ENVP Faculty & Staff

ENVP Office

Wendy Jepson

Wendy Jepson

Professor

Environmental Programs Director

Associate Director of Texas Water Resources Institute at the AgriLife Dallas Research Center

 

ENVP Faculty

David William Bapst

David William Bapst

Instructional Assistant Professor

Quantitative Paleobiology, Stochastic Models, Incompleteness of Geological Records, Computational Phylogenetics, Macroevolutionary Theory, Paleozoic Graptolites

Christina L. Belanger

Christina L. Belanger

Assistant Professor

Marine Paleoecology, Paleoenvironments, Climate Change, Foraminifera, Invertebrates

Sarah Brooks

Sarah Brooks

Professor

Director, Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and the Environment

Chemical composition and phase of atmospheric aerosols, ice nucleation, cloud formation, climate and air pollution, laboratory and field measurements, lidar observations, instrument development

Andrew Dessler

Andrew Dessler

Professor

Director, Texas Center for Climate Studies

Climate change, remote sensing, climate change policy

Steve DiMarco

Steve DiMarco

Professor

Team Leader Ocean Observing, GERG

Professor, Ocean Engineering Department (Courtesy Joint Appointment)

Oliver Frauenfeld

Oliver Frauenfeld

Professor

Director of Undergraduate Programs

Climate Change, Synoptic Climatology, Arctic Climate, Surface-Atmosphere Interactions

John R. (Rick) Giardino

John R. (Rick) Giardino

Professor

Alpine geomorphology, fluvial geomorphology, critical zone studies, engineering geology

Daniel Goldberg

Daniel Goldberg

Associate Professor

Director, TAMU GeoInnovation Service Center

GIS, Geocoding, GeoComputation, CyberGIS, 3D GIS, ADA GIS, Routing, Spatial Databases, Spatial Uncertainty, Spatio-Temporal GIS, Environmental Exposure Assessment, HealthGIS.

 Ethan L. Grossman

Ethan L. Grossman

Professor and Michel T. Halbouty Chair

Co-Director, Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility

Stable isotope geochemistry, clumped isotopes, global change, paleoclimates, hydrogeochemistry

Andrew Klein

Andrew Klein

Director of Distance Education, Professor

EOG Teaching Professorship in Geosciences

Franco Marcantonio

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

John Nielsen-Gammon

John Nielsen-Gammon

Regents Professor

Texas State Climatologist; Director, Southern Regional Climate Center

Applied Climatology, Extreme Rainfall, Drought Monitoring, Local Circulations

Alejandro Orsi

Alejandro Orsi

Professor

Physical Oceanography: Climate Change; Polar Oceans; Thermohaline Circulation

Erik Prout

Erik Prout

Instructional Associate Professor

Mary Jo Richardson

Mary Jo Richardson

Professor Emeritus

Geological Oceanography: Sources and Sinks of Oceanic Particles

Brendan Roark

Brendan Roark

Professor

Associate Vice President for Research, Centers and Institutes

R. Saravanan

R. Saravanan

Professor

Department Head

Variability and predictability of climate on seasonal to millennial timescales, coupled ocean-atmosphere interaction, large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere and the oceans

Gunnar Schade

Gunnar Schade

Associate Professor

Trace gas biogeochemistry, air pollution, surface-atmosphere exchange

Jason Sylvan

Jason Sylvan

Associate Professor

Biological Oceanography: Geomicrobiology, Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry

Daniel C. O. Thornton

Daniel C. O. Thornton

Professor

Phytoplankton, diatoms, biogeochemistry, biogenic aerosol, sea spray aerosol, ice nucleating particles (INP), ice nucleation, exopolymer particles, nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle

Terry Wade

Terry Wade

Deputy Director of GERG

Research Professor

Environmental Sciences

Shari Yvon-Lewis

Shari Yvon-Lewis

Professor

Department Head

Chemical Oceanography: Trace Gas Biogeochemistry

Hongbin Zhan

Hongbin Zhan

Professor and Dudley J. Hughes Chair in Geology and Geophysics

Groundwater hydrology, flow and transport in geological formations