Faculty Directory

Dr. Baojun Bai

Lester R. Birbeck Endowed Professor, Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests

Water management, conformance control, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), CO2 EOR and Storage, fluid flow in porous media, and
unconventional oil and gas development.

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Dr. David Borrok

Dean for College of Engineering and Computing, Gulf Oil Foundation Professor, Geology & Geophysics

Research Interests

Water resources, water quality, aqueous geochemistry, petroleum geochemistry, and geomicrobiology.

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Dr. Jeffrey Cawlfield

Department Chair, Professor, Geological Engineering

Research Interests

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Dr. Andreas Eckert

Associate Professor, Geology-Geophysics & Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests

Numerical simulation of buckle folding, numerical simulation of rock fabric evolution, fracture initiation, salt tectonics, deformation bands, and wellbore and reservoir geomechanics. 

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Dr. Stephen Gao

Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests

Theoretical and applied geophysics, structure and dynamics of the Earth's crust and mantle, earthquakes, seismic anisotropy, and receiver function analysis.

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Dr. Leslie Gertsch

Associate Professor, Geological Engineering

Research Interests

Sustainably producing the natural resources of space, which will reduce launch costs.  In time, mining in space will reduce human impact on Earth's environment and increase the chance that humanity will survive catastrophes, such as nuclear war or asteroid impact.  Additionally, the coupled hydromechanical behavior of fractured rock.  Rock cracks and changes shape when it is put under load, and this changes how rapidly groundwater, petroleum, etc. can move through it.  The presence of water and other fluids also changes how easily rock can be excavated for foundations, tunnels, etc.

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Dr. Katherine Grote

Associate Professor, Geological Engineering

Research Interests

Groundwater and near surface geophysics, specifically in applying these techniques to promote sustainable agriculture and environmental protection.

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Dr. John Hogan

Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests

Structural geology - folding and faulting; igneous petrology - granite petrogenesis and textural development; tectonics - extensional regimes; and significance of sub-horizontal topographic surfaces.

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Dr. Kelly Liu

Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests

Earthquakes and exploration seismology, seismic data processing and interpretation, and applied geophysics.

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Dr. Marek Locmelis

Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests

Geochemistry, petrology, planetary evolution and analytical chemistry.  Investigating the fundamental processes that underlie the formation of metal deposits in Earth's interior and on Mars.

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Dr. Jeremy Maurer

Assistant Professor, Geological Engineering

Research Interests

Geodesy, earthquake and fault mechanics, induced seismicity, inverse problems and modeling, uncertainty quantification, crustal deformation, and geophysical methods.

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Dr. Francisca Oboh-Ikuenobe

Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests

Palynology, biostratigraphy, sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and paleoclimatology.

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Dr. Jonathan Obrist Farner

Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests

Sedimentology, stratigraphy, basin analysis, petroleum geology, and paleolimnology.

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Dr. J. David Rogers

Hasselmann Professor, Geological Engineering

Research Interests

Geographic information systems, seismic hazards in the midwest, seismically induced landslides, composite landslides, and sturzstroms and sackungen failures.

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Dr. Mingzhen Wei

Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests

Reservoir simulation, data mining, unconventional resources, and enhanced oil recovery.

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Dr. Wan Yang

Professor, Geology and Geophysics

Research Interests

Shallow marine, marginal marine, and non-marine sedimentary processes; depositional environments; and petrology (carbonate and siliciclastic, modern and ancient, outcrop and subsurface).

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Affiliated and Adjunct Faculty

(not available as graduate advisors)

Professor Larry Britt
Research Interests

Hydraulic fracturing, fracture diagnostics and unconventional resources.

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Mr. Lee Bunch

Instructor, Geological Engineering

Research Interests

UAV remote sensing, karst hydrology, and hydroinformatics.

Perrin Roller

Adjunct Professor

Dr. Cheryl Seeger

Lecturer, Geology and Geophysics

Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Neil Anderson

Professor Emeritus, Geological Engineering

Dr. Shari Dunn-Norman

Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests

Hydraulic fracturing, wellbore construction, well integrity, production engineering and artificial lift. 

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Dr. Curt Elmore

Professor Emeritus, Geological Engineering

Dr. Ralph Flori

Chancellor's Professor Emeritus, Petroleum Engineering

Dr. Richard Hagni

Curators' Professor Emeritus, Geology

Dr. Robert Laudon

Professor Emeritus, Geology

Dr. Norbert Maerz

Professor Emeritus, Geological Engineering