Department of Geology and Geography

Faculty and Staff

The faculty of the Department consists of thirteen members from diverse backgrounds in the sciences and diverse regions of origin. The faculty is dedicated to quality educational experiences and demand a high level of performance from students in all their classes. All faculty members are actively involved in teaching and mentoring students, and being role models for the students enrolled in Geology and Geography courses.

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Professors	Dallas D. Rhodes, Ph.D., Chair
Professors	Fredrick J. Rich, Ph.D.
Associate Professors	Pranoti M. Asher, Ph.D.
	James S. Reichard, Ph.D.
	Charles H. Trupe, Ph.D.
	R. Kelly Vance, Ph.D.
	Mark R. Welford, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors	Wei Tu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professors	Robert Yarbrough, Ph.D.
Adjunct faculty	Michael S. Kelley, Ph.D.
Temporary Faculty	Pamela Marsh , Ph.D.
	Gwendolyn Rhodes, Ph.D.
	Sherry D. Rich
	Jill Stackhouse, Ph.D.
	Charles Yorke
Staff	Annette Elkins "Ace", Administrative Secretary Jessica van der maas, Laboratory Coordinator
Associated Faculty	Clark R. Alexander, Jr., Ph.D., Director, Applied Coastal Research Laboratory and Professor of Geology, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Associated Faculty	Nancy Brannen Marsh, Ed. S., Instructor
Emeritus Faculty	Gale A. Bishop, Ph.D.
	James H. Darrell, II, Ph.D.
	Daniel B. Good, Ph.D.
	H. Stan Hanson, Ph.D. (Deceased)
	Vernon J. "Jim" Henry, Jr., Ph.D.
Former Faculty	Denise Battles Ph.D. Dean of the College of Natural and Health Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado.
	Keith Bosak- Assistant Professor, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana
	Brian Bossak, Ph.D. - Faculty in the Georgia Southern College of Public Health
	Eleanor Camann, Ph.D. - Geology Faculty at Red Rocks Community College, Lakewood, CO
	Thomas Chapman Ph.D., - Assistant Professor of Geography at Old Dominion University techapma@odu.edu
	Sam Couch Ph.D. - Owner, Rising Road Tours LLC
	Jason Dittmer, Ph.D. - Lecturer position at the University College of London
	Anthony M. Foyle, Ph.D., Faculty Member at Behrend College, Erie, PA
	Jonathan Geisler Ph.D. Associate Professor of Anatomy at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine
	Richard Hulbert Ph.D. Research/curatorial position at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, FL.
	Musa Hussein, Ph.D. At the Geological Sciences Department at University of Texas at El Paso
	John C. Jacobs - Faculty Member at Northwest Missouri State University.
	Susan K. Langley, Ph.D. - GIS work in GA
	Soren C. Larsen, Ph.D. - Faculty Member at University of Missouri
	Jonathan Leib, Ph.D. - Faculty Member at Florida State University
	Nancy Leathers, Ph.D. - at Kansas State University, GIS work.
	Bolortsetseg Minjin , Ph.D - moving to NY
	Craig W. Oyen, Ph.D. Deceased in Sept. 2005
	Adam J. Parrillo , Ph.D - moving to Wisconsin - Green Bay
	Mathieu Richaud- tenure track position at California State University Fresno
	Don Thieme, Ph.D. - is teaching at Valdosta State University in Valdosta http://valdosta.edu/~dmthieme/
	Alessandro Zanazzi, Ph.D. - Post-doctoral position at Yale University in New Haven, CT
	Zingyou Zhang, Ph.D. - Health Geographer/Biostatistician at The Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, American Academy of Family Physicians, Washington, D.C.
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