The Geosciences Department’s research strengths span a wide range of depths and scales, and include fieldwork and studies from the local Colorado Front Range to Antarctica. Our faculty’s research strengths span the scales of earth systems and materials, and it includes studies from the local Colorado Front Range to Antarctica. Research opportunities are available at all levels, from undergraduates to postdoctoral scholars.
Research areas
Changing Landscapes: Earth Surface Processes and Systems
Changing Landscapes: Earth Surface Processes and Systems
river science, glaciers and snow, landscape evolution, groundwater, climate change, natural hazards, critical zone science
Associate Professor
I am an Earth Scientist interested in landscape evolution, tectonics, critical zone science, and natural hazards.
Associate Professor
I am a geoscientist who utilizes geophysical and remote sensing tools to study the changing cryosphere, with a particular focus on glaciers and seasonal snow. My research has involved more than 20 expeditions to Antarctica, Greenland, Nepal, Alaska and Patagonia.
Geosciences Department Head | Professor
Geomorphology and landscape evolution of the Western U.S., administration and promotion of geoscience programs
Professor
I am a fluvial geomorphologist with interests in drainage basin response and recovery to sediment disturbances including floods, fires and mass movements, the influences of climate change on channel morphology and vegetation-channel feedbacks, and process-based channel restoration and monitoring.
Associate Professor
I am a hydrogeologist researching flow and transport through heterogeneous aquifers and connected groundwater-surface water systems. I develop groundwater management models to inform the sustainable use of water resources.
University Distinguished Professor
I am a fluvial geomorphologist studying a broad range of topics within the field of geomorphology such as fluvial and hillslope geomorphology, paleohydrology and channel change.
Earth in Motion: Geophysics and Seismology
earthquakes, mountain uplift, mantle flow, monitoring global change
Professor
I am a geophysicist with interests in seismic imaging and source studies applied to diverse Earth processes that encompass deep structure, earthquakes, volcanos, ocean processes, and glaciers.
Professor
I am a geophysicist focusing on geodynamic studies of continental rift systems and rifted continental margins.
Associate Professor
I am a geoscientist who utilizes geophysical and remote sensing tools to study the changing cryosphere, with a particular focus on glaciers and seasonal snow. My research has involved more than 20 expeditions to Antarctica, Greenland, Nepal, Alaska and Patagonia.
Professor
I am a seismologist and geophysicist interested in understanding deep Earth structures and their effects on past and present tectonics and landscapes.
Critical Resources: Water, Energy, and Minerals
water supply and quality, energy production and storage, carbon capture and storage, sediment and microplastic transport, mineral exploration
Malcolm McCallum Chair of Economic Geology<br>Associate Professor
I study economic geology building on a background in petrology, structural geology, field geology, inorganic and organic geochemistry. My current research projects examine fluid:ore interactions from magmas to environmental impacts.
Associate Professor
I am a hydrogeologist researching flow and transport through heterogeneous aquifers and connected groundwater-surface water systems. I develop groundwater management models to inform the sustainable use of water resources.
Associate Professor, Geosciences Graduate Program Director
I am a geoscientist and petroleum engineer interested in applied reservoir modeling, using outcrops as quantitative subsurface analogs, and creating methodologies to build more predictive sedimentological and reservoir storage and flow models.
Dynamic Planet: Structure and Tectonics
mountain building, landscape history, faults, plate motion
Assistant Professor
I am a geochemist interested in the composition and plumbing systems of Earth’s volcanoes, studying long-lived mantle plumes to infer Earth’s chemical composition, and identifying and mitigating volcanic impacts and hazards.
Professor
I am a geophysicist focusing on geodynamic studies of continental rift systems and rifted continental margins.
Associate Professor
I am an Earth Scientist interested in landscape evolution, tectonics, critical zone science, and natural hazards.
Professor
I am a seismologist and geophysicist interested in understanding deep Earth structures and their effects on past and present tectonics and landscapes.
Associate Professor
structural geology, geologic mapping, tectonics of the North American Cordillera
Fire and Rock: Petrology, Volcanology, and Geochemistry
volcanoes, gems and minerals, geologic dating techniques, critical minerals
Professor
I am a geophysicist with interests in seismic imaging and source studies applied to diverse Earth processes that encompass deep structure, earthquakes, volcanos, ocean processes, and glaciers.
Assistant Professor
I am a geochemist interested in the composition and plumbing systems of Earth’s volcanoes, studying long-lived mantle plumes to infer Earth’s chemical composition, and identifying and mitigating volcanic impacts and hazards.
Associate Professor
I am a structural geologist/hard rock petrologist, with interests in faults, shear zones, fault rocks, the geochemical and isotopic aspects of deformation, metamorphic and igneous petrology, and geoeducation including geophotography.
Malcolm McCallum Chair of Economic Geology<br>Associate Professor
I study economic geology building on a background in petrology, structural geology, field geology, inorganic and organic geochemistry. My current research projects examine fluid:ore interactions from magmas to environmental impacts.