Complete Faculty List

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Section A-G

Ernest M. Agee Professor & Associate Head

 

Office: CIVL 4267
Phone: 765 494-3282
E-mail: eagee@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/agee.html
Research Interests: Mesoscale Convection, Thunderstorms and Tornadoes, Coherent Structures, Cold Air Outbreaks


Michael Baldwin Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 4282
Phone: 765 496-9517
E-mail: baldwin@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/baldwin.html
Research Interests: Numerical weather prediction, forecast verification, data assimilation, data mining


Brenda Beitler Bowen Assistant Professor

 

Starting in Fall, 2007
Office: CIVL 3233
Phone: 765 496-2290
E-mail: bbowen@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/bbowen.html
Research Interests: Sedimentary geology, diagenesis, fluid flow, basin evolution, remote sensing, Mars analog research


Gabriel Bowen Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3221
Phone: 765 496-9344
E-mail: gabe@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/bowen.html
Research Interests: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoclimatology, and Ecology


Larry W. Braile Professor & Department Head

 

Office: CIVL 2271
Phone: 765 494-5979
E-mail: braile@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/braile.html
Research Interests: Seismology, Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure, Inversion of Geophysical data, Intraplate Earthquakes, Earth Science Education.


Marc Caffee Professor of Physics

 

Office: PHYS S177
Phone: 765 494-2586
E-mail: mcaffee@physics.purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/caffee.html
Research Interests: Application of Stable- and Radio-Nuclides to problems in the Geosciences including Quaternary Landform Evolution, Cosmochronology, Hydrology and Atmospheric Processes. The development of techniques to enable the measurement of new Cosmogenic Nuclides.


Eric Calais Associate Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3273
Phone: 765 496-2915
E-mail: ecalais@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/calais.html
Research Interests: Dynamics of Continental Deformation, Strain Distribution and Stress Transfer at Plate Boundary Zones, Postseismic Deformation Processes and Rheology of the Earth's Lithosphere, Acoustically- and Ground Motion-induced Ionospheric Perturbations, GPS Geodesy and its applications in Geophysics.


Tom Carney Professor of Aviation Technology

 

Office: AT 221
Phone: 765 494-9954
Email: tcarney@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/carney.html
Research Interests: Aviation Meteorology and the impact of weather on Aviation Operations, Synoptic-scale Dynamics and Energetics, and the Interactions between Synoptic- and Mesoscale Motion Fields.


Indrajeet Chaubey Associate Professor

 

Phone: 765 494-5013
E-mail: ichaubey@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/chaubey.html
Research Interests: Ecohydrology


Barbara Cooper Continuing Lecturer

 

Office: PHYS 253
Phone: 765 494-3048
E-mail: bccooper@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/cooper.html
Research Interests: Water Quality


John Cushman University Distinguished Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3223
Phone: 765 494 -8040
E-mail: jcushman@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/cushman.html
Research Interests: Geohydrology, Porous Media Physics, Spatial Variability, Applied Math and Statistics


Maarten de Hoop Professor

 

Office: MATH 822
Phone: 765 496-6439
E-mail: mdehoop@math.purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/dehoop.html
Research Interests: Exploration seismology, global seismology, geodynamics, inverse problems


Noah Diffenbaugh Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3275
Phone: 765 494-0754
E-mail: diffenbaugh@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/diffenbaugh.html
Research Interests: Climate Change, Biosphere-Atmosphere Feedbacks, Paleoclimatology, Earth System Modeling


David Elmore Professor of Physics (Retired)

 

Office: S153A Via Room 8A Physics Bldg
Phone: 765 494-6516
E-mail: elmore@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/elmore.html
Research Interests: Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS), measure very low concentrations of the natural and man-made radionuclides 10Be, 14C, 26Al, 36Cl, 41Ca and 129I. Rave Isotopes. Other projects: a new Cesium Sputter Ion Source, an upgrade to the Stripper System at the Accelerator Terminal, a new Beam Line that will include a gas filled magnet for better Isobar separation, and a faster Data Analysis System. Our group continues to apply AMS to problems in Biomedicine.


Timothy Filley Associate Professor, Associate Head

 

Office: CIVL 3225
Phone: 765 494-6581
E-mail: filley@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/filley.html
Research Interests: Molecular Stable-isotope Biogeochemistry, Microbial Cycling of Carbon and Nitrogen, Formation of High Sulfur Sediments, Preservation of Lipids and Macromolecules.


Lucy Flesch Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3235
Phone: 765 494-0263
E-mail: lmflesch@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/flesch.html
Research Interests: Kinematics and Dynamics of the Continental Lithosphere, namely the Interaction between the Crustal and Mantle Lithospheric Layers, Deformational driving forces of Continental Lithosphere, and the Development of Large Plateaus. All models performed are observationally based using Geodetic, Geologic and Seismic data.


