Marine Geosciences

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Falk C Amelung

Falk C Amelung

Professor

(305) 421-4949
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Professor Falk Amelung got his MSc and PhD in geophysics at the University of Muenster, Germany and University of Strasbourg, France, respectively. After a few years at Stanford University and at the University of Hawai’i he moved to the University of Miami in 2002. For his research he uses satellite-based Interferometric Synthetic...
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Gregor Paul Eberli

Gregor Paul Eberli

Professor
and Robert N. Ginsburg Endowed Chair in Marine Geosciences

(305) 421-4678
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Gregor Eberli has spent much of his science career exploring the earth’s sediments as recorders of environmental changes. A native of Switzerland, Eberli received his doctorate from Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich in 1985. A grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation allowed him to pursue postdoctoral studies...
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Sam Goldberg

Sam Goldberg

Asst. Professor

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Sam Goldberg is an assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Marine Geosciences at the Rosenstiel School and in the Institute for Data Science and Computing. Sam is a geologist and geomorphologist who studies the evolution of Earth’s landscapes and surface environments, their responses to past climate change, and their...
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Adam Francis Holt

Adam Francis Holt

Asst. Professor

(305) 421-5345
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Geosciences (MGS) at UM’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.  I am a Geodynamicist who studies the deformation occurring at plate boundaries and within the underlying, flowing mantle. In order to constrain the fundamental properties of...
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Alexander Humphreys

Alexander Humphreys

Senior Lecturer

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James Klaus

James Klaus

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-6792
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Associate Professor, Department of Marine Geosciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Sciences
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Guoqing Lin

Guoqing Lin

Professor

(305) 421-4150
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Dr. Guoqing Lin is a Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Marine Geosciences at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. With a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, she specializes in seismic imaging, earthquake dynamics, and volcanic processes,...
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Amanda Oehlert

Amanda Oehlert

Asst. Professor

(305) 421-4405
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Amanda Oehlert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Geosciences (MGS) at the University of Miami’s Rosesntiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. Her doctoral work focused on understanding geochemical records of global carbon cycling in a variety of depositional settings and diagenetic regimes. After...
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Larry C. Peterson

Larry C. Peterson

Professor
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education

(305) 421-4692
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Larry Peterson is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and a Professor in the Department of Marine Geosciences. Reconstruction of past oceans and climates from marine sediments; abrupt climate change; deep sea sedimentation processes; stable isotope geochemistry of foraminifera.
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Ali Pourmand

Ali Pourmand

Assoc. Professor

(305) 421-4662
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My research interests range from the Cosmos to the Benthos and the Underworld, with special focus on applications of isotope geochemistry and extraction chromatography in paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, geoarcheology and cosmochemistry.
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Sam Purkis

Sam Purkis

Professor
and Chair of the Department of Marine Geosciences

(305) 421-4351
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At a young age I was fortunate enough to stumble on a copy of Jacques Cousteau’s 1953 book “The Silent World”, which piqued my interest in everything underwater. Shortly thereafter, I saw his movie of the same name. I was hooked. At the earliest possible opportunity I learnt to SCUBA dive, becoming a diving...
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Benjamin J. Ross

Benjamin J. Ross

Lecturer

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Peter K Swart

Peter K Swart

Professor
Lewis G. Weeks Professor of Marine Geosciences

(305) 421-4103
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Stable Isotope Geochemistry Stable Isotope Laboratory; Carbonate Diagenesis; Sedimentology and Petrology Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory ; Cosmochemistry.
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Ralf Josef Weger

Ralf Josef Weger

Research Asst. Professor

(305) 298-4493
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Ralf J. Weger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine Geosciences (MGS) at the University of Miami’s Rosesntiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. He manages the Petrophysics Laboratory, CSL–Center for Carbonate Research. He received his Ph.D. in marine geology and geophysics from University of...
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