Faculty of the Geology Department

• Billy P. Glass, Ph.D. (Columbia), Professor; also Professor, College of Marine Studies.
  Impact glasses, tektites and microtektites, marine geology, paleomagnetism, planetology.

• Richard N. Benson, Associate Professor; also Senior Scientist, Delaware Geological Survey.
  Stratigraphy, micropaleontology, petroleum geology.

• Robert R. Jordan, Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr), Professor; also Director and State Geologist, Delaware Geological Survey.
  Sedimentary petrology, stratigraphy, Atlantic Coastal Plain.

• John C. Kraft, Ph.D. (Minnesota), H. Fletcher Brown Professor; also H. Fletcher Brown Professor, College of Marine Studies.
  Holocene coastal sedimentology and micropaleontology, geoarchaeology, Ordovician ostracoda, petroleum geology.

• Peter B. Leavens, Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor.
  Crystal structure analysis, systematic mineralogy, metacarbonates.

• John A. Madsen, Ph.D. (Rhode Island), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies.
  Marine geophysics, marine tectonics, environmental geophysics.

• Ronald E. Martin, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies.
  Taphonomy and biology of forminifera, ecostratigraphy and paleoceanography, graphic correlation, stratigraphic (time) resolution, dynamics of nutrient cycling and food webs, evolution of biogeochemical cycles, evolution and extinction in Phanerozoic marine ecosystems.

• Susan McGeary, Ph.D. (Stanford), Associate Professor; also Associate Professor, College of Marine Studies.
  Continental lithospheric structure, seismic investigations of continental margins, environmental geophysics.

• James E. Pizzuto, Ph.D. (Minnesota), Associate Professor.
  Geomorphology, sedimentology, hydrogeology.

• Allan M. Thompson, Ph.D. (Brown), Associate Professor.
  Petrology, structural geology, sedimentology and paleoenvironmental analysis, Appalachian stratigraphy and structure.

• John F. Wehmiller, Ph.D. (Columbia), Professor and Chair; also Professor, College of Marine Studies.
  Organic geochemistry, chemistry of estuarine and marsh environments, freshwater geochemistry. Quaternary geochronology, coastal plain Quaternary stratigraphy.

Joint and Adjunct Appointments

• Ronald J. Gibbs, College of Marine Studies.
• William J. Ullman, College of Marine Studies.
• John H. Schuenemeyer, Mathematical Sciences.

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Last Updated: July 8, 1998