People | Faculty & Research Scientists

Students and researchers lower a CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth recorder) to gather data while on a scientific mission.

CEOE Faculty are engaged in research and teaching activities. More information about the (program/department) faculty can be found below.

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The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment currently has 118 scientists who are engaged in marine and earth-related research and teaching at the University of Delaware. Research and teaching activities take place in our facilities on both the Newark and Lewes Campuses and in our research centers. Click on a link below to view current faculty in a specific College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment department or program.

Geography
Geological Sciences
School of Marine Science and Policy

Geography Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Lodevicus Claessens
Assistant Professor
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Afton Eben ClarkeSather
Assistant Professor
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Tracy L. DeLiberty
Interim Chair and Associate Professor
Geographical information systems, climatology, remote sensing.
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Cathleen Geiger
Research Associate Professor
Sea ice surface processes and climate, Non-rigid motion analysis, Data analysis and computer visualization.
cgeiger@udel.edu Profile ›

Brian Hanson
Professor
Climate dynamics, glaciology.
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Daniel J. Leathers
Professor
Snowfall, Snow Cover, Water Resource Research, Land Surface Changes and Effects on Regional Climates, Environmental Monitoring, Environmental policy, Natural Resource Management.
leathers@udel.edu Profile ›

David R. Legates
Professor
Hydroclimatology, precipitation and climate change, computational methods.
legates@udel.edu Profile ›

Delphis F Levia
Associate Chair, Director of Environmental Science Program
Ecohydrology, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemistry, field methods and instrumentation
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Frederick E Nelson
Professor
Permafrost, periglacial and climatic geomorphology, spatial analysis, history of cryospheric research and American geography.
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Peter W Rees
Associate Professor
Urban geography, historical-economic geography, Latin America, geographic education.
rees@udel.edu Profile ›

Yda Schreuder
Associate Professor
Global resources, development, and the environment; Sustainable development; Global climate change policies; International migration.
ydas@udel.edu Profile ›

April R Veness
Associate Professor
Urban/social geography, minority problems and places, geographic thought.
veness@udel.edu Profile ›

Cort J. Willmott
Professor
Climatology, quantitative methods.
willmott@udel.edu Profile ›

Geological Sciences Faculty

Clara Chan
Assistant Professor
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John A. Madsen
Associate Professor
Coastal and estuarine geophysics, geological and geotechnical aspects of offshore wind facilities, earth science education
jmadsen@udel.edu Profile ›

Ronald E. Martin
Professor
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.
daddy@udel.edu Profile ›

Susan McGeary
Chair and Associate Professor
Environmental and Quaternary geophysics, continental lithospheric structure, seismic investigations of continental margins.
smcgeary@udel.edu Profile ›

Holly Michael
Assistant Professor
Hydrogeology: coastal groundwater dynamics, groundwater flow and solute transport modeling, groundwater-surface water interaction, water supply sustainability, geostatistical modeling
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Michael O'Neal
Assistant Professor
Glacial and fluvial geomorphology, quaternary geology and geochronology, geographic information systems.
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James Eugene Pizzuto
Professor, Interim Chair
Fluvial geomorphology.
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John F. Wehmiller
Professor
Organic geochemistry; Quaternary geochronologic methods; amino acid racemization geochemistry; biomineralization; Quaternary stratigraphy and geochronology of coastal environments.
jwehm@udel.edu Profile ›

Marine Biosciences Faculty

Jennifer F Biddle
Assistant Professor
Microbial populations and processes in subseafloor marine environments
jfbiddle@udel.edu Profile ›

Jonathan H Cohen
Assistant Professor
Comparative physiology and behavior of marine animals; Sensory biology; Zooplankton ecology
jhcohen@udel.edu Profile ›

Kathryn J. Coyne
Associate Professor
Molecular ecology of bloom-forming microalgal species
kcoyne@udel.edu Profile ›

Stephen C. Dexter
Professor
Electrochemical corrosion; biologically influenced corrosion; structural materials in the marine environment; bioadhesion.
dexter@udel.edu Profile ›

Charles E. Epifanio
Harrington Professor Marine Science
Larval ecology; recruitment dynamics; tropical ecology.
epi@udel.edu Profile ›

Patrick M. Gaffney
Associate Director and Professor
Genetics of marine organisms; aquacultural genetics.
pgaffney@udel.edu Profile ›

Pamela J. Green
Professor
Genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology of plants, focusing on Arabidopsis.
green@dbi.udel.edu Profile ›

Thomas E. Hanson
Associate Professor
Microbial Physiology, Microbial Ecology, Genomics, Proteomics.
tehanson@udel.edu Profile ›

David L. Kirchman
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor
Marine microbial ecology; molecular mechanisms of organic matter degradation.
kirchman@udel.edu Profile ›

Adam G. Marsh
Associate Professor
Molecular physiology; biochemical processes regulating growth and metabolism during larvae development in extreme environments.
amarsh@udel.edu Profile ›

Timothy E. Targett
Professor
Ecology of estuarine and coastal marine fish; Physiological ecology of feeding, digestion, growth, and survival; Essential fish habitat (EFH) and recruitment process; Trophic biology, marine and estuarine food webs, energetics.
ttargett@udel.edu Profile ›

