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Faculty and Staff

Geology Club
Erin Beutel, Associate Professor, SCIC 338
  • phone # (843) 953-5591
    e-mail: beutele@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 2000, Northwestern University
    Research Interests: Structural Geology and Tectonics
Tim Callahan, Associate Professor, SCIC 337
  • phone # (843) 953-8278
    e-mail: callahant@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 2001, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    Research Interests: Hydrogeology
James L. Carew, Professor, SCIC 335
  • phone # (843) 953-5592
    e-mail: carewj@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1978, University of Texas, Austin
    Research Interests: Carbonate Petrology and Paleoecology
Mitchell W. Colgan, Associate Professor and Chair, SCIC 339-B
  • phone # (843) 953-7171
    e-mail: colganm@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1990, University of California, Santa Cruz
    Research Interests: Environmental Geology, Space Grant Consortium
Cassandra (Coombs) Runyon, Associate Professor, Suite 202B Bell Building
  • phone # (843) 953-8279
    e-mail: cass@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1989, University of Hawaii, Manoa
    Research Interests: Remote Sensing, GIS, Geomorphology, and Planetary Geology
Briget Doyle, Assistant Professor, SCIC 341-A
  • phone # (843) 953-0877
    e-mail: doyleb@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 2003, Geological Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla
    Research Interests: Engineering geology and natural hazards
A. Kem Fronabarger, Assistant Professor, SCIC 340-C
  • phone # (843) 953-5509
    e-mail: fronabargera@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1984, University of Tennessee
    Research Interests: Petrology and Egyptian Archaeogeology
Steven Jaume', Associate Professor, SCIC 333-A
  • phone # (843) 953-5589
    e-mail: jaumes@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1994, Columbia University
    Research Interests: Seismology and Earthquake Hazards
Michael P. Katuna, Professor, SCIC 336
  • phone # (843) 953-5588
    e-mail: katunam@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1974, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
    Research Interests: Marine Geology, Sedimentology, and Coastal Plain Stratigraphy
Norman Levine, Assistant Professor, SCIC 345
  • phone # (843) 953-5308
    e-mail: levinen@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D.1995, Purdue University
    Research Interests: Surficial Processes and Environmental Geoinformatics
Joan Newell, Administrative Specialist, SCIC 339 Robert L. Nusbaum, Professor, SCIC 340-B
  • phone # (843) 953-5596
    e-mail: nusbaumr@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1984, University of Missouri, Rolla
    Research Interests: Volcanism, Hydrothermal Alteration, Remote Sensing, Mineral Spectroscopy
Elizabeth Rhodes, Instructor, SCIC 115
  • phone # (843) 953-8139
    e-mail: rhodese@cofc.edu
    Education: M.S., College of Charleston
    Research Interests: GIS, Lidar remote sensing
Alexander W. Ritchie, Professor Emeritus
  • e-mail: ritchiea@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1975, University of Texas, Austin
    Research Interests: Structural Geology and Tectonics
Leslie R. Sautter, Associate Professor, SCIC 334-A
  • phone # (843) 953-5586
    e-mail: sautterl@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1990, University of South Carolina
    Research Interests: Marine Geology, Micropaleontology, and Geological Education
Vijay M. Vulava , Assistant Professor, SCIC 343
  • phone # (843) 953-1922
    e-mail: vulavav@cofc.edu
    Education: Ph.D. 1998, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
    Research Interests: Environmental geochemistry

 
Last Updated: April 2, 2008