Stephen Ackley

Associate Professor of Research

Phone: (210) 458-6793
Email: Stephen.Ackley@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Antarctic Sea Ice
• Sea Ice Specialist

John (Matt) Cannon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Phone: (210) 458-8596
Email: John.Cannon@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Structural Geology
• Tectonic Geomorphology

Sandy Cannon

Lecturer

Email: Sandy.Cannon@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Petroleum Geology
• Sedimentology
• Subsurface Mapping
• Well Log Analysis

Saugata Datta, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Chair

Phone: (210) 458-4752
Email: Saugata.Datta@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Chemical Hydrogeology
• Low Temperature Geochemistry

Yongli Gao, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: (210) 458-7029
Email: Yongli.Gao@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Environmental Geology
• Hydrogeology

Alexis Godet, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Phone: (210) 458-4782
Email: Alexis.Godet@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Sedimentology
• Stratigraphy

Judy Haschenburger, Ph.D.

Professor

Phone: (210) 458-4553
Email: Judy.Haschenburger@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Geomorphology
• Sediment Transport Processes

Lance Lambert, Ph.D.

Professor

Phone: (210) 458-5441
Email: Lance.Lambert@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Carbonate Petrology
• Paleontology
• Petroleum Geology
• Stratigraphy

Newfel Mazari, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Practice

Phone: (210) 458-8161
Email: Newfel.Mazari@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• GIS/Remote Sensing
• Third Planet

Alberto Mestas-Nuñez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Instruction

Phone: (210) 458-6690
Email: Alberto.Mestas@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Physical Oceanography
• Remote Sensing

Jeffrey Neathery

Lecturer

Phone: (210) 458-4455
Email: Jeffrey.Neathery@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Engineering Geology

Janet Vote

Lecturer and ACUE Fellow

Phone: (210) 458-5778
Email: Janet.Vote@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Earth History
• Paleontology
• Physical Geology

Blake Weissling, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Phone: (210) 458-8128
Email: Blake.Weissling@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Cryosphere
• Remote Sensing
• Surface Water Hydrology

Alan Whittington, Ph.D.

Professor

Phone: (210) 458-5458
Email: Alan.Whittington@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Petrology
• Planetary Geology
• Volcanology

Hongjie Xie, Ph.D.

Professor

Phone: (210) 458-5445
Email: Hongjie.Xie@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Polar and Climate Science
• Remote Sensing, Geoinformatics
• Surface Water and Hydrology

Stuart Birnbaum, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Emeritus

Phone: (210) 458-5449
Email: Stuart.Birnbaum@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Geomicrobiology

Alan Dutton, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Emeritus

Phone: (210) 458-5746
Email: Alan.Dutton@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Hydrogeology

Robert Smith, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Phone: (210) 458-4553
Email: Robert.Smith1@utsa.edu

Eric Swanson, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus

Email: Eric.Swanson@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Volcanic Stratigraphy
• Volcanism

Kiran Bhaganagar, Ph.D.

Professor

Phone: (210) 458-6496
Email: Kiran.Bhaganagar@utsa.edu
Areas of Specialization

• DNS Rough-Walls and Drag Reduction
• High-Fidelity Modeling of Atmospheric and Oceanic Turbulence Using LES and WRF
• Inertial and Buoyancy Driven Turbulence

Alfonso Fernandez, Ph.D.

Universidad de Concepción, Chile

Email: alfernandez@udec.cl
Mountain GeoScience Group
Areas of Specialization

• Cryosphere
• Hydroclimatic Changes
• Mountain Environments

Walter Gray, Ph.D.

Areas of Specialization

• Mineralogy/Petrology
• Plate Tectonics

Harshad Vijay Kulkarni, Ph.D.

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi

Email: harshad@iitmandi.ac.in
Areas of Specialization

• Aqueous Geochemistry
• Biogeochemical Modeling
• Geomicrobiology
• Physical Geology

Marina Suarez, Ph.D.

University of Kansas

Email: mb.suarez@ku.edu
Areas of Specialization

• Paleoclimate