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.
| Research Scientists | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 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 |  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 |
 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 |  Cliff Frohlich Sr. Research Scientist 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 |  John A. Goff Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0476 goff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics 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 |  Nicholas W. Hayman Research Scientist 512-471-7721 hayman@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, structural geology, tectonics More Info |
 Brian Horton Professor 512-471-1869 horton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin analysis, sediment provenance 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 |  Ian Norton Sr. Research Fellow 512-471-0423 norton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, structure, continental margins More Info |
 Thomas H. Shipley Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0430 tom@utig.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 |
 Jake Walter Research Associate 512-232-4116 jwalter@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismicity, earthquakes, glaciology More Info | |||
| Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
 Lukas Fuchs Postdoctoral Fellow lfuchs@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, numerical models, diapirs, finite deformation, anisotropie More Info |  Shuoshuo Han Postdoctoral Fellow han@ig.utexas.edu |  Piyoosh Jaysaval Postdoctoral Fellow pjaysaval@utexas.edu |  Cornelia Rasmussen Postdoctoral Fellow crasmussen@utexas.edu |
 Robert Porritt Postdoctoral Fellow rporritt@ig.utexas.edu Interests:seismology, tectonics, subduction, cratons More Info | |||
| Technical and Administrative Support | |||
 Marcy Davis Research Scientist Associate IV 512-471-0425 marcy@ig.utexas.edu |  Dan Duncan Research Scientist Associate IV 512-471-0490 dduncan@ig.utexas.edu |  Lisa M. Gahagan Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0488 lisa@ig.utexas.edu |  Thomas Hess Research Scientist Associate V 512-232-5934 thomas_hess@mail.utexas.edu |
 Steffen Saustrup Research Scientist Associate V 512-471-0442 steffen@ig.utexas.edu | |||
| Current Students | |||
 James Biemiller Graduate Research Assistant james.biemiller@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, geodesy, geodynamic modeling More Info |  Amanda Z. Calle azcallep@utexas.edu Interests: sedimentology, tectonics, basin architecture More Info |  Andrew Gase Office: 3.102 J agase@ig.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, tectonics, and crustal structure |  Brooklyn Gose brooklyn@ig.utexas.edu Office: 3.108 |
 Jennifer Harding Graduate Research Assistant jharding@utexas.edu Interests: seismology, tectonics, marine geophysics More Info |  Lily J. Jackson Graduate Research Assistant lilyjackson@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, sedimentology, geochronology More Info |  Dominik Kardell Graduate Research Assistant dkardell@utexas.edu Interests:marine geophysics, tectonics, seismology More Info | Shawn Lee shawn@ig.utexas.edu |
 Kunpeng Liao liaokp@ig.utexas.edu Office: 2.116J |  Naoma McCall naoma@ig.utexas.edu Office: 3.104 |  Kelly Olsen Graduate Research Assistant kolsen@utexas.edu Interests: seismology, convergent margins, tectonics, marine geophysics More Info | Catherine Ross Office: 3.104 |
 Brandon Shuck Graduate Research Assistant brandon.shuck@utexas.edu Interests: Marine geophysics, seismology, tectonics More Info |  John M. Swartz Graduate Research Assistant jmarshallswartz@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, sedimentary dynamics, coastal change More Info |  Xinyue (Dennis) Tong dennist@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Gabriel Tagliaro Graduate Student gtagliaro@utexas.edu Interests: marine geology, seismic stratigraphy, sedimentary geology More Info |
 Wanying Wang Graduate Research Assistant wanying@utexas.edu Office: 2.116J |