Dr. Charles G. "Chip" Groat

Dr. Chip Groat became interim dean of the Jackson School in June 2008. He joined the Department of Geological Sciences in June 2005 following six-and-a-half years as director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). He also has faculty appointments in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. At the USGS he emphasized integrated scientific approaches to understanding complex natural systems and the use of these understandings in management decisions regarding these systems, an interest that continues at the university. Resource and infrastructure development impacts on natural systems and the restoration ecology of these systems. Desert, coastal, and fluvial systems encompassing the evolution of landforms and the physical stratigraphy of deposits in desert basins, river valleys, and coastal systems, including the occurrence of groundwater in them.

Also see:

• Groat's Department Profile