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Faculty

Faculty Honors and Awards

Teaching/Research Faculty

Aster, Richard C.
Associate Department Chairman
Professor of Geophysics
PhD University of California, San Diego
Interests: earthquake and volcano seismology; Antarctic geophysics; seismic imaging

Axen, Gary
Associate Professor of Geology
PhD Harvard University
Interests: continental tectonics and fault mechanics; extensional, convergent, and wrench settings

Bilek, Susan L.
Associate Professor of Geophysics
PhD University of California, Santa Cruz
Interests: earthquake rupture processes; stresses and structure of fault zones; shallow subduction zone processes; tsunami generation; fault zone material properties; Central America tectonics

Boston, Penelope J.
Associate Professor of Cave and Karst Science
PhD University of Colorado, Boulder
Interests: caves, karst systems, geomicrobiology, extremophile organisms, geobiochemical cycling, astrobiology, robotic and human exploration of other planets, comparative planetology, and evolutionary implications of conjoined organic/cybernetic devices

Bowman, Robert S.
Department Chairman
Professor of Hydrology
PhD New Mexico State University
Interests: surface chemistry, solute transport, groundwater contamination

Campbell, Andrew R.
Professor of Geology
PhD Harvard University
Interests: metallic ore deposits, stable isotope geochemistry

Condie, Kent C.
Professor of Geochemistry
PhD University of California, San Diego
Interests: trace element and isotope geochemistry, Precambrian studies

Harrison, Bruce
Associate Professor of Geology
PhD University of New Mexico
Interests: soil properties, recurrence intervals of earthquakes, soil salinization in arid environments, soil stability

Hendrickx, Jan M.H.
Professor of Hydrology
PhD New Mexico State University
Interests: soil-water physics, vadose zone hydrology, soil contamination

Johnson, David B.
Associate Professor of Geology
PhD University of Iowa
Interests: biostratigraphy, Paleozoic depositional environments

Johnson, Jeffrey B.
Assistant Research Professor of Geophysics
PhD University of Washington
Interests: understanding eruptive processes using integrated geophysical measurements and numerical modeling

Kyle, Philip R.
Professor of Geochemistry
PhD Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Interests: igneous geochemistry, Antarctic geology, volcanology

McIntosh, William C.
Associate Professor of Geochemistry
PhD New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Interests: Cenozoic volcanism, paleomagnetism, Antarctic studies, argon dating

Mozley, Peter S.
Associate Professor of Geology
PhD University of California, Santa Barbara
Interests: environmental geology, sedimentary petrology, low-temperature geochemistry

Murray, Mark H.
Associate Research Professor of Geophysics
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Interests: crustal deformation and rheology, geodetic measurements, earthquake and volcano hazards

Person, Mark
Professor of Hydrology
Arriving January 2009
PhD Johns Hopkins University
Interests: paleohydrology, basin-scale numerical modeling, geothermal systems, role of groundwater in geologic processes

Phillips, Fred M.
Professor of Hydrology
PhD University of Arizona
Interests: groundwater chemistry, isotope hydrology, groundwater dating, Quaternary studies

Snelson, Catherine M.
Assistant Professor of Geophysics
PhD University of Texas, El Paso
Interests: geophysics, tectonics, lithospheric structure

Spinelli, Glenn
Assistant Professor of Geophysics
PhD University of California, Santa Cruz
Interests: marine hydrogeology, groundwater-surface water interactions, sediment physical properties

Vivoni, Enrique R.
Associate Professor of Hydrology
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: surface hydrology, hydrometeorology, groundwater-surface water interactions, modeling, ecohydrology, hydroinformatics (GIS, remote sensing)

Wilson, John L.
Professor of Hydrology
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: groundwater hydrology, numerical and analytical modeling, stochastic hydrology, colloid and bacteria transport

Adjunct Faculty

George S. Austin

• Senior Industrial Minerals Geologist (Emeritus): NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BA Carleton College; MS University of Minnesota; PhD University of Iowa
• Interests: clay mineralogy, industrial minerals, environmental geology, stratigraphy, field geology

