Current Faculty
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Devlin •
Fowle •
Franseen •
Goldstein •
Gonzalez •
Hasiotis •
Kamola •
Lieberman •
Macpherson •
McElwee •
Möller •
Olcott •
Roberts •
Selden •
Steeples •
Stockli •
Taylor •
Tsoflias •
Walker •
Walton
Dr. Ross A. Black (Associate Professor)
black@ku.edu
(785) 864-2740
Ph.D., Wyoming, 1990.
Research: Geophysics with emphasis on seismic reflection and potential fields at near-surface to crustal scales. Integration of GIS and geophysics.
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Dr. J.F. Devlin (Associate Professor)
jfdevlin@ku.edu
(785) 864-4994
Ph D., University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1994.
Research: Hydrogeology, environmental organic chemistry,
in-situ groundwater remediation - particularly bioremediation and permeable reactive barriers, pollutant reactions with granular iron
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Dr. David A. Fowle (Assistant Professor)
fowle@ku.edu
(785) 864-1955
Ph D., University of Notre Dame, 2000.
Research: Quantitative geochemical modeling of bacterial-metal sorption reactions; biomineralization and its effects on contaminant mobility in the subsurface; bioavailability and diagenesis of metals in aquatic ecosystems; microbially-promoted mineral dissolution; and biogeochemical interactions in wetlands and soil systems. investication of the linkages between microbial ecology, using culture and molecular based techniques, and iron and trace element cycling.
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Dr. Evan K. Franseen (Professor)
evanf@ku.edu
(785) 864-2723
Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1989.
Research: Sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and diagenesis of carbonate and siliciclastic strata. Integration of outcrop and subsurface studies, high-resolution and conventional seismic methods, ground- penetrating radar, paleomagnetic methods, biostratigraphy, petrography, geochemical techniques, and computer modeling to better discern variables such as global, regional and local sea-level fluctuations, paleoceanographic conditions, climate, paleotopography, and autogenic processes that control carbonate depositional systems.
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Dr. Robert H. Goldstein (Department Chairperson, Professor)
gold@ku.edu
(785) 864-2738
Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1986.
Research: Sequence stratigraphy, diagenesis, and fluid-inclusion research. Controls on depositional sequence architecture of the Spanish Miocene, fluid history and diagenesis of the Midcontinent, diagenetic significance or brine reflux, Permian paleoclimate, ancient acid groundwater, diagenesis in sequence stratigraphy, fluid flow in foreland basins, and new fluid inclusion techniques for solving geologic problems.
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Dr. Luis Gonzalez (Associate Professor)
lgonzlez@ku.edu
(785) 864-2743
Research: Carbonate geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry, paleoclimatology, diagenesis, chemostratigraphy. Particular interest in the use of isotopic and elemental chemistry of carbonate minerals for paleo-environmental and paleoclimatic reconstructions, and tracing fluid and mineral evolution. Active research paleoclimate/paleoenvironmental research using speleothems focuses on the Holocene from Jamaica, Venezuela, Nepal, and the North American mid-Continent. Paleoclimate/paleoenvironmental research using pedogenic and marine (stabilized by meteoric diagenesis) carbonates form mid-Cretaceous deposits of the North American Western Interior Sea Way, Mexico, and Colombia. Diagenetic and chemostratigraphic studies in the Cretaceous and Oligocene-Miocene of Puerto Rico, the Pennsylvanian of the North American mid-Continent sequences.
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Dr. Steve Hasiotis (Associate Professor)
hasiotis@ku.edu
(785) 864-4941
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1997
Research: Ichnology, Invertebrate Paleontology, Sedimentology, and Sequence Stratigraphy of Continental, Transitional, and Marine strata. Paleoenvironmental, Paleoecologic, Paleohydrologic, and Paleoclimatic analysis of Phanerozoic continental deposits via organism-substrate and organism-organism interactions in the Rocky Mountains and eastern United States to understand the evolution of behavior, arthropods, and terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Identification of discontinuity surfaces and significant stratigraphic surfaces in marine sequence stratigraphy, and the development of continental sequence stratigraphic concepts and methodology for solving geologic problems.
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Dr. Diane Kamola (Associate Professor)
dlkamola@ku.edu
(785) 864-2724 PhD, 1989, University of Georgia
Research: Sequence stratigraphy and interpretation of clastic successions. Sequence and parasequence architecture, and the expression of sequence boundaries and the anatomy of incised valleys in the rock record of the Colorado Plateau, with special emphasis on the classic Book Cliffs area of eastern Utah.
Dr. Bruce Lieberman (Professor)
blieber@ku.edu
(785) 864-2741 PhD, 1994, Columbia University
Research: Paleobiology with emphasis on studying macroevolutionary and biogeographic patterns using trilobites. The tempo and mode of evolution; determining the relationship between major geological events and major episodes in the history of life; and evolutionary theory.
