The staff listed below work primarily in this field of study, but they often contribute to work across UTIG. Likewise, staff whose primary discipline is another focus within UTIG often contribute to work in this field and may not be listed below. To see staff by other primary discipline please visit: Climate, Energy, and Polar and Planetary.
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 Eric Attias Research Assistant Professor 808-829-6559 attias@ig.utexas.edu Interests: lithosphere-biosphere interactions, hot-spot plume dynamics, toroidal mantle flow, oceanic transform faults, fluid flow in hydrate systems, subsea CO2, seafloor minerals More Info |  Jamie Austin Research Professor 512-471-0450 jamie@ig.utexas.edu Interests: continental margin stratigraphy, tsunamigenesic processes on continental margins, scientific ocean drilling More Info |  Nathan Bangs Research Professor 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 |
 Chas Bolton Research Assistant Professor chas.bolton@beg.utexas.edu Interests: fault mechanics, earthquake rupture, foreshock properties, rock deformation, ultrasonics, machine learning, and induced seismicity More Info |  Ian W. D. Dalziel Research Professor 512-471-0431 ian@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Earth history, tectonics, Antarctic geology More Info |  Cliff Frohlich Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-6156 cliff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: earthquakes, tectonics More Info |  John A. Goff Research Professor 512-471-0476 goff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics More Info |
 Sean P. S. Gulick Research Professor 512-415-2518 sean@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, plate boundaries, glacial sequences, impact processes More Info |  Shuoshuo Han Research Assistant Professor 512-471-0415 han@ig.utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, oceanic lithosphere, marine geohazards” More Info |  Brian Horton Professor 512-471-1869 horton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin analysis, sediment provenance More Info |  Zhe Jia Research Assistant Professor zhe.jia@austin.utexas.edu Interests: earthquake source complexities and their controlling factors, seismic and tsunami hazards, subduction process, injection-induced seismicity, dense seismic/geodetic arrays More Info |
 Luc Lavier 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 Emeritus 512-471-0433 lawver@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, marine geophysics, polar regions More Info |  Chris Lowery Research Assistant Professor cmlowery@utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanograpgy, stratigraphy More Info |  Cornelia Rasmussen Research Assistant Professor crasmussen@utexas.edu Interests: impact cratering, radiogenic and stable isotope geochemistry, paleoecology More Info |
 Demian Saffer Director & Scott Petty Jr. Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences 512-471-6156 demian.saffer@austin.utexas.edu Interests: active tectonics, fault/sediment mechanics, geohydrology More Info |  Harm Van Avendonk Research Professor 512-471-0429 harm@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismic tomography, marine geophysics, geophysical data analysis More Info |  Laura M. Wallace Research Professor 512-471-0324 lwallace@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, crustal deformation, earthquakes More Info | |
Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
 Tanner Acquisto Postdoctoral Fellow acquisto@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate boundaries, faulting, earthquakes, hydrogeology More Info |  Kaixuan Kang Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow kaixuan.kang@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: glacial isostatic adjustment, sea level change, Holocene glacial retreat, global climate change, finite element model More Info |  Duyi Li Postdoctoral Fellow duyi.li@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: seismology, radioglaciology, airborne geophysics More Info |  Chuanming Liu Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow chuanming.liu@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: seismic imaging, tectonics, subduction zones, Antarctica More Info |
 Chase J. Shyu Postdoctoral Fellow chase.shyu@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, crustal rifting, sedimentary basin, thermochronology, numerical modeling More Info |  Chao Song Postdoctoral Fellow chao.song@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: slow earthquakes, low-frequency earthquakes, tectonic tremor, earthquake source mechanisms, earthquake rupture processes More Info | ||
Technical and Administrative Staff | |||
 Marcy Davis Engineering Scientist 512-471-0425 marcy@ig.utexas.edu |  Dan Duncan Engineering Scientist 512-471-0490 dduncan@ig.utexas.edu |  Dallas Sherman Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III dsherman@ig.utexas.edu Interests: application of marine electromagnetic methods to exploration, offshore groundwater reservoirs, degradation of subsea arctic permafrost, noise in marine MT data and stability of MT transfer functions, integration of seismic and EM data sets. More Info | |
Research Affiliates | |||
 Gail Christeson Research Affiliate glchristeson@utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology More Info |  Ian Norton Sr. Research Fellow 512-471-0423 norton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, structure, continental margins More Info |  Daniel Trugman Program Director dtrugman@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: earthquake science, ground motion prediction, forensic seismology, nuclear monitoring More Info |  Ming Zhang Research Affiliate ming.zhang@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: electromagnetic methods in applied geophysics, forward modeling methods, inversion methods, software development More Info |
Graduate Students | |||
 Soraya Alfred salfred@utexas.edu Interests: numerical modeling, impacts, Chicxulub crater, hydrothermal fluid flow More Info |  Jacob Allen jacob.allen01@utexas.edu Interests: subsurface geophysics, subduction zone mechanisms, seismic imaging/processing More Info |  Jonathan Amendola jpamendola@utexas.edu Interests: glaciomarine environments, geomorphology, depositional processes More Info |  McKenzie Carlson mckenzie.carlson@utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, slow slip earthquakes, earthquake hazards, fault mechanics, science communication More Info |
 Nicole Ferrie nicole.ferrie@utexas.edu Interests: subduction zone fluids, paleoclimatology, boron geochemistry, chemical modeling More Info |  Xiang He hexiang@utexas.edu Interests: mantle convection, intraplate deformation, numerical modeling More Info |  Emily Hugo emilyrhugo@utexas.edu Interests: geomorphology, coastal processes, surface processes, coastal resilience, environmental justice More Info |  Danqi Jiang dqjiang@utexas.edu Interests: structural geology, subduction zones, fault slip behavior, deformation evolution More Info |
 Jack Konguthaithip konguthaithip@utexas.edu Interests: foreland basin system, fold-thrust belt, sedimentary provenance, thermochronology/geochronology |  Emma Martin ecm3448@my.utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, seismic imaging, active source seismology, marine geology, marine science More Info |  Carson Miller carsonm@austin.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, coastal processes, barrier island and estuarine evolution |  Peter Miller pkmiller1@utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, earthquake mechanics, fluid flow, mechanical behavior of sediments, faulting More Info |
 Gabriel Ojo geogabriel@utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanography, sedimentology, geophysics More Info |  Ema Linnea Parker emaparker@utexas.edu Interests: Marine Controlled Source Electromagnetic methods, marine magnetotelluric methods, geohazards, geofluid transport mechanisms, lithosphere-biosphere dynamics More Info |  Kaitlin Schaible kaitlin.schaible@utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, stress, rock mechanics, borehole breakouts, structural geology, earthquake hazards More Info |  Adan Silva asilva13@utexas.edu |
 Patty Standring patty.standring@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology, paleoceanography, foraminifera More Info |  Huiwen Sun sunh0021@utexas.edu Interests: active tectonics at subduction zones, megathrust earthquake modeling, plate tectonics, structural geology More Info | ||
Undergraduate Students | |||
 Brandon Garcia bgarcia91@utexas.edu Interests: computational geophysics, seismic exploration, reservoir characterization, seismic imaging and processing, machine learning, earthquake hazards More Info | Enrique Morales |  Lucero Tunjar Cruz luluarit2004@utexas.edu Interests: tectonic plate dynamics, fault mechanics and rheology, earthquakes, accumulation of stress, induced seismicity More Info | |