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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.

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Department Leadership

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Dr. John M. Jaeger

Professor and Chair

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Areas of Interest: Coastal and Marine Sedimentology, Glacial Sedimentary Processes, Continental Margin Stratigraphy.

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Dr. Jonathan Martin

Distinguished Professor & Associate Chair

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Areas of Interest: Geochemistry, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Karsts, Coasts, Sea Level, Glacial Landscapes

Faculty

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Dr. Peter N. Adams

Professor

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Areas of Interest: Quantitative Geomorphology, Coastal Processes, Real-Time Instrumentation, Modeling of Surface Processes

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Dr. Mark Brenner

Professor

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Areas of Interest: Limnology, Paleolimnology, Climate Change, Pb-210 Dating, Human Disturbance

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Dr. Jason H. Curtis

Senior Associate-In Geochemistry

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Areas of Interest: Stable Isotopes, Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry, Sediment Coring, Paleoclimate.

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Dr. Shuo “Echo” Ding

Assistant Professor

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Areas of Interest: Volcanology, High-Temperature Geochemistry, Experimental Petrology, Planetary Geochemistry

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Dr. Oana Dumitru

Assistant Professor

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Areas of Interest: Sea level reconstruction, Paleoclimatology, Geochronology.

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Dr. Stephen M. Elardo

Assistant Professor

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Areas of Interest: Planetary Geochemistry, Igneous Petrology, Experimental Petrology, Lunar Science, Non-Traditional Stable Isotopes

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Dr. Alessandro M. Forte

Professor

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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.

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Dr. David A. Foster

Professor

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Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Thermochronology, and Geochronology, Volcanic soil amendments, enhanced weathering and CO2 sequestration.

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Dr. Robert Hatfield

Assistant Professor

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Areas of Interest: Environmental Magnetism, Paleomagnetism.

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Dr. John M. Jaeger

Professor and Chair

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Areas of Interest: Coastal and Marine Sedimentology, Glacial Sedimentary Processes, Continental Margin Stratigraphy.

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Dr. George Kamenov

Senior Associate

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Areas of Interest: Ore-deposit formation, Submarine hydrothermal processes, Geochemistry of Environmental and Human Samples, ICP-MS analytical techniques.

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Dr. William Kenney

Associate in Geology

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Areas of Interest:  Aquatic Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sediment Core Studies, Gamma Spectroscopy, Pb-210 Dating

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Dr. Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba

Associate Professor

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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

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Dr. Emma “Mickey” MacKie

Assistant Professor

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Areas of Interest: Glaciology, Geophysics, Geostatistics.

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Dr. Anita Marshall

Senior Lecturer

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Areas of Interest: Geoscience education, Accessibility in science, Volcanology.

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Dr. Ellen E. Martin

Professor & Graduate Coordinator

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Areas of Interest: Paleoceanographer, Paleoclimatologist, Radiogenic Isotopes, Ocean Circulation, Chemical Weathering.

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Dr. Jonathan Martin

Distinguished Professor & Associate Chair

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Areas of Interest: Geochemistry, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Karsts, Coasts, Sea Level, Glacial Landscapes

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Dr. Joseph Meert

Professor

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Areas of Interest: Paleomagnetism and geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic to earliest Palaeozoic, Plate Configurations, Paleoclimate and evolution of life on Earth.

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Dr. Elyssa Rivera

Adjunct Lecturer

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Areas of Interest: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, High-Temperature Geochemistry, Economic Geology.

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Dr. Raymond Russo

Associate Professor

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Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Seismology, Upper Mantle Flow, Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Interactions.

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Dr. Matthew Smith

Master Lecturer & Undergraduate Coordinator

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Areas of Interest: Geoscience Education, Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry, Crustal Accretion at Mid-Ocean Ridges.

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Dr. Courtney J. Sprain

Assistant Professor

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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.

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Dr. Jim Vogl

Senior Lecturer

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Areas of Interest: Structural Geology, Tectonics, Thermochronology, Geochronology, Metamorphic Petrology

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Dr. Ryan Wilhelmi

Adjunct Lecturer

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Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Isotope Geochemistry, Thermochronology, Geochronology.

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Dr. Amy J. Williams

Associate Professor

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Areas of Interest: Astrobiology, Geobiology, Organic Geochemistry, Planetary Science.

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Dr. I. Dogancan Yasar

Research Scientist

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Areas of Interest: Tectonics, Geochronology, Geochemistry.

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Dr. Seonkyoo “Sean” Yoon

Assistant Professor

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Areas of Interest: Hydrogeology, Flow in Porous Media, Reactive Transport, Fluid-Rock Interaction, Inverse Problems.

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Dr. Andrew Zimmerman

Professor

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Areas of Interest: Organic Geochemistry, Biogeochemistry, Geomicrobiology, Marine Science.

Emeritus Faculty

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Dr. Thomas S. Bianchi

Distinguished Professor

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Areas of Interest: Carbon Cycling, Chemical Biomarkers, Biogeochemistry.

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Dr. James E.T. Channell

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

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Areas of Interest:  Paleomagnetism, Geomagnetism and Environmental Magnetism

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Dr. Ann L. Heatherington

Associate in Geological Sciences

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Areas of Interest: Isotope geology, geochemistry, geochronology, tectonics.

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Dr. Bruce J. MacFadden

UF Distinguished Professor, TESI Director, & Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology

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Dr. Paul A. Mueller

Professor

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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.

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Dr. Michael R. Perfit

Distinguished Professor

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Areas of Interest: Petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB), island arc lavas, and plutons.

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Dr. Daniel P. Spangler

Associate Professor Emeritus

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Ray G. Thomas

Associate in Geology

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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

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Dr. Jonathan Bloch

Department Chair & Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology

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Dr. Michal Kowalewski

Professor, Curator, Jon L. and Beverly A. Thompson Chair of Invertebrate Paleontology

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Department of Geography

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