Research

Current specialties and associated faculty in the department include:

• Coastal Dynamics, Geomorphology (Buynevich)
• Ecohydrology, Land Use Change (Ravi)
• Energy (N. Davatzes, Ravi)
• Environmental Geochemistry (Chemtob, Grandstaff, Toran)
• Environmental Geophysics and Remote Sensing (Nyquist, Muto)
• Hazards (N. Davatzes, Buynevich, Nyquist)
• Hydrogeology and Groundwater Contamination (Toran, Ravi)
• Low Temperature Geochemistry (Chemtob, Grandstaff)
• Mineralogy-Materials (Kim, Chemtob)
• Nanomaterials (Kim)
• Paleontology-Fossil Provenance (Tumarkin-Deratzian, Grandstaff, Buynevich, Terry)
• Planetary Geology (A. Davatzes, Chemtob)
• Polar Geophysics and Glaciology (Muto)
• Precambrian Geology (A. Davatzes, Chemtob)
• Sedimentology-Stratigraphy (Terry, Buynevich, A. Davatzes)
• Soils (Terry)
• Structural Geology (N. Davatzes)
• Urban hydrology (Toran, Nyquist)