The School’s mission is to provide students with high-quality education and research opportunities within a creative, inclusive, and interdisciplinary environment with an emphasis on fundamental and applied geosciences.
Assistant Professor
Starting Fall 2026
Associate Professor
Lissa and Cy Wagner Professor
Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship
Data Science, Applied Geophysics, Seismic Interpretation
Associate Professor
Willard L. Miller Professor
Brian E. and Sandra O'Brien Presidential Professorship
Structural Geology, Rock Mechanics, Earthquake Physics
Assistant Professor
Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
Paleontology, Community Paleoecology, Functional Morphology, Extinction, Phylogenetic Comparative Methods, Carbonate Sedimentology
Assistant Professor
Chris J. Cheatwood Director, Bartell Field Camp
Paleomagnetism, Sedimentary Geology, Geologic Field Methods
Professor
Director, Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems
Terrestrial and Aquatic Biogeochemistry, Organic Geochemistry, Coupled Elemental Cycles in Soils, Soil Carbon Sequestration, Hillslope Erosion Processes
Assistant Professor
Critical Zone Science, Terrestrial Biogeochemistry, Metal Redox Geochemistry, Soil Carbon Cycle, Mineral Weathering
Assistant Professor
Critical Resources, Carbon Sequestration, Geochemistry of Geofluids, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Experimental Petrology, Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Thermodynamics
Associate Professor
Norman R. Gelphman Professor
Geobiology, Lipid Biomarkers, Origins of Life
Assistant Professor
Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
Biotic Earth history, Macroevolution, Paleobiology, Morphometrics
Associate Professor
Frank and Henrietta Schultz Chair
Associate Director and Head Curator, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
Paleobotany, Palynology, and Paleoecology
David L. Boren Professor
Edward L. McCollough Chair
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleoclimatology
Assistant Professor
Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
Macroevolution, Paleontology, Phylogenetics, Echinoderm paleobiology, Crinoidea
