The Department of Geological Sciences has world-class faculty in a wide range of Earth and Planetary science disciplines. Our students benefit from diverse faculty and access to modern analytical facilities.
Areas of Interest: Paleoceanographer, Paleoclimatologist, Radiogenic Isotopes, Ocean Circulation, Chemical Weathering.
Areas of Interest: Aquifers, Coasts, Glaciers, Geochemistry, Hydrogeology, Karst, Streams, Sea Level.
Faculty
Areas of Interest: Quantitative Geomorphology, Coastal Processes, Real-Time Instrumentation, Modeling of Surface Processes
Areas of Interest: Carbon Cycling, Chemical Biomarkers, Biogeochemistry.
Areas of Interest: Limnology, Paleolimnology, Climate Change, Pb-210 Dating, Human Disturbance
Areas of Interest: Stable Isotopes, Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry, Sediment Coring, Paleoclimate.
Areas of Interest: Volcanology, High-Temperature Geochemistry, Experimental Petrology, Planetary Geochemistry
Areas of Interest: Sea level reconstruction, Paleoclimatology, Geochronology.
Areas of Interest: Planetary Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Experimental Petrology, Lunar Science, Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes
Areas of Interest: Global Geophysics, Computational Geodynamics, Mantle Convection Modeling, Global Seismic Tomographic Imaging, Geophysical Inversions, Data Assimilation, Time-Reversed Convection, Mantle Rheology, Plate Tectonics, Global Geoid and Gravity Anomalies, Global Surface Topography, Global Sea Level Changes, True Polar Wander.
Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Thermochronology, and Geochronology, Volcanic soil amendments, enhanced weathering and CO2 sequestration.
Areas of Interest: Environmental Magnetism, Paleomagnetism.
Areas of Interest: Coastal and Marine Sedimentology, Glacial Sedimentary Processes, Continental Margin Stratigraphy.
Areas of Interest: Ore-deposit formation, Submarine hydrothermal processes, Geochemistry of Environmental and Human Samples, ICP-MS analytical techniques.
Areas of Interest: Aquatic Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sediment Core Studies, Gamma Spectroscopy, Pb-210 Dating
Areas of Interest: Mathematical Modeling of Coastal Landscape Evolution, Moving Boundary Problems in Earth Science, Interconnections between Coastal Geomorphology, Ecology, and Human Activities, Quantitative Approaches in Geomorphology and Stratigraphy
Areas of Interest: Glaciology, Geophysics, Geostatistics.
Areas of Interest: Geoscience education, Accessibility in science, Volcanology.
Areas of Interest: Paleoceanographer, Paleoclimatologist, Radiogenic Isotopes, Ocean Circulation, Chemical Weathering.
Areas of Interest: Aquifers, Coasts, Glaciers, Geochemistry, Hydrogeology, Karst, Streams, Sea Level.
Areas of Interest: Paleomagnetism and geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic to earliest Palaeozoic, Plate Configurations, Paleoclimate and evolution of life on Earth.
Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Seismology, Upper Mantle Flow, Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Interactions.
Areas of Interest: Geoscience Education, Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry, Crustal Accretion at Mid-Ocean Ridges.
Areas of Interest: 40Ar/39Ar geochronology, Paleomagnetism, Causes and consequences of Mass Extinctions, Long-term variations in Earth's magnetic field and links to deep interior processes.
Areas of Interest: Structural Geology, Tectonics, Thermochronology, Geochronology, Metamorphic Petrology
Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Isotope Geochemistry, Thermochronology, Geochronology.
Areas of Interest: Astrobiology, Geobiology, Organic Geochemistry, Planetary Science.
Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Geochronology, Geochemistry.
Areas of Interest: Hydrogeology, Flow in Porous Media, Reactive Transport, Fluid-Rock Interaction, Inverse Problems.
Areas of Interest: Organic Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry, Geomicrobiology, Marine Science.
Emeritus Faculty
Areas of Interest: Isotope geology, geochemistry, geochronology, tectonics.
Areas of Interest: Chemical and geodynamic evolution of the crust-mantle system, with an emphasis on the chronologic, isotopic, and elemental systematics of Precambrian rocks and their implications for Precambrian tectonics. Geochronology and isotope geology, with an emphasis on the U-Pb, Rb- Sr, Lu-Hf, and Sm-Nd systematics in igneous,metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks and minerals.
Areas of Interest: Petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB), island arc lavas, and plutons.
Areas of Interest: Hydrologic instrumentation design and development (including water sampling, nitrate and phosphate sensing), sensor networks, and mass spectrometry.
Affiliate Faculty
Florida Museum of Natural History
Department of Geography
Areas of Interest: Fluvial Geomorphology Disturbed/Modified Rivers and River Restoration, Fluvial and Coastal Hazards, Riverine-Coastal interactions.
Courtesy Faculty
- Dr. Amy Brown
- Dr. Paul F. Ciesielski
- Dr. Juliane Dannberg
- Dr. Andrea Dutton
- Dr. Jaime Escobar
- Dr. Rene Gassmoeller
- Dr. Benjamin Goscombe
- Dr. Philip Neuhoff
- Dr. Mark Panning
- Dr. Curtis Pollman
- Dr. Thomas Whitmore