Department Chair and Administrator
David Peate
Title/Position
DEO
Professor
David Peate is an igneous petrologist and geochemist. His research focuses on understanding how magmas are formed and how their compositions are modified during transport through the crust in different tectonic settings.
Angela Bellew
Title/Position
Departmental Administrator
Angela Bellew is the departmental administrator for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Faculty
Jonathan Adrain
Title/Position
Undergraduate Honors Coordinator
Professor
Jonathan Adrain in an invertebrate paleontologist who works on fossil trilobites and is interested in large scale biodiversity trends and global events, mass extinctions, taphonomy, biostratigraphy, trilobite phylogenetic structure and classification, and field-based discovery, alpha taxonomy, and systematics.
Christopher Brochu
Title/Position
Professor
Christopher Brochu is a vertebrate paleontologist and systematist who applies phylogenetic methods to understand biodiversity. He's interested in the reciprocal light morphological, genomic, and fossil data can shed on the phylogeny, distribution, and diversity of groups throughout their evolutionary histories.
Shamar Chin
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Shamar Chin is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Bradley Cramer
Title/Position
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Bradley Cramer's research interests include Bio-Chemostratigraphy and Earth History.
Jeffrey Dorale
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Jeffrey Dorale's interests include the use of isotopic and elemental tracers and chronometers to reconstruct past environmental conditions.
Emily Finzel
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Emily Finzel’s research focuses on sedimentary processes in modern and ancient basins.
C. Tom Foster
Title/Position
Professor
Tom Foster's research primarily focuses on high temperature reaction mechanisms and metamorphic petrology.
Bill McClelland
Title/Position
Professor
Bill McClelland's research areas include geochemistry and structure and tectonics.
Jessica Meyer
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
As a field based, physical hydrogeologist, Dr. Meyer looks for creative ways to collect and interpret field data to provide insight into natural flow system conditions in heterogeneous geologic settings. She is particularly interested in understanding the relationship between the hydraulic and geologic structure of the subsurface.
Valerie Payré
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Valerie Payré's primary research interest is understanding the evolution of planetary bodies, with an emphasis on Mars, to better constrain the geological history of our own planet.
David Peate
Title/Position
DEO
Professor
David Peate is an igneous petrologist and geochemist. His research focuses on understanding how magmas are formed and how their compositions are modified during transport through the crust in different tectonic settings.
Benjamin Swanson
Title/Position
Lecturer
Benjamin Swanson primarily teaches undergraduate classes and helps conduct a variety of undergraduate environmental and ecological investigations at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory.
Kate Tierney Cramer
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Instruction
Faculty Liaison – EES Alumni Board
Frank Weirich
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Frank Weirich's research focuses on Hydrology and Geomorphology.
Adjunct Faculty
Leon Aden
Title/Position
Adjunct Professor
Leon Aden is an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. He held numerous individual contributor, advisor, and supervisory roles spanning Exploration, Development, and Production while with Exxon and ExxonMobil.
Tiffany Adrain
Title/Position
Special Collections Manager
Adjunct Instructor
Tiffany Adrain is a special collections manager and adjunct instructor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Raymond Anderson
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Raymond Anderson is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
William Barnhart
Title/Position
Adjunct Associate Professor
William Barnhart is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. His research interests broadly span the field of active tectonics and natural hazards.
Mike Fallon
Title/Position
Adjunct Instructor
Michael Fallon is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa
Drew Muscente
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Drew Muscente is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Keith Schilling
Title/Position
Adjunct Professor
Keith Schilling is an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. His research interest is hydrology.
Ingrid Ukstins
Title/Position
Adjunct Associate Professor
Ingrid Ukstins is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. Her research involves utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding explosive volcanic systems.
Emily Walsh
Title/Position
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Emily Walsh is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include petrology and tectonics.
Brian Witzke
Title/Position
Adjunct Associate Professor
Brian Witzke is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. His research interests include stratigraphy and sedimentary geology.
Kathleen Woida
Title/Position
Adjunct Associate Professor
Kathleen Woida is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Emeritus Faculty
Staff
Tiffany Adrain
Title/Position
Special Collections Manager
Adjunct Instructor
Tiffany Adrain is a special collections manager and adjunct instructor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Angela Bellew
Title/Position
Departmental Administrator
Angela Bellew is the departmental administrator for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Alexandra Geraets
Title/Position
Academic & Office Coordinator
Alexandra Geraets is an academic and office coordinator in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Liz Montag
Title/Position
IT Support Analyst
Liz Montag is an IT Support Analyst in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is one of the departments Liz supports.
Hannah Whitcomb DeHague
Title/Position
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Hannah Whitcomb DeHague is an undergraduate academic advisor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Matthew Wortel
Title/Position
Thin Section Technician
Staff Liaison – EES Alumni Board
Matthew Wortel is a thin section technician in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa. His interests include petrography and igneous geochemistry.
Graduate Students
Brandon Botha
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Samson Bruxvoort
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Shubhamita Das
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Schaffer Finney
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Talia Hill
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Alice Hinzmann
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Kenny Horkley
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Nikka Hubert
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Phil Kerr
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Nathan Kilburg
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Joshua Laird
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Daniel Leaphart
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Adam Moritz
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Sebastien Mure-Ravaud
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
John Nguyen
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Elizabeth Occi
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Trent Olson
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Stay awhile and listen. My name is Trent Olson, and I am a PhD candidate working in Dr. Peate’s Igneous Petrology Lab. I have a Bachelor of Science in Geology from North Dakota State University and a Master of Science in Geosciences from the University of Iowa. I have been the Mineral and Petrology TA for the last few years, and greatly enjoy having a captive audience to infodump about rocks and minerals too. Outside of research, I enjoy going to metal concerts, waxing poetic about Pokémon, or playing Magic: The Gathering. I use mineral chemistry and petrography to understand mantle melting and deep crustal igneous processes that modify those melts.
Nathan Platt
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Ryan Shanks
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Rachel Smith
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Dionysios Stamatis
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Brittany Stolfus
Title/Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Andrew Studzinski
Title/Position
M.S. Candidate
Alumni Advisory Board
Richard Denne
Title/Position
EES Alumni Board
Hunter Enis Chair in Petroleum Geology and Director, TCU Energy Institute at Texas Christian University
Luan Heywood
Title/Position
EES Alumni Board
Research Associate, International Ocean Discovery Program
Lee Phillips
Title/Position
EES Alumni Board (Chair)
Director - Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creativity Office, University of North Carolina - Greensboro
