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Research

The Department's programs include research activities in many interdisciplinary areas that can be broadly described in terms of their principal fields of study listed below with the names of faculty engaged in each. Each field of research links to pages describing these areas that are also available as downloadable brochures (as pdf files). Faculty names link to their departmental web pages. Many of the research topic areas include lists of recent publications. A complete list of publications for the department is also available.

Biogeochemistry Isotopic, molecular and organic geochemistry, astrobiology Brassell, Pratt, Elswick, Sauer, Schimmelmann, Ripley, Schieber, Mastalerz, White BIOGEOCHEMISTRY BROCHURE

Economic Geology Mineral, water and fossil fuel resources Ripley, Li, Brophy, Bish, Mastalerz ECONOMIC GEOLOGY BROCHURE

Geobiology Paleontology, paleoecology, paleoclimatology C. Johnson, Polly, Elswick, Brassell, Pratt, Keith GEOBIOLOGY BROCHURE

Geophysics, Structural Geology and Tectonics Seismology, geodesy, regional orogenic processes, rock mechanics Hamburger, Pavlis, K.Johnson, Wintsch, Douglas, Dunning GEOPHYSICS, STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY AND TECTONICS BROCHURE

Hydrogeology & Environmental Geosciences Physical & chemical hydrology, modeling Olyphant, Zhu, Haitjema, Letsinger HYDROGEOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSCIENCES BROCHURE

Mineralogy & Clay Mineralogy Rock and mineral analysis, volcanology Bish, Brophy, Basu, Ripley, Schieber, Wintsch, Li , Pratt MINERALOGY & CLAY MINERALOGY BROCHURE

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Physical & chemical sedimentation, Earth history Schieber, Basu, Brassell, Pratt, C. Johnson, Polly, Wintsch SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY BROCHURE

Geoarchaeology Interdisciplinary application of geological research to archaeology Shriner, Brassell, Pratt, Ripley, Li, Schimmelmann, Elswick, Hamburger, Pavlis, Douglas, Brophy, Murray

Programs

Various thematic research projects are also represented by well-funded programs within the Department, including the following:

• NASA Astrobiology Institute: Deep-Subsurface Life
• PEPP Earthquake Science Institute
• SAVA: South Aegean Volcanic Arc Database Project
• The Thesprotia Expedition
• Willow Creek Demonstration Watershed