College of Natural Sciences

Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences

Faculty

Toby Martin Applegate Lecturer, Geography Program Undergraduate Advisor geography	David F. Boutt Professor, 1-year Hydrogeology (MS) Program Head, Co-Director, Environmental Science Program, Major Coordinator for the Dept. of Geosciences hydrogeology, watershed hydrology, groundwater recharge/discharge
Forrest J. Bowlick Lecturer, ECo and Geosciences, Associate Department Head for Finance and Operations, MS Geography-GIST Concentration Graduate Program Director GIS, geography education	Julie Brigham-Grette Professor, Geosciences Graduate Program Director Quaternary/glacial geology, arctic paleoenvironments
Stephen J. Burns Professor paleoclimatology, speleothems, stable isotopes, sediment diagenesis	Isla S. Castañeda Professor molecular paleoclimatology
William P. Clement UMass Extension Associate Professor near-surface geophysics, hydrogeophysics	Tim Cook Research Associate Professor and Lecturer Paleoclimate, Arctic, Lacustrine systems
Michele Cooke Professor, Associate Department Head for Professional Development structural geology, geomechanics, rock fracture mechanics	Britt Crow-Miller Senior Lecturer, ECo and Geosciences human geography, sustainability, sustainability education, environmental politics, political ecology
Robert M. DeConto Professor, Director, School of Earth & Sustainability Climate Science, Glaciology, Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts	Haiying Gao Associate Professor seismology, geophysics
Piper R. Gaubatz Professor, Department Head urban studies in China, Japan, and the U.S	Christine Hatch UMass Extension Professor, Associate Director for Academics, UMass iCONs hydrogeology, water resources and climate change, ecohydrology, surface water - groundwater interactions
Michael J. Jercinovic Associate Professor, Director of EMSEMF microanalysis, mineralogy, geochemistry	Isaac Larsen Associate Professor Geomorphology and Cosmogenic Nuclide Geochemistry
R. Mark Leckie Professor micropaleontology, stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, paleoceanography	Stephen Mabee Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts State Geologist hydrogeology
Martín Medina Elizalde Associate Professor Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography, Climate Change	Steve Petsch Associate Professor, Associate Department Head for Curriculum, Advisor for Geology and Earth Systems majors biogeochemistry, geomicrobiology, organic geochemistry, organic geochemistry
Michael Rawlins Extension Associate Professor, Associate Director, Climate System Research Center climatology, climate change, remote sensing	J. Michael Rhodes Five College Professor volcanology, petrology, geochemistry
Jeff Salacup Lecturer, Lab Manager: Stable Isotope and Biogeochemistry Labs isotope and molecular paleoclimatology	Eric Thomas Lecturer Environmental Anthropology, Political Ecology
Stephen Turner Lecturer High Temperature Geochemistry and Petrology	Eve Vogel Assistant Professor, Geography Program Coordinator political and environmental geography
Michael Williams Professor structural geology, metamorphic petrology, Petrochronology	Matthew Winnick Assistant Professor Biogeochemical cycles, Chemical weathering, Isotope hydrology
Jon Woodruff Professor, Co-Director, Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center Sediments, Coastal Dynamics	Brian Yellen Research Assistant Professor sediment storage
Qian Yu Associate Professor, MS Geography Graduate Program Director environmental geography, GIS, remote sensing

Adjunct Faculty

Keith Alverson CliC Executive Director	Chris Duncan Adjunct Assistant Professor earth system science, GIS, remote sensing
Donna Francis Adjunct Assistant Professor Chironomid (midge) paleoecology, paleoclimatology, lake studies	John Gartner Adjunct Assistant Professor Geomorphology, river corridors
Tom Johnson Adjunct Professor paleoclimatology, Lake Sediments	Kinuyo Kanamaru Adjunct Assistant Professor climatology
Eileen McGowan Adjunct Assistant Professor planetary geology, GIS	Steve Nathan Adjunct Assistant Professor paleoceanography, micropaleontology, biostratigraphy
Peter Panish Adjunct Assistant Professor New England regional geology	Meghan Taylor CliC Executive Officer
James Tsalah Instructor, GIS Geographic Information Systerms	Nicholas Venti Adjunct Assistant Professor paleoceanography/paleoclimate , stratigraphy

Emeritus Faculty

Raymond S. Bradley Distinguished Professor, Director of the Climate System Research Center climatology, paleoclimatology, Arctic studies	Laurie Brown Professor Emeritus paleomagnetism, geophysics
Christopher D. Condit Emeritus igneous petrology, planetary science, volcanology, geoscience outreach	James A. Hafner Professor Emeritus political economy, political development, political resources, SE Asia
Stephen E. Haggerty Professor Emeritus mineralogy, petrology, metalliferous economic geology	Stearns A. Morse Professor Emeritus experimental and field petrology , Earth's core, Earth's mantle
Rutherford H. Platt Professor Emeritus land and water resource policy	Stan Stevens Retired, Senior Lecturer Political Ecology, Cultural Ecology, Indigenous Peoples, Conservation, Protected Areas, ICCAs
Richard W. Wilkie Professor Emeritus human geography: sense of place, visual thinking & photography, Latin American population & migration, Massachusetts historical evolution	Donald U. Wise Professor Emeritus structural geology, planetary geology
Richard Yuretich Professor Emeritus environmental geochemistry, clay minerals, lake environments