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Research Expertise Database

The Jackson School has more than 150 researchers and faculty in all facets of the earth sciences. Use this database to find experts in any of our academic and research units. Media can also contact the Communications Office (jbird@jsg.utexas.edu) for information or call (512) 232-9623. Use our update form to suggest changes to this guide.

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Kempf, Scott
Areas of Expertise: Data management, radar data, airborne geophysics, computer systems, computer programming, carrier phase GPS processing, LIDAR, magnetic and gravity surveying.
+ Contact
Primary Title: Senior Systems Analyst
Primary Unit: Institute for Geophysics
Email: scottk@ig.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: (512) 471-0482
Fax: (512) 471-8485
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Institute for Geophysics
    10100 Burnet Road, Bldg 196 (R2200)
    Austin, TX 78758-4445
UT Mailcode: R2200
Office: ROC 2.270
Kerans, Charles
Areas of Expertise: Carbonate sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, reservoir characterization, basin analysis, seismic interpretation, seismic stratigraphy, paleokarst analysis, carbonate diagenesis
+ Contact
Primary Title: Professor and Robert K. Goldhammer Chair in Carbonate Geology, Department of Geological Sciences, Senior Research Scientist
Primary Unit: Bureau of Economic Geology
Email: ckerans@mail.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: 512-471-4282
Fax: 512-471-9425
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Bureau of Economic Geology
    1 University Station C1100
    Austin, TX 78712
UT Mailcode: C1100
Office: JGB 3.216D
Ketcham, Richard A
Areas of Expertise: High-resolution X-ray computed tomography, CT scanning, 3D image analysis, fission-track dating, thermochronology, structural geology, tectonics, digital morphology, trabecular bone
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Primary Title: Associate Professor
Primary Unit: Department of Geological Sciences
Email: ketcham@jsg.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: 512-471-6942
Fax: 512-471-9425
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Department of Geological Sciences
    1 University Station C1100
    Austin, TX 78712
UT Mailcode: C1100
Office: JGB 3.318A
Kim, Wonsuck
Areas of Expertise: Quantitative stratigraphy, Shoreline dynamics, Morphodynamcis, Sediment transport, Deltaic sedimentation, River delta restoration, Coupled mathematical modeling and experimental stratigraphy.
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Primary Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Unit: Department of Geological Sciences
Email: delta@jsg.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: (512) 471-4203
Fax: (512) 471-9425
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Department of Geological Sciences
    1 University Station C9000
    Austin, TX 78712
UT Mailcode: C9000
Office: EPS 3.154
King, Carey
Areas of Expertise: Energy and renewable energy generation, usage, conservation, policy, and education; decision making and policy for efficient use of natural resources based upon natural capitalistic and embodied energy approaches and numerical optimization; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), multistable equilibrium system design
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Primary Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Primary Unit: Bureau of Economic Geology
Email: carey.king@beg.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: 512-471-2764
Fax: (512) 471-0140
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Bureau of Economic Geology
    University Station, Box X
    Austin, TX 78713-8924
UT Mailcode: E0620
Kipper, Jay
Areas of Expertise: Personnel management, fiscal reporting, budget management, contract negotiation, management of geological samples
+ Contact
Primary Title: Associate Director
Primary Unit: Bureau of Economic Geology
Email: jay.kipper@beg.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: (512) 475-9505
Fax: (512) 471-0140
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Bureau of Economic Geology
    University Station, Box X
    Austin, Texas 78713-8924
UT Mailcode: E0610
Office: PRC 1.204
Kocurek, Gary
Areas of Expertise: Sedimentology, geomorphology and stratigraphy of aeolian systems; fluid flow and grain transport; bedform dynamics and pattern evolution of dune fields; the stratigraphic record of aeolian and related systems
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Primary Title: Professor in Geological Sciences
Primary Unit: Department of Geological Sciences
Email: garyk@mail.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: 512-471-5855
Fax: 512-471-9425
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Department of Geological Sciences
    1 University Station C9000
    Austin, TX 78712
UT Mailcode: C9000
Office: Schoch 3.166
Kyle, Richard J
Areas of Expertise: Mineral resource formation; "strata-controlled" metal and industrial mineral deposits ranging from low-temperature sedimentary basins to volcanic and plutonic environments; ore deposits; salt dome caps; tectonic processes
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Primary Title: Professor and The Third Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Yager Professorship
Primary Unit: Department of Geological Sciences
Email: rkyle@mail.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: (512) 471-4351
Fax: (512) 471-9425
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Department of Geological Sciences
    1 University Station C1100
    Austin, TX 78712
UT Mailcode: C1100
Office: JGB 3.316D
Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan
Areas of Expertise: Multiphase flows, porous flows, buoyancy-driven flows, transport phenomena, CO2 sequestration, theoretical and numerical modeling, computational methods, reservoir engineering simulations
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Primary Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Primary Unit: Bureau of Economic Geology
Email: srivatsan.lakshminarasimhan@beg.utexas.edu
Work Phone 1: (512) 475-9507
Fax: (512) 471-0140
Address:
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Bureau of Economic Geology
    University Station, Box X
    Austin, TX 78713-8924
UT Mailcode: E0630
Land, Lynton S
Areas of Expertise: Sedimentary geochemistry, diagenesis
+ Contact
Primary Title: Professor Emeritus
Primary Unit: Department of Geological Sciences
Email: jandl@nnwifi.com
Work Phone 1: (804) 453-6605
Fax:
Address:
    Dr. Lynton Land
    PO Box 539
    Ophelia, Virginia 22530-0539

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