Faculty
Henry Fricke
Professor, Director of the Environmental Studies Program
Fields: Stable isotope and low temperature biogeochemistry, paleoclimatology, paleobiology.
Palmer Hall #9B
(719) 389-6514
Paul Myrow
Professor
Fields: Sedimentary structures; bedforms and stratification; sedimentation and biostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic and lower Phanerozoic deposits, Newfoundland, Colorado Rockies and Great Basin.
Palmer Hall #9E
(719) 389-6790
Jeff Noblett
Professor, Chair of the Geology Department
Fields: Precambrian geology of central Colorado; petrogenesis of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Palmer #9F
(719) 389-6516
Sarah Schanz
Assistant Professor
Fields: Bedrock river evolution, fluvial and tectonic geomorphology, impacts of tectonics, glaciation, humans, and vegetation on the erosional history of the Rocky Mountains, Pacific Northwest, and Taiwan.
Palmer Hall, #9C
(719) 389-6513
Christine Siddoway
Professor
Fields: Structural and metamorphic geology of Antarctica and the Colorado Front Range; Gondwana tectonics.
Palmer Hall #9E
(719) 389-6717
Eric Leonard
Retired Professor
Fields: Glacial geology and paleoclimate in the Western Cordillera of the U.S. and Canada, periglacial geomorphology, late Tertiary and Quaternary tectonics of Colorado and Chile.
Emily Pope
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: Early Earth evolution, origin of life, plate tectonics, hydrothermal systems, fluid-rock interactions and the role of fluids in metamorphic, magmatic and ore-forming processes, stable isotope geochemistry
Palmer Hall, #9G
(719) 389-6512
Solomon Seyum
Riley Research and Teaching Fellow
Fields: structural geology; rock fracture mechanics
Palmer Hall, #10-B
(719) 389-6197