Jeffrey G. Agnew - Professor of Practice

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

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

Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 2006
Email: ngani@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Exploring tectonic-incision-climate coupling
by integrating GIS-based incision model, low-temperature
thermochronology and quantitative river profiles.
Stable-isotope based paleoaltimetry and paleoclimate.

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

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

Marc P.Hijma

Ph.D., Utrecht University, 2009
Email: mhijma@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Sea-level change, estuarine and deltaic sedimentology, Quaternary geology, Palaeogeography, Applied
geochronology, Sequence stratigraphy, Geoarchaeology, GIS

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