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College of Arts & Sciences

Reconstructing Earth’s past allows us to better understand the present world we inhabit and how the Earth system may change in the future. Using the chemical, sedimentological and fossil evidence in the geologic record, our students and faculty research how life and environments changed throughout Earth's history in order to improve predictions about how today’s environments may respond to future events, both gradual and catastrophic. This knowledge is the foundation for preparing our society for life on an ever-changing Earth.

Faculty

David William Bapst

  • 2023 ConocoPhillips Data Science Faculty Fellow
  • Instructional Assistant Professor
  • Quantitative Paleobiology
  • Stochastic Models
  • Incompleteness of Geological Records
  • Computational Phylogenetics
  • Macroevolutionary Theory
  • Paleozoic Graptolites
David William Bapst

Christina L. Belanger

  • Assistant Professor
  • Marine Paleoecology
  • Paleoenvironments
  • Climate Change
  • Foraminifera
  • Invertebrates
Christina L. Belanger

Ethan Grossman

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

Franco Marcantonio

  • Professor and Jane and Ken R. Williams ’45 Chair in Ocean Drilling Science, Technology and Education
  • Radiogenic isotope geochemistry
  • Geochemical proxies of climate change
  • Environmental geochemistry
Franco Marcantonio

Michael C. Pope

  • Professor
  • Interim Director, Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems
  • Sedimentology
  • Sequence stratigraphy
  • Carbonate
  • Siliciclastic
  • Unconventional resources
Michael C. Pope

Anne Raymond

  • Professor
  • Paleontology
  • Geobiology
Anne Raymond

Thomas E. Yancey

  • Professor Emeritus
Thomas E. Yancey