UCSB Earth Science Geology

Department of Earth Science

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Geology

Geology research at UCSB encompasses all aspects of the geological sciences. This includes not only the study of rocks, minerals, and records of ancient life. But also the physical, chemical, and biological processes, past and present, working in the earth's interior, on its surface, and within its envelope of water and air. Geologic methods are also applied to the moon and other planets.

Department Faculty Research

	Stanley Awramik	Archean-Proterozoic history of life on the earth and other planets
	Bodo Bookhagen	Late Cenozoic Himalayan and Andean geology; climate-tectonic interactions
	Douglas Burbank	Cenozoic collisional mountain belts; intracontinental deformation; climate-tectonic interactions; tectonic geomorphology
	Cathy Busby	Convergent margin tectonics; Mesozoic tectonics of Cordilleran US and Mexico
	Jordan Clark	Aqueous geochemistry, water transport and climate change
	John Cottle	Continental Tectonics and U-Pb geochronology
	Thomas Dunne	Hydrology and geomorphology in landscape management
	Phillip Gans	Crustal extension and magmatism
	Bradley Hacker	Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism, ophiolite emplacement, phase transformations; experimental petrology
	Rachel Haymon	Hydrothermal vent processes and mineralogy
	Edward Keller	Quaternary tectonics, surface processes
	David Lea	Use of isotope variation in fossil and extant organisms to determine factors linking global climate and ocean composition
	Bruce Luyendyk	Tectonics of southern California, west Antarctica
	James Mattinson	Heavy isotope geochemistry, U-Pb geochronology
	Frank Spera	Magma transport phenomena, planetary geology
	Bruce Tiffney	Paleobiogeography, paleobiology and evolution of land plants, plant-animal interactions in the fossil record
	André Wyss	Mammalian paleontology and Andean tectonics

	Researchers
	Dorothy Pak	Investigation of paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic changes using benthic and planktonic foraminiferal stable isotopes, trace metals and faunal assemblages.