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Research Scientists

 

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.

 

    
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Adrien Arnulf
Research Associate
512-471-0376
aarnulf@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: seismic imaging, mid-ocean ridges, convergent margins
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Jamie Austin
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0450
jamie@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: continental margin
stratigraphy, tsunamigenesic
processes on continental margins, scientific ocean drilling
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Athma Bhandari
Research Associate
512-471-0462

athma.bhandari@utexas.edu
Interests: fluid flow measurements in fine-grained rocks, geomechanics, petrophysics, unconventional energy resources
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Nathan Bangs
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0424

nathan@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: faults, structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics, climate
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Thorsten Becker
Professor

twb@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: geodynamics, seismology, fault systems
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Don Blankenship
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0489
blank@ig.utexas.edu
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Ginny Catania
Associate Professor
512-471-0403
gcatania@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: glaciology, ice dynamics, climate
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Gail Christeson
Sr. Research Scientist/Associate Director
512-471-0463
gail@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology
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Ian W. D. Dalziel
Research Professor
512-471-0431
ian@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: Earth history, tectonics, Antarctic geology
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John Damuth
Visiting Research/Scholar

damuth@uta.edu
Interests:
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Pedro DiNezio
Research Associate
512-471-0411

pdn@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: dynamics, prediction, impacts
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Peter B. Flemings
Professor
512-475-8738
pflemings@jsg.utexas.edu
Interests: basin-scale fluid flow, methane hydrates, shale and mudstone permeability
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Doug Foster
Sr. Research Scientist
djfoster@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: seismic wave propagation, inverse problems and applied geophysics
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Cliff Frohlich
Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus
512-471-0460
cliff@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: earthquakes, tectonics
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Craig Fulthorpe
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0459
craig@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: continental margins, seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary geology
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William Galloway
Professor Emeritus
512-471-0494
galloway@austin.utexas.edu
Interests: depositional systems, Gulf of Mexico basin, petroleum geology
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John A. Goff
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0476
goff@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics
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Cyril Grima
Research Associate
512-471-0377
cgrima@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: planet, cryosphere, radar
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Sean P. S. Gulick
Research Professor
512-471-0483
sean@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: marine geology and geophysics, plate boundaries, glacial sequences, impact processes
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Shuoshuo Han
Research Associate

han@ig.utexas.edu
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Nicholas W. Hayman
Research Scientist
512-471-7721
hayman@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: marine geology and geophysics, structural geology, tectonics
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Patrick Heimbach
Research Professor
512-232-7694
heimbach@utexas.edu
Interests: climate
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Brian Horton
Professor
512-471-1869
horton@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: tectonics, basin analysis, sediment provenance
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Charles Jackson
Research Scientist
512-471-0401
charles@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: climate change, uncertainty quantification, sea level
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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
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Lawrence Lawver
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0433
lawver@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: plate tectonics, marine geophysics, polar regions
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Chris Lowery
Research Associate

clowery@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanograpgy, stratigraphy
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Yosio Nakamura
Professor Emeritus
512-471-0428
yosio@ig.utexas.edu
Interest: seismology
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Ian Norton
Sr. Research Fellow
512-471-0423
norton@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: tectonics, structure, continental margins
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Yuko Okumura
Research Scientist
512-471-0383
yukoo@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change
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Jud Partin
Research Associate
512-471-6156
jpartin@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: paleoclimate, data-model comparisons, tropical climate
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Terrence Quinn
Professor
512-471-0464
quinn@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: climate change, paleoclimate, geochemistry
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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
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John W. Snedden
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0452
jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, reservoir connectivity, process sedimentology
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Krista Soderlund
Research Associate
512-471-0449
krista@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: planetary interiors, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics
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Paul Stoffa
Professor Emeritus
512-471-6156
pauls@ig.utexas.edu
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Frederick W. Taylor
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0453
fred@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: neotectonics, paleoseismology, paleoclimate
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Harm Van Avendonk
Sr. Research Scientist
512-471-0429
harm@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: seismic tomography, marine geophysics, geophysical data analysis
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Laura M. Wallace
Research Scientist
512-471-0324
lwallace@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: tectonics, crustal deformation, earthquakes
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Tim Whiteaker
Research Scientist
512-471-8844
whiteaker@utexas.edu
Interests: cyberinfrastructure, geographic information systems, data management
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Kehua You
Research Associate
kehua@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: gas hydrates, hydrogeology, fluid flow and transport
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Duncan A. Young
Research Scientist
512-471-0485
duncan@ig.utexas.edu
Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics and planetary geophysics
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Zeyu Zhao
Research Associate
zeyu@utexas.edu
Interests: exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, seismology
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