Below are all of our research scientists and emeriti. To see staff by primary discipline please visit: Climate, Energy, Polar and Planetary, and Marine Geosciences, Seismology and Tectonics. To see research affiliates and fellows visit: Research Affiliates.
 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 |
 Athma Bhandari Research Engineer 512-471-0462 athma.bhandari@utexas.edu Interests: fluid flow measurements in fine-grained rocks, geomechanics, petrophysics, unconventional energy resources More Info |  Don Blankenship Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0489 blank@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Ginny Catania Professor 512-471-0403 gcatania@ig.utexas.edu Interests: glaciology, ice dynamics, climate More Info |  Alejandro Cardona Research Associate alejandro.cardona@utexas.edu Interests: flow and transport in porous media, geomechanics, methane hydrates, fractured rocks More Info |
 Ian W. D. Dalziel Research Professor 512-471-0431 ian@ig.utexas.edu Interests: Earth history, tectonics, Antarctic geology More Info |  Peter B. Flemings Professor 512-475-8738 pflemings@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: basin-scale fluid flow, methane hydrates, shale and mudstone permeability More Info |  John A. Goff Sr. Research Scientist 512-471-0476 goff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seafloor mapping, coastal processes, geostatistics More Info |  Cyril Grima Research Associate 512-471-0377 cyril.grima@utexas.edu Interests: planet, cryosphere, radar 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 |  Doug Hemingway Research Associate douglas.hemingway@utexas.edu Interests: geophysical modeling, icy moons, planetary magnetism, space weathering More Info |  Brian Horton Professor 512-471-1869 horton@ig.utexas.edu Interests: tectonics, basin analysis, sediment provenance More Info |
 Benjamin Keisling Research Associate keisling@ig.utexas.edu Interests: past climate, ice sheet dynamics, justice in geoscience 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 |  Chris Lowery Research Associate cmlowery@utexas.edu Interests: micropaleontology, paleoceanograpgy, stratigraphy More Info |  Maria-Aikaterini Nikolinakou Research Scientist mariakat@mail.utexas.edu Interests: geomechanics, salt tectonics, pore pressure, stress state, numerical modeling, subduction zones More Info |
 Yuko Okumura Research Scientist 512-471-0383 yukoo@ig.utexas.edu Interests: climate dynamics, ocean-atmosphere interactions, climate variability and change More Info |  Jud Partin Research Scientist 512-471-6156 jpartin@ig.utexas.edu Interests: paleoclimate, data-model comparisons, tropical climate More Info |  Alexey Portnov Research Associate alexey.portnov@austin.utexas.edu Interests: marine geology and geophysics, gas hydrate, seafloor methane release, seismic interpretation, permafrost 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 Earth and Planetary Sciences 512-471-6156 demian.saffer@austin.utexas.edu Interests: active tectonics, fault/sediment mechanics, geohydrology More Info |  Mrinal K. Sen Professor and Jackson Chair in Applied Seismology 512-471-0466 mrinal@ig.utexas.edu Interests: seismology, high performance computing, applied math More Info |  John W. Snedden Program Director 512-471-0452 jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu Interests: sequence stratigraphy, basin analysis, reservoir connectivity, process sedimentology More Info |  Krista Soderlund Research Scientist 512-471-0449 krista@ig.utexas.edu Interests: planetary interiors, fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics More Info |
 Elizabeth Spiers Research Associate elizabeth.spiers@jsg.utexas.edu Interests: ocean worlds, planetary habitability, mass transfer, systems modeling More Info |  Michael L. Sweet Co-Program Director 281-787-7001 michael.sweet@austin.utexas.edu Interests: clastic sedimentology, marine geology, reservoir connectivity More Info |  Danielle Touma Research Associate danielle.touma@utexas.edu Interests: extreme climate events, climate variability and change, climate impacts More Info |  Timothy Urban Director, Texas Space Grant Consortium 512 471 0967 urban@utexas.edu 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 |  Kehua You Research Associate kehua@ig.utexas.edu Interests: gas hydrates, hydrogeology, fluid flow and transport More Info |  Duncan A. Young Research Scientist 512-471-0485 duncan@ig.utexas.edu Interests: radioglaciology, airborne geophysics and planetary geophysics More Info |
 Zeyu Zhao Research Associate zeyu@utexas.edu Interests: exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, seismology, inverse problems, high performance computing More Info | |||
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 Cliff Frohlich Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-6156 cliff@ig.utexas.edu Interests: earthquakes, tectonics More Info |  William Galloway Professor Emeritus 512-471-0494 galloway@austin.utexas.edu Interests: depositional systems, Gulf of Mexico basin, petroleum geology More Info |  Lawrence Lawver Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-0433 lawver@ig.utexas.edu Interests: plate tectonics, marine geophysics, polar regions More Info |  Yosio Nakamura Professor Emeritus 512-471-0428 yosio@ig.utexas.edu Interest: seismology More Info |
 Paul Stoffa Professor Emeritus 512-471-6156 pauls@ig.utexas.edu More Info |  Frederick W. Taylor Sr. Research Scientist Emeritus 512-471-0453 fred@ig.utexas.edu Interests: neotectonics, paleoseismology, paleoclimate More Info |