Administrative Staff
Name | Role |
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David Elvins Research Administrator elvins@berkeley.edu |
David handles pre and post award, administers and tracks current research funds for Allen, Alvarez, Bishop, Fung, Gilbert, Manga, Pride, Rademacher, Romps, Self, Shuster, Sloan, Taira |
Amy Gonsalves Academic HR Analyst [Temporary] academicpersonnel4eps@berkeley.edu |
AP/HR Analyst from the Mathematics Department is temporarily helping us cover vacancy. Contact: academicpersonnel4eps@berkeley.edu attending to emails after 4pm, Monday-Friday (excluding holidays). |
ERSO HR Team ersohrops@erso.berkeley.edu |
The Human Resources Team provides comprehensive personnel administrative services for staff, academic appointments, postdocs, visiting scholars, student researchers, volunteers, student assistants, GSR and ASE appointments, independent contractors and honoraria. With extensive UC experience, ERSO's professional staff will help you accurately interpret and implement University policy, guide, and advise you on all employment matters, and facilitate all human resource actions: ERSO HR inidividual contacts and further information. |
Mellia Kanani Student Services Advisor (she/her) melliakanani@berkeley.edu 319 McCone Hall |
Mellia attends to a wide range of student services duties and responsibilities for the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. Using professional student services skills, she provides advice and assistance to the Department Chair, faculty, Student Services Director and students (primarily undergraduate) in all aspects of academic advising, course scheduling, and curriculum coordination into both the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. She also helps administer the Ramsden Scholarship Fund Program. Office Hours: TBD Scheduling and Enrollment matters: epsscheduling@berkeley.edu Advising matters: epsua@berkeley.edu
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Rachel Kowalik Community Engagement Facilitator rkowalik@berkeley.edu 475 McCone (510) 643-5063 |
Rachel helps foster community by coordinating department events and seminars, facilitating outreach and recruitment efforts, as well as creating and curating content for print and web across department media platforms; She also manages the Cooperative Institute for Dynamic Earth Research (CIDER), a multidisciplinary research platform for scientists in planetary science disciplines from around the world. |
Dora Mairena Front Office Coordinator eps_frontoffice@berkeley.edu 307 McCone Hall 510-642-3993 |
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Michael MANGA Professor and department chair manga@seismo.berkeley.edu 381 McCone Hall (510) 643-8532 |
Geological processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, hydrogeology, and geomorphology. |
Heather Murthy Research Administrator murthy2019@berkeley.edu (510) 427-6318 |
Heather handles pre and post award, administers and tracks current research funds for Banfield, Boering, Boos, Brimhall, Buffett, Bürgmann, Dietrich, Edwards, Finkel, Frost, Kong, Romanowicz, Stolper, Wang, and Wenk. |
Veronica PADILLA Administrative Manager vmp@berkeley.edu 311 McCone (510) 642-4540 |
Veronica oversees management of the department, including hiring, training, supervising staff; management of the accounting unit, shops, space, and equipment resources.
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Ellie Paterson BSL Program Coordinator aileen.paterson@berkeley.edu 299 McCone (510) 642-2961 |
Ellie manages research fund administration for the Berkeley Seismology Lab. |
Nadine Spingola-Hutton Director of Student Services |
As the Director of Student Services, Nadine has full functional responsibility for planning, directing, controlling, and evaluating all aspects of the student services programs in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. She is responsible for the administrative needs of the unit and for the management of both the undergraduate and graduate degree programs, and the integration of these programs into the educational and scholarly activities and relationships of the Department (including but not limited to recruitment, admissions, events and orientation). To contact the Student Services Team, please click here. |
Drew Vaeth Budget Officer drewcv@berkeley.edu 277 McCone Hall (510) 642-2727 |
Drew assists in the overall financial management of EPS and BSL. Works to ensure that EPS and BSL meet budgetary guidelines and controls determined by the Division and University. Also Assistant Director for Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center. |
Anthony Vitan Director of Facilities, MPS Dean's Office ajvitan@berkeley.edu 307 McCone |
Anthony manages facilities and building access oversight for the MPS buildings. Some of Anthony's responsibilities include advising and informing the MPS Dean on building issues such as construction oversight, facility development, space planning, and general maintenance related to the MPS buildings. Anthony works directly with faculty, staff, and students in each Department on building and facilities-related issues. |
Technical Staff
Name | Title | Office / Phone | Affiliation | Role |
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John Grimsichjlgrimsich@berkeley.edu | Staff Research Associate III | 445 McCone | EPS |
John oversees and maintains EPS labs, specialized equipment (SEM, XRF, XRD, etc.) and machine shops. |
Charley Paffenbargercpaff@berkeley.edu | Computer & Network Sysadmin |
295 McCone (510) 642-5333 |
EPS, BSL |
Charley is the linux systems administrator for the Seismological Lab and the Geophysics Computer Lab and helps EPS with networking, printers, web server support, and user support for research computing, including Windows and Mac systems. |
John Wernerjohnwerner@berkeley.edu | Lab Assistant |
122S McCone (510) 642-3996 |
EPS |
Research Staff
Name | Title | Office / Phone | Affiliation | Role |
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Jordan Hoffjhoff@berkeley.edu | Banfield Lab Manager | Energy Biosciences Building #412 | ||
Heezin Leeheezin.lee@berkeley.edu | Applications Programmer |
497 McCone (510) 642-3991 |
William Dietrich | |
Shufei Leishufeilei@berkeley.edu | Applications Programmer, Bioinformatics | Banfield Lab | ||
Rohan Sachdevarohansach@berkeley.edu | Bioinformatics & Biology |
213-248-2094 |
Banfield Lab |
Berkeley Seismological Laboratory Staff contact information can be found on the BSL Directory web page.
To update your directory information, please send email to Crysthel Catambay.