Faculty
Ilya Bindeman
- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3817
- Email: bindeman@uoregon.edu
- Office: 110A Cascade Hall
- Interests: stable isotope geochemistry, volcanology
- Website: Website
Katharine Cashman
- Title: Research Professor
- Phone: 541-346-4323
- Email: cashman@uoregon.edu
- Office: 213 Volcanology
- Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
- Interests: volcanology, igneous petrology, crystallization kinetics
Edward Davis
- Title: Associate Professor
- Additional Title: Condon Fossil Collection Curator
- Phone: 541-346-3461
- Email: edavis@uoregon.edu
- Office: 310G Cascade Hall
- Website: Website
Rebecca Dorsey
- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-4431
- Email: rdorsey@uoregon.edu
- Office: 305D Cascade Hall
- Interests: sedimentology, basin analysis
- Website: Website
Josef Dufek
- Title: Gwen and Charles Lillis Chair
- Additional Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-4788
- Email: jdufek@uoregon.edu
- Office: 225 Volcanology
- Interests: Volcanology, Multiphase Fluid Dynamics, Granular and Turbulent Flows, Planetary Interiors and Surface Processes
- Website: Website
Brittany Erickson
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1350
- Email: bae@cs.uoregon.edu
- Office: 309 Deschutes Hall
- Affiliated Departments: Earth Sciences
- Interests: Computational science, numerical methods for partial differential equations, high-performance computing, seismology and geophysics.
- Website: Website
Thomas Giachetti
- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-4706
- Email: tgiachet@uoregon.edu
- Office: 224 Volcanology
- Interests: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Surface Processes
- Website: Website
Emilie Hooft
- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-1455
- Email: emilie@uoregon.edu
- Office: 125C Cascade Hall
- Interests: volcano plumbing systems, mantle plumes and volcanic hotspots, Cascadia subduction zone
- Website: Website
Samantha Hopkins
- Title: Department Head, Earth Sciences
- Additional Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-5976
- Email: shopkins@uoregon.edu
- Office: 151 Cascade Annex
- Office Hours: By appointment
- Interests: vertebrate paleontology, systematics, paleoecology
- Website: Website
Qusheng Jin
- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-4999
- Email: qjin@uoregon.edu
- Office: 320 Cascade Hall
- Interests: contaminant remediation, geochemical and biogeochemical modeling
- Website: Website
Leif Karlstrom
- Title: Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
- Phone: 541-346-4323
- Email: leif@uoregon.edu
- Office: 120A Cascade Hall
- Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Earth Sciences
- Interests: volcanology, surface processes, fluid mechanics
- Website: Website
Diego Melgar
- Title: Ann and Lew Williams Chair
- Additional Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3488
- Email: dmelgarm@uoregon.edu
- Office: 125B Cascade Hall
- Interests: Earthquake seismology, strong ground motion, tsunamis, early warning systems, geodetic imaging
- Website: Website
Marli Miller
- Title: Senior Instructor II
- Phone: 541-346-4410
- Email: millerm@uoregon.edu
- Office: 105 Volcanology
- Interests: structural geology
- Website: Website
Carol Paty
- Title: Professor
- Additional Title: Associate Dean for Faculty, Clark Honors College
- Phone: 541-346-4786
- Email: cpaty@uoregon.edu
- Office: 120 Volcanology
- Office Hours: Fall 2023 Office Hours: Monday 3:30-5:30pm *By Appointment* (please email 24 hrs in advance - Volcanology 120/Zoom) Thursday 10-11:50am *Drop-In* (Volcanology 120/Zoom) Zoom Info: https://tinyurl.com/cpatyoffice
- Affiliated Departments: Earth Sciences, Physics
- Interests: Planetary Science, Space Physics, Planetary Interiors, Astrobiology
Matthew Polizzotto
- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-5217
- Email: mpolizzo@uoregon.edu
- Office: 225C Cascade Hall
- Interests: Soil and aqueous geochemistry, environmental quality
- Website: Website
Chris Poulsen
- Title: Tykeson Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
- Additional Title: Professor, Earth Sciences
- Phone: 541-346-3902
- Email: poulsenc@uoregon.edu
- Office: Fourth Floor, Tykeson Hall
- Interests: Climate change, paleoclimatology, earth system modeling, climate dynamics, climate variability, climate-ecosystem interactions, water isotopes, ecohydrology, climate-mountain interactions, paleoaltimetry
Alan Rempel
- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-6316
- Email: rempel@uoregon.edu
- Office: 108 Volcanology
- Affiliated Departments: Earth Sciences
- Interests: geomechanics, ice physics, and applied mathematics
- Website: Website
Josh Roering
- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-5574
- Email: jroering@uoregon.edu
- Office: 325C Cascade Hall
- Interests: geomorphology, surface processes
- Website: Website
Valerie Sahakian
- Title: Assistant Professor
- Phone: 541-346-3401
- Email: vjs@uoregon.edu
- Office: 325D Cascade Hall
- Interests: Active Tectonics, Ground Motion Seismology, Marine Geophysics
- Website: Website
David Sutherland
- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-8753
- Email: dsuth@uoregon.edu
- Office: 204 Volcanology
- Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Environmental Studies
- Interests: Coastal physical oceanography, Ice-ocean interactions
- Website: Website
Amanda Thomas
- Title: Associate Professor
- Email: amthomas@uoregon.edu
- Office: 210C Cascade Hall
- Interests: Seismology, fault mechanics, seismic deployments, machine learning, earthquake and tsunami hazards
- Website: Website
Douglas Toomey
- Title: Director, Oregon Hazards Lab
- Additional Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-5576
- Email: drt@uoregon.edu
- Office: 105A Cascade Hall
- Interests: Multi-hazards monitoring, societal resilience to earthquakes and wildfires, seismology, subduction zones, oceanic hotspots
- Website: Website
Paul Wallace
- Title: Professor
- Phone: 541-346-5985
- Email: pwallace@uoregon.edu
- Office: 220 Cascade Hall
- Interests: Igneous petrology, volcanology, geochemistry
- Website: Website
James Watkins
- Title: Associate Professor
- Phone: 541-346-4681
- Email: watkins4@uoregon.edu
- Office: 205A Cascade Hall
- Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry & experimental petrology
- Website: Website