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GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS

Department Directory

 

Main Office: Fredrick Albert Sutton Building, Room 383

Main Office Phone: (801) 581-7062

 

Department Administration - Room 383 FASB

Dr. Jeffrey Moore

Associate Chair

jeff.moore@utah.edu

801-585-0491

 


Geology & Geophysics Office Staff

Main office: (801) 581-7062

 

Job Title

Contact

Responsibilities

Faculty Coordinator &

Graduate Student Advisor

Sam Lee

(801) 581-7162

sam.l.lee@utah.edu

 

Faculty Relations & Appointments, Graduate Student Advising, Student Advisory Committee (SAC), Course Permission Codes, Course Evaluations, Scholarship Admin Disbursement, TA Orientation, Employee & Visitor Onboarding & Offboarding, Visiting /Grad Student/Postdoc Scholar Registry,  Locker Requests

Payroll & Payables Coordinator

Thea Hatfield

(801) 585-6768

thea.hatfield@utah.edu 

 

Human Resources, Insurance, Tuition Benefit, Scholarship Administration, TAs/RAs/GAs, Post Docs, Payroll, Accounts Payable, EPRs/Electonic Payment Requests, Lab and Office Purchasing, Key Requests, Course Scheduling (CLSS) and Catalogue (KUALI) admininstrative support, Course Evaluation Set up, Course Permission Codes, Course Fees with Accountant), Room Reservations (ASTRA), Department Curriculum Committee Secretary

Undergraduate Student Advisor 

Sean Meyer

(801) 587-0648

sean.t.meyer@utah.edu 

FASB 104 Student Epicenter

Undergrad Advising, Student Recruitment and Outreach, Student Orientation, ABET Assistance, Department Undergrad Student Committee Secretary

Accountant

Tieya Mayne

(801) 581-6310

tieya.mayne@utah.edu 

 

Account Management (Set-up, Reconciliation, and Review), Recharge Centers Accounting & Billing, eJournals, P-Cards, Billing, ePARs, Department Budget, Approval Management, E-award Management, Course Fees, Annual Faculty Review Data Management, Scholarships, Curriculum Support, and Dept Swag/Merchandise Inventory Management.

Program Manager

 

Ashley Herman

(801) 585-1476

ashley.herman@utah.edu

 

Website Updates, Social Media Management, Event Planning, Outreach, and Development Support

 

Research Manager

Wil Mace

(801) 860-0383

 wil.mace@utah.edu

 

Safety, Lab Management, Department Vehicle Rentals and Maintenance, Sutton Building Facilities Coordinator, and Building Access,  Department Safety & Research Committee

 

Student Office Assistant

Aisha Kureshi

aisha.kureshi@utah.edu

 

Distinguished Lecture Series (marketing), Mail & Packages, Social Media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, TikTok), Website & Intranet, Bulletin Boards, Mail & Packages, other duites as assigned

Additonal Contacts:

   Academic Faculty

 

Contact Information

Research Interests

Associate Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

lauren.birgenheier@utah.edu

801-585-3158

Website

Sedimentology

Stratigraphy

Petroleum Geology

Unconventional Resources

Paleoclimate

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building  (FASB)

brenda.bowen@utah.edu

801-585-5326

Global Change and Sustainability

Fluid-Sediment Interactions

Surface Processes in Extreme Environments

Sedimentary Geochemistry

CO2 Sequestration

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

gabe.bowen@utah.edu

801-585-7925

Website

Isotope Geochemistry

Paleoclimate

Carbon Cycle

Water Cycle

Forensic Ecology

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

paul.brooks@utah.edu

801-585-2858

Hydrology

Biogeochemistry

Snow

Climate

Water Resources

Hydrochemistry

Distinguished Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

thure.cerling@utah.edu

801-581-5558

Website

Environmental Geochemistry

Mammal Physiology

Isotope Geochemistry

Isotope Ecology

Assistant Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

juancarlos.deobeso@utah.edu 

Website

Serpentinization 
 
Mineral Carbonation
 
Fluid rock interactions
 
Geochemistry

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU)

801-581-6555/801-585-0561

irmis@umnh.utah.edu 

Continental Vertebrate Ecosystems

Paleoecology and Taphonomic Processes

 

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-6636

paul.jewell@utah.edu

Website

Surface Processes

Hydrology

 

