Tectonic & Climate Interactions

Faculty

	Thorsten Becker mantle convection; plate tectonics; structural seismology; numerical modeling; earthquakes; fluid dynamics
	Brian K Horton Tectonics of sedimentary basins, evolution of orogenic systems, sediment provenance and routing systems, nonmarine depositional processes.
	Shujuan Mao Environmental seismology, Hydrogeophysics, Geothermal energy, Carbon sequestration, Critical-zone processes, Time-lapse imaging, Ambient seismic field, 4D seismology
	Danny Stockli Thermo-/Geochronology, Tectonics and Structural Geology, Isotopic Provenance Analysis, Archeometry, Geothermal Exploration, and Thermal Maturation
	Chenguang Sun Deep volatile cycling; magmatic and metamorphic processes; planetary differentiation and habitability

Research Faculty

	James A Austin Stratigraphic evolution of a wide range of marine and lacustrine environments around the world
	Xuesong Ding Basin stratigraphic modeling; Landscape evolution modeling; Tectonic geomorphology;
	Brent Elliott
	Alexandros Savvaidis Manager of the Texas Seismological Network and Seismology Research (TexNet). Extensive 30 years experience in Seismology and Applied Geophysics both through my research position as a Senior Researcher and collaboration with Industrial partners in multidisciplinary European and US funded projects. I currently manage the seismic network of Texas with 210 seismic stations ...

Emeritus

Lawrence A Lawver Marine geophysics, plate tectonics, magnetics, gravity, heat flow, seismic studies, paleogeographic reconstructions of Gondwana, the Polar Regions, East Asia, and the Western Pacific

Postdocs

Shuo Zhang