Jeffrey G. Agnew - Professor of Practice

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 2008
Email: jagnew@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Geoscience education, Paleobiology, Paleoecology, Taphonomy, Taxonomy

Reda M. Amer - Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2011
Email: ramer1@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Remote sensing,Geographic
Information System (GIS), Environmental Geology

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1997
Email: ndawers@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Structural Geology, Neotectonics, Fault growth and interaction using scaling relations in evolving fault populations

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1979
Email: flowers@tulane.edu
Research: Theoretical geochemistry, Sedimentary geochemistry, Environmental geochemistry of estuarine sediments

Nicole M. Gasparini - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
Email: ngaspari@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Fluvial geomorphology, Landscape evolution, Sediment delivery from hillslopes to rivers, Interactions between
climate and tectonics through erosion,Impacts of climate change
on river networks

Karen H. Johannesson - Professor

Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, 1993
Email: kjohanne@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Low-temperature aqueous geochemistry and biogeochemistry, emphasizing trace element speciation,chemical
hydrogeology,and biogeochemical cycling of trace elements
(e.g., arsenic, selenium, and REEs) in the environment

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1979
Email: snelson@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Igneous petrology, volcanology, relationship between volcanism and tectonism, particularly in Mexico;
Mechanisms of explosive volcanism, Natural disasters

Ronald L. Parsley - Professor

Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1969
Email: parsley@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Phylogenetics, functional morphology, paleoecology, Mode and tempo of evolutionof Lower Paleozoic
primitive Echinodermata, Paleobiology and paleoecology
of Lower Paleozoic faunas

Brad E. Rosenheim - Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Miami, 2005
Email: brosenhe@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Analysis of very recent geologic records of
ocean circulation parameters (temperature, oxygen isotopes,
salinity,minor elements, and 14C) in relation to global climate change,
Circulation history of the subtropical North Atlantic

Ph.D., Liverpool University, 2007
Email: zshen@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Optically-stimulated luminescence dating, Environmental magnetism, Quaternary climate
change Palaeomagnetism

Jeffrey M. Sigler - Professor of Practice

Ph.D., Yale University, 2006
Email: jsigler1@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Micrometeorology, biometeorology,
air pollution, Environmental cycling of mercury

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
Email: kmstraub@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Sediment transport from land through
the ocean into the stratigraphic record, Continental Slope Morphodynamics,
Submarine Morphodynamics

Torbjörn E. Törnqvist - Professor/ department chair

Ph.D., Utrecht University, 1993
Email: tor@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Quaternary geology, Fluvial and deltaic sedimentology, Sequence stratigraphy, Sea-level change, Applied geochronology, Paleoclimatology

Anjali Fernandes Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2012
Email: anjalifernandes@gmail.com
Research Interests: Evolution of constructional landscapes and their expression in the stratigraphic record

Joanna Kolasinski Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., University of Reunion (France), 2009
Email: jkolasin@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Tracers (stable isotopes, trace elements) of biogeochemical changes in the marine environment, marine ecology and biological oceanology

Marilyn Reine - Administrative Secretary

Phone: 504-865-5198
Email: mreine@tulane.edu

Jianwu Tang - Lab Research Technician

Ph.D., Old Dominion University, 2005
Stable Isotope Laboratory (SILTU)
Phone: 504-862-3272
Email: jtang@tulane.edu

Nancy Walker - Senior Program Coordinator

Phone: 504-862-3105
Email: nwalker@tulane.edu