Coming Fall 2025, the departments of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences (GSS) and Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES), along with the Environmental Sciences program, will combine in a new School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability to build on and strengthen the areas of climate, environmental, and sustainability science and policy at the University of Iowa.

C. Tom Foster

Professor

Research Interests: High temperature reaction kinetics and material transport, metamorphic petrology, Colorado Proterozoic tectonics, computer models of geological processes.

Research areas

Petrology
Structure and Tectonics

tom-foster@uiowa.edu

319-335-1801

Personal Website

Ph.D., John Hopkins University, 1975

M.A., John Hopkins University, 1974

B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971

239 Trowbridge Hall (TH)
Iowa City, IA 52242
United States

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