Complete Faculty List

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