University of California, Riverside

Department of Earth Sciences



Faculty & Staff


Staff & Faculty

Faculty

Richard A. Minnich

Professor, Chair

Biogeography
Fire Ecology

Robert J. Allen Assistant Professor

Climatology

Elizabeth Cochran

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Earthquake Processes

James H. Dieterich

Distinguished Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Earthquake Processes

Larissa F. Dobrzhinetskaya

Adjunct Professor

Ultrahigh Pressure Mineralogy, Experimental Petrology.

 Mary Droser

 Professor

 Paleobiology

Wilfred A. Elders

Professor of Geology Emeritus/Research Geologist

Research Geology

Gareth Funning

Assistant Professor

Earthquake Processes
Active Tectonics

 Abhijit Ghosh

Assistant Professor 

Seismology and Earthquake Processes

Robert C. Graham

Professor

 Soil Mineralogy, Pedology, Soil Geomorphology
 Harry W. Green

Distinguished Professor of Geology and Geophysics

Earthquake Processes Ultra-High-Pressure Metamorphism

Nigel C. Hughes

Professor

Paleobiology

Katherine J . Kendrick

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Tectonic Geomorphology and Neotectonics

Martin J. Kennedy

Professor

Sedimentary Geology
Geochemistry

Tien-Chang Lee

Professor Emeritus

Geophysics
Hydrogeology

Gordon Love

Associate Professor

Biogeochemistry

Timothy Lyons

Professor,
Undergraduate Advisor 

Geochemistry

Michael A. McKibben

Associate Professor

Economic Geology and Geochemistry

Douglas M. Morton

Adjunct Professor

Regional Geology of Southern California

Michael A. Murphy

Professor Emeritus

Invertebrate Paleontology

David D. Oglesby

Associate Professor, Graduate Advisor

Earthquake Processes

Stephen K. Park

Professor Emeritus

Geophysics
Magnetotellurics

Peter M. Sadler

Professor

Quantitative Statigraphy

Thomas A. Scott

Adjunct Professor

Conservation Biology

Alan E. Williams

Associate Professor

Stable Isotope Geochemistry

Michael Woodburne

Professor Emeritus

Vertebrate Paleontology

Lecturers, Researchers and Specialists

Steve Bates

Junior Specialist

Geochemistry

Krassimir N. Bozhilov

Assistant Director of Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis

Crystallography, Mineralogy, Electron Microscopy

Kirk Domke Lecturer

Paleoentology 

Brett Goforth Assistant Specialist

 

Stephen McDaniel

Researcher with Central Facility for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis

 

Natasha Riedinger

Visiting Researcher

 
Ashish Sinha

Lecturer

 

Museum Scientist

Marilyn Kooser

Stratigraphy

Post Docs

Keith Richards-Dinger

Earthquake Processes

Laura Wehrmann  

Staff

Laurie Graham

Department Technician

(951) 827-4871

Jennifer Reising

Director Support

(951) 827- 3182

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General Campus Information

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Riverside, CA 92521
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Earth Sciences Information

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Tel: (951) 827-3434
Fax: (951) 827-4324
E-mail: john.herring@ucr.edu

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