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UC Santa Barbara General CatalogUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Earth Science

Division of Mathematics, Life, and Physical Sciences
Webb Hall, Room 1006
Undergraduate e-mail:  ugrad@geol.ucsb.edu
Graduate e-mail:  grad@geol.ucsb.edu
Website: www.geol.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Andy Wyss


 
Faculty
Jordan Clark, PhD, Columbia University, Professor (geochemistry, hydrologic sciences, environmental geology) Joint Appointment: ENVST
John Cottle, PhD, University of Oxford, Professor (continental tectonics)
Zach Eilon, PhD, Columbia University, Associate Professor (seismology, tectonophysics, Earth?s deep interior, geophysical inverse theory)
Phillip Gans, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (structural geology, tectonics, geochronology)
Matt Jackson, PhD, MIT-WHOI Joint Program, Professor (geochemistry, marine geology, mantle geochemistry, volcanology)
Chen Ji, PhD, California Institute of Technology, Professor (physical processes of large earthquakes with various modern geophysical observations, broadband seismograms, high-rate GPS, radar interferometry, real-time finite fault inversion system, constraining the lateral variations of crustal structures using seismic waveform modeling techniques)
David Lea, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole, Professor (biogeochemistry, paleoceanography and its significance in global change problems, using metals in marine biogrenic calcite, chemical oceanography)
Gen Li, Assistant Professor
Lorraine Lisiecki, PhD, Brown University, Professor (paleoceanography, Plio-Pleistocene glacial cycles, marine isotope stratigraphy, deep-ocean circulation and carbon cycle)
Francis Macdonald, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (Earth History, Tectonics, Climate)
Robin Matoza, PhD, UC San Diego, Professor (volcano geophysics, volcano seismology, volcano acoustics, infrasound, seismo-acoustics)
John Moore, Continuing Lecturer
Kristin Morell, PhD, Penn State University, Associate Professor (Tectonic geomorphology, Tectonics, Landscape evolution)
Susannah Porter, PhD, Harvard University, Professor (Precambrian and Cambrian geobiology and paleobiology; evolution of biomineralization; taphonomy; biostratigraphy; systematics of animal and protistan microfossils)
Morgan Raven, PhD, California Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor (sulfur biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, organic geochemistry, the marine carbon cycle)
Matt Rioux, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Lecturer SOE (geochronology, geochemistry, igneous petrology, tectonics)
Roberta Rudnick, PhD, Australian National University, Professor (origin and evolution of the continents, lithium isotope geochemistry, petrology and geochemistry)
Alexander Simms, PhD, Rice University, Professor (sedimentology/stratigraphy, coastal geology, Quaternary science)
Toshiro Tanimoto, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (seismology, earth structure, plate tectonics, planets in particular Earth, environmental sciences in general)
Dave Valentine, PhD, UC Irvine, Professor (interactions between microbes and the Earth system, biogeochemical cycles, ecology of Archaea)
Syee Weldeab, Dr rer nat, University of Tübingen, Professor (paleoclimate, paleoceanography)
Andy Wyss, PhD, Columbia University, Professor (mammal paleontology, systematics, evolution, vertebrate paleontology)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Ralph Archuleta, PhD, UC San Diego, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Tanya Atwater, PhD, UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Stan Awramik, PhD, Harvard University
James Boles, PhD, University of Otago
Douglas Burbank, PhD, Dartmouth College
Cathy Busby, PhD, Princeton University
Michael Deniro, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Michael Fuller, PhD, Cambridge University
Bradley Hacker, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Rachel Haymon, PhD, Scripps Research Institute
Clifford Hopson, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
James Kennett, PhD, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Bruce Luyendyk, PhD, UC San Diego
Ken Macdonald, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Prothero, PhD, UC San Diego
Frank Spera, PhD, UC Berkeley
Bruce Tiffney, PhD, Harvard University
Donald Weaver, PhD, UC Berkeley

 
Affiliated Faculty
Vamsi Ganti, PhD (Geography)
Patricia Holden, PhD (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management)
Scott Jasechko, PhD (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management)
Debra Perrone, PhD (Environmental Studies)
Ian Walker, PhD (Geography)