Joseph S. Francisco Distinguished Professor

 

Office: CIVL 4290
Phone: 765 494-3284
E-mail: jfrancis@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/francisco.html
Research Interests: Atmospheric Chemistry, Tropospheric and Stratospheric Chemical Kinetics and Modeling, Atmospheric Laser Spectroscopy and Photochemistry.


Andrew Freed Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3269
Phone: 765 496-3738
E-mail: freed@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/freed/
Research Interests: Rheology, Postseismic Deformation, Earthquake Triggering, Evolution of Planetary Surfaces, Subduction Zone Processes


Steven J. Fritz Associate Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3239
Phone: 765 494-3276
E-mail: sfrito@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/fritz.html
Research Interests: Isotope Hydrology, Solute Transport, Chemical weathering, Clay membrane phenomena, Chemical Evolution of groundwater, Environmental Geosciences.


Andrei Gabrielov Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3231
Phone: 764 496-2868
E-mail: agabriel@math.purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/gabrielov.html
Research Interests: Modeling of Seismicity, Earthquake Prediction, Nonlinear Science, Theoretical Mathmatics.


Hersh Gilbert Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3241
Phone: 765 496-9518
E-mail: hersh@purdue.edu
Research Interests: Continental Evolution, Seismology, Upper Mantle Structure, Mountain Building


Alexander Gluhovsky Associate Professor

 

Office: CIVL 4263
Phone: 765 494-0670
E-mail: aglu@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/gluhovsky.html
Research Interests: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows, Predictability, Resampling methods for Atmospheric Time Series, Statistics of Extremes in Weather and Climate.


Darryl Granger Associate Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3277A
Phone: 765 494-0043
E-mail: dgranger@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/granger.html
Research Interests: Tectonic Geomorphology, Landscape Evolution, Cosmogenic Nuclides applied to Geomorphology and Surficial Processes, Environmental Geosciences.


Kevin Gurney Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 2277
Phone: 765 494-5982
E-mail: kgurney@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/gurney.html
Research Interests: Global Carbon Cycle, Inverse Methods, Biogeochemistry, Climate Change Policy


Section H-P

Jennifer Haase Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3217
Phone: 765 494-8677
E-mail: jhaase@purdue.edu

http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/haase.html
Research Interests: Geophysics, earthquake seismology, satellite remote sensing of the atmosphere for weather forecasting and climate


Jon M. Harbor Professor and Assoc. Vice Pres. for Research

 

Office: Hovde 610
Phone: 765-496-1938
E-mail: jharbor@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/harbor.html
Research Interests: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change; Glacial Geomorphology; Environmental Education Research


Harshvardhan Professor

 

Office: CIVL 4286
Phone: 765 494-0693
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/harshvardhan.html
Research Interests: Radiative Transfer, Clouds and Aerosol, Remote Sensing, Climate


Saad Haq Visiting Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3277C
Phone: 765 496-7206
E-mail: haq@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/haq.html
Research Interests: Physical Geology


William Hinze Professor Emeritus

 

Office: CIVL 3237
Phone: 765 494-0280
E-mail: wjh730@comcast.net
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/hinze.html
Research Interests: Geophysics

 


Matthew Huber Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3277D
Phone: 765 494-0044
E-mail: huberm@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/huber.html
Research Interests: Paleoclimate Modeling, Climate Change, Global Warming, Paleoceanography


Arvid M. Johnson Professor Emeritus

 

E-mail: gotesson@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/johnson.html
Research Interests: Structural Geology, Geomechanics


Gerald H. Krockover Professor

 

Office: CIVL 2285C
Phone: 765 494-5795
E-mail: hawk1@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/krockover.html
Research Interests: Earth and Atmospheric Science Education


Sonia Lasher-Trapp Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 4259A
Phone: 765 496-2866
E-mail: slasher@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/lasher-trapp.html
Research Interests: Cloud Microphysics, Precipitation, Giant Aerosol, Cloud Entrainment, Numerical Modeling and Measurements of Clouds and Precipitation


Darrell I. Leap Professor Emeritus

 

Office: CIVL 3241
Phone: 765 494-3699
E-mail: mountains2oceans@insightbb.com
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/leap.html
Research Interests: Hydrology


Greg Michalski Assistant Professor

 

Office: CIVL 3229
Phone: 765 494-3704
E-mail: gmichals@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/michalski.html
Research Interests: Stable isotope biogeochemistry, Nitrogen cycling in aquatic and soil systems, regional air/water pollution, mass-independent isotope effects and their use in paleoclimatology and aerosol chemistry, isotope effects in gas phase reactions, modeling isotopes in atmospheric chemistry


Dev Niyogi Assistant Professor & Indiana State Climatologist

 

Office: CIVL 4284
Phone: 765 494-9531
E-mail: climate@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/niyogi.html
Research Interests: Land Surface Processes and Effects of Vegetation – Atmosphere Interactions on Environmental Processes at different scales


Robert L. Nowack Professor

 

