Ernest M. Agee Research Interests : Mesoscale Convection, Thunderstorms and Tornadoes, Coherent Structures, Cold Air Outbreaks, Climate Change, and Solar Variability.
Chris Andronicos Research Interests : Evolution of the solid earth, particularly the continental and oceanic crust, and underlying mantle lithosphere.
Michael Baldwin Research Interests : Numerical Weather Prediction, Forecast Verification, Data Assimilation, Data Mining.
Indrajeet Chaubey Research Interests : Ecohydrology.
Timothy Filley Research Interests : Molecular Stable-isotope Biogeochemistry, Microbial Cycling of Carbon and Nitrogen, Formation of High Sulfur Sediments, Preservation of Lipids and Macromolecules.
Andrew Freed Research Interests : Rheology, Postseismic Deformation, Earthquake Triggering, Evolution of Planetary Surfaces, Subduction Zone Processes.
Larry W. Braile Research Interests : Seismology, Crustal and Upper Mantle Structure, Inversion of Geophysical Data, Intraplate Earthquakes, Earth Science Education.
John Cushman Research Interests: Geohydrology, Porous Media Physics, Spatial Variability, Applied Math and Statistics.
Maarten deHoop Research Interests: Exploration Seismology, Global Seismology, Geodynamics, Inverse Problems.
Julie Elliott Research Interests: Geodesy, active tectonics and glacier change.
Lucy Flesch Research Interests: Kinematics and Dynamics of the Continental Lithosphere and the Development of Large Plateaus.
Marty Frisbee Research Interests: Groundwater/Surface-Water Interactions, scaling relationships, geochemistry, age-dating, geomorphology, watershed response to perturbations.
Andrei Gabrielov Research Interests : Modeling of Seismicity, Earthquake Prediction, Nonlinear Science, Theoretical Mathematics.
Hersh Gilbert Research Interests : Continental Evolution, Seismology, Upper Mantle Structure, Mountain Building.
Alexander Gluhovsky Research Interests : Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows, Predictability, Resampling Methods for Atmospheric Time Series, Statistics of Extremes in Weather and Climate.
Darryl Granger Research Interests : Tectonic Geomorphology, Landscape Evolution, Cosmogenic Nuclides Applied to Geomorphology and Surficial Processes, Environmental Geosciences.
Saad Haq Research Interests : Tectonics, Structural Geology, Analog and Numerical Modeling.
Jon Harbor Research Interests : Hydrologic and Geomorphic Impacts of Land Use and Climate Change, Glacial Geomorphology, Environmental Education Research.
Harshvardhan Research Interests : Radiative Transfer, Clouds and Aerosol, Remote Sensing, Climate.
Briony Horgan Research Interests : Planetary Geology, Infrared Spectroscopy, Mars Analogs, Surface Weathering, Aeolian Geomorphology.
Nathaniel A Lifton Research Interests: Cosmogenic Nuclides Applied to Surficial Processes, Quaternary Geology.
Jay Melosh Research Interests: Ramifications of Impact Cratering, Planetary Tectonics, Physics of Earthquakes and Landslides.
Greg Michalski Research Interests: Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Nitrogen Cycling in Aquatic and Soil Systems, Regional Air/Water Pollution, Mass-Independent Isotope Effects and their use in Paleoclimatology and Aerosol Chemistry, Isotope Effects in Gas Phase Reactions, Modeling Isotopes in Atmospheric Chemistry.
David Minton Assistant Professor Research Interests: Orbital dynamics, Planet formation, Planet migration, the Late Heavy Bombardment, Dynamics and structure of small bodies.
Dev Niyogi Associate Professor & Indiana State Climatologist Research Interests: Land Surface Processes and Effects of Vegetation – Atmosphere Interactions on Environmental Processes at Different Scales.
Robert L Nowack Professor Research Interests: Seismology and Earthquakes.
James G. Ogg Professor Research Interests: Paleomagnetics, Sedimentology, Marine Geology.
Kenneth D Ridgway Professor Research Interests: Basin Analysis, Tectonics, Sedimentary Petrology, Petroleum Geology.
Dan Shepardson Professor Research Interests: Geoenvironmental Education, Learners' Conceptions, Social Interaction, Science Journals, Alternative Assessment.
Paul B. Shepson Professor Research Interests: Atmospheric Chemistry, Tropospheric Ozone and Photochemical Smog, Atmospheric Chemical Measurements, Modeling of Tropospheric Photochemistry, Environmental Geosciences .
Yuch-Ning Shieh Professor Research Interests: Stable-isotope Geochemistry, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Carbon Isotopes in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Sulfur Isotopes in Coal and Mineral Deposits.
Wen-Yih Sun Professor Research Interests: Geofluid Dynamics, Numerical Modeling of Mesoscale Meteorology and Regional Climate Boundary Layer Meteorology, Air Pollution.
Wen-wen Tung Associate Professor Research Interests: Tropical Meteorology (Tropical Waves, Intraseasonal Oscillation, Monsoon, etc.), Atmospheric Convective Systems, Cloud Systems in Climate Change.
Lisa Welp Assistant Professor (January 2015) Research Interests: Stable-isotope biogeochemistry, exchange of water and carbon dioxide between land biosphere and atmosphere, boreal forest carbon cycle.
Terry West Professor Research Interests: Engineering Geology, Hazardous-waste Disposal, Engineering Properties of Rock, Rock Slope Stability, Remote Sensing.
Yutian Wu Assistant Professor Research Interests: Storm track dynamics, atmosphere general circulation, climate change.
Qianlai Zhuang Willaim F. & Patty J. Miller Associate Professor of EAPS Research Interests: Interactions among Atmosphere, Biosphere, and Human Dimension in the Context of Climate Change, Chemical Element Cycles, Policy-making.
William J. Zinsmeister Professor Research Interests: Paleontology, Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Biogeography, Field Geology.
Watch Dr. Mark Zoback's talk on, "Opportunities and Challenges of Shale Gas Development," on YouTube.
Professor Lifton and Professor Granger both have articles featured in the October edition of Elements Magazine, which is devoted to cosmogenic nuclides- an area in which EAPS and Purdue have become a world leader.
Terry West Receives AEG Service Award
Dr. Shepson was recently honored by the American Chemical Society with the ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology.