Faculty

Baldwin, Suzanne (Professor)

Prof. Baldwin specializes in noble gas thermochronology, P-T-t evolution of crustal terranes, plate boundary processes in the southwest Pacific, continental extensional tectonics.
220 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-4920 Email: sbaldwin@syr.edu

Bickford, Marion E. (Pat) (Professor Emeritus)

Prof. Bickford is a petrologist and isotope geochemist; most of his work has been on the U-Pb zircon geochronology of Paleo- and Meso- Proterozoic rocks.
306 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-9290, Email: mebickfo@syr.edu

Brower, James C. (Professor Emeritus)

Prof. Brower is a paleontologist and paleobiologist; his most recent research has been redirected toward Paleozoic crinoids.
221 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-3440.

Fitzgerald, Paul (Professor)

Prof. Fitzgerald specializes in low-temperature thermochronology (fission track, U-Th/He) applied to tectonics in extensional, convergent and strike-slip regimes. He has projects in Antarctica, the Basin and Range Province, Papua New Guinea, Alaska and the Pyrenees.
207 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-2619 Email: pgfitzge@syr.edu

Hoke, Gregory (Assistant Professor)

Dr. Hoke studies the interactions of climate and tectonics on the earth's surface using geomorphology and the stratigraphic record. His active research projects are in the southern central Andes and SE Tibet.
116 Heroy Geology Lab 443-1903 Email: gdhoke@syr.edu

Ivany, Linda (Associate Professor)

Prof. Ivany specializes in evolutionary paleoecology, geobiology, and paleoclimatology.
218 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-3626 Email: lcivany@syr.edu

Karson, Jeffrey (Department Chair and Jessie Page Heroy Professor)

Prof. Jeff Karson's expertise lies in structural geology and tectonics of oceanic spreading centers. Field Geology. Relationships between magmatic construction and mechanical extension.
114 and 204 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-7976 Email: jakarson@syr.edu

Lautz, Laura (Assistant Professor)

Prof. Lautz specializes in physical hydrologic processes and their influence on water quality and movement through watersheds.
317 Heroy Geology Lab 443-2672 Email: lklautz@syr.edu

Mullins, Henry T. (Professor)

Prof. Mullins' research focuses on the reconstruction of global environmental conditions from lake and ocean sediments, particularly paleoclimate of the Holocene (last 10,000 years). Trained as an oceanographer,
310 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-4706 Email: htmullin@syr.edu

Newton, Cathryn R. (Professor)

Prof. Newton’s scholarly work involves studies of modern and ancient biodiversity, including the quantitative dynamics of ancient and modern mass extinction. 466 Life Sciences Complex. 443.3487 Email: crnewton@syr.edu

Samson, Scott D. (Professor)

Prof. Samson's research includes U-Pb geochronology and Nd-Sr-Pb isotope geochemistry. These techniques are used to address diverse topics ranging from tephrochronology, to unraveling the evolution of orogenic belts, to tracking the birthplaces of suspect terranes.
319 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-3762 Email: sdsamson@syr.edu

Scholz, Christopher A. (Professor)

Prof. Scholz specializes in sedimentary geology, the geologic record of climate change, paleolimnology, and sedimentary basin analysis.
208 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-4673 Email: cascholz@syr.edu

Siegel, Donald I. (Professor)

Prof. Siegel is interested in peatland hydrogeology and geochemistry, contaminant transport in groundwater systems, and competitive chess.
307 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-3607 Email: disiegel@syr.edu

Weyhenmeyer, Constanze E. (Assistant Professor)

Prof. Weyhenmeyer is interested in the reconstruction of global climate changes in the recent past (Quaternary).
219 Heroy Geology Lab. 443-0281 Email: cweyhenm@syr.edu

Wilkinson, Bruce (Research Professor)

Prof. Wilkinson conducts research in the field of sedimentary geology with emphasis on modern and ancient carbonate sequences. Recent effort has focused on questions about the chemical evolution of Phanerozoic carbonates as records of past atmospheric-hydrospheric systems, on quantification of global cycling rates of sedimentary components at the Earth's surface, and on problems concerning the relative importance of stochastic versus periodic processes during the accumulation of seemingly cyclic peritidal carbonate sequences. He likes limestones a lot.
222 Heroy Geology Lab, 443-3869, Email: eustasy@syr.edu