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Ernest M. Agee Professor

Office: CIVL 4267
Phone: 765 494-3282
E-mail: eagee@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/agee.php
Research Interests: Mesoscale Convection, Thunderstorms and Tornadoes, Coherent Structures, Cold Air Outbreaks

Michael Baldwin Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 4267A
Phone: 765 494-9503
E-mail: baldwin@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/baldwin.php
Research Interests: Numerical Weather Prediction, Forecast Verification, Data Assimilation, Data Mining

Brenda Beitler Bowen Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 3233
Phone: 765 496-2290
E-mail: bbowen@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/sed/
Research Interests: Sedimentary Geology, Diagenesis, Fluid Flow, Basin Evolution, Remote Sensing, Mars Analog Research

Gabriel Bowen Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 3221
Phone: 765 496-9344
E-mail: gabe@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/ireh
Research Interests: Stable Isotope Geochemistry, Paleoclimatology, Ecology

Larry W. Braile Professor

Office: CIVL 2271
Phone: 765 494-5979
E-mail: braile@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/braile.php
Research Interests: Seismology, Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure, Inversion of Geophysical Data, Intraplate Earthquakes, Earth Science Education

Marc Caffee Courtesy Appointment & Professor of Physics

Office: PHYS S177
Phone: 765 494-2586
E-mail: mcaffee@physics.purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/caffee.php
Research Interests: Application of Stable- and Radio-Nuclides to problems in the Geosciences including Quaternary Landform Evolution, Cosmochronology, Hydrology and Atmospheric Processes. The development of techniques to enable the measurement of new Cosmogenic Nuclides.

Eric Calais Professor

Office: CIVL 3273
Phone: 765 496-2915
E-mail: ecalais@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/calais.php
Research Interests: Current Plate Motions, Intraplate and Plate Boundary Deformation in Active Tectonic Systems: Kinematics and Dynamics; Deformation Cycle, Magma-Tectonic Processes, and Stress Transfer at Active Plate Boundaries, Global Positioning System (GPS) Geodesy, Atmospheric Remote Sensing with GPS (Tropospheric Water Vapor, Ionospheric Electron Content)

Tom Carney Courtesy Appointment & Professor of Aviation Technology

Office: AT 221
Phone: 765 494-9954
Email: tcarney@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/carney.php
Research Interests: Aviation Meteorology, Impact of Weather on Aviation Operations, Synoptic-scale Dynamics and Energetics, Interactions between Synoptic- and Mesoscale-Motion Fields

Indrajeet Chaubey Professor

Phone: 765 494-5013
E-mail: ichaubey@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/chaubey.php
Research Interests: Ecohydrology

John Cushman University Distinguished Professor

Office: CIVL 3223
Phone: 765 494 -8040
E-mail: jcushman@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/cushman.php
Research Interests: Geohydrology, Porous Media Physics, Spatial Variability, Applied Math and Statistics

Maarten de Hoop Professor

Office: MATH 822
Phone: 765 496-6439
E-mail: mdehoop@math.purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/dehoop.php
Research Interests: Exploration Seismology, Global Seismology, Geodynamics, Inverse Problems

Noah Diffenbaugh Adjunct Associate Professor

Research Interests: Climate Change, Biosphere-Atmosphere Feedbacks, Paleoclimatology, Earth System Modeling

Timothy Filley Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 3225
Phone: 765 494-6581
E-mail: filley@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/filley.php
Research Interests: Molecular Stable-isotope Biogeochemistry, Microbial Cycling of Carbon and Nitrogen, Formation of High Sulfur Sediments, Preservation of Lipids and Macromolecules

Lucy Flesch Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 3235
Phone: 765 494-0263
E-mail: lmflesch@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/flesch.php
Research Interests: Kinematics and Dynamics of the Continental Lithosphere, namely the interaction between the lithospheric Crust and Mantle Lithospheric Layers, Deformational Driving Forces of Continental Lithosphere, and the Development of Large Plateaus. All models performed are observationally based using Geodetic, Geologic and Seismic data.

Joseph S. Francisco University Distinguished Professor, William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry, and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education in the College of Science

Office: CIVL 4290
Phone: 765 494-3284
E-mail: francisc@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/francisco.php
Research Interests: Atmospheric Chemistry, Tropospheric and Stratospheric Chemical Kinetics and Modeling, Atmospheric Laser Spectroscopy, Photochemistry

Andrew Freed Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 3269
Phone: 765 496-3738
E-mail: freed@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/freed/
Research Interests: Rheology, Postseismic Deformation, Earthquake Triggering, Evolution of Planetary Surfaces, Subduction Zone Processes

Andrei Gabrielov Professor

Office: MATH 648
Phone: 764 494-7911
E-mail: gabriea@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/gabrielov.php
Research Interests: Modeling of Seismicity, Earthquake Prediction, Nonlinear Science, Theoretical Mathematics

Hersh Gilbert Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 3241
Phone: 765 496-9518
E-mail: hersh@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/gilbert.php
Research Interests: Continental Evolution, Seismology, Upper Mantle Structure, Mountain Building

