Alumni
A Message from the Chair
This year was a remarkable year for the Earth Sciences Department highlighted by the successful Homecoming. I am proud to report that our department had the largest turn out of any department which created quite the buzz among our administrators. If you missed the Homecoming festivities, please don't worry, we will be hosting another celebration for the unveiling of the new Geology Building when the renovation is complete.
The department has 3 new additions to our faculty: Dr. Elizabeth Cochran, Dr. Gordon Love, and Dr. Gareth Funning. Elizabeth joins us from UCSD as an Assistant Professor in Geophysics. Her research focuses on crustal deformation Earthquake triggering and near fault structure, specifically related to Earthquake physics.. Our second newcomer is Gordon who is joining us from MIT as an Assistant Professor in Biogeochemistry. His primary research focuses on molecular organic geochemistry, particularly applied to the ancient sedimentary record, but also to microbial cultures, recent sediments and carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Our newest faulty member is Gareth Funning from UC Berkeley. His research interests revolve around trying to understand the processes at work in deforming the lithosphere and controlling the behavior of active faults both during and between Earthquakes. We are very enthusiastic to have our three new faculty members on board.
Hard Rock Sam Members
We would like to personally thank our four new Hard Rock Sam Members: Gerry Weber, John Dunham, Lucy Edwards, Gary McGavin, Dave Hadley, Richard Moscarello, Dave Johnson, William G. Powell and Robert Cluff for their generous contribution to the Earth Science "Fund for Excellence".
Come check out what other UCR Earth Sciences Alumni are up to...
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