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 Interest:
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. Erik Johanson
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Research Interest:
Reconstructing past environments & environmental change, human-environment interaction across the Holocene, paleoclimatology, modern pollen and vegetation composition as related to climate patterns, fire histories and climate change. (Read More) |
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Dr. Eric Prokocki
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Research Interest: Earth Surface Dynamics and Process Sedimentology
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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. Tiffany Roberts Briggs
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Research Interest:
Coastal geomorphology, geology, and sedimentology; with emphasis on the beach, dune, and nearshore environments (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, GIS and RS Applications in Natural Hazards, Urbanization, and Coastal Environment. (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. Xiaolang Zhang
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Research Interest:
Hydrogeology, Hydro-geochemistry, Groundwater numerical modelling, Surface water-groundwater interactions... (Read More) |
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Dr. Zhixiao Xie
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Research Interest:
GIS, Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Analysis & Modeling (Read More) |
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Dr. Yijie Zhu
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Research Interest:
Tropical Cyclone, Climate Change, Natural Hazard, Evacuation (Read More) |
Adjunct Faculty
| Dr. Cindy M Shaw Email: cshaw12@fau.edu |
Dr. Sara Denka Email: sdenka2016@fau.edu |
| Dr. April A Watson Email: awatso21@fau.edu |
Dr. Felicia D Survis Email: fsurvis@fau.edu |
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Robert Depalma |
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 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. Mingshun Jiang Email: |
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 Roberts Email: crobertsl@fau.edu |
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| 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. Jorge Restrepo Email: restrepo@fau.edu |
Dr. Leonard Berry Email: berry@fau.edu |
| Dr. Ronald Schultz Email: schultzr@fau.edu |
Dr. Tata Robert Email: |