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Dr. Gwen L. Macpherson (Associate Professor)
glmac@ku.edu
(785) 864-2742
Ph.D., Texas, 1989.
Research: Hydrogeology with emphasis on low-temperature aqueous geochemistry. Distribution and source of trace elements from the Gulf of Mexico basin, time series analysis of the hydrochemistry of shallow carbonate and alluvial aquifers
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Dr. Carl D. McElwee (Professor)
cmcelwee@ku.edu
(785) 864-2728 Ph.D., Kansas, 1970.
Research: Theoretical description of flow systems; Characterization of aquifer heterogeneity by field, laboratory, and modeling activities; Model studies of groundwater availability in Kansas; Sensitivity of groundwater models to variations in transmissivity and storage; Application of seismic techniques to groundwater exploration and evaluation.
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Dr. Andreas Möller (Assistant Professor)
amoller@ku.edu
(785) 864-7713 PhD, 1996, Universität Kiel
Research: My main research interests are timescales and temperature/depth evolution of geological processes, secular changes in crustal evolution, and the systematics of accessory mineral growth and modification. I am combining age information and petrologic pressure/temperature estimates to reconstruct the evolution of orogenic belts. Systematic studies on growth and modification of accessory minerals and their geochemical fingerprints help to better understand which geological processes are dated. Imaging coupled with ion-beam- or laser-techniques allows correlation with relative time information from mineral textures.
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Dr. Alison Olcott (Assistant Professor)
olcott@ku.edu
(785) 864-2943
Ph D., Univ Southern California, 2006.
Research: Research: Organic Geochemistry: Extracting and analyzing biologically-derived molecules in rocks and sediments; reconstructing ancient paleoenvironments based on the preserved biomarkers; the structure and origin of kerogen, recalcitrant carbon, and oil shales; Precambrian record of life; stromatolites.
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Dr. Jennifer A. Roberts (Associate Professor)
jaroberts@ku.edu
(785) 864-4997
Ph D., U. Texas, 2000.
Research: Bacterial interactions with rock, hydrogeology, geochemistry
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Dr. Paul A. Selden (Gulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor)
selden@ku.edu
(785) 864-2751
Ph.D., Cantab. 1979.
Research: Paleobiology of Arthropoda, especially Chelicerata and Myriapoda; Fossil spiders and their relatives; Terrestrialization; Paleoecology.
Distinctions: Director of the
Paleontological Institute Editor of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Past President of the
International Society of Arachnology.
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Dr. Donald W. Steeples (McGee Distinguished Professor)
don@ku.edu
(785) 864-2730
Ph.D., Stanford 1975.
Research: Shallow seismic reflection for cavity detection, groundwater exploration, engineering studies, and environmental remediation.
Distinctions: Society of Exploration Geophysicists Distinguished Lecturer, 2007; Editor of
Geophysics, 1989-91.
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Dr. Daniel F. Stockli (Associate Professor)
stockli@ku.edu
(785) 864-4995
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999
Research: Tectonics, thermochronology, geochronology, regional geology, and structural geology. Development and application of (U-Th)/He dating of apatite and other U- and Th-bearing accessory phases to solve tectonic, petrological, stratigraphic, and geomorphologic questions.
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Dr. Mike Taylor (Assistant Professor)
mht@ku.edu
(785) 864-5828
Ph D., UCLA, 2004.
Research: Structural geology; tectonics; mechanics of the continental crust; geometry, kinematics and mechanics of fault systems; regional tectonics of the Tibetan plateau and central Alaska range. Methods include field mapping at regional and neotectonic scales; remote sensing; estimation of fault slip rates over various time scales using cosmogenic isotopes and Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR).
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Dr. George Tsoflias (Assistant Professor)
tsoflias@ku.edu
(785) 864-4584
Ph D., U. Texas, 1999.
Research: Near-surface geophysics and exploration seismology. Investigation and development of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and seismic methods for the characterization of fluid flow properties of geologic formations. Geophysical characterization of fractures.
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Dr. J. Douglas Walker ( Professor)
jdwalker@ku.edu
(785) 864-2735
Ph.D., MIT, 1985.
Research: Structural geology, sedimentology, and geochemistry with emphasis on tectonics and regional geology. Phanerozoic tectonic evolution of the western Cordillera, geochemistry of synextensional igneous rocks, and U-Pb geochronolgy.
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Dr. Anthony W. Walton (Associate Professor)
twalton@ku.edu
(785) 864-2726
Ph D., Texas, 1972.
Research: Sedimentology with ernphasis on terrigenous clastic and volcaniclastic rocks. Effects of facies and diagenesis on oil production from sand stone resevoirs and the deposition and diagenesis of sediments in volcanic terranes.
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