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College of Arts & Sciences

David W. Bapst

  • Assistant Instructional Professor
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Mauro Becker

  • Professor of the Practice
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Christina L. Belanger

  • Assistant Professor
  • Marine Paleoecology
  • Paleoenvironments
  • Climate Change
  • Foraminifera
  • Invertebrates
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Alfonso Benavides-Iglesias

  • Lecturer
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Xiaowei Chen

  • Associate Professor
  • Earthquake Rupture
  • Induced Seismicity
  • Subsurface Structure
  • DAS
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Frederick Chester

  • Professor and David Bullock Harris Chair in Geology
  • Co-Manager, John W. Handin Laboratory for Experimental Rock Deformation
  • Earthquake physics
  • Experimental rock deformation
  • Structural geology
  • Tectonophysics
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Judith Chester

  • Professor
  • Mollie B. & Richard A. Williford Professor in Petroleum Geology (2019-2023)
  • Vice Chair of Science Planning Committee, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) (2014-present)
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Roger Creel

  • Arriving Fall 2025
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Art Donovan

  • Professor of the Practice
  • Unconventional Reservoirs
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Benchun Duan

  • Professor
  • Francesco Paolo di Gangi/Heep Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Geophysics
  • Earthquake source physics
  • computational seismology
  • geomechanics
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Mark Everett

  • Professor of Geophysics
  • Howard Karren Professor
  • Near-surface Applied Geophysics
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Ethan Grossman

  • Professor and Michel T. Halbouty Chair
  • Director, Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility
  • Stable isotope geochemistry
  • Clumped isotopes
  • Global change
  • Paleoclimates
  • Hydrogeochemistry
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Hiroko Kitajima

  • Associate Professor and Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow
  • Francesco Paolo di Gangi/Heep Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Geophysics
  • Graduate Director
  • Experimental Rock and Soil Mechanics
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Peter Knappett

  • Associate Professor
  • Hydrogeology
  • Geogenic contaminants, aquifer, groundwater-surface water, arsenic, fluoride, fecal bacteria, viruses, environmental health, Bangladesh, Mexico, geothermal, urban aquifers
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Andreas Kronenberg

  • Professor and Michael T. Halbouty Chair in Geology
  • Assoc. Director, Center for Tectonophysics
  • Tectonophysics
  • Structural Geology
  • Rock Mechanics
  • Mineral Physics
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William (Will) Lamb

  • Professor
  • Metamorphic Petrology
  • Geochemistry
  • Deep-Seated Fluids
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Juan Carlos Laya

  • Associate Professor
  • Carbonate Sedimentology
  • Diagenesis and Dolomitization Models
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Brandi Lenz

  • Instructional Assistant Professor
  • Undergraduate Program Director
  • Geophysics
  • Geohazards
  • Sediment Mechanics
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Franco Marcantonio

  • Professor and Jane and Ken R. Williams ’45 Chair in Ocean Drilling Science, Technology and Education
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Brent Miller

  • Professor
  • Associate Department Head
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Lucien Nana Yobo

  • Assistant Professor
  • Isotope Geochemistry
  • Paleoclimate
  • Paleoceanography
  • Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
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Julie Newman

  • Professor
  • Department Head
  • Ray C. Fish Professor
  • Structural Geology and Tectonics
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Nicholas Perez

  • Associate Professor
  • Tectonics
  • Basin dynamics
  • Fold-thrust belts
  • Continental rifts
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Michael C. Pope

  • Professor
  • Interim Director, Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems
  • Sedimentology
  • Sequence stratigraphy
  • Carbonate
  • Siliciclastic
  • Unconventional resources
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Anne Raymond

  • Professor
  • Paleontology
  • Geobiology
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Julia Reece

  • Associate Professor
  • Chair Graduate Admissions Committee
  • Sedimentology
  • Sediment Mechanics
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Yuefeng Sun

  • Professor
  • Mollie B. & Richard A. Williford Professor
  • Quantitative Petroleum Geology
  • Rock Physics
  • Reservoir Geophysics
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Michael Tice

  • Research Scientist
  • Geobiology and sedimentary geology
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Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

  • Director of the Berg-Hughes Center
  • Professor and holder of the Dan A. Hughes ’51 Chair in Geosciences
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Hongbin Zhan

  • Professor of Geology & Geophysics, Water Management & Hydrological Science, and Energy Institute
  • Holder of Dudley J. Hughes '51 Chair in Geology and Geophysics
  • Subsurface hydrology
  • Environmental Geoscience
  • Environmental fluid mechanics
  • Subsurface chemical/heat transport
  • Geothermal energy production and storage
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Jin Zhang

  • Associate Professor
  • Mineral Physics
  • Earth’s Interior
  • Planetary Science
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