Faculty

Ilya Bindeman

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3817
  • Office: 110A Cascade Hall
  • Interests: stable isotope geochemistry, volcanology
  • Website: Website

Katharine Cashman

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  • Title: Research Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4323
  • Office: 213 Volcanology
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College
  • Interests: volcanology, igneous petrology, crystallization kinetics

Edward Davis

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Additional Title: Condon Fossil Collection Curator
  • Phone: 541-346-3461
  • Office: 310G Cascade Hall
  • Website: Website

Rebecca Dorsey

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4431
  • Office: 305D Cascade Hall
  • Interests: sedimentology, basin analysis
  • Website: Website

Josef Dufek

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  • Title: Gwen and Charles Lillis Chair
  • Additional Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4788
  • Office: 225 Volcanology
  • Interests: Volcanology, Multiphase Fluid Dynamics, Granular and Turbulent Flows, Planetary Interiors and Surface Processes
  • Website: Website

Brittany Erickson

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1350
  • 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

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4706
  • Office: 224 Volcanology
  • Interests: Volcanology, Geochemistry, Surface Processes
  • Website: Website

Emilie Hooft

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-1455
  • Office: 125C Cascade Hall
  • Interests: volcano plumbing systems, mantle plumes and volcanic hotspots, Cascadia subduction zone
  • Website: Website

Samantha Hopkins

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  • Title: Department Head, Earth Sciences
  • Additional Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5976
  • Office: 151 Cascade Annex
  • Office Hours: By appointment
  • Interests: vertebrate paleontology, systematics, paleoecology
  • Website: Website

Qusheng Jin

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4999
  • Office: 320 Cascade Hall
  • Interests: contaminant remediation, geochemical and biogeochemical modeling
  • Website: Website

Leif Karlstrom

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  • Title: Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
  • Phone: 541-346-4323
  • Office: 120A Cascade Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Earth Sciences
  • Interests: volcanology, surface processes, fluid mechanics
  • Website: Website

Diego Melgar

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  • Title: Ann and Lew Williams Chair
  • Additional Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3488
  • Office: 125B Cascade Hall
  • Interests: Earthquake seismology, strong ground motion, tsunamis, early warning systems, geodetic imaging
  • Website: Website

Marli Miller

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  • Title: Senior Instructor II
  • Phone: 541-346-4410
  • Office: 105 Volcanology
  • Interests: structural geology
  • Website: Website

Carol Paty

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  • Title: Professor
  • Additional Title: Associate Dean for Faculty, Clark Honors College
  • Phone: 541-346-4786
  • 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

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5217
  • Office: 225C Cascade Hall
  • Interests: Soil and aqueous geochemistry, environmental quality
  • Website: Website

Chris Poulsen

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  • Title: Tykeson Dean of College of Arts and Sciences
  • Additional Title: Professor, Earth Sciences
  • Phone: 541-346-3902
  • 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

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-6316
  • Office: 108 Volcanology
  • Affiliated Departments: Earth Sciences
  • Interests: geomechanics, ice physics, and applied mathematics
  • Website: Website

Josh Roering

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5574
  • Office: 325C Cascade Hall
  • Interests: geomorphology, surface processes
  • Website: Website

Valerie Sahakian

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  • Title: Assistant Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-3401
  • Office: 325D Cascade Hall
  • Interests: Active Tectonics, Ground Motion Seismology, Marine Geophysics
  • Website: Website

David Sutherland

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-8753
  • Office: 204 Volcanology
  • Affiliated Departments: Clark Honors College, Environmental Studies
  • Interests: Coastal physical oceanography, Ice-ocean interactions
  • Website: Website

Amanda Thomas

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Office: 210C Cascade Hall
  • Interests: Seismology, fault mechanics, seismic deployments, machine learning, earthquake and tsunami hazards
  • Website: Website

Douglas Toomey

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  • Title: Director, Oregon Hazards Lab
  • Additional Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5576
  • Office: 105A Cascade Hall
  • Interests: Multi-hazards monitoring, societal resilience to earthquakes and wildfires, seismology, subduction zones, oceanic hotspots
  • Website: Website

Paul Wallace

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  • Title: Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-5985
  • Office: 220 Cascade Hall
  • Interests: Igneous petrology, volcanology, geochemistry
  • Website: Website

James Watkins

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  • Title: Associate Professor
  • Phone: 541-346-4681
  • Office: 205A Cascade Hall
  • Interests: Stable isotope geochemistry & experimental petrology
  • Website: Website