The College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Earth Sciences

--------------------------------------- Suzanne Baldwin Professor 218 Heroy Geology Laboratory sbaldwin@syr.edu 315-443-4920 Prof. Baldwin specializes in noble gas thermochronology, P-T-t evolution of crustal terranes, plate boundary processes in the southwest Pacific, continental extensional tectonics. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Paul Fitzgerald Professor 207 Heroy Geology Laboratory pgfitzge@syr.edu 315-443-2619 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. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Gregory Hoke Assistant Professor 116A Heroy Geology Laboratory gdhoke@syr.edu 315-443-1903 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. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Linda Ivany Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies 214 Heroy Geology Laboratory lcivany@syr.edu 315-443-3626 Prof. Ivany specializes in evolutionary paleoecology, geobiology, and paleoclimatology. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Christopher Junium Assistant Professor 322A Heroy Geology Laboratory ckjunium@syr.edu 315-443-8969 Prof. Junium is a stable isotope and organic geochemist focusing on global climate change through geological time. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Karson Department Chair and Jessie Page Heroy Professor 204 and 222 Heroy Geology Laboratory jakarson@syr.edu 315-443-7976 Prof. Jeff Karson's expertise lies in structural geology and tectonics of oceanic spreading centers. Field Geology. Relationships between magmatic construction and mechanical extension. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Laura Lautz Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor 317 Heroy Geology Laboratory lklautz@syr.edu 315-443-1196 Prof. Lautz specializes in physical hydrologic processes and their influence on water quality and movement through watersheds. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Zunli Lu Assistant Professor 310 Heroy Geology Laboratory zunlilu@syr.edu 315-443-0281 Prof. Lu specializes in low temperature geochemistry and uses a variety of methods (trace elements, isotopes and models) to investigate crustal fluids, carbon cycle and global environmental changes. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Robert Moucha Assistant Professor 208A Heroy Geology Laboratory rmoucha@syr.edu 315-443-6239 Prof. Moucha is focused on large-scale solid-earth geophysics and geodynamics through the use of remote sensing data and computer modeling as tools in visualizing mantle circulation and dynamics as expressed at Earth's surface. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Cathryn Newton Professor and Dean Emerita 466 Life Sciences Complex crnewton@syr.edu 315-443-3487 Prof. Newton's scholarly work involves studies of modern and ancient biodiversity, including the quantitative dynamics of ancient and modern mass extinction. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Scott Samson Professor 319 Heroy Geology Laboratory sdsamson@syr.edu 315-443-3672 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. View Faculty Profile View Research Web Site

--------------------------------------- Christopher Scholz Professor 011A Heroy Geology Laboratory cascholz@syr.edu 315-443-4673 Prof. Scholz specializes in sedimentary geology, the geologic record of climate change, paleolimnology, and sedimentary basin analysis. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Donald Siegel Professor 314 Heroy Geology Laboratory disiegel@syr.edu 315-443-3607 Prof. Siegel is interested in peatland hydrogeology and geochemistry, contaminant transport in groundwater systems, and competitive chess. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- Bruce Wilkinson Research Professor 220 Heroy Geology Laboratory eustasy@syr.edu 315-443-3869 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. View Faculty Profile

Adjunct Faculty

--------------------------------------- Mauricio Bermúdez Universidad Central de Venezuela Laboratorios de Termocronología y Geomatemáticas, Departamento de Geología, Escuela de Geología, Minas y Geofísica. Facultad de Ingeniería, mauricio.bermudez@ing.ucv.ve

--------------------------------------- Paul Tomascak Visiting Faculty 212 Heroy Geology Laboratory tomascak@oswego.edu Prof. Tomascak is interested in elemental and isotope geochemistry; granite and granitic pegmatite studies.

--------------------------------------- Philippe Vidon Department of Forestry & Natural Resource Management SUNY-ESF pgvidon@esf.edu (315) 470 4765 View Profile

--------------------------------------- E. Bruce Watson Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute watsoe@rpi.edu (518) 276-8838 View Profile

Affliliated Faculty

--------------------------------------- Charles T. Driscoll, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 151 Link Hall ctdrisco@syr.edu (315) 443-3434 View Web Site

--------------------------------------- Peng Gao Department of Geography 144 Eggers Hall pegao@maxwell.syr.edu (315)‐443‐3679 View Web Site

Part Time Instructor

--------------------------------------- Dan Curewitz Lecturer 206A Heroy Geology Laboratory dcurewit@syr.edu

Professor Emeritus

--------------------------------------- Marion E. (Pat) Bickford Research Professor and Professor Emeriti 304 Heroy Geology Laboratory mebickfo@syr.edu 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. View Faculty Profile

--------------------------------------- James C. Brower Professor Emeriti 211 Heroy Geology Laboratory jcbrower@syr.edu Prof. Brower is a paleontologist and paleobiologist; his most recent research has been redirected toward Paleozoic crinoids. View Faculty Profile