Faculty and Research Staff 
Faculty
- Stephen Altaner (Assoc. Professor; Ph.D. Illinois)
Sedimentary petrology; Clay mineralogy; Diagenesis, altaner@illinois.edu
- Alison Anders (Assistant
Professor, Ph.D. Washington)
Geomorphology: Evolution of Landscapes and Climate, amanders@illinois.edu
- Jay Bass (Ralph
E. Grim Professor of Geology; Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook)
Mineral physics; Deep-Earth Geophysics and Geochemistry, jaybass@illinois.edu
- Jim Best (Threet Professor; Ph.D. University of London)
Geological Fluid Dynamics; Process Sedimentology, jimbest@illinois.edu
- Craig Bethke (Ralph
E. Grim Professor of Geology; Ph.D. Illinois)
Hydrogeology; Hydrogeochemistry; Geomicrobiology, bethke@illinois.edu
- Chu-Yung
Chen (Assoc. Professor & Director of Educational Affairs; Ph.D. MIT)
Igneous petrology; Trace-element and Isotope Geochemistry, cychen7@illinois.edu
- Bruce Fouke (Professor;
Ph.D. SUNY Stony Brook)
Carbonate Sedimentology and Geochemistry; Biocomplexity and Geomicrobiolog, fouke@illinois.edu
- Tom Johnson (Assoc.
Professor
& Head Dept. of Geology; Ph.D. Berkeley)
Groundwater Geochemistry and Isotope Hydrogeology, tmjohnsn@illinois.edu
- Susan Kieffer (Walgreen
Professor; Ph.D. Caltech)
Geological Fluid Dynamics; Volcanology; Sustainable development, skieffer@illinois.edu
- Craig Lundstrom (Assoc. Professor; Ph.D. UC Santa Cruz)
Geochemistry; Igneous Petrology, lundstro@illinois.edu
- Steve Marshak (Professor
& Director of the School of Earth, Society & Environment; Ph.D. Columbia)
Field Structural Geology; Tectonics, smarshak@illinois.edu
- Gary Parker (Johnson Professor; Ph.D. Minnesota)
Geological Fluid Dynamics; Sediment Transport; River Morphodynamics, parkerg@illinois.edu
- Xiaodong Song (Professor;
Ph.D. Caltech)
Seismology; Deep-Earth Structure, xsong@illinois.edu
Affiliate Faculty
- Kenneth T. Christensen (Kritzer Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering; Ph.D. Illinois)
Turbulence and complex flow, ktc@illinois.edu
- Marcelo
Garcia (Seiss Professor, CEE; Ph.D. Minnesota)
Engineering of River Systems; Sediment Transport, mhgarcia@illinois.edu
- Feng
Sheng Hu (Professor; Plant Biology; Ph.D.
Washington)
Paleoecology and Climate change, fshu@life.illinois.edu
- Surangi Punyasena (Assistant Professor, Plant Biology; Ph.D Univ. of Chicago)
Paleobotany, punyasena@life.illinois.edu
- Bruce Rhoads (Head
Department of Geography, Ph.D, Arizona State)
Fluvial Dynamics of Streams, brhoads@illinois.edu
- Charles J. Werth (Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Ph.D. Stanford Univ.)
Contaminant fate and transport, werth@illinois.edu
Research Staff
- Stephen Hurst, (Res.
Prog./ Geologist; Ph.D. UC Davis)
Tectonics of Extensional Areas, Ophiolites
and Mid-Ocean Ridges, shurst@illinois.edu
- Rob Sanford (Senior
Research Scientist; Ph.D. Michigan State)
Geomicrobiology; Environmental Microbiology, rsanford@illinois.edu
- Stewart, Michael, (Lecturer; Ph.D. Duke)
Petrology of Oceanic rocks, stewart1@illinois.edu
- Jonathan Tomkin (Res.
Assist. Prof. & Assoc. Director, School of Earth, Society, and Envir.,
Ph.D. Australian National University)
Geomorphology, Surface Processes and Tectonics, tomkin@illinois.edu
Adjunct Faculty
- Burmeister, Kurtis - Structural Geology and Tectonics; Wasatch-Uinta Field Camp
University of the Pacific, California, 209-946-2398, kburmeister@pacific.edu
- Curry,
Brandon - Sr. Quaternary Geologist;
Illinois State Geological Survey, 217-244-5787, b-curry@illinois.edu
- Finley,
Robert - Director, Energy and Earth Resources Center
Illinois State Geological Survey, 217-244-8389, finley@isgs.illinois.edu
- Follmer,
Leon R. - Pedology; Quaternary Geology; Mineralogy
Illinois State Geological Survey, 217-244-6945, lfollmer@illinois.edu
- Kolata, Dennis
R. - Sedimentary Basin Analysis; Stratigraphy; Paleontology
Illinois State Geological Survey, 217-244-2189, dkolata@illinois.edu
- Leetaru,
Hannes - Petroleum Geology, Sedimentary and
Crustal Processes
Illinois State Geological Survey, 217-333-5058, leetaru@isgs.illinois.edu
- Phillips, Thomas - Paleobotany,
Paleobiology
Life Sciences, Plant Biology Dept., tlphilli@life.illinois.edu
- William
Shilts - Glacial Sed. and Geology; Paleoseismicity;
Env. & Expl. Geochem
Illinois State Geological Survey, 217-333-5111, shilts@illinois.edu
- Sturhahn, Wolfgang - Group leader
at the Advanced Photon Source, Sector 3
106 NHB, wolfgang@illinois.edu
- Wilkerson,
M. Scott -
Structural Geology; Fold & Thrust Belt Tectonics
DePauw
University, Indiana, mswilke@depauw.edu, 765-658-4666