Office: CIVL 2275
Phone: 765 494-5978
E-mail: nowack@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/nowack.html
Research Interests: Seismology and Earthquakes

 


James G. Ogg Professor

 

Office: CIVL 2273
Phone: 765 494-8681
E-mail: jogg@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/ogg.html
Research Interests: Paleomagnetics, Sedimentology, Marine Geology


Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte Professor of Physics

 

Office: Physics Bldg.
Phone: 765 494-3027
E-mail: ljpn@physics.purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/pyrak-nolte.html
Research Interests: Applied Geophysics, ISRM Work Group


Section Q-Z

Kenneth D. Ridgway Professor

Office: CIVL 3277B
Phone: 765 494-3269
E-mail: ridge@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/ridgway.html
Research Interests: Basin Analysis, Tectonics, Sedimentary Petrology, Petroleum Geology


Eric Riggs Associate Professor

 

Office: CIVL 2285A
Phone: 765 496-1974
E-mail: emriggs@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/riggs.html
Research Interests: Geoscience education, specifically in the influence of culture and language on science learning. He is also interested in teacher education and the development of constructivist strategies in earth science teaching


Gilbert Rochon Associate VP of Collaborative Research

Office: PWD 1114 W. State St., Suite D
Phone: 765 496-2274
E-mail: rochon@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/rochon.html
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Environmental Sustainability, Global Health, GIS Applications


Dan Shepardson Professor

Office: CIVL 2285B
Phone: 765 494-8181
E-mail: dshep@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/shepardson.html
Research Interests: Geoenvironmental Education, Learners' Conceptions, Social Interaction, Science Journals, Alternative Assessment


Paul B. Shepson Professor

Office: CIVL 3215
Phone: 765 494-0278
E-mail: pshepson@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/shepson.html
Research Interests: Atmospheric Chemistry, Tropospheric Ozone and Photochemical Smog, Atmospheric Chemical measurements, Modeling of Tropospheric Photochemistry, Environmental Geosciences


Yuch-Ning Shieh Professor

Office: CIVL 3271
Phone: 765 494-3272
E-mail: ynshieh@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/shieh.html
Research Interests: Stable-isotope Geochemistry, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Carbon Isotopes in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Sulfur Isotopes in coal and mineral deposits


Phillip J. Smith Professor

Office: CIVL 4288
Phone: 765 494-3286
E-mail: pjsmith@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/smith.html
Research Interests: Dynamic meteorology, atmospheric energetics, synoptic meteorology, cyclone dynamics


Wen-Yih Sun Professor

Office: CIVL 4280
Phone: 765 494-7681
E-mail: wysun@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/sun.html
Research Interests: Geofluid Dynamics, Numerical Modeling of Mesoscale Meteorology and Regional Climate Boundary Layer Meteorology, Air Pollution


Thomas M. Tharp Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 3243
Phone: 765 494-8678
E-mail: ttharp1@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/tharp.html
Research Interests: Rheology of Earth Materials, Numerical Modeling, Numerical Modeling in Tectonics, Structural and Engineering Geology


Jeff Trapp Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 4277A
Phone: 765 496-6661
E-mail: jtrapp@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/trapp.html
Research Interests: Dynamics and Observations of Mesoscale Convective Systems, Severe Thunderstorms, and Tornadoes; Mesoscale Modeling and Predictability


Wen-wen Tung Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 3219
Phone: 765 494-0272
Email: wwtung@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/tung.html
Research Interests: Tropical Meteorology (Tropical Waves, Intraseasonal Oscillation, Monsoon, etc.); Atmospheric Convective Systems; Cloud Systems in climate change


Dayton Vincent Professor Emeritus

Office: CIVL 3237
Phone: 765 494-3290
E-mail: dvincent@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/vincent.html
Research Interests: Tropical Meteorology


Terry West Professor

Office: CIVL 3245
Phone: 765 494-3296
E-mail: trwest@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/west.html
Research Interests: Engineering Geology, Hazardous-waste Disposal, Engineering Properties of Rock, Rock Slope Stability, Remote Sensing.


Dongbin Xiu Assistant Professor

Office: MATH 434
Phone: 765 496-2846
E-mail: dxiu@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/xiu.html
Research Interests: Stochastic Modeling in Engineering Applications; High-order and Spectral Methods for PDE; Mulitiscale Simulations; Large-scale, Interdisciplinary Computations of Complex Systems


Qianlai Zhuang Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 2269
Phone: 765 494-9610
E-mail: qzhuang@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/zhuang.html
Research Interests: Interactions among Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Human Dimension in the context of Climate Change, Chemical Element Cycles, and Policy-making


William J. Zinsmeister Professor

Office: CIVL 3227
Phone: 765 494-0279
E-mail: wjzins@purdue.edu
http://www.purdue.edu/eas/people/faculty/zinsmeister.html
Research Interests: Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Biogeography, Field Geology.