The School of Geosciences currently has 21 tenured and tenure-track faculty, 7 adjunct faculty and instructors, coorperating researchers and affiliate faculty, and 13 emeritus faculty. Our faculty are assisted by 6 staff members.
Director, School of Geosciences and Eberly Chair
Professor of Geosciences
Affiliate Faculty, Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering
Reservoir Characterization and Modeling, Sedimentary Geology
Petroleum Geosciences and Energy Resources
Lissa and Cy Wagner Professor
Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship
Associate Professor of Geosciences
Data Science, Applied Geophysics, Seismic Interpretation
Willard L. Miller Professor
Associate Professor of Geosciences
Structural Geology, Rock Mechanics, Earthquake Physics
Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Sam Noble Museum
Paleontology, community paleoecology, functional morphology, extinction, phylogenetic comparative methods, carbonate sedimentology
Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Chris J. Cheatwood Director, Bartell Field Camp
Paleomagnetism, Sedimentary Geology, Geologic Field Methods
Joe and Robert Klabzuba Chair
Professor of Geosciences
Director, Samuel Roberts Noble Microscopy Laboratory
Geochemistry; environmental and clay mineralogy
Robert and Doris Klabzuba Chair
Stubbeman-Drace Presidential Professor of Geosciences
Director, Center for Faculty Excellence.
Earth and Planetary Geochemistry
Professor
Director of Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems
Assistant Professor
Tectonics, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Geochronology, Geochemistry, Field-based geology, Paleoclimate
Assistant Professor
Critical Zone Science, Terrestrial Biogeochemistry, Metal Redox Geochemistry, Soil Carbon Cycle, Mineral Weathering
Assistant Professor
Tectonics, structural geology, thermochronology, geochronology, geochemistry
Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Critical Resources, Carbon Sequestration, Geochemistry of Geofluids, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Experimental Petrology, Equilibrium and Disequilibrium Thermodynamics
Norman R. Gelphman Professor
Associate Professor of Geosciences
Geobiology, Lipid Biomarkers, Origins of Life
Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Sam Noble Museum
Biotic Earth history, macroevolution, paleobiology, morphometrics
Frank and Henrietta Schultz Chair
Associate Professor of Geosciences
Associate Director and Head Curator, Sam Noble Museum
Paleobotany, Palynology, and Paleoecology
Edward L. McCollough Chair
David L. Boren Professor
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleoclimatology
James Roy Maxey Chair
Professor of Geosciences
Sedimentary and Environmental Geology
Assistant Professor of Geosciences
Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Sam Noble Museum
Macroevolution, Paleontology, Phylogenetics, Echinoderm paleobiology, Crinoidea
Thomas Fenn
Affiliate Faculty
Gail Holloway
Adjunct Instructor
Undergraduate Recruiter
gholloway@ou.edu
Fnu "Ming" Suriamin
Adjunct Professor
Geologist IV, Oklahoma Geological Survey Petroleum Geology and Petrophysics
Netra Regmi
Affilitate Faculty
Hazards Geologist, Oklahoma Geological Survey
Jason Vogel
Affiliate Faculty
Director, Oklahoma Water Survey
Jake Walter
Affilitate Faculty
Geophysicist and State Seismologist, Oklahoma Geological Survey
Molly Yunker
Cooperating Researcher and Outreach Specialist
Education and Outreach Coordinator, Oklahoma Geological Survey
Younane N. Abousleiman
Professor Emeritus
Reservoir Characterization and Mechanics of Porous Media
yabousle@ou.edu
Judson L. Ahern
Professor Emeritus
Geomechanics, Gravity and Magnetics, and Environmental Geophysics
jahern@ou.edu
R. Douglas Elmore
Professor Emeritus
Sedimentology, Paleomagnetism of Sedimentary Rocks, and Diagenesis
delmore@ou.edu
M. Charles Gilbert
Professor Emeritus
Igneous and Metamorphic Rock Systems
mcgilbert@ou.edu
Charles W. Harper, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Paleontology
charper@gcn.ou.edu
G. Randy Keller
Professor Emeritus
Geophysics, Structure and Evolution of the Lithosphere from basins to the upper mantle, and Geoinformatics
grkeller@ou.edu
David London
Professor Emeritus
Experimental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Igneous and
Metamorphic Petrology, and Geology of Metals
dlondon@ou.edu
Kurt J. Marfurt
Professor Emeritus
Seismic Processing, Seismic Interpretation, and Reservoir Characterization
kmarfurt@ou.edu
Shankar Mitra
Professor Emeritus
Structural Geology, Petroleum Geology, and Fractured and Faulted Reservoirs
smitra@ou.edu
Ze'ev Reches
Professor Emeritus
Structural Geology, Earthquakes, and Rock Mechanics
reches@ou.edu
Barry L. Weaver
Professor Emeritus
Trace Element Geochemistry of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
bweaver@ou.edu
Steve Westrop
Professor Emeritus
Invertebrate Paleontology
swestrop@ou.edu
