Faculty and Staff

Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Research and Technical Staff
Secretarial and Administrative Staff


Faculty

Paul R. Aharon (Ph.D., The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1980), Loper Professor of Environmental Geology: Paleoenviromental Reconstructions
C. Fred T. Andrus (Ph. D., Georgia, 2000) Assistant Professor: Paleoclimatology, Stable Isotope Geochemistry
D. Joe Benson (Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1976), Professor and Senior Associate Dean: Carbonate Petrology, Diagenesis, Depositional Environments
Rona J. Donahoe (Ph.D., Stanford, 1984), Professor: Aqueous Geochemistry, Environmental Geochemistry
Andrew M. Goodliffe (Ph.D., Hawaii, 1998), Assistant Professor: Extensional Tectonics, Subduction Zone Tectonics, Marine Geophysics
Nathan L. Green (Ph.D., British Columbia, 1978), Associate Professor: Volcanology, Igneous Petrology, Geochemistry, Mineralogy
Richard H. Groshong, Jr. (Ph.D., Brown, 1971), Professor Emeritus: Quantitative Structural Geology
W. Gary Hooks (Ph.D., North Carolina, 1961), Professor Emeritus: Geomorphology, Environmental Geology, Sedimentology
Ernest A. Mancini (Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1974), Professor: Petroleum Geology, Sedimentary Basin Studies, Stratigraphic Analysis
Timothy Masterlark (Ph.D.,University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000), Assisant Professor: Geodynamics and active deformation
Delores M. Robinson (Ph.D., Arizona, 2001), Assistant Professor: Structural Geology, Sedimentology, Tectonics
Carl W. Stock (Ph.D., North Carolina, 1977), Professor: Invertebrate Paleontology, Paleobiogeography, Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy
Harold H. Stowell (Ph.D., Princeton, 1987), Professor and Chairman: Metamorphic Petrology, Tectonics, Structural Geology, Ore Deposits
Geoffrey R. Tick (Ph.D., Arizona, 2003), Assistant Professor: Contaminant Hydrogeology, Soil and Groundwater
Restoration, Contaminant Transport in Soil and Groundwater
Chunmiao Zheng (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1988), Professor: Hydrogeology, Flow and Transport Modeling, Groundwater Management

 

Adjunct Faculty

Michael G. Bersch (Ph.D., New Mexico, 1990), Central Analytical Facility Manager (School of Mines and Energy Development) and Adjunct Assistant Professor: Electron Probe Microanalysis, Planetary Science, Igneous Petrology, Ore Deposits
  Scott Brande (Ph.D., Stony Brook, 1979), Adjunct Associate Professor (UA-Birmingham): Paleontology, Computer Applications
Dennis L. Harry (Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 1989), Adjunct Professor: Geophysics, Geodynamics, Tectonophysics
Antonio B. Rodriguez (Ph.D., Rice University, 1999), Assistant Professor:Sedimentology, Depositional Processes and Environments,Sequence Stratigraphy, and Seismic Stratigraphy
Berry H.(Nick) Tew, Jr. (Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1999), Adjunct Professor, State Geologist / Oil and Gas Supervisor: Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, Coastal Plain Geology, Petroleum Geology

 

Research and Technical Staff

James L. Donahoe (B.S., Missouri-Rolla, 1978), Geologic Research Specialist: X-Ray Diffractometry
Elizabeth Y. Graham (B.S., Alabama, 1975), Manager, Geochemical Analytical Facility: Inorganic Chemistry
Joseph Lambert (M.S., Alabama, 2003), Research Scientist: Director of Stable Isotope Laboratory
Diane W. Norris (Commercial Art Degree, C.A.D.), Drafting Technician: Computer Graphics

 

Secretarial and Administrative Staff

Debbie L. Frank, Administrative Secretary
Pending
Betty Fagen, Office Associate II