While the School of Geology and Geophysics maintains a strong program in petroleum-related research, it emphasizes fields such as shallow crustal geophysics, structural geology, and organic geochemistry, which are appropriate to the rapidly emerging fields of environmental geology and hydrogeology. The School has grown significantly and diversified with the recent addition of new faculty and research equipment. This expansion gives the School considerable breadth in graduate education and provides opportunities for research on a variety of significant problems in the earth sciences. Consequently, the School strives to provide the intellectual environment where students can develop into successful modern geoscientists able to understand, manage, predict, and in some cases control, the dynamic processes of planet Earth. This ability includes wise harvesting of resources, as well as disposal of wastes, for the betterment of humankind.

Full-Time Faculty

Younane Abousleiman Mechanics of Porous Media yabousle@ou.edu	R. Douglas Elmore Director Sedimentology, Diagenesis and Paleomagnetics delmore@ou.edu	Megan E. Elwood Madden Earth and Planetary Geochemistry melwood@ou.edu
Michael H. Engel Organic Geochemistry ab1635@ou.edu	James M. Forgotson, Jr. Petroleum Geology and Basin Analysis jforgot@ou.edu	G. Randy Keller Geophysics, Structure and Evolution of the Lithosphere from basins to the upper mantle, and Geoinformatics grkeller@ou.edu
David London Economic Mineralogy, Experimental Geochemistry, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology dlondon@ou.edu	Richard Lupia Paleobotany and Micropaleontology rlupia@ou.edu	Andrew S. Madden Nanogeoscience and Interfacial Biogeochemistry amadden@ou.edu
Kurt J. Marfurt Seismic Processing, Seismic Interpretation, and Reservoir Characterization kmarfurt@ou.edu	Shankar Mitra Structural Geology smitra@ou.edu	R. Paul Philp Petroleum and Environmental Geochemistry pphilp@ou.edu
John D. Pigott Basin Analysis, Seismic Stratigraphy jpigott@ou.edu	Ze'ev Reches Structural Geology, Earthquakes, Rock Mechanics reches@ou.edu	Roger M. Slatt Petroleum Geology, Reservoir Geology, Clastic Sedimentology with emphasis on deepwater (turbidite) deposits, Sequence Stratigraphy rslatt@ou.edu
Gerilyn S. Soreghan Stratigraphy & Sedimentology lsoreg@ou.edu	Michael J. Soreghan Sedimentology msoreg@ou.edu	Barry L. Weaver Trace Element Geochemistry of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks bweaver@ou.edu
Steve Westrop Invertebrate Paleontology swestrop@ou.edu	Roger A. Young Geotechnical Geophysics and Exploration Geophysics ryoung@ou.edu

Cooperating and Emeritus Faculty

Judson L. Ahern Geomechanics Gravity and Magnetics, and Environmental Geophysics w5Ja@amsat.org	Evgeni Chesnokov Director of the Institute for Theoretical Geophysics echesnokov@ou.edu	Richard Cifelli Vertebrate Paleontology rlc@ou.edu
Robert L. DuBois Paleomagnetism and Archeomagnetism	M. Charles Gilbert Igneous and Metamorphic Rock Systems mcgilbert@ou.edu	Charles W. Harper, Jr. Paleontology charper@gcn.ou.edu
Charles J. Mankin National & State Geoscience Policy Issues, Oklahoma Geology cjmankin@ou.edu	G.B Morgan, VI Electron Microprobe Operator gmorgan@ou.edu	David W. Stearns Structural Geology and Tectonophysics mtdwstearns@aol.com

Research Associates

Tim Kwiatkowski jtk@ou.edu

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