Department of Geosciences Faculty
The Department of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University is housed on the Boca Raton campus and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in various subfields of the geosciences. The three main areas of focus in the department are earth systems science, human-environmental systems, and geo-information science. Phone: 561-297-3250
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Dr. Anton Oleinik
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Research Intrest:
Cenozoic stratigraphy, molluscan paleontology, paleobiogeography, and paleoclimates of high-latitude regions. (Read More) |
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Dr. Caiyun Zhang |
Research Interest:
Hyperspectral and Lidar Remote Sensing, Coastal Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise and Hurricanes, Machine Learning Classification and Modeling, Object-Based Image Analysis. (Read More) |
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Dr. Colin Polsky
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About:
Professor Polsky is a geographer specializing in the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change. He has completed four degrees with majors in four disciplines, plus a two-year postdoctoral training in a fifth field. (Read More) |
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Dr. David Warburton
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Research Interest:
Environmental geochemistry, especially in interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the environment, and possible regulation of the environment by the biosphere. Climate change. Use of the Internet and the World Wide Web as an educational tool. (Read More) |
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Dr. Erik Johanson
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Research Interest:
Reconstructing past environments & environmental changer, human-environment interaction across the Holocene, paleoclimatology, modern pollen and vegetation composition as related to climate patterns, coastal modeling of climate change scenarios and storm surge. (Read More) |
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James Gammack-Clark
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About:
MA in Geography (Florida Atlantic University) 2001 BA in Geography (Florida Atlantic University) 2000 (Read More) |
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Dr. Maria Fadiman
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Research Interest
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Ethnobotany, Latin America, World Cultures and Environments, Environmental Issues, Rain Forest Ecosystems (Read More) |
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Dr. Russell Ivy
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About:
Russell Ivy serves as the Senior Associate Provost for Academic Affairs. In this capacity, he is responsible for providing leadership in formulating and administering university policies for student learning outcomes assessment (Read More) |
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Dr. Scott Markwith
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Research Interest:
Ecological Biogeography, terrestrial, Wetland, and Nearshore Systems, Environmental Restoration, natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance, vegetation Dynamics, population and Conservation Genetics (Read More) |
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Dr. Tara Root
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Research Interest:
Groundwater chemistry, Water-rock interaction, Groundwater sustainability (Read More) |
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Dr. Tiffany Roberts Briggs
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Research Interest:
Coastal geomorphology, geology, and sedimentology. Primary research interest is the dynamics/evolution of beach morphology in response to natural (e.g., storm impact/recovery) and anthropogenic (e.g., coastal engineering) influences. (Read More) |
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Dr. Tobin Hindle
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Research Interest:
Human-Environmental Interactions, Ecological Regeneration, Strategies to integrate Science, Society, and Nature, Geographical Information Science, eLearning. (Read More) |
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Dr. Weibo Liu
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Research Interest
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Geographic Information Science, Spatiotemporal Data Modelling, Geocomputational Methods in GIS and WebGIS, Geovisualization, Remote Sensing Application. (Read More) |
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Dr. Xavier Comas
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Research Interest:
Hydrogeophysics: use of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), terrain conductivity, electrical resistivity and induced polarization (IP) for environmental applications with emphasis on wetlands and karst environments... (Read More) |
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Dr. Zhixiao Xie
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Research Interest:
GIS, Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Analysis & Modeling (Read More) |
Adjunct Faculty
| Dr. Cindy M Shaw Email: cshaw12@fau.edu |
Robert DePalma II Email: rdepalma@fau.edu |
| April A Watson Email: awatso21@fau.edu |
Dr. Felicia D Survis Email: fsurvis@fau.edu |
Affiliate Research Faculty
| Dr. Ann-Margaret Esnard Email: aesnard@fau.edu |
Dr. Allan Popak Email: apopak@fau.edu |
| Dr. Chandra S. Pathak Email: cpathak@fau.edu |
Dr. Christopher Kelble Email: ckelble@fau.edu |
| Dr. David Palandro Email: dpalandr@fau.edu |
Dr. David Sumner Email: sumnerd@fau.edu |
| Deepak Mishra Cisneros
Email: dmishra@uga.edu |
Derek Manzello Email: derek.manzello@ngraa.gov |
| Dr. Eric Swain Email: swaine@fau.edu |
Dr. Felicia Rein Email: frein@fau.edu |
| Dr. Gillian K Bloise Email: gbreary@fau.edu |
Dr. Graham Tobin Email: gtobin@fau.edu |
| Dr. Huseyin Baki Iz Email: hiz@fau.edu |
Dr. Jayantha Obeysekera Email: jobeysek@fau.edu |
| Dr. Josiah Strauss Email: jstraus2@fau.edu |
Dr. Julio de Souza Email: desouzaj@fau.edu |
| Goldenberg Joelle Email: jgoldenberg2015@fau.edu |
Liu Jing Email: jliu2016@fau.edu |
| Dr. Kenneth Banks Email: kbanks2@fau.edu |
Dr. Kevin Cunningham Garzon-Oechsle Email: <kcunni23@fau.edu |
| Dr. Marc Minno Email: gesch@usgs.gov |
Dr. Michael Duever Email: mduever@fau.edu |
| Michael Bardunias Email: |
Paulette McFadden Email: pmcfadden@fau.edu |
| Dr. Rebecca Jo Walter Email: rwalte11@fau.edu |
Dr. Richard Appeldoorn Email: rappeldo@fau.edu |
| Richard Mortlock Email: rmortloc@eps.rutgers.edu |
Dr. Robert Brinkman Email: rbrinkma@fau.edu |
| Dr. Sanford Porter Email: porters@fau.edu |
Dr. Sharon Ewe Email: sewe@fau.edu |
| Dr. Zhikang Chen Email: zchen6@fau.edu |
Emeritus Faculty
| Dr. Charles Finkl Email: cfinkl@fau.edu |
Dr. David Lee Email: dlee@fau.edu |
| Dr. Edward Petuch Email: epetuch@fau.edu |
Dr. Howard Hanson Email: hphanson@fau.edu |
| Dr. Leonard Berry Email: berry@fau.edu |
Dr. Ronald Schultz Email: schultzr@fau.edu |
| Dr. Tata RobertCisneros
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