Emeritus Faculty

sequence stratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, geology, exploration geophysics

Peter Vail revolutionized the interpretation of seismic data in oil exploration by showing that seismic reflections correlate with global sea level changes.

geophysics, tectonophysics

Manik is a geophysicist, who uses seismology and gravity, to better understand plate tectonics, the evolution of ocean basins and petroleum exploration.

petrology, geochemistry, volcanology, boron

Bill is a petrologist/geochemist who works on the origin of subduction zone and intraplate magmas.

cosmochemistry

Conditions in the early solar system, origin of elements, causes of elemental and isotopic inhomogeneities in the solar nebula

carbonate sedimentology, reef and carbonate evolution through time, climate and sea level change.

André is a carbonate sedimentologist, marine geologist, and paleo-oceanographer with interests in past ocean, and sea-level changes. He is an expert on reefs and carbonate platforms from the Cambrian to the Holocene .

sedimentology, marine geology, cryosphere studies

John, a sedimentologist, splits his time between studying fluvial and coastal processes in the Gulf of Mexico and the geological record of ice sheet movements in Antarctica, all in the context of Global Climate Change.