Below are all of our research scientists, to see staff by primary discipline please visit: Climate, Energy, Polar and Planetary, and Marine Geosciences, Seismology and Tectonics.
![]() Adrien Arnulf Research Associate 512-471-0376 aarnulf@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic imaging, mid-ocean ridges, convergent margins More Info | ![]() Jamie Austin Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0450 jamie@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margin stratigraphy, tsunamigenesic processes on continental margins, scientific ocean drilling More Info | ![]() Athma Bhandari Research Associate 512-471-0462 athma.bhandari@utexas.edu Interests: fluid flow measurements in fine-grained rocks, geomechanics, petrophysics, unconventional energy resources More Info | ![]() Nathan Bangs Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0424 nathan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: faults, structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics, climate More Info |
![]() Thorsten Becker Professor twb@ig.utexas.edu Interests: geodynamics, seismology, fault systems More Info | ![]() Don Blankenship Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0489 blank@ig.utexas.edu More Info | ![]() Ginny Catania Associate Professor 512-471-0403 gcatania@ig.utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, ice dynamics, climate More Info | ![]() Gail Christeson Sr. Research Scientist/Associate Director 512-471-0463 gail@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology More Info |
![]() Ian W. D. Dalziel Research Professor 512-471-0431 ian@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Earth history, tectonics, Antarctic geology More Info | ![]() John Damuth Visiting Research/Scholar damuth@uta.edu Interests: More Info | ![]() Pedro DiNezio Research Associate 512-471-0411 pdn@ig.utexas.edu Interests: dynamics, prediction, impacts More Info | ![]() Peter B. Flemings Professor 512-475-8738 pflemings@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: basin-scale fluid flow, methane hydrates, shale and mudstone permeability More Info |
![]() Doug Foster Sr. Research Scientist djfoster@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic wave propagation, inverse problems and applied geophysics More Info | ![]() Cliff Frohlich Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-0460 cliff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: earthquakes, tectonics More Info | ![]() Craig Fulthorpe Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0459 craig@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margins, seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary geology More Info | ![]() William Galloway Professor Emeritus 512-471-0494 galloway@austin.utexas.edu Interests: depositional systems, Gulf of Mexico basin, petroleum geology More Info |
![]() John A. Goff Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0476 goff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics More Info | ![]() Cyril Grima Research Associate 512-471-0377 cgrima@ig.utexas.edu Interests: planet, cryosphere, radar More Info | ![]() Sean P. S. Gulick Research Professor 512-471-0483 sean@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, plate boundaries, glacial sequences, impact processes More Info | ![]() Shuoshuo Han Research Associate han@ig.utexas.edu |
![]() Nicholas W. Hayman Research Scientist 512-471-7721 hayman@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, structural geology, tectonics More Info | ![]() Patrick Heimbach Research Professor 512-232-7694 heimbach@utexas.edu Interests: climate More Info | ![]() Brian Horton Professor 512-471-1869 horton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin analysis, sediment provenance More Info | ![]() Charles Jackson Research Scientist 512-471-0401 charles@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate change, uncertainty quantification, sea level More Info |
![]() Luc Lavier Associate Professor 512-471-0455 luc@ig.utexas.edu Interests: flow and deformation of Earth's materials, tectonics of plate boundaries, computational methods for lithospheric deformation More Info | ![]() Lawrence Lawver Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0433 lawver@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, marine geophysics, polar regions More Info | ![]() Chris Lowery Research Associate clowery@ig.utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanograpgy, stratigraphy More Info | ![]() Yosio Nakamura Professor Emeritus 512-471-0428 yosio@ig.utexas.edu Interest: seismology More Info |
![]() Ian Norton Sr. Research Fellow 512-471-0423 norton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, structure, continental margins More Info | ![]() Yuko Okumura Research Scientist 512-471-0383 yukoo@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change More Info | ![]() Jud Partin Research Associate 512-471-6156 jpartin@ig.utexas.edu Interests: paleoclimate, data-model comparisons, tropical climate More Info | ![]() Terrence Quinn Professor 512-471-0464 quinn@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate change, paleoclimate, geochemistry More Info |
![]() Mrinal K. Sen Interim Director / Professor and Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology 512-471-0466 mrinal@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismology, high performance computing, applied math More Info | ![]() John W. Snedden Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0452 jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu Interests: sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, reservoir connectivity, process sedimentology More Info | ![]() Krista Soderlund Research Associate 512-471-0449 krista@ig.utexas.edu Interests: planetary interiors, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics More Info | ![]() Paul Stoffa Professor Emeritus 512-471-6156 pauls@ig.utexas.edu |
![]() Frederick W. Taylor Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0453 fred@ig.utexas.edu Interests: neotectonics, paleoseismology, paleoclimate More Info | ![]() Harm Van Avendonk Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0429 harm@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic tomography, marine geophysics, geophysical data analysis More Info | ![]() Laura M. Wallace Research Scientist 512-471-0324 lwallace@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, crustal deformation, earthquakes More Info | ![]() Tim Whiteaker Research Scientist 512-471-8844 whiteaker@utexas.edu Interests: cyberinfrastructure, geographic information systems, data management More Info |
![]() Kehua You Research Associate kehua@ig.utexas.edu Interests: gas hydrates, hydrogeology, fluid flow and transport More Info | ![]() Duncan A. Young Research Scientist 512-471-0485 duncan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics and planetary geophysics More Info | ![]() Zeyu Zhao Research Associate zeyu@utexas.edu Interests: exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, seismology More Info |