Area of Expertise: Geology
Akciz, Sinan
Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Earthquake geology
- Geomorphology
- Structural geology
Bonuso, Nicole
Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- evolutionary paleoecology
- invertebrate paleontology
Browne, Brandon
Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Volcano
- volcanic eruptions
Bursztyn, Natalie
Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Geoscience Education
Carlin, Joe A.
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Coastal Marine Geology
- Coastal Processes
- Coastal Sediments
- Oceanography
- Anthropogenic impacts on coastal environments
- Terrestrial sediment fluxes to the ocean
Clemens-Knott, Diane
Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Magmas and volcanos
- Igneous and metamorphic rocks
- Sierra Nevada mountains
- Isotope geochemistry of rocks and waters
- Geology of national parks
Foster, John H.
Professor Emeritus of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Engineering geology
- Environmental geology
Hamecher, Emily A.
Lecturer in Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Mineralogy
- Igneous Petrology
kirby, matthew e.
Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Paleoclimatology
- Global climate change
- Lake systems
Knott, Jeffrey R.
Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Geomorphology (landslide causes and appearance, how mountains grow, affects of glaciation in the Southwest)
- Engineering geology (landslide mitigtion; affects of earthquakes; liquifaction hazards)
- Ground water chemistry (degration and transport of petroleum and inorganic compounds in groundwater)
- Death Valley geology
Laton, William R.
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Applied hydrogeology/hydrology
- environmental hydrogeology/geology
- natural hazard risk assessment
- GIS/remote sensing of geological and hydrogeological problems and assessments
- water
- geology
- environment
Loyd, Sean
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Low Temperature Geochemistry
- Diagenesis
- Biogeochemistry
- Isotope Geochemistry
Memeti, Vali
Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Volcanoes
- Volcanic eruptions
- Magmas
- Minerals
- Rocks
- Yosemite National Park
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Plutons
- geologic maps
- tectonics
- structural geology
- geochronology
Parham, James F.
Associate Professor of Geological Sciences
Curator of Paleontology, Copper Center
Areas of Knowledge
- Paleontology
- Fossils
- Conservation
- Reptiles
- Turtles
Woods, Adam D.
Assistant professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Knowledge
- Paleontology
- Earth history
- Mass extinctions
- Early life on Earth
- Geology
