Earth and Planetary Sciences

A232 Earth and Marine Sciences Building
(831) 459-4089
http://www.es.ucsc.edu

Faculty, Researchers, and Professional Interests

Craig Agnor, Assistant Research Planetary Scientist, IGPP/CODEP
Planetary collision and gravitational processes

Erik Asphaug, Professor
Asteroids and comets, impact modeling, spacecraft exploration

Emily Brodsky, Assistant Professor
Earthquakes; volcanoes; flow in fractured media

Kenneth L. Cameron, Emeritus

Patrick Y. Chuang, Assistant Professor
Atmospheric aerosols, cloud physics, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, air qualitylity

Robert S. Coe, Professor
Geophysics, paleomagnetism, tectonics

Andrew T. Fisher, Professor
Hydrogeology, crustal studies, heat flow, modeling

Robert E. Garrison, Emeritus

James B. Gill, Professor
Igneous petrology, geochemistry of island arcs

Gary A. Glatzmaier, Professor
Computer simulation of geodynamics and planetary dynamics

Gary B. Griggs, Professor; Director, Institute of Marine Sciences
Coastal processes, hazards and engineering

Jeremy K. Hourigan, Assistant Professor
Tectonics, structural geology, and thermochronology

Elise Knittle, Professor
Mineral physics, experimental geophysics

Paul L. Koch, Professor
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology

Donald Korycanskyi, Associate Research Planetary Scientist, IGPP
Planetary impacts, asteroid dynamics

Marc Kramer, Assistant Research Scientist, IGPP/CRS
Remote sensing, soil carbon dynamics

Leo F. Laporte, Emeritus

Thorne Lay, Professor
Seismology, geophysics

Karen C. Mc Nally, Emerita

Marcia K. McNutt, Professor
Tectonic marine geophysics

J. Casey Moore, Professor
Geofluids, structural geology, tectonic hydrogeology, marine geology

Francis Nimmo, Assistant Professor
Planetary interiors and evolution of silicate and icy solar system bodies

Susan Y. Schwartz, Professor
Seismology, geophysics, active tectonics

Hilde L. Schwartz, Lecturer
Vertebrate paleontology, sedimentology, paleoecology

Eli A. Silver, Professor
Marine geology and geophysics, active tectonics, remote sensing

Lisa Sloan, Professor
Paleoclimatology, climate change, Earth system science, surficial processes

Othmar T. Tobisch, Emeritus

Slawomir M. Tulaczyk, Associate Professor
Glaciology and glacial geology, geomorphology, soil mechanics

Steven N. Ward, Lecturer; Research Geophysicist, IGPP
Seismology, geophysics

Gerald E. Weber, Lecturer Emeritus

Quentin Williams, Professor
Mineral physics, tectonophysics, experimental geochemistry

Ru-Shan Wu, Research Geophysicist, IGPP
Seismology, geophysics; wave propagation and subsurface imaging

Xiao-Bi Xie, Associate Research, Geophysicist, IGPP
Seismology, geophysics

James C. Zachos, Professor
Paleoceanography, marine stratigraphy, geochemistry

Xixi Zhao, Research Geophysicist, IGPP
Paleomagnetism applied to tectonics, paleogeography, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology

Kenneth W. Bruland, (Professor of Ocean Sciences)
Chemical oceanography, biogeochemistry of trace metals and radionuclides, aquatic chemistry, geochemistry

Weixin Cheng (Associate Professor of Environmental Studies)
Soil ecology, agroecology, biogeochemistry, global change ecology

Margaret L. (Peggy) Delaney (Professor of Ocean Sciences)
Paleoceanography, marine geochemistry

A. Russell Flegal (Professor of Environmental Toxicology)
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology

A. Christina Ravelo, Director, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (Professor of Ocean Sciences)
Stable isotope geochemistry and chemical oceanography, paleoclimatology