Faculty

Frederick Chambers (Ph.D., Arizona State, 1990), Department Chair

Associate Professor; glacier-climate inter-relationships, boundary layer climatology

Rudi Hartmann (Ph.D., Munich, 1983)

Senior Instructor; world regional geography, Europe, China, tourism planning, geographic education

Wes Le Masurier (Ph.D., Stanford, 1965)

Professor; igneous petrology and volcanic geology

Martin Lockley (Ph.D., Birmingham, 1977)

Professor; paleontology, especially fossil footprints, animal morphodynamics (relationship of anatomy to the whole organism), evolution of consciousness

Ed Nuhfer (Ph.D., New Mexico, 1980) Director, Center for Teaching Effectiveness

Professor; environmental & engineering geology, public education

Brian Page (Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1993)

Associate Professor; political economy of natural resource development, historical geography, cultural geography, urban geography

Herman Sievering (Ph.D., Illinois, 1971) Director, Center for Global Change and Environmental Quality

Professor; atmospheric and environmental sciences, impacts on the Earth System & its ecosystems

Deborah Thomas (Ph.D., South Carolina, 1999)

Assistant Professor; environmental hazards, GIS, environmental health

John (Jack) Weihaupt (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1973)

Professor; oceanography, astrogeology, polar studies, geophysics

Joanna Wright (Ph.D., Bristol 1996)

Senior Instructor; fossil terrestrial trackways - preservational mechanisms, functional significance and palaeoecological implications, distribution of fossils within paleosol sequences

John Wyckoff (Ph.D., Utah, 1980)

Associate Professor; geographical ecology/biogeography, environmental remote sensing, geographic information systems

Honoraria (Instructors)

Jeffrey Boon, Introduction to Environmental Science

Jamie Boyce, Physical Geology Lab

Jeanne Mayne, Geography of South America, Middle East

Quint Redmond, Introduction to Cartography and Computer Mapping

Peter Timm, Physical Geology: Surface Processes

Gregory Thomas, Physical Geology Lab