Marine
Sciences Faculty Sponsor List
The following faculty members have agreed to sponsor
students in a Marine Science Independent Study Project.
Meteorology
John Clark
Area of Interest: Physical Oceanography - Coastal Currents, Air-Sea
Interactions
513 Walker Building
863-1581
clark@ems.psu.edu
Raymond Najjar
Area of Interest: Marine Biogeochemistry, Air-Sea Gas Exchange,
Estuaries
522 Walker Building
863-1586
najjar@essc.psu.edu
Geosciences
Michael Arthur
Area of Interest: Paleoceanography, Stable Isotopes and Global
Geochemical Cycles, Biogenic Marine Sedimentation and Diagenesis, Salt Marsh
Geochemistry
538 Deike Building
863-6054
arthur@geosc.psu.edu
Eric Barron
Area of Interest: Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Plate Tectonics
Dean, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
116 Deike Bldg.
814.865.6546
Susan Brantley
Area of Interest: High and Low Temperature Rock-Seawater Reactions,
Geochemistry of Marine Sediments, Chemistry of Seawater
208 Deike Building
863-1739
brantley@geosc.psu.edu
Roger Cuffey
Area of Interest: Distribution, Systematics, Ecology, Evolution
of Colonial Marine Invertebrates
412 Deike Building
814.865.1293
cuffey@ems.psu.edu
Peter Deines
Area of Interest: Application of Stable Isotope Studies - H, C,
N, O - to Geologic Problems
207 Deike Building
814.865.7152
p7d@psu.edu
Kate Freeman, Chair
Area of Interest: Marine Organic Geochemistry, Stable Isotopic
Composition of Biomarkers
209 Deike Building
814.863.8177
kate@essc.psu.edu
Kevin Furlong
Area of Interest: Plate Tectonics, Basin Evolution, Thermal Processes
439 Deike Building
814.863.0567
kevin@geodyn.psu.edu
Lee Kump
Area of Interest: Marine Metal and Nutrient Biogeochemistry, Pollution
of the Florida Keys, Evolution of the Oceans and Atmosphere, Carbon Cycle
535 Deike Building
814.863.1274
kump@essc.psu.edu
Todd Sowers
Area of Interest: Biogeochemical Cycles; Trace Metal Variations;
14C Variability (www.geosc.psu.edu/~sowers/)
447 Deike Building
814.863.8093
sowers@geosc.psu.edu
Biology
Charles Bursey
Area of Interest: Marine Biology, any aspect of Marine Zoology
Shenango Campus
724.983.5834
cxb13@psu.edu
Charles Fisher
Area of Interest: Deep-Sea Vent Communities, Microbial Symbiosis
208 Mueller Laboratory
814.865.3365
cfisher@psu.edu
Environmental
Resource Management
Herschel Elliott
Area of Interest: Adsorption of Pollutants at the Solid/Solution
Interface, Land-Based Waste Disposal Systems
220 Ag. Eng. Building
814.865.6942
hae1@psu.edu
J. R. Stauffer
Area of Interest: Systematics, Evolution, Ecology and Behavior
of Fishes
2C Ferguson Building
814.863.0645
vc5@psu.edu