Faculty - College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
 Susan Brantley
Professor of Geosciences
Director of Earth and Environmental Systems Institute
2217 Earth & Engineering Sciences Bldg (225B), University Park
Phone: 814-865-3191
E-mail: brantley@essc.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Chemical and physical processes associated with the circulation of aqueous fluids in shallow hydrogeologic settings. Investigations incorporate field and laboratory work, and theoretical modelling of observations. Of particular interest are questions concerning the measurement and prediction of the rates of natural processes, including chemical weathering and natural degassing. Recent work has focused on the effect of microbial life on mineral reactivity and extraction of nutrients from rocks by microorganisms.
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 Robert Brooks
Assistant Professor of Wildlife and Wetlands
Director, Penn State Cooperative Wetlands Center
323 Walker Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-1596
E-mail: rpb2@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Wetlands restoration and creation on altered and damaged landscapes, Monitoring protocols for reference wetlands and mitigation projects, Modeling cumulative impacts in wetland and riparian portions of landscapes, Developing hydrogeomorphic models for riverine, depression, and slope wetlands, Developing ecological indicator models using macroinvertebrates, amphibians and birds, Treatment of mine drainage using constructed wetlands, Habitat modeling for wetland-riparian wildlife.
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 William Brune
Department Head, Professor of Meteorology
504 Wagner Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-3286
E-mail: brune@meteo.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Atmospheric Photochemistry from Earth's Surface to the Stratosphere; Atmospheric Interactions Between Photochemistry and Dynamics; Chemical Reactions in the Gas-phase on Surfaces; Spectroscopic Detection Techniques.
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 Kenneth Davis
Associate Professor of Meteorology
512 Walker Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-8601
E-mail: davis@meteo.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Boundary Layer Meteorology, Atmospheric Carbon and Hydrologic Cycles, Remote Sensing Using Lidar, Flux Measurement Methods, Interactions Among Ecosystem Processes and Boundary Layer Development, Interactions Between Atmospheric Turbulence and Chemistry.
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 Russ Graham
Associate Professor of Geosciences
Director, Earth & Mineral Science Museum and Art Gallery
14 Deike Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-6336
E-mail: rgraham@ems.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biogeography, GIS, Database Development, NEOTOMA Database, Data Mining, Computational Paleoecology, Ecosystem Modeling.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Dr. Graham is one of the primary principal investigators in developing an NSF funded database known as NEOTOMA. This mutidisciplinary database is integrating data on fossil beetles, vertebrates, pollen and plant macrofossils for North America for the last five million years. This database will allow quantitative reconstructions of paleoecosystems for the first time.
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 Derrick Lampkin
Assistant Professor of Geography
313 Walker Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-2493
E-mail: djl22@psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Remote Sensing of Cryosphere; Radiative Transfer Modeling of Snow; Mountain Snowmelt Monitoring; Advanced Wireless Technology for Ground-based Monitoring of Snow Properties; Remote Sensing of Alpine Snow and Vegetation Interactions; Hydroclimatology; Water Resources.
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 Zi-Kui Liu
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Director, Center for Computational Materials Design
201 Steidle Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-1934
E-mail: liu@matse.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: First-principles Calculations, Computational Thermodynamics, System Materials Design, Aluminum Alloys, Hydrogen Storage Materials, Magnesium Alloys, Nickel Alloys, Perovskites, Steels.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Phases Research Lab
Materials Computation and Simulation Environments
Calculation of Phase Diagrams
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David Stauffer
Associate Professor/Senior Research Associate of Meteorology
621 Walker Building, University Park
Phone: 814-863-3932
E-mail: stauffer@meteo.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: All areas of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP), including probabilistic weather and model ensembles, four-dimensional data assimilation (e.g., nudging, adjoint methods, variational methods, ensemble Kalman filters, hybrid data assimilation methods), physical parameterizations and coupled models (e.g., boundary layer, land-surface, parameterized versus explicit convection), and process studies (e.g., boundary layer and land-surface processes, land-surface and convective boundary layer heterogeneity, stable boundary layer phenomena, meteorological modeling for air-quality and transport and dispersion applications, shallow and deep convection, terrain-forced circulations, coastal-zone meteorology, cold-air damming, tropical cyclones).
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 Anne Thompson
Professor of Meteorology
510 Walker Building, University Park
Phone: 814-865-0479
E-mail: anne@met.psu.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Observational and modeling interests in: (1) air-sea exchange and biogeochemical cycling; (2) early studies of chemical-climate links, pollution, oxidizing capacity; (3) remote sensing; (4) trace gas variability from natural, anthropogenic causes (aviation, biomass burning).
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