This research cluster involves twelve geologists in the Department of Geosciences at UMass-Amherst, with active research interests in the following areas:

Laurie Brown: paleomagnetism, geophysics

Chris Condit: igneous petrology, volcanology, digital mapping

Michele Cooke: structural geology, geomechanics

Mike Jercinovic: microprobe analysis, high temp geochemistry

Mark Leckie: paleoceanography, tectonics of plate margins

George McGill: planetary geology, structural geology

Tony Morse: melting and crystalization, experimental petrology, layered intrusions, origin of planetary crusts, state of Earth's core

Mike Rhodes: igneous petrology, high temperature geochemistry, volcanology

Sheila Seaman: igneous petrology, volcanology, origin of continental crust, water in minerals

Mike Williams: structural geology, metamorphic petrology, microanalysis

Don WIse: structural geology, tectonics

Course offerings include: Advanced Geological Mapping, Analytical Geochemistry, Bulk Earth, Crystal Chemistry, Brittle Fracture, Electron Microprobe Microanalysis, Environmental Geophysics, Geophysics, Granites and Rhyolites, Igneous Petrology, Optical Mineralogy, Paleomagnetism, Planetary Geology, Strain and Fabric Analysis, Structural Geology of Metamorphic Rocks, Tectonics, Tectonophysics, X-ray Fluorescence Analysis