Faculty
Executive Committee
- CHAIR Dr. David Foster (dafoster@ufl.edu)
- ASSOCIATE CHAIR Dr. Jonathan Martin (jbmartin@ufl.edu)
- GRADUATE COORDINATOR Dr. Raymond Russo (rrusso@ufl.edu)
- UNDERGRADUATE COORDINATOR Dr. Joseph Meert (jmeert@ufl.edu)
Geology Faculty
Dr. Peter N. Adams
Associate Professor of Geology
Quantitative geomorphology, coastal processes, real-time instrumentation and modeling of surface processes.
email: adamsp@ufl.edu / website / research group website
Dr. Thomas S. Bianchi
Professor of Geology
Jon L. and Beverly A. Thompson Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences
Biogeochemistry and processing of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in coastal, oceanic, estuarine, and riverine environments.
email: tbianchi@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Mark Brenner
Professor of Geology
Limnology and Paleolimnology with special interests in tropical and subtropical lakes, and watersheds
email:brenner@ufl.edu / (website)
Dr. James E.T. Channell
Distinguished Professor
Paleomagnetism, geomagnetism, environmental magnetism, and tectonics.
email:jetc@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Paul F. Ciesielski
<Associate Professor of Geology
Paleoenvironment in the Antarctic.
email:pciesiel@ufl.edu
Dr. Laura Cotton
Research Assistant Professor
Micropalaeontology, palaeoclimate, biodiversity and biostratigraphy.
email:lcotton@flmnh.ufl.edu
Dr. Jason H. Curtis
Senior Associate In Geology
Stable isotopes, paleoclimate, and sediment coring.
email:curtisj@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Andrea Dutton
Assistant Professor of Geology
Carbonate geochemistry, sedimentology, paleoclimate, and paleoceanography.
email:adutton@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Alessandro M. Forte
Professor of Geology
email:forte@ufl.edu
Dr. David A. Foster
Professor of Geology
Chair of Geological Sciences
Tectonics, thermochronology, structural geology, and 40Ar/39Ar dating.
email:dafoster@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Ann L. Heatherington
Associate In Geology
Isotope geology, geochemistry, geochronology, and tectonics.
email:aheath@ufl.edu / website
Dr. John M. Jaeger
Associate Professor of Geology
Coastal and marine sedimentology, glacial sedimentary processes, and continental margin stratigraphy.
email:jmjaeger@ufl.edu / (website)
Dr. George Kamenov
Associate In Geology
Ore-deposit formation, submarine hydrothermal processes, geochemistry of environmental and human samples, and ICP-MS analytical techniques.
email: kamenov@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Ellen E. Martin
Professor of Geology
Paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and radiogenic isotope geochemistry.
email:eemartin@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Jonathan B. Martin
Professor of Geology
Associate Chair of Geological Sciences
Physical and chemical hydogeology of carbonate aquifers, sea level change and impact to coastal aquifers, and weathering of Greenland and marine records of glacial retreat.
email:jbmartin@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Joseph Meert
Professor of Geology
Undergraduate Coordinator
Paleomagnetism and geochronology of the Mesoproterozoic to earliest Palaoezoic, plate configurations, paleoclimate and evolution of life on Earth.
email:jmeert@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Kyoungwon “Kyle” Min
Associate Scientist
Thermochronology of meteorites, 40Ar/39Ar dating method, high-resolution dating of key beds, and thermochronology and exhumation history.
email:kmin@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Paul A. Mueller
Professor of Geology
Crustal evolution, geochemistry, isotope geology, geochronology, tectonics, and petrology.
email:pamueller@ufl.edu / website
Mark Panning
Assistant Professor of Geology
Seismology, tomography, mantle dynamics, planetary geophysics.
email:mpanning@ufl.edu / website
Michael R. Perfit
Distinguished Professor of Geology
Petrogenesis of mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORB), island arc lavas, and plutons.
email:mperfit@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Raymond Russo
Associate Professor of Geology
Graduate Coordinator
Tectonics and seismology, with emphasis on upper mantle flow and lithosphere-asthenosphere interactions.
email:rrusso@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Elizabeth J. Screaton
Professor of Geology
Groundwater flow in geologic processes, exchange of surface and groundwater in karst aquifer systems, and interactions between water flow and deformation in subduction zone sediments.
email:screaton@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Matthew Smith
Senior Lecturer
Undergraduate Advisor
email:mcsmith@ufl.edu / website
Ray G. Thomas
Associate In Geology
Hydrologic instrumentation design and development (including water sampling, nitrate and phosphate sensing), sensor networks, and mass spectrometry.
email:rgthomas@ufl.edu / (website)
Dr. Jim Vogl
Senior Lecturer/Researcher
Structure, tectonics, and thermochronology.
email:jvogl@ufl.edu / website
Dr. Rachel L. Walters
Adjunct Lecturer
Mantle and crustal processes at Mid-Ocean Ridges.
email:rlwalters@ufl.edu
Dr. Andrew Zimmerman
Associate Professor of Geology
Organic geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and geomicrobiology.
email: azimmer@ufl.edu / website
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Guerry H. McClellan
Professor Emeritus
Industrial minerals, limestone, clay minerals, sand mines, and heavy minerals.
email: guerry@ufl.edu
Dr. Neil D. Opdyke
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Paleomagnetism and its application to tectonics and magnetostratigraphy. Paleoclimatology and paleogeography of the Phanerozoic.
email: drno@ufl.edu
Frank N. Blanchard, Professor Emeritus of Geology (troi279@cox.net)
Anthony F. Randazzo, Professor Emeritus of Geology (randazzoaf@yahoo.com)
Douglas L. Smith, Professor Emeritus of Geology (dsmith@sinkholes.com)
Daniel P. Spangler, Associate Professor Emeritus of Geology
Claire L. Schelske, Eminent Scholar Emeritus, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (schelsk@ufl.edu)
S. David Webb, Distinguished Research Curator Emeritus, Florida Museum of Natural History (webb@flmnh.ufl.edu)
Affiliate Faculty
Florida Museum of Natural History
Jonathan Bloch, Associate Curator/Associate Professor, (jbloch@flmnh.ufl.edu, website)
Douglas S. Jones, FlMNH Director/Curator/Professor, (dsjones@flmnh.ufl.edu, website)
Michal Kowalewski, Professor/Curator/Jon L. and Beverly A. Thompson Chair of Invertebrate Paleontology, (kowalewski@ufl.edu)
Bruce J. MacFadden, Curator/Professor, (bmacfadd@flmnh.ufl.edu, website)
Steven R. Manchester, Curator/Adjunct Professor, (steven@flmnh.ufl.edu, website)
Department of Geography
Joann Mossa, Associate Professor of Geography (mossa@geog.ufl.edu, website)