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-585-3782

cari.johnson@utah.edu

Website

Basin Analysis

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

Energy Geoscience

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-5033

william.johnson@utah.edu

Website

Subsurface and Aquatic Contaminant/Colloid Fate and Transport

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-585-3669

keith.koper@utah.edu

Website

Array Seismology

Earth's ambient seismic noise field

Forensic seismology and exotic sources

Rupture imaging of giant earthquakes

Seismicity and tectonics of the intermountain West

Structure and dynamics of Earth's deep interior especially the core

Associate Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-6797

sarah.lambart@utah.edu

Website

Experimental Petrology

Geochemistry

Magma Genesis

Magma & Fluid - Rock Interactions

Associate Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-4373

fanchi.lin@utah.edu

Website

Array Seismology
 
Seismic imaging/tomography
 
Volcanic system
 
Hydrothermal system
 
Seismic hazards
 
Tectonic structure

Associate Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-4599

pete.lippert@utah.edu

Website

Continental Tectonics

Orogenic Systems

Surface Process Responses to Threshold Climate Events

Biomagnetism

Paleomagnetism and Rock & Mineral Magnetism

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-6619

lowell.miyagi@utah.edu

Website

High Pressure and Temperature Mineralogy
 
Mineral and Rock Physics
 
Physics of Earth's Interior
 
Mechanical Properties and Rheology under Extreme Conditions

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-585-0491

jeff.moore@utah.edu

Website

Geohazards

Geomorphology

Geomechanics

Geophysics

Assistant Professor

Geochemist

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

chadlin.ostrander@utah.edu

Website

Geology, and Earth & Environmental Science

Isotope Geochemistry 

Ancient Earth

Trace Elements

Oxygenation History of Earth

Associate Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-587-8846

k.ritterbush@utah.edu

 

Marine Paleoecology

Mass Extinctions

Ecological Transitions

Biomineralization and Biogeochemical Cycling

Animal Form and Funcation

Evolution

Professor

Francis Brown Presidential Endowed Chair in Geology and Geophysics (July 1, 2022-2025)

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-7231

kip.solomon@utah.edu

Noble Gas Isotope Geochemistry

Groundwater Age Dating

Groundwater Hydrology

 

Associate Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-585-9792

michael.thorne@utah.edu

Website

Global Seismic Structure

Core Mantle Boundary Layer Structure

Volcano Seismology

Assistant Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

sara.warix@utah.edu

Website

Hydrology

Geochemistry 

Groundwater

Climate Change

Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-7266

tonie.vandam@utah.edu

Geodesy TBA

Climate Science

Geodynamics

Geophysics

Distinguished Professor

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-581-7750

michael.zhdanov@utah.edu

Website

Theoretical and Applied Geophysics

Inversion Theory

Electromagnetic Methods

 

 

 

Contact Information
Research Interests

Professor (Lecturer)

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

801-587-7865

holly.godsey@utah.edu

Geochronology

Professor (Lecturer)

Fredrick Albert Sutton Building (FASB)

Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU)

801-891-6036

mloewen@utah.edu

Natural History Museum of Utah

Vertebrate Paleontology

Jurassic & Cretaceous Dinosaurs

 

 

Research Faculty

Name
Title
Phone
Email
Dr. Leif Anderson
Research Assistant Professor
(801)587-5666
Dr. Jamie Farrell
Research Associate Professor
(801)581-7856
Dr. Diego Fernandez
Research Professor
(801)587-9366
Dr. Marie D.  Jackson
Research Professor
(928)853-7967
Dr. James M. Karner
Research Associate Professor
(801)585-5976
Dr. Issaku Kohl
Research Associate Professor
N/A
Dr. Huilian Ma
Research Associate Professor
(801)585-5976
Dr. Scott R. Miller
Research Assistant Professor
(801)581-6217
Dr. Surya Pachhai
Research Assistant Professor
n/a
Dr. Kris Pankow
Research Professor
(801)585-6484
Dr. Gerard Schuster
Research Professor
n/a

 

 

 

Adjunct Faculty

 

Name
Title
Email

Lukas Baumgartner

Adjunct Professor

Carl Beno

Adjunct Assistant Professor

John O.D. Byrd

Adjunct Professor

Suvankar Chakraborty

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Yunji Choi

Adjunct Assistant Professor

John B. Comer

Adjunct Professor

James R. Ehleringer
Adjunct Professor
Anke Maria Friedrich
Adjunct Professor
Erica Gaddis
Adjunct Associate Professor 
Scott Hynek
Adjunct Associate Professor
Elliott Jagniecki
Adjunct Associate Professor
n/a
Michael Jorgensen
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Shu Jiang
Adjunct Associate Professor
Steve Nelson
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Stephanie Mills
Adjunct Assistant Professor
James Ian Kirkland
Adjunct Associate Professor
Frederick Kyalo Manthi
Adjunct Associate Professor
Donald D. Miller
Adjunct Professor
Kami Mohammadi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
n/a
Joseph N. Moore
Adjunct Professor
Charles Oviatt
Adjunct Professor
Sasha Carey Reed
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Daniel D.B. Seely
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Stuart Simmons
Adjunct Professor
Brad Sion
Adjunct Assistant Professor
n/a
Virginia B. Sisson
Adjunct Associate Professor
Rasoul Sorkhabi
Adjunct Professor
Lisa Elizabeth Stright
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Anton Wrobleski
Adjunct Associate Professor

Emeritus & Retired Faculty

Name
Email
Walter J. Arabasz
John Bartley
John Bowman
Ronald Bruhn
Marjorie Chan
David S. Chapman
Sadly, Dr. Chapman passed away 3/10/23. Please find details here
David Dinter
Allan A. (Tony) Ekdale
Sue Halgedahl
Sadly, Dr. Sue Halgedahl passed away summer 2024.
Barbara (Barb) Nash
William Parry
James Pechmann
Erich Petersen
Robert B. Smith