Alexander Gluhovsky Professor

Office: CIVL 4263
Phone: 765 494-0670
E-mail: aglu@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/gluhovsky.php
Research Interests: Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows, Predictability, Resampling Methods for Atmospheric Time Series, Statistics of Extremes in Weather and Climate

Darryl Granger Professor

Office: CIVL 3277A
Phone: 765 494-0043
E-mail: dgranger@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/granger.php
Research Interests: Tectonic Geomorphology, Landscape Evolution, Cosmogenic Nuclides Applied to Geomorphology and Surficial Processes, Environmental Geosciences

Kevin Gurney Adjunct Professor

E-mail: kgurney@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/gurney.php
Research Interests: Global Carbon Cycle, Inverse Methods, Biogeochemistry, Climate Change Policy

Section H-P

Jennifer Haase Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 3217
Phone: 765 494-8677
E-mail: jhaase@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/haase.php
Research Interests: Geophysics, Earthquake Seismology, Satellite Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere for Weather Forecasting and Climate

Saad Haq Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 3277C
Phone: 765 496-7206
E-mail: haq@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/haq.php
Research Interests: Tectonics, Structural Geology, Analog and Numerical Modeling

Jon Harbor Professor and Department Head

Office: CIVL 2169A
Phone: 765-496-6647
E-mail: jharbor@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/harbor.php
Research Interests: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change, Glacial Geomorphology, Environmental Education Research

Harshvardhan Professor

Office: CIVL 4286
Phone: 765 494-0693
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/harshvardhan.php
Research Interests: Radiative Transfer, Clouds and Aerosol, Remote Sensing, Climate

William Hinze Professor Emeritus

E-mail: wjh730@comcast.net
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/hinze.php
Research Interests: Geophysics

Matthew Huber Professor

Office: CIVL 3277D
Phone: 765 494-0044
E-mail: huberm@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/huber.php
Research Interests: Paleoclimate Modeling, Climate Change, Global Warming, Paleoceanography

Arvid M. Johnson Professor Emeritus

E-mail: gotesson@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/johnson.php
Research Interests: Structural Geology, Geomechanics

Gerald H. Krockover Professor Emeritus

Office: CIVL 2285C
Phone: 765 494-5795
E-mail: hawk1@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/krockover.php
Research Interests: Earth and Atmospheric Science Education

Sonia Lasher-Trapp Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 4259A
Phone: 765 496-2866
E-mail: slasher@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/lasher-trapp.php
Research Interests: Cloud Microphysics, Precipitation, Giant Aerosol, Cloud Entrainment, Numerical Modeling and Measurements of Clouds and Precipitation

Darrell I. Leap Professor Emeritus

Office: CIVL 3239
Phone: 765 494-3699
E-mail: mountains2oceans@comcast.net
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/leap.php
Research Interests: Hydrology

Nathaniel A. Lifton Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 3275
Phone: 765 494-0754
E-mail: nlifton@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/lifton.php
Research Interests: Cosmogenic Nuclides Applied to Surficial Processes, Quaternary Geology

Elizabeth McNie Assistant Professor

Office: Beering Hall, Department of Political Science
Phone: 765 496-6557
E-mail: emcnie@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/mcnie.php

Jay Melosh University Distinguished Professor

Office: CIVL 3237
Phone: 765 494-3290
E-mail: jmelosh@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/melosh.php
Research Interests: Ramifications of Impact Cratering, Planetary Tectonics, Physics of Earthquakes and Landslides

Greg Michalski Associate Professor

Office: CIVL 3229
Phone: 765 494-3704
E-mail: gmichals@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/michalski/
Research Interests: Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Nitrogen Cycling in Aquatic and Soil Systems, Regional Air/Water Pollution, Mass-Independent Isotope Effects and their use in Paleoclimatology and Aerosol Chemistry, Isotope Effects in Gas Phase Reactions, Modeling Isotopes in Atmospheric Chemistry

Ki-Hong Min, Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 4282
Phone: 765 494-3177
E-mail: min@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/min.php
Research Interests: Regional Climate Modeling and Numerical Weather Prediction, Synoptic Dynamic Meteorology, Coupled Atmosphere-Land-Ocean Studies, Global to Regional Scale Water Cycle

David Minton, Assistant Professor

Office: CIVL 3231
Phone: 765 494-7911
E-mail: daminton@purdue.edu

Research Interests: Orbital dynamics, Planet formation, Planet migration, the Late Heavy Bombardment, Dynamics and structure of small bodies

Dev Niyogi Associate Professor & Indiana State Climatologist

Office: CIVL 4284
Phone: 765 494-6574
E-mail: climate@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/niyogi.php
Research Interests: Land Surface Processes and Effects of Vegetation – Atmosphere Interactions on Environmental Processes at Different Scales

Robert L. Nowack Professor

Office: CIVL 2275
Phone: 765 494-5978
E-mail: nowack@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/nowack.php
Research Interests: Seismology and Earthquakes

James G. Ogg Professor

Office: CIVL 2273
Phone: 765 494-8681
E-mail: jogg@purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/ogg.php
Research Interests: Paleomagnetics, Sedimentology, Marine Geology

Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte Courtesy Appointment & Professor of Physics

Office: Physics Bldg.
Phone: 765 494-3027
E-mail: ljpn@physics.purdue.edu
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/pyrak-nolte.php
Research Interests: Applied Geophysics, ISRM Work Group

Section Q-Z
	James E. Richardson Jr. Assistant Research Professor
		Office: CIVL 3239 Phone: 765 496-6896 E-mail: richardson@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/richardson Research Interests: Geology, Geophysics, and Geomorphology of Impact Crater Dominated Terrains on Small Solar System Bodies, Planetary Satellites and Terrestrial Planets Investigated via Spacecraft Observations, Variety of Analytical and Numerical Modeling Techniques

	Kenneth D. Ridgway Professor
		Office: CIVL 3277B Phone: 765 494-3269 E-mail: ridge@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/ridgway.php Research Interests: Basin Analysis, Tectonics, Sedimentary Petrology, Petroleum Geology

	Eric Riggs *Adjunct Associate Professor*
		E-mail: emriggs@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/riggslab/ Research Interests: Geoscience Education, Field-based Learning, Spatial Cognition and Problem Solving in Geological Contexts, Influence of Culture and Language on Geoscience Learning, Structural Geology, Fracture Mechanics, Rock Deformation

	Dan Shepardson Professor
		Office: CIVL 2285B Phone: 765 494-8181 E-mail: dshep@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/shepardson.php Research Interests: Geoenvironmental Education, Learners' Conceptions, Social Interaction, Science Journals, Alternative Assessment

	Paul B. Shepson Professor
		Office: CIVL 3215 Phone: 765 494-0278 E-mail: pshepson@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/shepson.php Research Interests: Atmospheric Chemistry, Tropospheric Ozone and Photochemical Smog, Atmospheric Chemical Measurements, Modeling of Tropospheric Photochemistry, Environmental Geosciences

	Yuch-Ning Shieh Professor
		Office: CIVL 3271 Phone: 765 494-3272 E-mail: ynshieh@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/shieh.php Research Interests: Stable-isotope Geochemistry, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Carbon Isotopes in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Sulfur Isotopes in Coal and Mineral Deposits

	Phillip J. Smith Professor Emeritus
		Office: CIVL 4288 Phone: 765 494-3286 E-mail: pjsmith@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/smith.php Research Interests: Dynamic Meteorology, Atmospheric Energetics, Synoptic Meteorology, Cyclone Dynamics

	Wen-Yih Sun *Professor*
		Office: CIVL 4280 Phone: 765 494-7681 E-mail: wysun@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/sun.php Research Interests: Geofluid Dynamics, Numerical Modeling of Mesoscale Meteorology and Regional Climate Boundary Layer Meteorology, Air Pollution

	Thomas M. Tharp Associate Professor
		Office: CIVL 3243 Phone: 765 494-8678 E-mail: ttharp1@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/tharp.php Research Interests: Rheology of Earth Materials, Numerical Modeling, Numerical Modeling in Tectonics, Structural and Engineering Geology

	Jeff Trapp *Professor, Associate Head*
		Office: CIVL 4277A Phone: 765 496-6661 E-mail: jtrapp@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/trapp.php Research Interests: Dynamics and Observations of Mesoscale Convective Systems, Severe Thunderstorms, and Tornadoes, Mesoscale Modeling and Predictability

	Wen-wen Tung Associate Professor
		Office: CIVL 3219 Phone: 765 494-0272 Email: wwtung@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/tung.php Research Interests: Tropical Meteorology (Tropical Waves, Intraseasonal Oscillation, Monsoon, etc.), Atmospheric Convective Systems, Cloud Systems in Climate Change

	Dayton Vincent Professor Emeritus
		Office: CIVL 4284 Phone: 765 494-6574 E-mail: dvincent@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/vincent.php Research Interests: Tropical Meteorology

	Terry West *Professor*
		Office: CIVL 3245 Phone: 765 494-3296 E-mail: trwest@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/west.php Research Interests: Engineering Geology, Hazardous-waste Disposal, Engineering Properties of Rock, Rock Slope Stability, Remote Sensing

	Dongbin Xiu *Associate Professor*
		Office: MATH 434 Phone: 765 496-2846 E-mail: dxiu@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/xiu.php Research Interests: Stochastic Modeling in Engineering Applications; High-order and Spectral Methods for PDE; Mulitiscale Simulations; Large-scale, Interdisciplinary Computations of Complex Systems

	Qianlai Zhuang William F. and Patty J. Miller Associate Professor
		Office: CIVL 2269 Phone: 765 494-9610 E-mail: qzhuang@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/zhuang.php Research Interests: Interactions among Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Human Dimension in the Context of Climate Change, Chemical Element Cycles, Policy-making

	William J. Zinsmeister Professor
		Office: CIVL 3227 Phone: 765 494-0279 E-mail: wjzins@purdue.edu http://www.eas.purdue.edu/people/faculty/zinsmeister.php Research Interests: Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Biogeography, Field Geology