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EXPERTISE
Metamorphic petrology; x-ray computed tomography in geology; geochemical kinetics; apatite fission-track annealing kinetics; Precambrian geology of the Llano Uplift; environment & earth science.
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Ian Duncan, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1982
Program Director
Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5117
E-mail: ian.duncan@beg.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Environmental geology; remote sensing (geologic applications of multispectral, radar, and lidar data sets); carbon sequestration, and geoinformatics; clean coal technologies; integrating carbon capture into enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects; energy; environment.
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William Fisher, Ph.D., University of Kansas
Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair in Mineral Resources
Department of Geological Sciences and Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5600
E-mail: wfisher@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Energy resource assessment and energy policy issues; role of technology and ingenuity in expanding the resource base of oil and natural gas; basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, and petroleum geology; Gulf Coast Basin, Brazilian Offshore, and Venezuela.
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Nicholas Hayman, PhD, University of Washington, 2003
Research Associate
Institute for Geophysics
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7721
E-mail: hayman@ig.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Faults and fault rocks, the latter the geologic record of faulting and related processes such as earthquakes and hydrothermal fluid flow. He is also interested in general problems in structural geology, tectonics, and lithospheric dynamics.
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Paul Hudson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and The Environment
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-232-1554
E-mail: pfhudson@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Geomorphology particularly rivers (Mississippi River); river channel changes and erosion; sediment transport; flooding; environmental change; Quaternary (Holocene); Gulf Coastal Plain
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Salt tectonics thin-skinned deformation and related petroleum traps; structural analysis and seismic interpretation of sedimentary tectonics; experimental modeling; environment & earth science; oil and gas.
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J. Richard Kyle, Ph.D.
The Third Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor
Department of Geological Sciences and Bureau of Economic Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4351
E-mail: rkyle@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Texas; geology; mineral resources
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Structural geology; fracture analysis; rock mechanics; hydrocarbon exploration and development in deep and/or structurally complex areas; tight gas sandstone and coalbed methane resources; engineering; environment & earth science; oil and gas.
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Leon Long, Ph.D.
The Second Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-7562
E-mail: leonlong@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Geochemistry more specifically isotope geology especially the use of naturally-occurring radioactive isotopes to date ancient geologic events
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EXPERTISE
Structural geology and tectonics; faulting and folding; fluid flow through fracture systems; applications of fractals; structure and tectonics of Mexico and Andes, environment & earth science.
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Sharon Mosher, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana, 1978
Dean, Jackson School of Geosciences; William Stamps Farish Chair in Geology
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4135
E-mail: mosher@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Structural petrology; field-oriented structural geology; the evolution of complexly deformed terranes; strain analysis; deformation mechanisms; and the interaction between chemical and physical processes during deformation.
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Jon Olson
Associate Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512 471 7375
E-mail: jolson@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Naturally fractured reservoirs; Rock mechanics; Hydraulic fracturing; Structural geology; GPS applications in petroleum and geosystems engineering
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Near-surface geophysics; quaternary geology and geomorphology; vibration monitoring; coastal geology; computer applications in the geological sciences; environment & earth science; remote sensing.
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EXPERTISE
National energy and mineral resources geology, Texas geology, technology transfer, Barnett Shale, natural gas reservoirs.
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EXPERTISE
climate change; geochemistry of marine sediments and coral reefs; climate variability and changes in mean climate state in the geologic record; uncertainties in proxy climate records; global warming
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Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D. Geosciences, University of Arizona
Assistant Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: (512) 232-7051
E-mail: tshanahan@jsg.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, paleolimnology, ancient climate, climate change, sedimentary geology and geochemistry, organic geochemistry, isotope geochemistry, compound-specific stable isotope analysis
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James Sprinkle, Ph.D.
The First Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professor
Department of Geological Sciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4264
E-mail: echino@mail.utexas.edu
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EXPERTISE
Invertebrate paleontology; fossil echinoderms; echinoderm systematics; Paleozoic ecosystems; paleoecology; crinoids; blastoids; rhombiferans; eocrinoids; parablastoids; blastozoans; edrioasteroids; edrioblastoids; starfish; stylophorans; ctenocystoids; helicoplacoids; living echinoderms; Cambrian Period; Ordovician Period; Mississippian Period; Pennsylvanian Period; Cambrian evolutionary fauna; Paleozoic evolutionary fauna; Ordovician radiation; Cambrian explosion; environment & earth science.
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