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 Associate 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 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 |
 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 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 |
 Shuoshuo Han Research Associate 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 |  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 Associate cmlowery@utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanograpgy, stratigraphy More Info |  Cornelia Rasmussen Research Associate 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 Geological Sciences 512-471-6156 demian.saffer@austin.utexas.edu Interests: active tectonics, fault/sediment mechanics, geohydrology 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 |  Xiaohua (Eric) Xu Research Associate xiaohua.xu@austin.utexas.edu Interests: satellite geodesy, earthquakes, remote sensing More Info | ||
Postdoctoral Fellows | |||
 Erik Fredrickson Postdoctoral Fellow erikfred@utexas.edu Interests: seafloor geodesy, tectonics, slow slip, and coastal oceanography |  Lorna Kearns Postdoctoral Fellow lorna.kearns@austin.utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, planktonic foraminifera, diversity, paleoecology, K/Pg recovery More Info |  Dallas Sherman Postdoctoral Fellow 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 |  Alice Turner Postdoctoral Fellow alice.turner@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: earthquake source properties, earthquake rupture dynamics, observational seismology, planetary seismology More Info |
 Jingxuan Wei Postdoctoral Fellow jingxuan.wei@austin.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, active-source seismology, physical oceanography, coastal 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 |  Gabriel Lotto University Professional 512-471-7775 gabriel@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Subduction zones, earthquake rupture, tsunamis, risk and resilience Roles: RCN support More Info | |
Research Affiliates | |||
 Gail Christeson Research Affiliate glchristeson@utexas.edu Interests: marine geophysics, ocean bottom seismometer, marine seismology More Info |  John Damuth Visiting Research/Scholar damuth@uta.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, sedimentation processes, hydrocarbon exploration More Info |  Ian Norton Sr. Research Fellow 512-471-0423 norton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, structure, continental margins More Info |  Mike Tetley Research Affiliate/Research Fellow michael.tetley@austin.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, plate reconstruction, paleomagnetism, geodynamics, machine learning, remote sensing 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 | ||
Current Students | |||
 Charles Babendreier babendreiercharles@utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, submarine mass-wasting events, coastal geohazards, marine geophysics More Info |  Claudia Banks cbanks@utexas.edu Interests: sedimentology, basin analysis, geochronology, geochemistry |  Kristina Butler kristina.butler@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin-evolution, depositional mechanics |  Edward Clennett edward.clennett@utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, geodynamics, seismology, structural geology, palaeomagnetism More Info |
 Ethan Conrad econrad@utexas.edu Interests: structural geology, tectonics, analog modeling, rock friction More Info |  Josh Edgington jredgington1337@utexas.edu Interests: hydrogeophysics, slow-slip earthquakes, hydrogeologic & hydrologic responses to earthquakes, machine learning & big data |  Katherine Faulkner katherinefaulkner@utexas.edu |  Juan Gutierrez jgutierrez@utexas.edu Interests: basin analysis, structural modeling, provenance determination |
 Erin Heilman erin.heilman@utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, geophysics, modeling More Info |  Eric Hiatt eric.hiatt@utexas.edu Interests: planetary surface processes, post-impact hydrothermal systems, hydrology, habitability More Info |  Danqi Jiang dqjiang@utexas.edu Interests: structural geology, subduction zones, fault slip behavior, deformation evolution More Info |  Alexandra Lachner alachner@utexas.edu Interests: subduction tectonics, fault kinematics, geodynamics, dynamic topography, computational modeling |
 Joshua Malone joshua.malone@utexas.edu Interests: structural geology, sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology Office: EPS 3.110 More Info |  Naoma McCall naoma@ig.utexas.edu Office: 3.104 |  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 |
 Nicholas Montiel nmontiel@email.arizona.edu Interests: mantle geophysics, geodynamics, tectonic-magmatic processes, extensional tectonics, plate tectonics, planetary science, terrestrial planetary evolution More Info |  Simone Puel spuel@utexas.edu Interests: geophysics, geodynamics, seismology, earthquake modeling, numerical modeling and tectonics More Info |  Sabrina Reichert sabrina.reichert@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: marine seismic tomography, paleomagnetism, bathymetry More Info |  Catherine Ross catherine.ross@utexas.edu Office: 3.104 Interests: shock metamorphism, geo/thermochronology, microstructural analysis, geochemistry, impact craters, earthquakes More Info |
 Kaitlin Schaible kaitlin.schaible@utexas.edu Interests: subduction zones, rock mechanics, boreholes, geophysics |