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The Faculty and Their Research

  • Nancye H. Dawers Ph.D. Columbia, 1997
    Associate  Professor
    Structural Geology, Neotectonics; Fault growth and interaction using scaling relations in evolving fault populations
    ndawers@tulane.edu
     
  • George C. Flowers Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1979
    Associate Professor
    Theoretical geochemistry, sedimentary geochemistry, and environmental geochemistry of estuarine sediments.
    flowers@.tulane.edu

     
  • Nicole M. Gasparini Ph.D. MIT, 2003
    Assistant Professor
    Fluvial geomorphology; Landscape evolution; Sediment delivery from hillslopes to rivers; Interactions between climate and tectonics through erosion; Impacts of climate change and land-use change on river networks
    ngaspari@tulane.edu
     
  • Karen H. Johannesson Ph.D. Nevada, Reno, 1993
    Associate Professor
    Low-temperature aqueous geochemistry and biogeochemistry, emphasizing trace element speciation, chemical hydrogeology, and biogeochemical cycling of trace elements (e.g., arsenic, selenium, and REEs) in the environment.
    kjohanne@tulane.edu
     
  • Sadredin C. Moosavi  Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1998
    Professor of Practice
    Science Education, Biogeochemistry & Climate Change in Boreal & Arctic Wetland Systems
    smoosavi@tulane.edu
     
  • Stephen A. Nelson Ph.D., California -Berkeley, 1979
    Associate Professor/Chair
    Igneous petrology, Volcanology, relationship between volcanism and tectonism, particularly in Mexico; mechanisms of explosive volcanism, Natural Disasters
    snelson@tulane.edu

     
  • Ronald L. Parsley Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1969
    Professor
    Paleontology: paleobiology, paleoecology, and evolution of lower Paleozoic primitive Echinodermata; Paleozoic faunas in general.
    parsley@tulane.edu

     
  • Gerhard Piringer, Ph.D. Tulane University, 2000
    Professor of Practice
    piringer@tulane.edu
     
  • Brad E. Rosenheim Ph.D. University of Miami, 2005
    Assistant Professor
    Analysis of very recent geologic records of ocean circulation parameters (temperature, oxygen isotopes, salinity, minor elements, and 14C) in relation to global climate change.
    brosenhe@tulane.edu
     
  • Torbjörn E. Törnqvist Ph.D. Utrecht University, 1993
    Associate Professor
    Quaternary geology, Fluvial and deltaic sedimentology, Sequence stratigraphy, Sea-level change, Applied geochronology, Paleoclimatology
    tor@tulane.edu
     

Research Professors


Post-Doctoral Fellows

  • Juan González,, Ph.D. Tulane University, 2008
    Late Holocene and future sea-level change, Climate change, Beach and coastal processes, shoreline changes, coastal tectonics, Geoarcheology
    jgonzal6@tulane.edu
     
  • Yongxiang ‘Frank’ Li Ph.D. Lehigh University, 2005
    Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Environmental magnetism, Paleomagnetic-tectonics.
    li@tulane.edu
     
  • Zhixiong Shen Ph.D. Liverpool University, 2007
    Optically-stimulated luminescence dating, Environmental magnetism,  Quaternary climate change Palaeomagnetism
     zshen@tulane.edu
     
  • Jianwu Tang, Ph.D. Old Dominion University, 2005
    Chemical hydrogeology;  Low-temperature aqueous geochemistry; Geochemical modeling; Stable isotope geochemistry;
    jtang@tulane.edu
     
  • Shiyong Yu, Ph.D. .Lund University, 2003
    Ice-Age geodynamics
    Lake sediments and past global changes
    Quaternary palynology
    syu2@tulane.edu

     

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