Faculty Directory

Richard Allen

Class of 1954 Professor & Director of Berkeley Seismological Laboratory

Regional seismic structure and dynamics, mantle upwelling processes. Earthquake rupture mechanisms. Seismic hazard mitigation including earthquake early warning systems.Read more about Richard Allen

Walter Alvarez

Professor of the Graduate School

Stratigraphy and Earth history, tectonics and structural geology, stratigraphy of pelagic limestones.

Please note that Prof. Álvarez is active in research, but not in teaching, and does not accept new graduate students.Read more about Walter Alvarez

Jill F. Banfield

Professor

I am a Professor in the Departments of Earth and Planetary Science and Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (see contact information below). I also have an appointment in the geochemistry group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. My primary research interests are in...Read more about Jill F. Banfield

James Bishop

Professor

Degrees: B.Sc. (hon) Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, University of British Columbia; Sc.D. in Marine Chemistry, MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography.

Path to Berkeley: Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and NASA...Read more about James Bishop

Kristie A. Boering

Professor & the Lieselotte and David Templeton Professor of Chemistry

William Boos

Associate Professor

William Boos is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and leads a research group in climate dynamics. He works to improve understanding of the mechanisms controlling tropical climate, with a particular...Read more about William Boos

Bruce Buffett

Professor

Roland Bürgmann

Professor
I am a professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory. I head the Active Tectonics group at UC Berkeley.

Eugene Chiang

Professor of EPS & Astronomy

B.S. (Physics), 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. (Astronomy), 2000, California Institute of TechnologyRead more about Eugene Chiang

Ronald Cohen

Professor of EPS & Chemistry

Cohen's research combines satellite, in situ and laboratory observations of nitrogen oxides aimed at understanding the role chemical reactions have in Earth’s climate, in producing unhealthy levels of ozone and fine particles and in the exchange of nitrogen oxides with ecosystems. Cohen...Read more about Ronald Cohen

William Collins

Professor in Residence, Earth and Planetary Science; Director, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Director, Accelerator for Climate, Energy & Environment Solutions

Please visit my homepage at: https://eesa.lbl.gov/profiles/william-collins/

EPS 230 will be offered in Fall 2019.Read more about William Collins

Kurt Cuffey

Professor of EPS & Geography and the Martin Distinguished Chair in Ocean, Earth and Climate Science

Donald DePaolo

Chancellor’s Professor, Emeritus & Professor of the Graduate School

Don DePaolo has been teaching and conducting research at University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1988. He is the Director of the Center for Isotope Geochemistry, a joint-...Read more about Donald DePaolo

William E. Dietrich

Professor

Please go to http://calm.geo.berkeley.edu/geomorph/ for information about the Berkeley Geomorphology Group and Gilbert Club; Director, Eel River Critical Zone Observatory
The Berkeley web...Read more about William E. Dietrich

Douglas Dreger

Professor

Bethanie Edwards

Assistant Professor

By pairing integrated meta-omics with microbial and chemical oceanography, the Edwards lab explores microbial interactions, metabolic processes, and chemical turnover rates in the lab and at sea. We are particularly interested in carbon export, the Biological Carbon Pump, and the impact of...Read more about Bethanie Edwards

Inez Fung

Professor of Atmospheric Science

S.B. in Applied Mathematics (1971), ScD Meteorology (1977), MIT.Read more about Inez Fung

Benjamin Gilbert

Associate Adjunct Professor & Senior Scientist at LBNL

Dr. Gilbert has made important contributions to the rapidly evolving field of nanogeoscience – the study of the properties and geochemical interactions of natural nanoscale minerals. Much of his research involves the development and application of synchrotron x-ray experiments and analysis...Read more about Benjamin Gilbert

Matthew Gleeson

Teaching Professor (LPSOE)

Raymond Jeanloz

Professor of EPS & Astronomy

Raymond Jeanloz and his group study the nature and evolution of planetary interiors, as well as the properties of materials at high pressures. Much of their work is based on experiments with laser-heated diamond-anvil cells, and they also pursue shock-wave experiments and quantum...Read more about Raymond Jeanloz

Harriet Lau

Assistant Professor

I am interested in understanding the large-scale properties of Earth, but in particular, the anelastic/viscous and buoyancy structure of the mantle. My work involves studying processes across different timescales, from solid earth tides (~ hours) to post-glacial rebound (~ 10,000 years), making...Read more about Harriet Lau

Kanani K. M. Lee

Associate Adjunct Professor & Staff Scientist at LLNL

Michael Manga

Professor and Department Chair
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Michael Manga studies the geological processes that shape Earth’s surface. This includes understanding the reasons why planets have volcanoes, why those volcanoes erupt in so many different ways, and how those volcanic eruptions affect climate and other...Read more about Michael Manga

Burkhard Militzer

Professor

Steve Pride

Adjunct Professor

James Rector

Professor of EPS & Civil Engineering

Paul Renne

Professor in Residence & Director of Berkeley Geochronology Center

Barbara A. Romanowicz

Professor of the Graduate School

David Romps

Professor

Stephen Self

Adjunct Professor

David Shuster

Professor

Noble gas geochemistry, thermochronometry, and cosmogenic nuclide observations applied to problems involving alpine glacial erosion, chemical weathering, lunar impacts and magnetism, and thermal conditions of Martian meteorites; Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission and sample collection....Read more about David Shuster

Daniel Stolper

Associate Professor

I’m a geochemist with interests in a variety of problems related to the rock record, microbiology, and biogeochemical cycles in the present and past. My approach to scientific problems is centered around linking experiments and physically based models to natural observations in an integrated...Read more about Daniel Stolper

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

Associate Professor

Nicholas Swanson-Hysell is an Earth scientist whose research seeks to place quantitative constraints on the long-term evolution of Earth through integrating geophysical and geochemical data sets that are developed within a rigorous geologic context. A major focus of this research is on...Read more about Nicholas Swanson-Hysell

Chi-Yuen Wang

Professor of the Graduate School

Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Professor of the Graduate School

Rudy Wenk joined the Department in 1967. His research is in crystallography, mineralogy, structural geology and rock deformation. Most recently (see research interests and publications), emphasis has been on understanding seismic anisotropy in the earth by investigating the development of...Read more about Hans-Rudolf Wenk

Penny Wieser

Assistant Professor

Weiqiang Zhu

Assistant Professor

Weiqiang Zhu (Way-Chyang)

My research focuses on understanding earthquake physics and statistics by applying cutting-edge artificial intelligence and scientific computing methods to gain new insights from large seismic datasets.

Machine Learning/Deep Learning for Geophysical...Read more about Weiqiang Zhu

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