Science and Engineering Faculty Refereed Journal Publications 2002-2006
Science and Engineering Faculty and their Research Interests
Alexander L. Burin, Ph.D., Moscow Institute for Physics and Engineering, 1989, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Charge Transfer and Current-Induced magnetism.
Larry D. Byers, Ph.D., Princeton, 1972, Professor. Discipline: Biochemistry. Research Topics: Enzyme Mechanisms and Inhibitors.
James P. Donahue, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1998, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Inorganic Chemistry. Research Topics: Transition Metal Thiolate Chemistry – Inorganic.
Harry Ensley, Ph. D., Harvard University, 1976, Associate Professor. Discipline: Organic Chemistry. Research Topics: Organic.
Mark Fink, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1983, Professor. Discipline: Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Polymer Materials. Research Topics: Organometallic, Main Group and Organosilicon Chemistry.
Scott Michael Grayson, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 2002, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Organic, Polymer Materials and Biochemistry. Research Topics: Organic, Material, and Biochemistry.
Michael Herman, Ph.D., Chicago, 1980, Professor. Discipline: Theoretical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Theoretical, Polymers.
Heiko Jacobsen, Ph.D., University of Calgary, Canada, 1996, Professor of Practice. Discipline: Computational Inorganic Chemistry.
Janarthanan Jayawickramarajah, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2005, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Bio-Organic Chemistry. Research Topics: Nanobiotechnology, Molecular Recognition, Self-Assembly.
Brent Koplitz, Ph.D., Princeton, 1985, Professor and Department Chair. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Lasers, and Materials.
Joel Mague, Ph. D., MIT, 1965, Professor. Director, X-ray Crystallography Laboratory. Discipline: Inorganic, Organometallic Chemistry. Research Topics: Inorganic, Organometallic, X-ray Crystallography.
Gary McPherson, Ph.D., Illinois, 1969, Professor and Senior Associate Dean. Discipline: Analytical Chemistry. Research Topics: Spectroscopy of Self-Assembled Systems.
Howard W. Mielke, Ph.D., Michigan, 1972, Research Professor. (Joint appointment with Center for Bioenvironmental Research)
Igor V. Rubtsov, Ph.D., Institute for Chemical Physics, Assistant Professor. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical Chemistry.
Russell Schmehl, Ph.D., North Carolina, 1980, Professor. Discipline: Inorganic Chemistry. Research Topics: Photochemistry, Electrochemistry, Light Harvesting, Sensors.
Mark Sulkes, Ph.D., Cornell, 1978, Professor. Discipline: Physical Chemistry. Research Topics: Physical, Laser Spectroscopy, Molecular Beams.
Carol Zhang, Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1997, Professor of Practice. Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, design and synthesis of molecules of therapeutical interest.
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Richard Campanella, M.S., Louisiana State University, 1993, Research Assistant Professor and CBR Assistant Director. Geography/Mapping Sciences. (Joint appointment with Center for Bioenvironmental Research)
Nancye H. Dawers, Ph.D., Columbia, 1997, Associate Professor; Ken and Ruth Arnold Early Career Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Structural Geology, Neotectonics; Fault growth and interaction using scaling relations in evolving fault populations.
George C. Flowers, Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1979, Associate Professor. Theoretical geochemistry, sedimentary geochemistry, and environmental geochemistry of estuarine sediments.
Nicole M. Gasparini, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003, Assistant Professor. Fluvial geomorphology, landscape evolution, sediment delivery from hillslopes to rivers, interactions between climate and tectonics through erosion, impacts of climate change and land-use on river networks.
Karen Johannesson, Associate Professor. (Page in progress)
Sadredin C. Moosavid, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire, 1998, Professor of Practice. Geoscience education, climate change, biogeochemical cycles, arctic and boreal ecosystems.
Stephen A. Nelson, Ph.D., California-Berkeley, 1979, Associate Professor and Department Chair. Igneous petrology, Volcanology, relationship between volcanism and tectonism, particularly in Mexico; mechanisms of explosive volcanism.
Ronald L. Parsley, Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1969, Professor. Paleontology: paleobiology, paleoecology, and evolution of lower Paleozoic primitive Echinodermata; Paleozoic faunas in general.
Gerhard Piringer, Ph.D., Tulane University, 2000, Professor of Practice. Soil and groundwater remediation with nanoparticles; life-cycle assessment and industrial ecology; anaerobic biodegradation.
Brad E. Rosenheim, Ph.D. University of Miami, 2005, Assistant Professor.
Analysis of very recent geologic records of ocean circulation parameters (temperature, oxygen isotopes, salinity, minor elements, and 14C) in relation to global climate change.
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Ph.D. Utrecht University, 1993, Associate Professor. Quaternary geology, Fluvial and deltaic sedimentology, Nonmarine sequence stratigraphy, Sea-level change, Applied geochronology, Paleoclimatology.
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Archie Ammons, Visiting Assistant Professor. (Page in progress)
Henry L. Bart, Jr., Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1985, Professor. Systematics, taxonomy, ecology, life history, and ecotoxicology of stream fishes.
Michael J. Blum, Ph.D., Duke University, 2002, Assistant Professor. Ecological genetics of freshwater fishes and coastal marsh plants.
John H. Caruso, Ph.D., Tulane University, 1977, Professor of Practice. Systematics and distribution of deep-sea fishes, especially chaunacid and lophiid angler fishes.
Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998, Assistant Professor. Tropical ecosystems, physiological ecology, global change biology.
Steven P. Darwin, Ph.D., Massachusetts, 1976, Professor. Plant systematics.
Lee A. Dyer, Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1994, Professor. Chemical ecology in plants, herbivores, and natural enemies in tropical and temperate systems.
David C. Heins, Ph.D., Tulane, 1979, Professor and Department Chair. Ecology and life-history evolution of North American fishes.
Thomas W. Sherry, Ph.D., California, Los Angeles, 1981, Professor. Population ecology, habitat selection, and conservation of birds.
Bryan Sigel, Visiting Assistant Professor. (Page in progress)
H. George Wang, Visiting Assistant Professor. (Page in progress)