Marine and Coastal Environmental Science Faculty & Staff
Faculty
MARS Faculty
Kyeong Park
Department Head & Professor
Estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics and water quality conditions.
Samuel D. Brody
Professor and IDRT/CTBS Director
Coastal environmental planning, natural hazards mitigation, spatial analysis, dispute resolution
Meri Davlasheridze
Associate Professor
Economic impacts of natural disasters, vulnerability, adaptation, and general public policy concerning disaster mitigation and recovery
Timothy Dellapenna
Professor
Coastal marine sedimentology, applications of high-resolution marine geophysics (e.g., side scan sonar, seismic reflection surveys)
Pete J. van Hengstum
Associate Professor
Global coastal systems responded to previous climate, sea-level and anthropogenic changes with the goal of predicting how these systems will respond to future changes in these forcings
Wesley E. Highfield
Professor
GIS; Spatial Analysis/Statistics; Natural Hazard Mitigation & Policy; Environmental Planning & Policy
Karl Kaiser
Professor
Interactions between marine biogeochemical cycles, ocean chemistry and the climate system
David Retchless
Associate Professor
Cartographic communication of sea level rise and other climate hazards
Ashley D. Ross
Associate Professor
Disaster resilience policy and perceptions; rural community resilience; emergency management; adaptive management; climate change perceptions and policy among Millennials, Latinos, and other sub-populations
Peter H. Santschi
Distinguished and Regents Professor
Chemical Oceanography, Limnology and Hydrology, including tracer applications using radioactive and stable isotopes, relationships between trace element and natural organic matter geochemistry, and importance of exopolymeric substances for pollutants
Christopher Smith
Instructional Assistant Professor
Paleobiology (including marine micropaleontology and vertebrate paleontology), anthropogenic impacts on marine environments
Jiabi Du
Assistant Professor
Coastal physical oceanography, numerical modeling, changing climate and extreme weather events
Dini Adyasari
Assistant Professor
Coastal hydrogeology, groundwater tracer, nutrient biogeochemistry, microbial ecology
Faculty with Joint Appointment
Jhenny Galan
Instructional Assistant Professor
Computational Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Biophysical Chemistry
Douglas J. Klein
Professor
Interactions between marine biogeochemical cycles, ocean chemistry and the climate system
Melanie J. Moser
Interim Chair of Foundational Sciences and Instructional Professor
Chemistry education; Organic compounds for novel applications
Grace L. Townsend
Instructional Assistant Professor
Adjunct Faculty
Emeritus
Ernest Estes
Professor Emeritus (Retired)
Evaluation of Pleistocene material for shoreline protection; Sedimentology and stratigraphy
Gerald E. Hite
Professor Emeritus (retired)
Interplay between theory and experiment, ie. application of mathematical models to describe physical phenomena
Glenn A. Jones
Professor Emeritus (Retired)
Paleoceanography, Arctic Ocean, climate change, Black Sea, and accelerator mass spectrometry and radiocarbon dating
Susan L. Knock
Instructional Associate Professor Emeritus (Retired)
Avian diversity studies for an energy company that is planning to develop a wind generator plant near West Galveston Bay
Wyndylyn von Zharen
Professor Emeritus (Retired)
Staff
Brianna Zabawa
Academic Advisor I
Advises students with last names A-M
briannazabawa@tamug.edu
409-740-4531