Carolyn A. Thoroughgood
Professor
Integrated ocean observing, ocean sciences education, national ocean policy, Nutritional biochemistry of bivalve mollusks; nutritional evaluation and preservation of fish.
ctgood@udel.edu Profile ›

Mark E. Warner
Associate Professor
Physiological ecology of marine algae, algal-invertebrate symbioses, and the biochemical and molecular maintenance and regulation of photosynthesis in relation to changing environmental conditions.
mwarner@udel.edu Profile ›

Eric Wommack
Associate Professor
Virioplankton ecology, structure-function relationships in aquatic microbial communities, application of molecular techniques in microbial ecology.
wommack@dbi.udel.edu Profile ›

Joanna York
Research Assistant Professor
jyork@udel.edu Profile ›

Marine Policy Faculty

Lee G. Anderson
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor
Economics of commercial and recreational fisheries management.
lgafish@udel.edu Profile ›

Biliana Cicin-Sain
Professor
Integrated coastal management; management of multiple coastal and ocean uses; fisheries management; comparative marine policy.
bcs@udel.edu Profile ›

James J. Corbett
Professor
Freight transportation, energy and emissions, sustainability; International and domestic maritime transportation and pollution policy; Risk assessment and mitigation of air pollution, ship-whale collisions and invasive aquatic species; Interdisciplinary technology-policy decision-making.
jcorbett@udel.edu Profile ›

Jeremy M. Firestone
Professor
Offshore wind power; renewable energy policy; climate change law and policy; marine wildlife conservation; law-policy interface; federal/state relations; regulation and governance.
jf@udel.edu Profile ›

Willett Kempton
Professor
Offshore wind power, electric vehicles, lay environmental beliefs and values, environmental movements, anthropogenic climate change, policy.
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George R. Parsons
Associate Director and Professor
Environmental and natural resource economics.
gparsons@udel.edu Profile ›

Oceanography Faculty

Katharina Billups
Associate Director and Associate Professor
Light stable isotope and trace metal geochemistry of oceanic sediments; paleoceanography; paleclimatology.
kbillups@udel.edu Profile ›

Wei-Jun Cai
Professor
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Thomas M. Church
E. I. du Pont Professor of Marine Studies
Estuarine and atmospheric geochemistry; trace-element marine chemistry.
tchurch@udel.edu Profile ›

Young-Heon Jo
Assistant Professor
Physical oceanography, Satellite oceanography, and Remote sensing
joyoung@udel.edu Profile ›

George W. Luther
Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor
Marine chemistry; element redox cycles; inorganic and organic sulfur cycling.
luther@udel.edu Profile ›

Douglas C. Miller
Associate Professor
Interactions between organisms, flow, and sediment; deposit-feeding strategies; design of experiments.
dmiller@udel.edu Profile ›

Mark Moline
Director, SMSP
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Matthew J. Oliver
Assistant Professor
Phytoplankton Oceanography; Biogeography; Remote Sensing; Ocean Observing; Phytoplankton Physiology; Phytoplankton Evolution; Genome Evolution
moliver@udel.edu Profile ›

Jonathan H. Sharp
Professor
Coastal/estuarine biogeochemistry; marine organic chemistry; microbial chemical dynamics; science and resource management.
jsharp@udel.edu Profile ›

Christopher K. Sommerfield
Associate Professor
Geological oceanography; coastal-estuarine sediment dynamics; radionuclide tracers and chronometers; tidal marsh sedimentation; human impacts on coastal systems.
cs@udel.edu Profile ›

Arthur Chris Trembanis
Associate Professor
Oceanography, Coastal and estuarine morphodynamics, sediment transport, hydrodynamics, seafloor mapping, benthic habitat mapping, scour processes of seabed objects including artificial reefs, offshore wind farm structures, mines, and shipwreck artifacts, coastal observing systems, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
art@udel.edu Profile ›

William J. Ullman
Professor of Marine and Geological Sciences
Geochemical cycles; rock/water interactions; coastal, estuarine, and nearshore processes; responsible conduct of research.
ullman@udel.edu Profile ›

Xiao-Hai Yan
Mary A.S. Lighthipe Chair Professor, Director of Center for Remote Sensing, US National Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF)
Satellite oceanography; remote sensing, modeling, and prediction of air-sea exchange, and ocean circulation; image processing.
xiaohai@udel.edu Profile ›

Physical Ocean Science & Engineering Faculty

Cristina L. Archer
Associate Professor
Meteorology, climate change, air quality, renewable energy, wind power, numerical modeling of atmospheric processes.
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Mohsen Badiey
Professor
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Helga S. Huntley
Assistant Research Professor
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I. Pablo Huq
Associate Professor
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A. D. Kirwan
Mary A. S. Lighthipe Professor of Marine Studies
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Tobias Kukulka
Assistant Professor
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Bruce L. Lipphardt
Associate Professor
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Andreas Muenchow
Associate Professor
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Aijun Song
Assistant Professor
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Dana E. Veron
Associate Professor
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Fabrice Veron
Associate Director and Associate Professor
Air-Sea interactions; Surface wave processes
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Kuo-Chuin Wong
Professor
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