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	Abhijit Basu Herman B Wells Professor	office: GY521 phone: 855-6654 email: basu
	Provenance of siliciclastic sediments in terrestrial planetary bodies.
	David Bish Haydn Murray Chair of Applied Clay Mineralogy	office: GY209 phone: 855-2039 email: bish
	Surface properties, crystallography and geochemistry of clay minerals. Applications of clay and zeolite minerals and interactions with organic pollutants. Rheology of clay suspensions.
	Simon C. Brassell Professor of Geological Sciences, Chair of Geological Sciences	office: GY313 phone: 855-3786 email: simon
	Molecular and isotopic characteristics of organic matter. Biogeochemical processes. Paleoclimates. Biochemical evolution. Petroleum Carbon cycling.
	James G. Brophy Associate Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY249 phone: 855-6417 email: brophy
	Chemical and physical processes of magmatic crystallization and differentiation. Origin and geochemistry of layered intrusions and lavas. Experimental petrology.
	Jeremy Dunning Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY129 phone: 856-4448 email: dunning
	Structural Geology, Rock Mechanics, and Geoinformatics.
	Michael W. Hamburger Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY415 phone: 855-2934 email: hamburg
	Seismotectonics. Volcanology. Interplate deformation. Earth Science Education.
	Claudia C. Johnson Associate Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY501 phone: 855-0646 email: claudia
	Geobiology. Caribbean geology. Reefs. Evolution of rudistid bivalves. Paleoclimate.
	Kaj Johnson Judson Mead Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences (8/2006)	office: GY401 phone: 855-3612 email: kajjohns
	Active deformation of the crust. Earthquakes. Earthquake cycle deformation. Fault friction. Mechanical modeling.
	Greg A. Olyphant Associate Professor of Geological Sciences	office: S301B phone: 855-1351 email: olyphant
	Ecohydrology. Vadose zone dynamics. Watersheds and fluvial systems
	Gary L. Pavlis Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY409 phone: 855-5141 email: pavlis
	Seismic imaging by wavefield methods and tomography. Inverse methods. Geophysical data processing. Tectonics of convergent plate margins. Seismicity of the mid-continent.
	Mark A. Person Malcolm & Sylvia Boyce Chair of Geological Sciences	office: GY429 phone: 855-4404 email: maperson
	Climate Change Hydrology, Coastal Hydrogeology. Groundwater. Hydrologic controls on ore genesis. Fluid-Rock Isotope Exchange, Computational modeling of geothermal systems.
	P. David Polly Associate Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY513 phone: 855-7994 email: pdpolly
	Vetebrate Paleontology
	Lisa M. Pratt Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY309 phone: 855-9203 email: prattl
	Geomicrobiology of extremophiles. Biotic and abiotic fractionation of S isotopes. Life- detection probes for deployment in Mars subsurface. Cretaceous C isotope excursions.
	Edward M. Ripley Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY329 phone: 855-1196 email: ripley
	Genesis of metallic ore deposits. Applications of stable isotopic geochemistry in petrology. Igneous and hydrothermal processes on metals. Thermodynamic/kinetic modeling.
	Bradley D. Ritts Robert R. Shrock Associate Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY520 phone: 856-0307 email: britts
	Basin Analysis. Petroleum systems analysis. continental intraplate tectonics, tectonic and structural evolution of the NE Tibetan Plateau, continental strike-slip fault systems.
	Juergen Schieber Associate Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY523 phone: 855-5322 email: jschiebe
	Early diagenetic mineral formation in shales. Preservation of microbes in mudstones. Provenance of quartz in mudstones.
	Robert P. Wintsch Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY325 phone: 855-4018 email: wintsch
	Structural geology. Tectonics. Geochronology
	Chen Zhu Associate Professor of Geological Sciences	office: GY425 phone: 856-1884 email: chenzhu
	Groundwater geochemistry and isotopes. Thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical reactions. Contaminant geochemistry. Geochemical modeling.

	Bruce Douglas Research Scientist	office: GY421 phone: 855-3848 email: douglasb
	Brittle and ductile deformation mechanisms. Fault development and deformation mechanisms. Mantle rheology. Geometry of Fold and Thrust Belts.
	Erika Elswick Assistant Scientist	office: GY410 phone: 855-2493 email: eelswick
	Stable isotopes in sedimentary environments and ore deposits. Metals in the environment. Tropical soils. Low temperature hydrothermal rock-water interactions. Microbial activity.
	Chusi Li Senior Scientist	office: GY217 phone: 855-5404 email: cli
	Petrogenesis and tectonic settings of mafic and ultramafic rocks.
	Peter E. Sauer Assistant Scientist	office: GY323 phone: 855-6591 email: pesauer
	Stable isotopes (C, N, H, O). Paleoclimatic records from sediments, tree-rings, and soils. Transformations of organic matter during diagenesis and maturation of oil and coal.
	Arndt Schimmelmann Senior Scientist	office: GY321 phone: 855-7645 email: aschimme
	Stable isotopes in fossil fuels, Stable isotopes in biomass, Paleoclimatology of laminated sediments.
	Christine Shriner Assistant Scientist	office: GY434 phone: 855-5582 email: cshriner
	Geoarchaeology: Archaeological Clays, Ceramic Technology, Emergence of Complex Societies, Delta Formation in the Late Holocene, Climate and Social Change, Archaeology and the Physical Environment

	Henk Haitjema Professor of Environmental Sciences	office: SPEA410 phone: 855-5971 email: haitjema
	Three-dimensional, multi-fluid flow modeling, conjunctive surface water and groundwater flow modeling.
	Brian D. Keith Senior Scientist, Indiana Geological Survey	office: S117 phone: 855-4213 email: keithb
	Petroleum geology of Illinois Basin. Carbonate deposition of the Upper Ordovician. High-energy carbonate shoal architecture of the Salem Limestone, Indiana.
	Maria Mastalerz Research Scientist/Coal Geologist	office: S225 phone: 855-9416 email: mmastale
	Coal geology. Petrology and chemistry of coal, kerogen and bitumen. Coalbed methane and carbon dioxide adsorption. Stable isotopes. Properties of coal combustion products.
Michael Prentice	Michael Prentice Adjunct Faculty	office: # phone: 856-3117 email: mlprenti

	Jeffrey R. White Professor of Environmental Sciences	office: SPEA331 phone: 855-0731 email: whitej
	Biogeochemistry, Aquatic chemistry, Chemical limnology.



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