As a society, we must be able to find and efficiently use natural resources and safeguard those resources for future generations. Our students and faculty conduct fundamental and applied research to further these goals in study areas including improved hydrocarbon exploration and extraction methods, natural hazard assessment and mitigation, water scarcity and contamination, and human-Earth system interactions.
Faculty
Mauro Becker
- Professor of the Practice
- Office: Halbouty 255
- Phone: (979) 458-2572
- Email: mbecker@tamu.edu
Benchun Duan
- Professor
- Francesco Paolo di Gangi/Heep Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Geophysics
- Earthquake source physics
- computational seismology
- geomechanics
- Office: Halbouty 153
- Phone: 979-845-3297
- Email: bduan@tamu.edu
Mark Everett
- Professor of Geophysics
- Howard Karren Professor
- Near-surface Applied Geophysics
- Office: Halbouty 357A
- Phone: 979-450-9824
- Email: everett@geo.tamu.edu
Ethan Grossman
- Professor and Michel T. Halbouty Chair
- Director, Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility
- Stable isotope geochemistry
- Clumped isotopes
- Global change
- Paleoclimates
- Hydrogeochemistry
- Office: Halbouty 210
- Phone: 979-845-0637
- Email: e-grossman@tamu.edu
Hiroko Kitajima
- Associate Professor and Texas A&M Presidential Impact Fellow
- Francesco Paolo di Gangi/Heep Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Geophysics
- Graduate Director
- Experimental Rock and Soil Mechanics
- Office: Halbouty 159
- Phone: 979-458-2717
- Email: kitaji@tamu.edu
Peter Knappett
- Associate Professor
- Hydrogeology
- Geogenic contaminants, aquifer, groundwater-surface water, arsenic, fluoride, fecal bacteria, viruses, environmental health, Bangladesh, Mexico, geothermal, urban aquifers
- Office: Halbouty 254
- Phone: 979-845-2006
- Email: knappett@tamu.edu
Nicholas Perez
- Associate Professor
- Tectonics
- Basin dynamics
- Fold-thrust belts
- Continental rifts
- Office: Halbouty 309
- Phone: 979-845-6529
- Email: ndperez@tamu.edu
Michael C. Pope
- Professor
- Interim Director, Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems
- Sedimentology
- Sequence stratigraphy
- Carbonate
- Siliciclastic
- Unconventional resources
- Office: Halbouty 51
- Phone: 979-845-4376
- Email: mcpope@tamu.edu
Julia Reece
- Associate Professor
- Chair Graduate Admissions Committee
- Sedimentology
- Sediment Mechanics
- Office: Halbouty 251
- Phone: 979-458-2728
- Email: jreece@geos.tamu.edu
Hongbin Zhan
- Professor of Geology & Geophysics, Water Management & Hydrological Science, and Energy Institute
- Holder of Dudley J. Hughes '51 Chair in Geology and Geophysics
- Subsurface hydrology
- Environmental Geoscience
- Environmental fluid mechanics
- Subsurface chemical/heat transport
- Geothermal energy production and storage
- Office: Halbouty 259
- Phone: 979-862-7961
- Email: zhan@tamu.edu