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 | |
| Bennett, Neil | Experimental Petrology, High P and T Geochemistry | |
| Bergquist, Bridget | Metal geochemistry | |
| Bollmann, Jörg | Paleoceanography, geobiology, paleoecology | |
| Caron, J-B | Paleobiology, paleoecology. | |
| Chu, Xu | Metamorphic and experimental petrology | |
| Cowling, S. | Global carbon cycle | |
| Davis, D. | Geochronology | |
| Desloges, J.R. | fluvial geomorphology, glaciolacustrine sedimentation, paleohydrology | |
| Diamond, Miriam L. | Environmental contaminant fate and exposure | |
| 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 | |
| Heron, Phil | Plate tectonics, supercontinent formation and dispersal, numerical modelling, mantle lithosphere dynamics | |
| Howard, Ken | Hydrogeology, water resources | |
| Laflamme, Marc | Paleontology, sedimentology, taphonomy, fossil, ediacara | |
| Liu Qinya | Seismology, Geophysics | |
| Lui, Semechah | Seismology and Earthquake Physics | |
| Lowman, Julian | Mantle dynamics, numerical modelling | |
| Pysklywec, Russ | Geodynamics and tectonics | |
| Schoenbohm, Lindsay | Neotectonics and landscape evolution | |
| Sherwood Lollar, Barbara | Stable isotope geochemistry | |
| Simpson, Myrna | Environmental organic geochemistry | |
| Sio, Corliss Kin I | Isotope geochemistry and experimental petrology | |
| Swidinsky Andrei | Exploration Geophysics | |
| Tait, Kim | Mineralogy, crystallography, meteoritics | |
| Wortmann, Uli | Marine Geology, paleoceanography,carbon and sulfur cycling, geomicrobiology | |
| Emeritus Faculty | Research | |
| Anderson, Greg | Geochemistry, thermodynamics | |
| Bailey, Richard | Geophysics and tectonics | |
| Gittins, John | Igneous petrology, carbonatites | |
| Halls, Henry | Paleomagnetism, tectonics | |
| Miall, Andrew | Basin analysis, stratigraphy, sedimentology | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |