Faculty Research Interests
The research areas listed on the menu to the left are general areas of study in Earth Sciences for the School of Graduate Studies. Click the link to an area to view more details and the names of the professors who work in that research area.
Below is a more extensive list of the variety of research conducted by professors in the Department of Earth Sciences.
| Faculty Member | Research | |
| Anderson, Melissa | Ore deposits, marine geology | |
| Bergquist, Bridget | Metal geochemistry | |
| Bollmann, Jörg | Paleoceanography, geobiology, paleoecology | |
| Jean-Bernard Caron | Paleobiology, paleoecology. | |
| Chu, Xu | Metamorphic and experimental petrology | |
| Cowling, S. | Global carbon cycle | |
| Davis, D. | Geochronology | |
| Desloges, J.R. | fluvial geomorphology, glaciolacustrine sedimentation, paleohydrology | |
| Dittrich, Maria | Biogeochemistry and Geomicrobiology | |
| Eyles, Nick | Glacial geology | |
| Ferris, Grant | Microbial geochemistry | |
| Finkelstein, Sarah | Paleoecology, paleoclimatology | |
| Gorton , Mike | Igneous geochemistry | |
| Gregory, Dan | Hydrothermal ore systems | |
| Halfar Jochen | Paleoclimatology, geobiology | |
| Head, Martin | Marine palynology, paleoceanography | |
| Henderson, Grant | Amorphous materials, high T and P geochemistry | |
| Howard, Ken | Hydrogeology, water resources | |
| Laflamme, Marc | Paleontology, sedimentology, taphonomy, fossil, ediacara | |
| Liu Qinya | Seismology, Geophysics | |
| Luii, Semechah | Seismology and Earthquake Physics | |
| Lowman, Julian | Mantle dynamics, numerical modelling | |
| Miall, Andrew | Basin analysis, stratigraphy, sedimentology. | |
| Pysklywec, Russ | Geodynamics and tectonics | |
| Schoenbohm, Lindsay | Neotectonics and landscape evolution | |
| Sherwood Lollar, Barb | Stable isotope geochemistry | |
| Simpson, Myrna | Environmental organic geochemistry | |
| Tait, Kim | Mineralogy, crystallography, meteoritics | |
| Wortmann, Uli | Marine Geology, paleoceanography,carbon and sulfur cycling, geomicrobiology | |
| Young, Paul | Seismology and rock mechanics | |
| Emeritus Faculty | Research | |
| Anderson, Greg | Geochemistry, thermodynamics | |
| Bailey, Richard | Geophysics and tectonics | |
| Fawcett, Jeff | Metamorphism, flood basalts | |
| Gittins, John | Igneous petrology, carbonatites | |
| Halls, Henry | Paleomagnetism, tectonics | |
| John (Jock) McAndrews | Quaternary biostratigraphy/climate, Palynology 31:9-18 | |
| Milkereit, Bernd | Exploration Geophysics | |
| Norris, Geoff | Palynology | |
| Robin, Pierre | Structural and metamorphic geology, geodynamics, numerical methods in geology | |
| Rucklidge, John | AMS, meteorites, radionuclides | |
| Schwerdtner, Fried | Structural geology, shield terrains | |
| Spooner, Ed | Fluid geochemistry, ore deposits | |
| Schulze, Dan | Upper mantle petrology, diamonds | |
| von Bitter, Peter | Invertebrate paleontology | |
| Westgate, John | Tephrochronolgy | |
| Young, Paul | Seismology and rock mechanics |