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College of Arts & Sciences

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
Mauro Becker

Benchun Duan

  • Professor
  • Francesco Paolo di Gangi/Heep Endowed Professorship in Theoretical Geophysics
  • Earthquake source physics
  • computational seismology
  • geomechanics
Benchun Duan

Mark Everett

  • Professor of Geophysics
  • Howard Karren Professor
  • Near-surface Applied Geophysics
Mark Everett

Ethan Grossman

  • Professor and Michel T. Halbouty Chair
  • Director, Stable Isotope Geosciences Facility
  • Stable isotope geochemistry
  • Clumped isotopes
  • Global change
  • Paleoclimates
  • Hydrogeochemistry
Ethan Grossman

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
Hiroko Kitajima

Peter Knappett

  • Associate Professor
  • Hydrogeology
  • Geogenic contaminants, aquifer, groundwater-surface water, arsenic, fluoride, fecal bacteria, viruses, environmental health, Bangladesh, Mexico, geothermal, urban aquifers
Peter Knappett

Nicholas Perez

  • Associate Professor
  • Tectonics
  • Basin dynamics
  • Fold-thrust belts
  • Continental rifts
Nicholas Perez

Michael C. Pope

  • Professor
  • Interim Director, Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems
  • Sedimentology
  • Sequence stratigraphy
  • Carbonate
  • Siliciclastic
  • Unconventional resources
Michael C. Pope

Julia Reece

  • Associate Professor
  • Chair Graduate Admissions Committee
  • Sedimentology
  • Sediment Mechanics
Julia Reece

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
Hongbin Zhan

Centers & Labs

BERG-HUGHES CENTER FOR PETROLEUM AND SEDIMENTARY SYSTEMS

The Berg-Hughes Center for Petroleum and Sedimentary Systems integrates geosciences, engineering and other disciplines to collaborate with industry and others to advance research and education in petroleum studies.