Engineering
- Geostatistics
Jonathan Obrist-Farner
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics; Research Investigator, CREE
Disciplines
- Geology
- Geophysics and Seismology
Research Interests
- Sedimentation in ancient and Recent pull-apart and rift basins
- Evolution of Mahajanga Basin, NW Madagascar
- Sedimentology and facies architecture of sediment waves in deepwater settings
John Patrick Hogan
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics
Disciplines
- Geology
- Geophysics and Seismology
- Tectonics and Structure
Research Interests
- Petrology
- Structural Geology
- Tectonics
Jeremy Maurer
Assistant Professor
Disciplines
- Geophysics and Seismology
Research Interests
- Science of Earthquakes
- Geo-data science
- InSAR
Jeffrey D. Cawlfield
Professor of Geological Engineering and Interim Chair of GGPE
Disciplines
- Higher Education
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Educational Technology
Research Interests
- Academic excellence
- Student success
- Applying collaborative, technology enhanced and experiential learning themes to student and faculty engagement
James Bunch
Lecturer, Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering
Disciplines
- Geological Engineering