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: Geochemistry, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Karsts, Coasts, Sea Level, Glacial Landscapes
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: Geochemistry, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Karsts, Coasts, Sea Level, Glacial Landscapes
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: Paleomagnetism, Geomagnetism and Environmental Magnetism
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 (opens in new tab)
Department of Geography (opens in new tab)
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