Academic Faculty

Dr. Mohamed Abdelsalam

Graduate Student Coordinator -Professor - Boone Pickens Chair

Dr. Ashley Burkett

Assistant Professor -Micropaleontology -Biostratigraphy -Climate -OSUGS Co-Advisor

Dr. Michael Grammer

Professor - Chesapeake Energy Chair of Petroleum Geology - Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy - Petroleum Geology

Dr. Todd Halihan

Professor - Hydrogeology of Fractured and Karstic Aquifers - Hydrogeophysics

Brandon Spencer

Teaching Assistant Professor

Dr. Ahmed Ismail

Assistant Professor - Exploration Seismology - Azimuthal Anisotropy - Fractured Reservoir Characterization - Near Surface Geophysics

Dr. Priyank Jaiswal

Professor - Seismology - Inverse Theory - Petroleum Systems - Gas Hydrates

Dr. Camelia Knapp

School Head

Professor - Tectonics - Energy Resources - Geophysics & Seismology - Environmental Change

Dr. James H. Knapp

Boone Pickens Distinguished Chair of Geology

Dr. Daniel A. Laó Dávila

Associate Professor - Structural Geology - Plate Tectonics - Fault Slip Analysis and Caribbean Geology

Dr. Jack C. Pashin

Professor - Devon Chair of Basin Research - Sedimentary geology - coalbed methane - shalegas - structural geology - basin analysis

Dr. Jim Puckette

Associate Professor - Petroleum Geology of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs - Basin Architecture - Reservoir/aquifer Characterization

Dr. Tracy Quan

Associate Professor - Stable Isotope Geochemistry - Organic Geochemistry - Paleoceanography - Sedimentary Geochemistry

Dr. Natascha Riedinger

Associate Professor - Sedimentary Geochemistry - Marine System - Biogeochemical Cycles

Dr. Javier Vilcaez

Associate Professor- Geofluids & Hydrogeology

Dr. Tingying Xu

Assistant Professor – Environmental Geochemistry – Hydrogeochemistry – Metal (Bio)Geochemistry