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 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 is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa.

Bradley Cramer's research interests include Bio-Chemostratigraphy and Earth History.

Jeffrey Dorale's interests include the use of isotopic and elemental tracers and chronometers to reconstruct past environmental conditions.

Emily Finzel’s research focuses on sedimentary processes in modern and ancient basins.

Tom Foster's research primarily focuses on high temperature reaction mechanisms and metamorphic petrology.

Bill McClelland's research areas include geochemistry and structure and tectonics.

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'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 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 primarily teaches undergraduate classes and helps conduct a variety of undergraduate environmental and ecological investigations at the Ashton Prairie Living Laboratory.

Frank Weirich's research focuses on Hydrology and Geomorphology.