Environmental Science

Faculty - Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Jeffrey G. Agnew, Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 2008
  Professor of Practice
  Geoscience education, Paleobiology, Paleoecology
  Taphonomy, Taxonomy
  jagnew@tulane.edu 
  
  
• Nancye H. Dawers, Ph.D. Columbia, 1997
  Associate  Professor
  Structural Geology, Neotectonics
  Fault growth and interaction using scaling relations in evolving
  fault populations
  ndawers@tulane.edu 
   
• George C. Flowers, Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1979
  Associate Professor
  Theoretical geochemistry
  Sedimentary geochemistry
  Environmental geochemistry of estuarine sediments.
  flowers@.tulane.edu 
   
• Nahid D. Gani, University of Texas at Dallas, 2006 
  Exploring tectonic-incision-climate coupling by integrating GIS-based incision model, low-temperature thermochronology and quantitative river profiles. Stable-isotope based paleoaltimetry and paleoclimate
  ngani@tulane.edu 
   
• Nicole M. Gasparini, Ph.D. Mass Institute of Technology, 2003
  Assistant Professor
  Fluvial geomorphology; Landscape evolution; Sediment delivery from hillslopes to rivers
  Interactions between climate and tectonics through erosion
  Impacts of climate change on river networks.
  ngaspari@tulane.edu 
  
  
• Karen H. Johannesson, Ph.D. Nevada, Reno, 1993
  Professor
  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.
  kjohanne@tulane.edu 
    
• Stephen A. Nelson, Ph.D., California -Berkeley, 1979
  Associate Professor/Chair
  Igneous petrology, volcanology, relationship between volcanism and tectonism, particularly in Mexico;
  Mechanisms of explosive volcanism;
  Natural disasters
  snelson@tulane.edu     
   
• Ronald L. Parsley, Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1969
  Professor 
  Phylogenetics, functional morphology, paleoecology, Mode and tempo of  evolution of Lower Paleozoic primitive Echinodermata.
  Paleobiology and paleoecology of Lower Paleozoic faunas.
  parsley@tulane.edu 
   
• Brad E. Rosenheim, Ph.D. University of Miami, 2005
  Assistant Professor
  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.
  brosenhe@tulane.edu 
  
  
• Jeffrey M. Sigler, Ph.D. Yale University, 2006
  Professor of Practice
  Micrometeorology, biometeorology, air pollution
  Environmental cycling of mercury
  jsigler1@tulane.edu 
  
  
• Kyle M. Straub, Ph.D. Mass Institute of Technology, 2007
  Assistant Professor
  Sediment transport from land through the ocean into the 
  stratigraphic record.
  Continental Slope Morphodynamics, Submarine Morphodynamics
  kmstraub@tulane.edu 
   
• Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Ph.D. Utrecht University, 1993
  Professor
  Quaternary geology, Fluvial and deltaic sedimentology, Sequence stratigraphy, Sea-level change, Applied geochronology, Paleoclimatology
  tor@tulane.edu 
  

Research Professors

• Richard Campanella,  M.S. L.S.U., 1993
  Assistant Research Professor
  GIS, remote sensing, mapping sciences, and cartography.
  Historical and present-day physical, urban, and human geography of New Orleans region.
  rcampane@tulane.edu 
  

Adjunct Faculty

• Barry Kohl,  Ph.D., Tulane, 1980
  Tertiary Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy
  Applied Micropaleontology 
  Global Sea Level change
  bkohl40@cs.com 
  
  
• Alexander S. Kolker, Ph.D. Stony Brook University, State University of New York, 2005
  Adjunct Research Professor
  Natural, climatic, and anthropogenic processes that govern coastal systems during times of stasis and change.
  Determining the balance between subsidence and sedimentation in Barataria Bay
  akolker@tulane.edu 
  
  
• Mike Dagg 
  Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON)
  Zooplankton processes in the ocean 
  mdagg@lumcon.edu