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Faculty and Post-Docs

Name

Title

Interests

Contact Info

BLANKENSHIP,
Jeffrey

Teaching Associate

cultural landscape
studies, landscape
assessment methods

jjblanken@geo.umass.edu
(413)577-4245
263B Morrill

BOUTT,
David

Associate Professor

hydrogeology,       watershed hydrology, geomechanics

dboutt@nmt.edu 

BRADLEY,
Raymond S.

Distinguished
University Professor
 

climatology,
paleoclimatology,
global change
arctic environments

rbradley@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2120
243 Morrill
(413) 545-9573
138A Morrill

BRIGHAM-
GRETTE,
Julie

Professor

Quaternary/glacial
geology,
paleoclimatology, arctic
paleoenvironments

juliebg@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-4840
249C Morrill

BROWN,
Laurie

Professor

geophysics,
paleomagnetism

lbrown@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0245
240 Morrill

BURNS,
Stephen J.

Associate Professor

 

sburns@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0142
138B Morrill

CONDIT,
Christopher D.

Associate Professor

digital mapping,
basaltic volcanism,
planetary geology

ccondit@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0272
246 Morrill

COOKE,
Michele Lynn

Assistant Professor

structural geology,
geomechanics, rock
fracture mechanics

cooke@geo.umass.edu
(413) 577-3142
230 Morrill

DECONTO,
Robert M.

Assistant Professor

paleoclimatology,
paleoceanography,
Earth system modeling

deconto@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-3426
247 Morrill

DOLAN,
Michael

Adjunct Professor
and Co-Director
NASA Planetary
Biology Internship

microbial communities,
protistology

mdolan@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-3244
322 Morrill

DUNCAN,
Chris

Assistant Professor

Earth system science,
GIS, remote sensing

duncan@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2724
238 Morrill

FITZGERALD,
Sean

Teaching Associate

cultural geography,
natural disasters,
education in geography,
GIS

sf@geo.umass.edu
(413) 626-3713
264 Morrill

FRANCIS,
Donna

Adjunct Assistant
Professor

chironomid (midge)
paleoecology,
paleoclimatology, lake
studies

dfrancis@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2286
231A Morrill

FRANCUS,
Pierre

Senior Post-
Doctoral Research
Associate

limnogeology, image
analysis, climate change

francus@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0659
236 Hasbrouck

GAUBATZ,
Piper R.

Associate Professor

urban studies,
China, Japan, U.S.

gaubatz@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0768
229 Morrill

GIBSON,
H. Daniel

Senior Post-
Doctoral Research
Associate

structural geology, metamorphic petrology, U,Th,Pb geochronology, tectonics

gibson@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-4392

GOLDSTEIN,
Joseph

Dean of Engineering
and Professor of
Mechanical and
Industrial
Engineering

meteorites (opaque
phases), electron
microscopy

(413) 545-6388
125 Marston

GONCALVES,
Philipe

Post-Doc

metamorphic petrology,
microprobe
geochronology,
Precambrian geology

philippe@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0745

GRAHAM,
Julie

Professor

economic alternatives,
political economy,
social theory

graham@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-5935
248 Morrill

HAFNER,
James A.

Professor

political economy,
development, resources,
SE Asia

hafner@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0778
152 Morrill

HAGADORN,
James W.

Adjunct
Associate Professor

paleoecology,
digital paleontology

jwhagadorn@amherst.edu
(413)542-2714
123 Pratt Museum

HAGGERTY,
Stephen E.

Professor Emeritus

mineralogy, metalliferous
economic geology,
petrology

haggerty@fiu.edu
 

HARDY,
Doug

Research Assistant
Professor

high-elevation
climatology,
paleoclimatology,
mountain glaciers

dhardy@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0659
236 Hasbrouck

HUBERT,
John

Professor

sedimentology,
sedimentary petrology

jhubert@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-1525
256 Morrill

JERCINOVIC,
Michael J.

Assistant Professor
and Director of
EMSEMF

microanalysis,
geochemistry,
mineralogy

mjj@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2431
154 Morrill

KEIMIG,
Frank

Adjunct Lecturer
and Manager of
Climate System
Research Center

climatology,
paleoclimatology,
climate change

frank@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0659
236 Hasbrouck

LECKIE,
R. Mark

Professor

micropaleontology,
biostratigraphy,
paleoceanography

mleckie@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-1948
252 Morrill

LEWIS,
Jonathan C.

Adjunct Assistant
Professor and
Senior Post-
Doctoral Research
Associate

structural geology,
active tectonics,
neotectonics

lewis@geo.umass.edu
(413) 577-3816
129I Morrill

MABEE,
Stephen B.

Massachusetts
State Geologist and
Adjunct Assistant
Professor

hydrogeology

sbmabee@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-4814
267 Morrill

MARGULIS,
Lynn

Distinguished
University Professor

microbial evolution,
organelle heredity

(413) 545-3244
318 Morrill

MCCOY,
William D.

Associate Professor

geomorphology

wdmccoy@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-1535
236 Morrill

MCGILL,
George

Research Professor

structural and
planetary geology

gmcgill@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0140
10 Morrill

MORSE,
Stearns A.

Research Professor

experimental and field
petrology, mantle, core

tm@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0175
12 Morrill

PANISH,
Peter

Adjunct Assistant
Professor

 

panish@geo.umass.edu
(413) 577-2257
257 Morrill

PETSCH,
Steve

Assistant Professor

biogeochemistry,
organic geochemistry,
geomicrobiology

spetsch@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-4413
265 Morrill

PLATT,
Rutherford H.

Professor

land and water resource
policy

platt@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2499
232 Morrill

RHODES,
J. Michael

Five College
Professor

volcanology

jmrhodes@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2841
163 Morrill

ROBINSON,
Peter

Professor Emeritus

 

probinson@geo.umass.edu
 

SEAMAN,
Sheila J.

Associate Professor

igneous petrology,
volcanology, generation
of continental crust

sjs@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2822
242 Morrill

STEVENS,
Stan

Associate Professor

cultural/political ecology,
environmental history,
conservation

sstevens@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0773
262 Morrill

VOSS,
Paul

Research Assistant
Professor

balloon, trajectory,
lagrangian, atmosphere,
chemistry, dynamics

pvoss@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0229
235 Hasbrouck

VUILLE,
Mathias

Research Assistant
Professor

tropical climatology
and paleoclimatology

mathias@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0659
236 Hasbrouck

WEISS,
Harvey

Adjunct Professor

Holocene climates,
West Asian archaeology

harvey.weiss@yale.edu

WILKIE,
Richard W.

Professor and
Graduate Program
Director for
Geography

place perception and
behavior,
phenomenology,
visualization,
Latin America

rwilkie@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-2078
261 Morrill

WILLIAMS,
Michael L.

Professor and Head of the Department

structural geology,
metamorphic petrology,
Precambrian geology

mlw@geo.umass.edu
(413) 577-2270
156 Morrill

WISE,
Donald

Professor Emeritus

structural geology,
tectonics, planetary
geology

dwise@geo.umass.edu
254D Morrill

YURETICH,
Richard

Professor
and Graduate
Program Director
for Geosciences
Ph.D. and M.S.

environmental
geochemistry, clay
minerals, lake
environments

yuretich@geo.umass.edu
(413) 545-0538
138 Morrill


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