 

Postdocs & Visiting Scholars

Name

Title

Email

Host Faculty

Jeremiah Bernau
Visiting Scholar
u1147015@utah.edu
B Bowen
Pablo Davila Harris
Visiting Associate Professor
pablo.davila@utah.edu
P. Lippert
Kuan-Fu Feng
Post Doc
kuanfu.feng@utah.edu
Lin
Dustin Harper
Post Doc 
dustin.t.harper@utah.edu
G Bowen
HyeJeong Kim
Post Doc
hyejeong.kim@utah.edu
Fan-chi Lin
Peter Niemz
Post Doc
peter.niemz@utah.edu
Pankow
Sarah Pederzani 
Post Doc

sarah.pederzani@utah.edu

G Bowen
Kristen Verostick
Post Doc
u6034376@utah.edu
G Bowen
Elizabeth Mahon
Post Doc
liz.mahon@utah.edu
C Johnson
Scott Melnyk
Post Doc
u6057548@utah.edu
L Birgenheier

Technical, Lab, & Research Staff

Name

Title

Email

Phone

Christopher Anderson
Senior Laboratory Specialist
801-587-5666
Sagarika Banerjee
Lab Technician, SPATIAL
n/a
Christophe Brosson
Senior Labratory Specialist
801-585-5461
Stephannie Covarrubias
Project Coordinator, Project FIND-EM 
n/a
Calvin Dittmore
Project Coordinator, SPATIAL
n/a
Michael Jorgensen 
Research Associate, CEMI
n/a
Wil Mace
Research Manager
801-585-5214
Bradley Munk
Lab Technician
n/a
Le Wan
Research Scientist, CEMI
801-585-0540

 

Graduate  Students

Name

Email

Advisor

Adomako-Mensah, Ebenezer
u1470942@utah.edu
W. Johnson
Armstrong, Alysha
u1072028@utah.edu
K. Koper
Bagge, Sam
u1111988@utah.edu
B. Bowen
Barbieri, Silvia
u1476897@utah.edu
L. Anderson
Berlin, Audrey
u1424836@utah.edu
L. Miyagi
Borg, Joseph
u1534987@utah.edu
J. Moore
Bowers, Rohanna
u1536341@utah.edu
C. Johnson
Brennan, Kyle 
u0549548@utah.edu
G. Bowen
Brettmann, Alex
u1534939@utah.edu
C. Johnson
Carter, Sam 
u0548246@utah.edu
K. Solomon
Coe, Haley 
U1373405@utah.edu
L. Birgenheier
Cunningham, Emily 
u1350899@utah.edu
S. Lambart
Cvijanovich, Bronson
u1533834@utah.edu
M. Thorne & L. Anderson
Czech, Theresa (Tessa)
u1373645@utah.edu
J. Farrel
Delgato, Thomas
u1398010@utah.edu
G. Bowen
Dernbach, Alison
u1533526@utah.edu
G. Bowen
Evans, Caden
u1532818@utah.edu
J. Moore
Fausett, Peyton
u1027931@utah.edu
L. Birgenheier
Gasior, Lauren
u1534291@utah.edu
Juan Carlos de Obeso
Geng, Jiaqi
u1531780@utah.edu
K. Koper
Goecker, Addison
u1476981@utah.edu
K. Pankow
Hutchings, Sean 
u0772592@utah.edu
K. Koper
Jacketta, Mason
u0492688@utah.edu
T. van Dam
Liu, Cheng-Nan
u1372289@utah.edu
Lin, Fan-Chi
Maza, Kiri
u1534254@utah.edu
C. Ostrander
Mccreary, Molly 
Molly.mccreary@utah.edu
J. Moore
Morris, Ashley 
u1373708@utah.edu
S. Lambart
Muscott, Amelia 
amelia.muscott@utah.edu
L. Birgenheier
Olds, Baylee
baolds@sa.utah.edu
P. Brooks
Pavlovics, Victoria (Tori)
u1423717@utah.edu
P. Lippert
Radwin, Mark 
mark.radwin@utah.edu
B. Bowen
Rahmani, Yado
yaser.rahmani@utah.edu
T. van Dam
Ramirez Garcia, Sandra 
u1425482@utah.edu
P. Lippert
Rumsey, Christine
u1014889@utah.edu
B. Bowen
Spraker, Grant
uu1534688@utah.edu
K. Pankow
Tochimani-Hernandez, Ivan
u1534374@utah.edu
M. Thorne & L. Anderson
Tully, Justin 
u1377748@utah.edu
C. Johnson
Ullauri, Luis (Harry)
u1479184@utah.edu
W. Johnson
Wilcock, Laura
Laura.wilcock@utah.edu
L. Birgenheier
Willis, Noah
u1477786@utah.edu
W. Johnson
Yoklavich, Tyler
u1223045@utah.edu
K. Solomon
Zaldivar Andrade, Gabriela
u1476856@utah.edu
Fan-Chi Lin
Zeng, Qicheng
qicheng.zeng@utah.edu
Fan-Chi Lin

 

Last Updated: 9/12/24