James M. Barker

• Senior Industrial Minerals Geologist, Associate Director of Operations, Manager Perlite Testing Lab: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS University of California, Los Angeles; MA University of California, Santa Barbara
• Interests: industrial minerals, sustainable development

Paul W. Bauer

• Associate Director for Government Outreach, Senior Geologist, Geologic Mapping Program Manager: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS University of Massachusetts; MS University of New Mexico; PhD New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
• Interests: field geology, structural geology, geology of northern New Mexico, neotectonics of rift basins and adjacent bedrock uplifts, hydrogeology of basement structures, brittle structural history of the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, New Mexico, Proterozoic geology of New Mexico with emphasis on structure and tectonics, absolute timing of deformation and metamorphism using isotopic data, mineralization of Proterozoic rocks of New Mexico

Ron Broadhead

• Principal Senior Petroleum Geologist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology; MS University of Cincinnati
• Interests: petroleum exploration and development geology, petroleum source rocks, subsurface geology of NM, helium-rich gases in NM, natural occurrences of carbon dioxide in the subsurface

Jill S. Buckley

• Senior Scientist, Head of Petrophysics & Surface Chemistry Group: NM Petroleum Recovery Research Center
• BS University of California, Los Angeles; MS New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology; PhD Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK
• Interests: interactions between crude oils and their surroundings, with emphasis on mechanisms of wettability alteration, effects on immiscible fluid displacements, and the colloidal and wetting properties of asphaltenes

Steven M. Cather

• Senior Field Geologist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology; MA, PhD University of Texas at Austin
• Interests: basin analysis, structure, and regional tectonics of the Rio Grande rift, Laramide Rocky Mountains, and Ancestral Rocky Mountains

Richard Chamberlin

• Senior Field Geologist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS, MS, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology;
  PhD Colorado School of Mines
• Interests: ignimbrite calderas, Magdalena radial dike swarm, geometry and kinematics of rift faults, indentation tectonics

Charles E. Chapin

• Director Emeritus: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS, DSc, Colorado School of Mines
• Interests: volcanology, tectonics, economic geology

Sean D. Connell

• Geologist/Office Manager: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS California State University, Northridge; MS University of California, Riverside
• Interests: Quaternary geology, stratigraphy, and soil-geomorphology; tectonic geomorphology of extensional basins; basin analysis and stratigraphy of the Santa Fe Group, Rio Grande rift, New Mexico; and environmental and engineering geology

Nelia W. Dunbar

• Geochemist, Manager Electron Microprobe Lab: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BA Mount Holyoke College; MS, PhD New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
• Interests: geochemistry, igneous petrology, volcanology, analytical methods

John W. Hawley

• Emeritus Senior Environmental Geologist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BA Hanover College; PhD University of Illinois at Urbana
• Interests: geomorphology, Quaternary stratigraphy, environmental geology, hydrogeology

Matthew T. Heizler

• Geochronologist, Co-director NM Geochronology Research Laboratory: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS University of Minnesota, Duluth; MS University of Maine, Orono; PhD UCLA
• Interests: argon thermochronology

Lawrence H. Jaksha

• Geophysicist (retired): USGS
• BA Colorado State College
• Interests: seismology

Shari A. Kelley

• Web Information Specialist, Field Geologist:
  NM Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
• BS New Mexico State University; PhD Southern Methodist University
• Interests: application of apatite-fission track thermochronology to tectonic and landscape evolution problems in the High Plains-Rio Grande rift-Rocky Mountain-Colorado Plateau region; tectonic and landscape evolution of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico

Thomas L. Kieft

• Professor of Biology: New Mexico Tech
• BA Carleton College, MS New Mexico Highlands University, PhD University of New Mexico
• Interests: microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, biogeochemistry, bioremediation, general microbiology, molecular ecology

Lewis A. Land

• Cave and Karst Hydrologist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• MS Geology University of Oklahoma
  PhD Geology University of North Carolina
• Interests: karst hydrology and geomorphology; patterns of regional groundwater circulation; water resources; hydrogeophysics; fresh water-saline water relationships in coastal aquifers and intermontane basins

David W. Love

• Principal Senior Environmental Geologist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS Beloit College; MS, PhD University of New Mexico
• Interests: environmental geology, sedimentology, Quaternary geology and geomorphology

James T. McCord

• Senior Engineering Manager: Hydrosphere Resource Consultants, Inc
• BS Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; MS, PhD New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
• Interests: hydrology and water resource investigations, with emphasis on characterization of groundwater and surface water systems, vadose zone hydrology, contaminant hydrology, numerical modeling of hydrologic systems, surface water and groundwater interaction, water rights, river basin planning and management, and stochastic hydrology and geostatistics

Virginia T. McLemore

• Senior Economic Geologist & Minerals Outreach Liason: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS, MS New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology; PhD University of Texas, El Paso
• Interests: weathering of mine waste rock piles; mineral resources in New Mexico (geology, origin, resource potential, environmental assessment, reclamation; see current projects on website); geology of state parks of New Mexico; geology and history of mining districts in New Mexico; geology and geochemistry of Proterozoic mafic and granitic rocks in the Burro Mountains and Little Hatchet Mountains and adjacent areas of southern New Mexico, West Texas, and Arizona; geology and geochemistry and tectonic evolution of Cambrian-Ordovician syenites and carbonatites in New Mexico

Brent D. Newman

• Isotope Hydrology Section: International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
• PhD, New Mexico Tech
• Interests: aqueous geochemistry and stable isotopes, vadose zone and hillslope hydrology, ecohydrology

Michael Pullin

• Assistant Professor of Chemistry: New Mexico Tech
• BA Case Western Reserve University; MS PhD Kent State Unversity
• Interests: aqueous environmental chemistry; natural organic carbon and metal ions in the environment; analytical methods for natural waters

Marshall A. Reiter

• Principal Senior Geophysicist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS University of Pittsburgh; PhD Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Interests: geothermal studies; rock and earthquake mechanics

Peter A. Scholle

• Director, State Geologist: NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources
• BS Yale University; MA, PhD, Princeton University
• Interests: carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, design of computer-based geologic instruction, petroleum geology of carbonate systems

Daniel B. Stephens

• Head: Daniel B. Stephens & Associates
• BS Pennsylvania State University; MS Stanford University; PhD University of Arizona
• Interests: hydrogeology, groundwater contamination, vadose zone processes

Vincent C. Tidwell

• Hydrologist/Senior Member of Technical Staff: Sandia National Laboratories
• PhD New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
• Interests: fluid flow, solute transport, media heterogeneity, laboratory technologies, and water resources management

Harold J. Tobin

• Associate Professor, Geoophysics: University of Wisconsin, Madison
• PhD University of California, Santa Cruz
• Interests: faulting processes and deformation in sediment and rocks at active plate margins

Dana S. Ulmer-Scholle

• Senior Research Scientist: Dept of Earth & Environmental Science, New Mexico Tech
• BS University of Cincinnati; MS, PhD Southern Methodist University
• Interests: carbonate diagenesis; sedimentary petrography; fluid inclusions & thermal and fluid histories of carbonate basins; modern carbonate depositional environments; computer-based applications & geological training

Emeriti

Antonius J. Budding
Professor Emeritus of Geology
BSc, MS, PhD, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Gerardo W. Gross
Professor Emeritus of Geophysics
ScD University of Cordoba, Argentina; PhD Pennsylvania State University

Laurence H. Lattman
Professor Emeritus of Geology, President Emeritus of New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology
BChD City College of New York; MS, PhD University of Cincinnati

Allan Sanford
Professor Emeritus of Geophysics
BA Pomona College; MS, PhD California Institute of Technology

John Schlue
Professor Emeritus of Geophysics
BA, MS, PhD University of California at Los Angeles

Deceased

Balk, Christina Lochman
Professor Emerita of Geology
PhD The Johns Hopkins University

Hantush, Mahdi S.
Founder of Hydrology Program
PhD University of Utah

Norman, David I.
Professor of Geochemistry
PhD University of Minnesota

Smith, Clay T.
Professor Emeritus of Geology
PhD California Institute of Technology

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